Call for Papers for
Special Issue of the Computer Networks Journal
on 
Active Networks and Services


Editors: J Crowcroft, M Fry, D Hutchison, I Marshall, M Sloman, I Wakeman


Objectives and Scope

Active Networks research has been ongoing now for around 5 years. A
number of workshops and conferences have now sprung up, and several
programs of work are in place around the world building prototype
active network middleware, testbeds, services and applications. The
aim of this special issue is to gather together some of the output
from these projects into a single archival volume for reference by
researchers in the next generation of active networks work. To this
end, we are particularly interested in receiving submissions with practical
results, but are also interested in theoretical and architectural
papers.

Topics  of interest include (but are not restricted to) the
following:

	Active Network Architectures
	Application Level Active Networks 
	Active Services
	Programmable Networks
	Programmable Network Hardware
	Performance of Active Networks
	Active Signaling 
	Active Routing
	Security of Active Networks
	Policies and Active Networks
	Management of and by Active Networks
	Active Networks and Agents
	Active Networks and Multicast
	Active Networks and Nomadicity and Mobility


   SUBMISSION INFORMATION
 
   PDF, Postscript, Word, HTML or LaTeX to:
	alpine-journal@cs.ucl.ac.uk

   Camera ready information will be provided to authors of accepted
   papers.
 
   Further information
     
   IMPORTANT DATES

   Papers due: 30 June 2000 
   Acceptance notification 30 September 2000 
   Final paper submission: 31 October 2000
   Publication Expected: April 2001