Communications services being offered to customers today are expanding from basic telephony and data offerings to advanced integrated services such as multimedia broadband and high-speed data. As network systems become increasingly complex and network services more heterogeneous, traffic engineering plays a crucial role to ensure that diverse quality of service requirements can be met efficiently and cost-effectively. To support these network administration and planning activities, new networking principles and traffic theories are needed. The aim of this conference is to promote discussion on the development of performance evaluation techniques, traffic control principles, traffic engineering methods and practices.
Papers surveying an area are particularly welcome.
For submission details to other sessions see the general CFP for the SPIE Conference on Performance and Control of Network Systems. In the near future many legacy networks running Internet protocols will be interconnected via ATM networks. The aim of this special session is to solicit papers on the performance of Internet protocols and applications over ATM networks with special emphasis on studies or experiments where the Internet sources and destinations are connected to the legacy LANs. Full papers for this special track are due March 31.