Quality of future Internet services

The COST action for improving the quality of future Internet services (COST 263) is holding an international workshop in Berlin, Germany, from 25 to 27 September 2000.

Founded in 1971, COST is an intergovernmental framework for European cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research, allowing the coordination of nationally funded research on a European level.

The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the design and implementation techniques for quality of service (QoS) engineering for Internet services, with an emphasis on engineering and provision of novel services (IP telephony, video streaming, heterogeneous multimedia multicasting, VPN, e-commerce services) based on emerging building blocks of QoS assured Internet. These include integrated services and differentiated services and their mapping to specific link layers and legacy technologies.

Event organisers are currently calling for papers on the following topics:

- QoS enhanced IP: IntServ, DiffServ and alternatives;
- differentiated services end-to-end deployment: defining and supporting end-to-end services and per hop behaviours (PHBs);
- performance of implementations: IntServ queuing mechanisms and DiffServ PHBs;
- Internet traffic source models;
- novel network performance calculi;
- mapping Internet QoS to legacy interconnect technologies;
- issues of end-to-end services with QoS (WWW, caching, real-time applications. E-commerce, etc.);
inter-domain QoS: strategies, mechanisms, routing;
- wireless access issues;
- user and network signalling for QoS;
- measurement and monitoring based QoS support, measured QoS;
- cost assessment and pricing schemes for Internet QoS;
- active services and service creation for Internet QoS;
- policy-based QoS control for the Internet;
- traffic engineering for QoS Internet.
For further information please contact:

Quality of future Internet services 2000
Fax +49-30-34638000
E-mail: qofis2000@fokus.gmd.de
URL: http:www.fokus.gmd.de/events/qofis2000/