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It is our pleasure to announce the 2001 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications - Evolutionary Trends of the Internet. Original contributions are solicited. If you plan to submit a paper, please let me know at your earliest convenience. The submission deadline is March 15th. We are appending a call for papers for your information. Please feel free to distribute it widely to other potentially interested parties. Best regards, Sergio Palazzo, General Chair

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2001 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications

IWDC 2001

Evolutionary Trends of the Internet

September 17-20, 2001 CapoTaormina Hotel, Taormina, Italy http://www.cnit.it/events/tyrr2001 --------------------------------------------------------------------

In recent years the Internet has seen a tremendous growth in terms of amount of traffic and number of users. At present, a primary technical objective is to provide advanced IP networking services to support an evolving set of new applications like, for example, IP-telephony, video teleconferencing, Web TV, multimedia retrieval, remote access to and control of laboratory equipment and instruments. To achieve the objective, the Internet must transition from a best-effort paradigm without service differentiation to one where specific Quality of Service (QoS) requirements can be met for different service classes in terms of bandwidth, delay and delay jitter. Another crucial goal is the ubiquitous deployment of a wide variety of advanced services over the global network resulting from the effective integration of wireless and satellite segments into the future Internet. Although many researchers and engineers around the world have been working on these challenging issues, several problems remain open. The 2001 edition of the Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications, focused on the Evolutionary Trends of the Internet, will constitute a highly selective forum aimed to cover diverse aspects of the next generation of IP networks. The single-track workshop program will be structured in technical sessions organized by leading researchers in the field, which will accommodate invited and regular papers selected on an open-call basis. The technical program will also include a poster session, where presentations will refer to short papers reporting prominent - but still in progress - research work. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by three members of the International Program Committee. Accepted papers (both regular and short) will be published by Springer-Verlag in the workshop proceedings, which will be copyrighted and widely disseminated.

Contributions are solicited on all topics concerning advanced research issues in IP networking, including (but not limited to):

· QoS in the next generation Internet · Real-time services support over the Internet · Multicast and routing in IP networks · Mobile and wireless Internet access · Satellite IP networking · WDM technologies for the next generation Internet · Performance analysis of Internet protocols

Paper Submission Guidelines Manuscripts to be considered as regular papers should be original work limited to 20 double-spaced pages. Work-in-progress papers to be considered for the poster session should be limited to 10 double-spaced pages. Any paper submitted to the Workshop must not have been published in or submitted to other technical conferences/journals. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. The preferred format for electronic submission is PDF suitable for Acrobat Reader, or Postscript. All submissions must be sent to the workshop General Chair.

Important dates: · Paper submission due: March 15, 2001 · Acceptance Notification: April 30, 2001 · Camera-ready Paper: May 31, 2001

General Chair: Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy (palazzo@iit.unict.it)

Technical Session Organizers: Anthony Acampora, University of California San Diego, USA Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Imrich Chlamtac, University of Texas, Dallas, USA Mario Gerla, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Jorg Liebeherr, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Technical Program Committee members: Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Guido Albertengo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Palermo, Italy Nicola Blefari Melazzi, University of Perugia, Italy Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA Giorgio Corazza, University of Bologna, Italy Franco Davoli, University of Genova, Italy Christophe Diot, Sprint ATL, USA Serge Fdida, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK Gunnar Karlsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Edward Knightly, Rice University, USA Luciano Lenzini, University of Pisa, Italy Marco Listanti, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Alfio Lombardo, University of Catania, Italy Steven Low, Caltech, USA Riccardo Melen, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Giacomo Morabito, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Fabio Neri, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Giovanni Pacifici, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Catherine Rosenberg, Purdue University, USA Keith Ross, Institut Eurécom, France Gian Paolo Rossi, University of Milano, Italy Aldo Roveri, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Giovanni Schembra, University of Catania, Italy Terence Todd, McMaster University, Canada

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