IEEE Special Issue on XML-based Management of Networks and Services

IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on XML-based Management of Networks and Services

Call For Papers
IEEE Communications Magazine
Topic: XML-based Management of Networks and Services

Background

The increasing dependence of society on the availability and the correct operation of the Internet demands for continuous improvement of Internet management technologies. Traditionally, Internet management is based on the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), which defines the management information exchange between managers and agents. Within agents, the management information is organized in Management Information Bases (MIBs) and described according to the rules of the Structure of Management Information (SMI). Although several versions of SNMP, MIBs and the SMI exist, the basic concepts did not change since the first versions appeared nearly 15 years ago. At that time bandwidth was scarce and processing power of devices was limited. Although many years of experience proved that existing Internet management technology is well suited to monitor network devices, it also became clear that SNMP technology is hardly used for configuration management and management of higher level services. These management tasks still rely on proprietary and ad-hoc technologies. Currently, there is a growing interest in using XML technologies for management purposes. XML has the advantage that it is widely accepted, which means that there are many tools available that potentially support the implementation of management functions. In addition, the promise of XML is to facilitate the easy integration of different applications; something that is particularly important for the cooperation of network and service management applications.

Scope of Expected Contributions

It is the intention to present the state of the art and recent developments in XML based management in a feature issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. Authors are therefore invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review for any other conference or journal, in the following areas:

Architectures for XML based management
Management based on Web Services (SOAP, WSDL, ...)
Management information and data modeling using XML Schema
Translation from traditional information and data models to XML schemas or DTDs
Protocols for XML based management
Interworking between XML and traditional management systems
Secure management using the XML security framework
Application of generic XML technologies (XPath, RDF, XQuery, ...) for management
Implementation experiences and case-studies
Standardization activities (IETF, DMTF, ...)

Submission

Prospective authors should submit their manuscripts through Manuscript Central http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/ by November 15th. Please see http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html for the author's guidelines. The following is the timetable for this feature topic publication:

Submission Deadline:       November 15, 2003
Acceptance Notifications:  February 15, 2004
Final Manuscripts Due:     April 15, 2004
Journal Publication:       July 01, 2004

Guest Editors

Olivier Festor
LORIA - INRIA Lorraine
54602 Villers-lès-Nancy
France
Email: olivier.festor@loria.fr

Aiko Pras
University of Twente
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
Email: a.pras@utwente.nl

Jürgen Schönwëlder
International University Bremen
28759 Bremen
Germany
Email: j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de

From:
/js
Juergen Schoenwaelder
International University Bremen
http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/
P.O. Box 750 561, 28725 Bremen, Germany

Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See also: (1) IEEE Communications Magazine; (2) online CFP.

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