From olariu@cs.odu.edu Tue Jul 6 13:34:25 1999 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 15:43:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephan Olariu To: DMANET@MATH.UTWENTE.NL Cc: olariu@cs.odu.edu Subject: [DMANET] please publicise CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of JOURNAL OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS on Routing in Computer and Communication Network The efficiency of message routing is critical to the performance of computer and communication networks. The routing process involves moving data between the various hosts of a given network. When such a process involves more than one source and/or one destination, it is commonly referred to as a collective communication process. The complexity of routing is further complicated by host mobility in wireless networks (cellular and/or ad-hoc). It is clear that the conventional routing algorithms are not suitable in networks whose topology is dynamic, especially when real-time traffic has to be supported. The main goal of the special issue is to provide a forum for recent results on routing protocols in computer and communication networks. Our main goal is to offer both researchers and practitioners working in this area an opportunity to express and discuss their views on the current trends, challenges, and state-of-art solutions to the design of efficient routing protocols. Topics to be covered in the special issue include but are not limited to: [o] Impact of topology on routing [o] Deadlock, livelock, and starvation-free routing [o] Reliable routing (point-to-point and multicasting) [o] Designing high-performance routers/switches/buses [o] Communication subsystems [o] Hardware support for routing [o] Support for collective communication [o] Routing in the Internet [o] Routing in mobile networks (cellular and ad-hoc wireless networks) [o] Intra-cluster and in-cluster routing of LANs [o] Performance evaluation and benchmarking [o] Randomized routing protocols Publication is scheduled for Fall 2000. Please submit your manuscript, following the guidelines below, to one of the guest editors by November 30, 1999. Stephan Olariu Jie Wu Dept of Computer Science Dept of Computer Science and Engineering Old Dominion University Florida Atlantic University Norfolk, VA 23529-0162 Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991 U.S.A. U.S.A. olariu@cs.odu.edu jie@cse.fau.edu Instructions for submitting papers: Although electronic submission is preferred, the submission of hard copies is also acceptable. Papers should not exceed 35 double-spaced pages including figures, tables etc. and should not have been previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere for publication. Papers should include a title page containing title, authors' names and affiliations, postal and email addresses, phone and FAX numbers. All submissions should include a 200-word abstract. All submitted papers will be refereed in accordance with the usual criteria of JPDC. Important Dates: ---------------- Submission Deadline: November 30, 1999 Author Notification: March 31, 2000 Revision Deadline: May 31, 2000 Acceptance Notice: July 31, 2000 ********************************************************** * * Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to * * DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de * * Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be * addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The * original sender, however, is invited to prepare an * update of the replies received and to communicate it * via DMANET. * * DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET) * http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/dmanet.html * **********************************************************