CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
RECENT ADVANCES IN SERVICE OVERLAY NETWORKS
The best effort Internet was designed when host connectivity was the
primary concern. For this purpose, the Internet followed a simple and
robust design philosophy and has become a phenomenal success in the
last decade. Today's Internet users are very different from those a
decade ago and their expectation on the Internet has also changed.
Users are now more concerned about the timely delivery of the desired
services instead of mere host connectivity. The role of the Internet
has also evolved to become a commercial infrastructure for service
delivery. However, due to the IP addressing scheme, routing paradigm,
and other historical reasons, the current Internet is not well suited
for the purpose of service delivery. In response to these challenges,
various forms of overlay networks have been proposed and some deployed
in the Internet. For example, commercial content delivery service
providers have deployed proprietary server networks over the existing
Internet to bring content closer to the users. In addition, grassroots
users have voluntarily contributed their computers to form various
kinds of peer-to-peer networks for file swapping and content sharing.
The purpose of this issue is to disseminate state-of-the-art
technologies and novel approaches to address service delivery over the
Internet with overly networks. We are particularly interested in
soliciting papers that provide fundamental understanding on the design
tradeoff and performance issues of service overlay networks. Possible
topics include, but are not limited to:
* Design and performance of novel architectures, protocols, and
mechanisms for service overlay networks
* Approaches and performance of QoS provisioning in service overlay
networks
* Control and management of service overlay networks
* Interactions of service overlay networks and underlying data
networks, e.g. multi-lateral service level agreements
* Modeling and performance analysis of caching overlay
infrastructure
* Performance of multimedia delivery with service overlay networks
* New routing algorithms in content delivery and peer-to-peer
infrastructure
* Searching and indexing for content delivery and peer-to-peer
networks
* Experience in research testbed and prototypes or novel
technologies in commercial products
Only original, unpublished research papers will be considered. In
order to ensure the submitted work is within the scope of this issue,
we strongly recommend that prospective authors first submit an
extended abstract (up to two pages in plain text) for initial
screening before submitting the full manuscript. Notification will be
provided within three weeks.
Authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in
the Information for Authors or on the inside back cover of any issue
of J-SAC. There will be one round of reviews and acceptance will be
limited to those papers that only require moderate revisions.
Prospective authors should submit, via email, their abstract and
manuscript as a PDF file to Professor Bo Li, according to the
following timetable.
Abstract Submission: September 1, 2002
Manuscript Submission: November 15, 2002
Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2003
Final Manuscript Due: May 1, 2003
Publication Date: 4th Quarter 2003
Y. Thomas Hou
Fujitsu Labs of America
IP Networking Research Dept
595 Lawrence Expressway
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
thou@fla.fujitsu.com Bo Li
Hong Kong Univ of Science
and Technology
Dept of Computer Science
Clear Water Bay
Kowloon, Hong Kong
bli@cs.ust.hk Kazem Sohraby
Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies
Performance Analysis Dept
101 Crawfords Corner Rd
Room 3K-334
Holmdel, NJ 07733
sohraby@lucent.com
Mehmet Ulema
Manhattan College
Riverdale, NY 10471
mehmet.ulema@manhattan.edu
Zhensheng Zhang
Sorrento Networks
San Diego, CA 92121
zzhang@sorrentonet.com
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