CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications Alexandria, Egypt, June 27-29, 1995 Sponsored by* IEEE Computer Society** and IEEE Communications Society Advances in digital communication technology and its main emerging applications are the focus of this first annual event aiming at bringing together experts from industry and academia in order to exchange ideas and results in a specific area in the fields of computers and communications. Original research or survey papers as well as panel proposals related to the following topics are especially sought: Performance and Simulation of Communication Systems Protocol Specification and Engineering Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing ISDN/BISDN Standards, Implementation and Applications Network Operation, Administration and Management Networks for Industrial Applications Multimedia Protocols, Applications and Systems Distributed Computing and Information Access Network Security and Privacy Legal and Social Issues in Networking Optical Fiber Communications Satellite Communications Protocols for High Performance Networks Reliability, Availability and Fault Tolerance Interoperability and Network Interconnection Services and Deployment of Future Networks Papers submitted should not exceed 20 double spaced pages and should be original (neither published nor submitted for publication elsewhere). Four copies (with complete postal and electronic mailing addresses, as well as phone and fax numbers of the responsible author) should be sent to either one of the two program co- chairs: Dr. Spiros Dimolitsas Prof. Mohamed Gouda COMSAT Labs Dept. of Computer Sciences 22300 Comsat Drive, University of Texas-Austin Clarksburg, MD 20871, USA Austin, TX 78712, USA spiros@ctd.comsat.com gouda@cs.utexas.edu Important Dates: November 14, 1994 Paper submission deadline January 30, 1995 Notifications of acceptance mailed to authors March 31, 1995 Final camera-ready manuscripts due Steering Committee Hussein Abdel Wahab, Old Dominion U., USA Yehia Elhakim, Alexandria U., Egypt Aly Elrefaie, Bellcore, USA Mahmoud Elsoury, ARENTO, Egypt Aly Hebeish, Academy for Scientific Res.& Tech., Egypt Tarek Saadawi, City U. of New York, USA Mostafa Hashem Sherif, AT&T Bell Labs, USA Ahmed Tantawy, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Technical Program Committee Spiros Dimolitsas, COMSAT, USA (co-Chair) Mohamed Gouda, U. Texas-Austin, USA (co-Chair) Salah Aidarous, Bell Northern Research, Canada Ali Atyia, COMSAT, USA Abdel Monem Bilal, Cairo U., Egypt A. Crossman, PictureTel, USA M. Daneshmand, AT&T Bell Labs, USA W. R. Daumer, AT&T Bell Labs, USA Maurizio Decina, CEFRIEL, Politec. Milano, Italy Ismail I. Eldumiati, AT&T Bell Labs, USA Said El-Khamy, Alexandria U., Egypt Anthony Ephremides, U. of Maryland, USA M. A. R. Ghonaimy, Ein Shams U., Egypt Waguih Ishak, HP Labs, USA Samir Kamal, HP Labs, USA A.S. Krishnakumar, AT&T, The Netherlands Kurt Maly, Old Dominion U., USA Hanafy Meleis, NIST, USA Hussien Mouftah, Queens U., Canada Yushi Naito, Mitsubishi, Japan Jay Nievergelt, ETH Zurich, Switzerland John O'Reilly, U. C. London, UK Harry Perros, NC State U., USA Donald Schilling, InterDigital, USA Thomas Schuett, IBM, Germany Samir Soliman, Qualcomm, USA Mark Soulliere, ATT Bell Labs, USA Jean-Pierre Thomesse, ENSEM, France Azza Torky, ARENTO, Egypt Bill Tranter, U. of Missouri/Rolla, USA Tutorials Ibrahim Abdel-Salam, Alexandria U., Egypt Abdel-Salam Fathi, Alexandria U., Egypt Local Organization Mohamed Ismail, Alexandria U., Egypt Registration & Finance Adel Elmaghraby, U. of Louisville, USA Tarek N. Saadawi, CUNY, USA Publicity Edgar Aguilar, AT&T Bell Labs, USA Reda Ammar, U. of Connecticut, USA Abdelsalam Heddaya, Boston U., USA Mohamed Obaidat, CUNY, USA * In cooperation with: IEEE Alexandria Subsection, the Arab Republic of Egypt National Telecommunications Organization (ARENTO), and the American Arab Scientific Society. With corporate support from IBM Egypt and AT&T Egypt. ** Technical Committee on Simulation