First IEEE Conference on
Open Architectures and Network Programming
San Francisco, CA, USA, April 3-4, 1998
Recent advances in distributed systems and transportable software together with increasing demand for better control of quality of service in multiservices networks are driving a reexamination of network software architectures. There is a new opportunity to reconcile the perspectives of the computing and communication communities in new network architectures that support service creation, QoS control, and the joint allocation of computing and communications resources.
OPENARCH will offer a forum for the communication of experimental as well as theoretical results aimed at a better understanding of the overall networking architecture and its realization in software. It will encourage a shift of the processes of service creation, resource allocation and control from ad-hoc solutions to a discipline of network programming.
OPENARCH is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and will be co-located and organized in conjunction with INFOCOM'98.