[Tccc] due on 12/1: IEEE Comm. Mag.: Network Testing Series
Dr Ying-Dar Lin
ydlin
Mon Sep 5 12:44:08 EDT 2011
[ Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]
Due date for the next issue: December 1, 2011
IEEE Communications Magazine
Call for Papers
Network Testing Series
The objective of the Network Testing Series of IEEE Communications
Magazine is to provide a forum across the academia and the industry to
address the design and implementation defects unveiled by network
testing. In the industry, testing has been a mean to evaluate the design
and implementation of a system. But in the academia, a more common
practice is to evaluate a design by mathematical analysis or simulation
without actual implementations. A less common practice is to evaluate a
design by testing a partial implementation. That is, the academia
focuses more deeply on algorithmic design evaluation while the
industry has broader concerns on both algorithmic design issues and
system implementation issues. Often an optimized algorithmic component
could not guarantee the optimal operation of the whole system when other
components throttle the overall performance.
This series thus serves as a forum to bridge the gap, where the design
or implementation defects found by either community could be referred by
another community. The defects could be found in various dimensions of
testing. The type of testing could be functionality, performance,
conformance, interoperability and stability of the systems under
test (SUT) in the lab or in the field. The SUT could be black-box
without source code or binary code, grey-box with binary code or
interface, or white-box with source code. For grey-box or white-box
testing, profiling would help to identify and diagnose system
bottlenecks. For black-box testing, benchmarking devices of the same
class could reflect the state of the art. The SUT could range from
link-layer systems such as Ethernet, WLAN, WiMAX, 3G/4G cellular, and
xDSL, to mid-layer switches and routers, upper-layer systems such as
VoIP, SIP signaling, multimedia, network security, and consumer devices
such as handhelds. In summary, the Network Testing Series solicits
articles falling in, but not limited to, the following topics:
* Testing functionality, performance, conformance, interoperability,
and stability
* Testing systems and services of 10G Ethernet, Power over Ethernet,
WLAN, WiMAX, 3G/4G cellular, xDSL, switches, routers, IPv6, VoIP,
SIP signaling, storage area networks, network security, and
consumer handhelds
* Testing various layers of network devices including black-boxes,
white-boxes, and grey-boxes
* Benchmarking and profiling network systems and services
* Network lab testing and field testing
* Designing network test methodologies, test tools, and test beds
* Evaluating false positive and negative of network security
* Analyzing lab-found and customer-found defects
Submission
Prospective authors are strongly encouraged to contact the Series
Editors before writing and submitting an article in order to ensure that
the article will be appropriate for the Series. The submitted articles
should not be published elsewhere or be under review for any other
conference or journal. Articles should be tutorial yet rigorous in
nature. Mathematical equations should not be used (although some simple
equations may be allowed if permission is granted by the Series Editor
and the Editor-in-Chief). Articles should not exceed 4500 words. Figures
and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. Complete
guidelines for prospective authors can be found at:
http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/info/sub_guidelines.html.
Please send PDF (preferred) or MSWORD formatted papers to Manuscript
Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee), register or log
in, and go to the Author Center. Follow the instructions there, and
select the topic "Network Testing Series." Articles to be considered for
publication in the January 2011 issue must be submitted by June 1, 2010.
Since this is a regular series, papers can be submitted at any time for
consideration for subsequent issues.
Schedule for the First Issue of each year:
Submission Deadline: June 1
Acceptance Notification: September 1
Final Manuscript Submission: November 1
Expected Publication Date: January
Schedule for the Second Issue of each year:
Submission Deadline: December 1
Acceptance Notification: March 1
Final Manuscript Submission: May 1
Expected Publication Date: July
Series Editors
Ying-Dar Lin, ydlin at cs.nctu.edu.tw
National Chiao Tung University ? Network Benchmarking Lab (NCTU-NBL),
TAIWAN
Erica Johnson, erica.johnson at iol.unh.edu
University of New Hampshire ? InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL), USA
Eduardo Joo, ejoo at empirix.com
Empirix Inc., USA
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