The First International Workshop on Inter-domain Performance and Simulation (IPS 2003) held February 20-21, 2003 in Salzburg will focus on actual research and industry activities for inter-domain performance management, modelling and simulation. It will address mathematical, methodological and theoretical aspects of macroscopic connectivity analysis and inter-domain performance monitoring, modelling, simulation and optimisation, verification of inter-domain QoS and SLAs, inter-domain QoS based interconnection architectures (DiffServ, MPLS), inter-domain policy based routing (BGP-4) and traffic engineering, visual data mining and information modelling for inter-domain QoS analysis, inter-domain business scenarios and applications.

Authors are invited to submit papers, panel discussions, poster demonstrations, or tutorials in the following, but not limited, topic areas:

• Macroscopic topology and performance analysis of Internet, geographical and topological mapping
• Policy based performance monitoring and modelling of interconnected domain infrastructures
• Toolkits for passive and active inter-domain performance measurement and monitoring
• Inter-domain traffic engineering requirements, techniques, and applications
• Business models and scenarios for inter-domain traffic engineering and performance management
• Case studies for Inter-domain monitoring, modelling and simulation of Applications and Services
• Performance management considering characteristics of Autonomous Systems (AS) and interconnection strategies
• Inter-domain simulation environments and modelling toolkits, Measurement based simulation and modelling
• Integrated inter-domain performance monitoring, simulation and modelling toolkits
• Use of simulations and modelling for planning and optimisation of inter-domain connectivity
• Inter-domain QoS based interconnection architectures (MPLS, DiffServ)
• Inter-domain QoS and resource management, capacity planning and optimisation
• SLA and QoS Monitoring, Modelling and Verification in interconnected domain infrastructures
• QoS monitoring and modelling of application and services in inter-domain environment (content, VoIP, electronic commerce)
• Visual data mining and information modelling for inter-domain perfomance analysis and traffic engineering
• Modelling, planning and optimisation of inter-domain interconnectivity, multihoming and resiliency demands
• Performance analysis, simulation and modelling of inter-domain routing protocols (BGP-4)
• Impact of inter-domain routing policies on QoS and SLA of applications, QoS based inter-domain routing
• Multicast inter-domain routing protocols and sevices
• Large scale performance and routing data bases for inter-domain perfromance management
• Admission control and inter-domain traffic aggregation
• QoS and performance issues of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) interconnection
• Inter-domain interconnection and performance of Mobile Networks (UMTS)
• Inter-domain event detection, DoS attacks and their impact on performance
• Fault, security, and accounting issues in inter-domain environment
• New technologies for inter-domain connectivity and performance modelling