-------------------- LAST CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------- ANNALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS ---------------------------- Special issue on Transport Protocols for the Next Generation Networks http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~cpham/ADT-TCP/ADT-TCP.html New networking technologies with optical-based transmission as a foundation for achieving tremendous throughput in the order of tens of Gbit/s are changing the face of the wired Internet with new large scale high-performance infrastructures such as computational grids. In the wireless domain, mobility and ubiquitous access to the Internet is driving the emergence of new value-added applications and exhibiting new user needs. Self-organizing wireless networks such as ad-hoc networks may eventually become the natural way of connecting end-users to the network. In this all-digital, all-connected world, transport protocols have the very difficult task of providing reliable, fair and efficient communications to millions of (groups of) users with very different needs and profiles, across different underlying technologies. High-speed networks, often referred to as long fat networks, raise the problem of fair and efficient congestion control mechanisms. Wireless environments with mobility and ad-hoc features bring new concerns. Fast heterogeneous networks face all these difficulties. This special issue is devoted to these problems. We solicit two categories of contributions: (1) survey papers presenting state-of-the-art studies, and (2) papers presenting an original and unpublished work or experiment on, but not limited to, the following topics: * TCP variants or new transport protocols for high-speed networks * TCP optimisations and tuning methodologies, results from real experiments * New congestion control mechanisms for high-speed networks * Transport protocols for heterogeneous networks * Experiments and prototype implementations and lessons learnt * Multipeer and multicast transport protocols * Transport protocols in wireless/mobile/ad-hoc environments * Transport protocols for (near) real-time traffic * Performance modelling of TCP on high-speed or wireless networks * Fairness issues in new transport protocols * Transport protocols in all-optical networking * Very high-speed transport protocols for computational grids Paper Submission We invite you to submit a paper that should have a length of 25000-35000 characters. The preferred language for the contribution is english. Instructions for formatting your paper according to the journal's rule can be found in english (http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~cpham/ADT-TCP/Editorial_instructions.pdf) or in french (http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~cpham/ADT-TCP/Consignes_projets_articles.pdf). A PDF version of your paper should be submitted electronically to one of the guest editors (see below). Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is absolutely not possible. All submitted papers must not have been previously published and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere while they are under consideration. Please include a cover page which lists the following: * name, * affiliation, * address and e-mail address of each author * name of the contact author * a maximum of 5 keywords Important Dates May 1st, 2005: Full paper due July 15th, 2005: Notification of acceptance September 15th, 2005: Final version due Expected date of publication: spring 2006. Guest Editors ------------- Prof. Guy LEDUC University of Liège Research Unit in Networking (RUN) EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM Guy.Leduc@ulg.ac.be and Associate Prof. Congduc PHAM University Lyon 1, LIP/INRIA RESO 46 allée d'Italie 69364 Lyon Cedex 7 FRANCE Congduc.Pham@ens-lyon.fr -- Pham. -- CongDuc PHAM - Associate Professor (UCB Lyon) INRIA RESO/LIP/CNRS/UCB Lyon Ecole Normale Superieure 46, Allee d'Italie, 69364 LYON Cedex 07,FRANCE Tel: +33(0)4 72 72 83 89 Fax: +33(0)4 72 72 80 80 Congduc.Pham@ens-lyon.fr http://bat710.univ-lyon1.fr/~cpham