SPIE International Symposium
Voice, Video, & Data Communications
Conference on Performance & Control of Network System
3-7 November 1997, Dallas, Texas, USA

Special Session on
Switching and Traffic Management in High Speed Networks

Telecommunications in today's competitive marketplace typically involve multiple carriers, multiple services, varied equipment from multiple vendors, and multiple interconnected networks and network systems. The increasing demand in bandwidth for computing and communications has given rise to high speed networks. These networks require special types of switching and traffic management mechanisms. This special session is intended to cover different aspects of high speed switching, congestion control and service interworking mechanisms. Topics include (but are not limited to):

Authors should send the following items by email to one of the session organizers (hard copy of papers may be sent only if electronic submission is impossible).

Session Organizers:

Mohammed Atiquzzaman
Dept. of Elect. & Comp. Syst. Engg
Monash University, Clayton
Melbourne 3168, Australia.
Tel: +61 3 9905 5383
Fax: +61 3 9905 3454
email: atiq@eng.monash.edu.au
http://www.monash.edu.au/~atiq

Bhumip Khasnabish
GTE Labs. Inc., MS-48, Rm.4-292
40 Sylvan Road,
Waltham MA 02254, USA
Tel: +1-617-466-2080
Fax: +1-617-890-9320
email: bhumip@gte.com
http://www1.acm.org:82/~bhumip/

Important Dates:
Deadline for receipt of manuscripts:
Notification of acceptance/rejection:
30 April 1997
late June 1997

Proceedings of this conference will be published and available at the symposium. Length of camera-ready manuscript is limited to 12 pages with single-spaced text. ASCII and Postscript versions of this announcement and information about the conference are available from http://www.monash.edu.au/~atiq