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CALL FOR PAPERS:

Special Issue of Computer Communications on

Integrating Multicast into the Internet ---------------------------------------

CFP URL: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~almeroth/COMCOM:cfp.html Journal URL: http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/5/2/5/4/4/0/

TOPICS:

The amount of bandwidth available in the Internet is increasing dramatically, both in the backbone networks, as well as in the last mile (broadband access). One consequence is that the delivery of high-quality multimedia data will become feasible, and multimedia data, including audio and video, will become the dominant traffic. As more users gain access to broadband services, new applications and services will become possible. The result will be a growing demand for large-scale multimedia applications and services.

Multicasting as a pure networking solution to the transport of media is recognized as offering economies-of-scale for large-scale applications. Multicast is also believed to enable applications which provide service to thousands, even millions of customers. While there has been significant research work on multicast, efforts to successfully deploy a production service have lagged. Reasons range from frequently changing protocols, management and engineering problems, legacy hardware limitations, traffic conflicts with unicast, etc.. This special issue focuses on research issues dealing with the challenges of deploying multicast in the network. Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

* Multicast Congestion Control * Multicast Overlay Networks * Next-Generation Multicast Routing Algorithms * Multicast Media Transport * Security for Multicast-Based Services * Multicast Traffic Engineering and Management * Multicast Pricing and Quality of Service

GUEST EDITORS:

Kevin Almeroth Jorg Nonnenmacher Department of Computer Science Network Research Dept, Lucent Technologies University of California 600-700 Mountain Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110 Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636 Phone: +1(805) 893-2777 Phone: +1(908) 582-1707 Fax: +1(805) 893-8553 Fax: +1(908) 582-6632 Email: almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu Email: nonnen@research.bell-labs.com

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper Submission Deadline: February 1, 2000 Feedback to Authors: May 1, 2000 Final Manuscripts Due: June 1, 2000 Publication Date: Fall 2000

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

Authors are requested to send e-mail to one or both of the Guest Editors (almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu, nonnen@research.bell-labs.com) giving a URL from where a postscript or PDF file can be downloaded. Successfully received papers will be acknowledged.

AUTHOR INFORMATION:

Submissions made to the special issue should not have appeared in, or been submitted to other archival publications. All papers will be subjected to the journal's usual refereeing process.

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