CFP : Special Issue of European Transactions on Telecommunications on P2P Networking and P2P Services

CFP : Special Issue of European Transactions on Telecommunications on P2P Networking and P2P Services
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********************************************************************* Deadline for paper submissions is March 31, 2004 ********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS European Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT) (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/) Special Issue on P2P Networking and P2P Services Peer-to-peer (P2P) services have evolved to the most popular applications in today's Internet. Remarkably, only very simple protocols and almost no support by the transport network were needed to make these distributed services operable on a large scale in little time. P2P entails a highly attractive paradigm in distributed computing: P2P is based on communication between equals. The peers are highly autonomous. P2P services provide simple and efficient mechanisms to pool and share exchangeable resources like CPU cycles, disk space or content. These features allow that any peer can be removed without resulting in a complete loss of service, in contrast to the traditional client/server concept where a failure of the central entity may corrupt the service completely. A P2P mode of operation, however, also has some downsides. P2P protocols cause high traffic volumes, including data traffic as well as signaling traffic. P2P network topologies reveal a high variability and P2P traffic patterns of P2P applications fluctuate strongly in time and space. It is anticipated that traditional network design techniques and traffic engineering procedures may not longer be applicable. New methods are needed that maintain the autonomous and self-organizing characteristics of P2P in order to provide appropriate service stability, quality, and efficiency. The focus of the special issue of ETT will include (but is not limited to) the following topics (see also http://www-info3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/staff/tutschku/ETTCFPP2P.pdf ): - P2P applications and services - P2P protocols, algorithms, and infrastructures - Performance measurements and performance analysis of P2P networks - Security, privacy and accounting issues in P2P networks - Mobile P2P over different kinds of bearer services - Mobile P2P algorithms - Mobile P2P & operator/provider requirements - Business cases for P2P Electronic submission of pdf files or uuencoded gzipped postscript files is strongly encouraged. Please send your document to: tutschku@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de The following deadlines will apply: - Submission of manuscripts March 31, 2004 - Notification of acceptance June 15, 2004 - Submission of final manuscript July 15, 2004 - Publication 3rd quarter 2004 Kurt Tutschku (Coordinating guest editor) Depart. Distributed Systems, Institute of Computer Science, University of Wuerzburg, Germany. tutschku@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Hermann de Meer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Passau, Germany. demeer@fmi.uni-passau.de Frank-Uwe Andersen ICM - Future IP technologies - Siemens AG, Germany. Frank-Uwe.Andersen@siemens.com Konosuke Kawashima Dept. of Computer, Information and Communication Sciences Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Japan. k-kawa@cc.tuat.ac.jp

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CALL FOR PAPERS
European Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT)
(http://www.interscience.wiley.com/)

Special Issue on P2P Networking and P2P Services

Peer-to-peer (P2P) services have evolved to the most popular applications 
in today's Internet. Remarkably, only very simple protocols and almost no 
support by the transport network were needed to make these distributed services 
operable on a large scale in little time. 
P2P entails a highly attractive paradigm in distributed computing: P2P is based 
on communication between equals. The peers are highly autonomous. P2P services 
provide simple and efficient mechanisms to pool and share exchangeable resources 
like CPU cycles, disk space or content. These features allow that any peer can 
be removed without resulting in a complete loss of service, in contrast to the 
traditional client/server concept where a failure of the central entity may 
corrupt the service completely. A P2P mode of operation, however, also has some 
downsides. P2P protocols cause high traffic volumes, including data traffic as 
well as signaling traffic. P2P network topologies reveal a high variability and 
P2P traffic patterns of P2P applications fluctuate strongly in time and space. It 
is anticipated that traditional network design techniques and traffic engineering 
procedures may not longer be applicable. New methods are needed that maintain 
the autonomous and self-organizing characteristics of P2P in order to provide 
appropriate service stability, quality, and efficiency.  

The focus of the special issue of ETT will include (but is not limited to) the 
following topics (see also 
http://www-info3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/staff/tutschku/ETTCFPP2P.pdf ): 

- P2P applications and services
- P2P protocols, algorithms, and infrastructures
- Performance measurements and performance analysis of P2P networks
- Security, privacy and accounting issues in P2P networks
- Mobile P2P over different kinds of bearer services
- Mobile P2P algorithms
- Mobile P2P & operator/provider requirements
- Business cases for P2P

Electronic submission of pdf files or uuencoded gzipped postscript files
is strongly encouraged. 

Please send your document to: tutschku@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de  

The following deadlines will apply:

- Submission of manuscripts              March 31, 2004
- Notification of acceptance             June 15, 2004
- Submission of final manuscript         July 15, 2004
- Publication                            3rd quarter 2004
 

Kurt Tutschku (Coordinating guest editor)
Depart. Distributed Systems, Institute of Computer Science,
University of Wuerzburg, Germany.
tutschku@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de

Hermann de Meer         
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, 
University of Passau, Germany.
demeer@fmi.uni-passau.de

Frank-Uwe Andersen
ICM - Future IP technologies -
Siemens AG, Germany.
Frank-Uwe.Andersen@siemens.com

Konosuke Kawashima
Dept. of Computer, Information and Communication Sciences
Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Japan.
k-kawa@cc.tuat.ac.jp