By Nikolaos Laoutaris, George Boukeas, Ioannis Stavrakakis (auth.), Mikhail I. Smirnov, Jon Crowcroft, James Roberts, Fernando Boav
The 2001 foreign Workshop on caliber of destiny web prone (QofIS 2001) held in Coimbra, Portugal, equipped via fee motion 263, is the second one of what we predict becomes a chain of profitable QofIS workshops. the former workshop was once held in Berlin within the yr 2000. The components of curiosity of QofIS hide the layout, implementation and provision of caliber of carrier, spanning key problems with present and rising conversation platforms equivalent to packet-level matters, flow-level concerns, network-level matters, architectural matters, and purposes. The emphasis of the QofIS2001 w orkshop is on horizontal (end-to-end) in addition to vertical (top-down) provision of caliber of companies, protecting all parts of finish structures and networks, with the purpose of choosing suggestions permitting possible and coherent QoS provision. The QofIS2001 cal l for papers attracted 87 submissions from 23 Asian, Australian, ecu, North American, and South American international locations. those have been topic to thorough evaluation paintings via the Programme Committee individuals and extra reviewers who conducted their paintings utilizing a in particular equipped convention method, WebChairing, constructed in Coimbra by means of Flor de Utopia, that allowed complete keep watch over of the submission and reviewing approaches. in keeping with the reviews and suggestions of the studies, the ultimate programme used to be outlined in a Programme th Committee assembly held on the collage of Karlsruhe on June five , 2001.