Call for Papers
 
                              Special Issue of
                         Computer Communications 
                                    on
                            Enterprise Networks

Guest Editors: Prof. Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Dayton
               Dr. Vijay Bhagavath, AT&T Laboratories


Papers are solicited for a special issue of Computer Communications
on Enterprise Networks to be published in the second quarter of 1999.

The recent trend in many organizations has been to rearrange the  
hardware, software, and communications capabilities into an 
enterprise-wide networked architecture.  Connecting the computing 
and communications equipment over a coroporate wide network has 
given rise to new challenges and research issues in Enterprise Networking 
which need to te addressed for successful operation of enterprise networks.
The purpose of this special issue is to survey the state of the art in
the performance evaluation, management and services of Enterprise
Networks.

Topics of interest to this issue include (but not limited to):
 - innovative architectural solutions, case-studies, and practical
   experiences with implementing end-to-end IP-based enterprise networks,
 - performance evaluation and network management, 
 - IP-based services delivery architectures (extranets) over xDSL, cable
   modems, DBS, broadband PCS, etc,
 - traffic engineering, performance analysis and network
   management issues with intranets,
 - secure and authenticated communication with corporate
   intranets over public networks using technologies such as 
   IPSEC, firewall gateways, IP or PPP layer tunnels, etc. 
 - emerging internetworking technologies and protocol suites,
 - support of IP telephony within the enterprise, 
 - IP-based multimedia services and applications delivery within 
   enterprise networks, 
 - thin clients (e.g., JAVA-based (TM)) for networked computing applications.
 - distributed software agent technologies applied to enterprise
   networks. 

Authors should send postscript copies of their papers (not to exceed 30
double spaced pages) by email to one of the guest editors by the 
deadline given below.  Authors should follow the author's guidelines 
for paper submission of Computer Communications. 

Guest editors:

Prof. Mohammed Atiquzzaman             Dr. Vijay Bhagavath
Department of Electrical               AT&T Laboratories, Rm. 1L-333
  & Computer Engineering               101 Crawfords Corner Road
University of Dayton,                  Holmdel, NJ 07733.
Dayton, Ohio 45469-0226.               Email: vkb@attmail.com
Email: atiq@engr.udayton.edu           Voice: (732) 949-2837
Voice: (937) 229 3183                  Fax: (732) 949-4852
Fax:   (937) 229 4529


Important dates:

Deadline for receipt of manuscripts:          October 25, 1998
Notification of acceptance/rejection:         January 31, 1998
Publication of the special issue:             Second quarter 1999

ASCII and PostScript versions of this announcement and the author's 
guidelines for Computer Communications are available from
http://www.engr.udayton.edu/faculty/matiquzz/