CALL FOR PAPERS

                        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

   Session Organizers: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Monash University, Australia.
                       Bhumip Khasnabish, GTE Labs, USA.

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):

   o  Switching architectures
   o  Buffer management
   o  Congestion control mechanisms
   o  Traffic characterization, control, measurement, models and tools
   o  Prototyping experience and trial results
   o  Scheduling algorithms
   o  Service interworking (Frame Relay and ATM, TCP/IP and ATM, etc.)
   o  Performance evaluation, scalability, reliability and availability

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).

   o  Postscript copy of full paper.
   o  Plain text file containing the title of the paper, a 250-word 
      abstract, and the author listing (principal author first) with 
      full name, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, phone 
      number and fax number for each author.

                        Session Organizers:

 Mohammed Atiquzzaman                     Bhumip Khasnabish
 Dept. of Elect. & Comp. Syst. Engg       GTE Labs. Inc., MS-48, Rm.4-292
 Monash University, Clayton               40 Sylvan Road,
 Melbourne 3168, Australia.               Waltham MA 02254, USA
 Tel: +61 3 9905 5383                     Tel: +1-617-466-2080
 Fax: +61 3 9905 3454                     Fax: +1-617-890-9320
 email: atiq@eng.monash.edu.au            email: bhumip@gte.com     
 http://www.monash.edu.au/~atiq           http://www1.acm.org:82/~bhumip/

                         Important Dates:

 Deadline for receipt of manuscripts:                      30 April 1997
 Notification of acceptance/rejection:                     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