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CALL FOR PAPERS

IFIP Fifth International Workshop on
Quality of Service (IWQoS '97)

-Building QoS into Distributed Systems-

May 21-23, 1997

Center for Telecommunications Research, Columbia University, New York, USA

Sponsored by IFIP* WG6.1

Technical co-sponsorship by
IEEE* Communications Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications and
IEEE Signal Processing Society

Patrons : IBM, HP and Lucent Technologies

In co-operation with
ACM* SIGCOMM
and
IFIP Joint International Conference on Open Distributed Processing and Distributed Platforms

* to be approved

SCOPE

This is the fifth in a series of workshops aimed at providing an international forum for the exchange of information on quality of service (QoS) research in distributed systems. The objective of the Fifth International Workshop on Quality of Service is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in all facets of QoS research addressing multimedia applications and services, programmability, operating systems, communications, multimedia devices and middleware.

Contributions are solicited in all areas of QoS research in distributed systems, including, but not limited to:
  • Human Perception and Dynamic QoS
  • QoS Programmability, Languages and Formal Method Techniques
  • Multimedia Tools, Protocols and Networking
  • QoS Guarantees in an Integrated Services Internet
  • QoS-based APIs for Applications, Transport and Management
  • Audio and Video Coding/Compression Techniques and QoS
  • QoS Modeling, Analysis and Evaluation
  • Adaptive Applications and Services
  • QoS and the WWW, MBone and Internet
  • QoS Issues in Storage Systems/Databases
  • QoS and Operating System/Micro-kernels
  • QoS Architectures
  • Media Scaling and QoS Filtering Techniques
  • QoS and Mobility in Wireless Networks
  • QoS Translation, Negotiation, Monitoring and Maintenance
  • QoS in Standards
  • QoS in MIBs for Network Management
  • Experimental Studies on QoS
  • Middleware Solutions for End-to-End QoS
In the past the workshop has been cross-disciplinary, small and well focused, consisting of keynote speakers, invited papers and solicited contributions. As a result, a considerable amount of time is devoted to informal discussion. The Fifth International Workshop on Quality of Service will be limited to 80 participants.

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit full papers and position statements for review. Full papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages including figures, tables, and references, using a typeface no smaller than 12 points. Position statements should not exceed 3 single-spaced pages. To expedite the reviewing process, please submit the paper electronically (in postscript format, through e-mail) to workshop@ctr.columbia.edu. All submissions must include name and affiliation of the authors, a contact address of the main author, an abstract, and keywords. In the case where electronic submission is impossible please send 4 copies to the correspondence address below.

PUBLICATION

Papers will be published as proceedings by Chapman & Hall.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Today: Send a message stating your intention to submit a paper or stating your general interest in the workshop to workshop@ctr.columbia.edu

Submission of contribution: March 18, 1997
Notification of acceptance: April 24, 1997
Camera-ready paper for participants proceedings due: May 1, 1997

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

Program Co-Chairs:

  • Andrew T. Campbell, campbell@ctr.columbia.edu, Columbia University, USA.
  • Klara Nahrstedt, klara@cs.uiuc.edu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA

    Program Committee:

    • Gordon Blair, University of Lancaster, UK
    • Simon Crosby, Cambridge University, UK
    • Jon Crowcroft, UCL, UK
    • Hermann de Meer, University of Hamburg, Germany
    • Jan de Meer, GMD Fokus, Germany
    • Alexandros Eleftheriadis, Columbia University, USA
    • Richard Friedrich, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA
    • Michael Fry, University of Technology, Australia
    • Andrew Herbert, APM Ltd., UK
    • Jean-Peirre Hubaux, EPFL, Switzerland
    • Kevin Jeffay, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
    • Brigitte Kerhervé, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
    • S. Keshav, ATT Research, USA
    • Glenford Mapp, Olivetti Research Ltd, UK
    • Steve McCanne, University of California, Berkeley, USA
    • Mahmoud Nagshineh, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
    • Elie Najm, École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France
    • Max Ott, C&C Research, NEC USA
    • Guru Parulkar, Washington University
    • Jerry Rolia, Carleton University, Canada
    • Cormac Sreenan, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, USA
    • Chris Sluman, OpenIT Ltd, UK,
    • Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University, Japan
    • James VanLoo, Sun Microsystems USA
    • Andreas Vogel, DSTC, Australia
    • Andrew Watson, OMG, USA
    • Hartmut Wittig, Multimedia Software GmbH, Germany
    • Lixia Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    • Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    • Martina Zitterbart, TU Braunschweig, Germany

    Local Organization Committee:

  • Cormac Sreenan, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, USA
  • Koon-Seng Lim, Columbia University, USA
  • Alexandros Eleftheriadis, Columbia University, USA
  • Cristina Aurrecoechea, Columbia University, USA

    HISTORY

    The Fifth International Workshop on Quality of Service is part of a continuing series: The first workshop, held in May 1993 in Montreal, Canada, was supported by the European RACE project `QoS TOPIC' and the Canadian CITR project `Broadband Services'. The second workshop was organized within the European RACE Conference on Integrated Services and Networks (IS&N) and took place in September 1994 in Aachen, Germany. The third workshop was held in February 1995 in Brisbane, Australia, in conjunction with the International IFIP Conference on Open Distributed Processing. The last workshop was held in March 1996 in Paris, France, in conjunction with the IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Platforms and IFIP International Workshop on Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems.

    LOCATION

    The workshop will be held at the Schapiro Research Building, Columbia University, Manhattan in the City of New York. A variety of hotels options will be available to the participants. Internet access will be provided.

    RELATED EVENTS

    The Fifth International Workshop on Quality of Service will be held immediately before the Joint IFIP International Conference on Open Distributed Processing (ICODP) and Distributed Platforms (ICDP) , Toronto, Canada, May 26-30, 1997.

    CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS

    Please notify us of your interest in the workshop by contacting the workshop co-chairs, either electronically (workshop@ctr.columbia.edu) or by mailing to the address below:

    Prof. Andrew T. Campbell
    Center for Telecommunications Research
    Columbia University
    Room 801 Schapiro Research Building
    530 West 120th Street
    New York, N.Y., 10027-6699
    USA

    voice: (212) 854-3109
    fax: (212) 316-9068



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