[Tccc] CfP: Special Issue on Experimental Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Applications

Roberto Canonico roberto.canonico
Wed May 18 04:55:11 EDT 2011


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=== Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (ISI indexed) ===
===                 Special Issue Call for Papers                   ===
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===       Experimental Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Applications      ===
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Journal web page at:
http://www.springer.com/12083

Peer-to-peer applications produce nowadays a significant fraction of  
the whole Internet traffic. The peer-to-peer paradigm is not only used  
for file sharing and content dissemination but also for live video  
broadcasting, multiparty interactive gaming, as well as for large  
scale VoIP and teleconferencing applications.
Existing peer-to-peer applications and protocols have been designed  
for peers running in normal PCs equipped with a broadband connection  
to the Internet. However, the emerging scenario is much more complex  
and heterogeneous, including a variety of terminals (PDAs, NAS boxes,  
etc.) and access networks (xDSL, Wi-Fi, WiMax, WMNs, etc.)
Simulation has been the most widely used approach for performance  
evaluation of peer-to-peer applications because it represents a fast  
and inexpensive way to test novel solutions.
Nonetheless, the growing complexity and heterogeneity of the emerging  
scenario for peer-to-peer applications has made it necessary to  
validate models and simulation results through experimental evaluation  
in realistic settings.
This need is testified by the recent trend of conducting evaluation of  
peer-to-peer applications in large scale testbeds (e.g. PlanetLab) as  
well as in the real world (e.g. by collecting data from existing  
BitTorrent trackers or by participating in real peer-to-peer networks  
with instrumented peers).

This special issue strives to collect recent advances and emerging  
methodologies in the experimental evaluation of peer-to-peer  
applications, with the aim of comparing advantages and limitations of  
different evaluation approaches and highlighting novel features to be  
implemented in next-generation large-scale experimental facilities to  
better support the evaluation of peer-to-peer applications. Papers  
simply presenting experimental facilities will be considered out of  
scope.

The topics of interest for the special issue include, but are not
limited to:

- Methodological issues in the experimental evaluation of peer-to-peer  
applications and protocols

- Statistical analysis of experimental data gathered from real world  
peer-to-peer applications

- Validation of simulation models and analytic models based on  
large-scale experimental testbeds

- Evaluation of peer-to-peer applications with regard to  
non-functional requirements, such as
performance, scalability, fault tolerance, availability and
accessibility

- Evaluation of peer-to-peer applications and protocols in wireless  
multi-hop networks

To avoid delays, authors of submissions that, in the opinion of the  
editors, fall out of scope of this issue will be notified promptly.

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  SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS
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Prof. Roberto Canonico (roberto.canonico at unina.it)
Universit? di Napoli "Federico II", Italy

Dr. Claudia Canali (claudia.canali at unimore.it)
Universit? di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Dr. Walid Dabbous (walid.dabbous at inria.fr)
INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France

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  JOURNAL EDITORS
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Editor-in-Chief
Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
University of Waterloo, Canada

Associate Editor-in-Chief
Heather Yu
Huawei Technologies, USA

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  IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2011
Notification to authors:   September 30, 2011
Revisions:                 November 25, 2011
Date of publication:       2012

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  PAPER SUBMISSION
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Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has
neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals.
Manuscripts should be submitted through the "Editorial Manager" online  
  submission system available at: http://PPNA.edmgr.com.
Choose "P2P Experimental Evaluation" as the article type.
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Journal ISSN: 1936-6442 (print), 1936-6450 (electronic)





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