Guest Editors
Matteo D'Ambrosio CSELT, Italy	Mohammed Atiquzzaman University of Dayton, USA

Recent advances in switching and transmission technologies allow the implementation of very high speed networks that are changing the face of the Internet. In the next Telecommunication Age it will be possible to support new multimedia applications in a global environment and design new services on flexible platforms without upgrading the physical infrastrucure. In order to reach these goals many researchers are working on defining the new Network Architecture, which will be capable of offering transport and computation services to communication applications with stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. New protocols and node implementations have to be envisioned with this objective in mind. The ETT Journal announces a forthcoming issue on "Architectures, Protocols and Quality of Service For The Internet Of The Future", that will be focused on (but not limited to) the following topics:

• New node architectures for Switching and Routing at Gigabit Speeds
• Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS): design principles, network architecture and performance
• Internetworking with ATM and High Speed Networks to offer QoS guarantees
• Multimedia Services running on Heterogeneous Networks
• Network and Transport Protocols in the Integrated Services Internet
• QoS provision, multicast support and policy capabilities in Routing and Signalling Protocols
• Differentiated Services Architectures
• Open Control Architectures and Active Networks

The following deadlines will apply:

Submission of manuscripts Notification of acceptance Submission of final manuscript Publication date

June 30, 1998 November 15, 1998 December 15, 1998 March-April, 1999

Guest Editors:
Matteo D'Ambrosio Networking Department CSELT v. Reiss Romoli 274 10148 Torino Italy phone: +39 11 2285006 fax: +39 11 2285069 e-mail: matteo.dambrosio@cselt.it	Mohammed Atiquzzaman Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Dayton Dayton, Ohio 45469-0226 USA phone: +1 937 229-3183 fax: +1 937 229-4529 e-mail: atiq@engr.udayton.edu

Note: If a paper is not accepted for the special issue, it will be considered for publication in one of the regular issues of ETT.