Call for Submissions Workshop IPDy 2006 - Internet Packet Dynamics July 16-18, 2006, Silicon Valley, USA http://www.iaria.org/conferences/IPDY06.html <http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SELF.html> in conjunction with ICNS 2006 - International Conference on Networking and Services http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICNS06.html <http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICSA06.html> IMPORTANT DEADLINES Abstract submission: February 15 2006(* Submission deadline: March 5, 2006 Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2006 Camera-ready and Registration: April 15, 2006 (hard deadline) *) After February 15th we expect full paper submissions until the March 5th deadline SUBMISSION http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitICNS06.html <http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitICSA06.html> GENERAL Packet Dynamics refers broadly to measurements, theory and/or models that describe the time evolution and the associated attributes of packets, flows or streams of packets in a network. Factors impacting packet dynamics include cross traffic, architectures of intermediate nodes (e.g., routers, gateways, and firewalls), complex interaction of hardware resources and protocols at various levels, as well as implementations that often involve competing and conflicting requirements. Parameters such as packet reordering, delay, jitter and loss that characterize the delivery of packet streams are at times highly correlated. Load-balancing at an intermediate node may, for example, result in out-of-order arrivals and excessive jitter, and network congestion may manifest as packet losses or large jitter. Out-of-order arrivals, losses, and jitter in turn may lead to unnecessary retransmissions in TCP or loss of voice quality in VoIP. With the growth of the Internet in size, speed and traffic volume, understanding the impact of underlying network resources and protocols on packet delivery and application performance has assumed a critical importance. Measurements and models explaining the variation and interdependence of delivery characteristics are crucial not only for efficient operation of networks and network diagnosis, but also for developing solutions for future networks. This workshop will provide a forum for interaction among researchers and practitioners working in the area of packet dynamics. We solicit papers dealing with all aspects of packet dynamics, including measurements, characterization, modeling and mitigation of its adverse effects. TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST (but not limited to) o Measurement of stream characteristics (reordering, delay, losses, jitter, etc.) o Measurement and estimation of network characteristics o Tools, metrics and benchmarks o End-to-end packet dynamics o Timing aspects in packet dynamics o Impact of load balancing, parallelism within nodes, etc. on packet dynamics o QoS mechanisms and their impact on packet dynamics o Models (e.g., relating protocols, resources and architectures to packet dynamics) o Mitigation of adverse effects of reordering, jitter, etc. o Traffic engineering o Impact of packet dynamics on application performance INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE AUTHORS Regular or short papers The IPDy 2006 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press , posted on IEEE Xplore , and indexed by SCI and EI. Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system. Tutorials Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to Nischal.Piratla@telekom.de, Anura.Jayasumana@Colostate.edu, or pdini@cisco.com using "ICNS'06 IPDy" in the email subject. Panel proposals The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. Please send your proposals to Nischal.Piratla@telekom.de, Anura.Jayasumana@Colostate.edu, or pdini@cisco.com using "ICNS'06 IPDy" in the email subject. COMMITTEES Chairs Nischal M. Piratla, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany, Nischal.Piratla@telekom.de Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State University, USA, Anura.Jayasumana@Colostate.edu Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA // Concordia University, Canada, pdini@cisco.com TPC Members Ralph Droms, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA Jacqueline Floch, SINTEF, Norway Robert Hsieh, Deutsche Telekom Labs, Germany Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia Dan Massey, Colorado State University, USA Michael Menth, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Ina Minei, Juniper Networks, USA Amitabh Mishra, Virginia Tech, USA Michal Przybylski, Poznan Supercomputing & Networking Center, Poland Martin Roth, Technical University Berlin, Germany Aruna Seneviratne, NICTA, Australia Maciej Stasiak, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Francois Taini, Lancaster University, UK Henk Uijterwaal, RIPE, The Netherlands Rick Whitner, Agilent Technologies, USA Qinshi Wu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Qin Yang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Martin Zach, Siemens, Germany Tanja Zseby, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany ICNS Contact: petre@iaria.org =========================================== Message composé et expédié avec la version d'évaluation gratuite de Sarbacane2®, le logiciel d'e-mailing professionnel pour Windows de GOTO Software. 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