CALL FOR PAPERS
 
Computer Communications Special Issue:  
Monitoring and Measurements of IP Networks
 
Guest Editors:
Raouf Boutaba (rboutaba@uwaterloo.ca), University of Waterloo, Canada
Ehab Al-Shaer (ehab@cs.depaul.edu), DePaul University, USA 
Kevin Almeroth (almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu), UC-Santa Barbara, USA
 
Important Dates:
Deadline for submissions: September 1 2004
Notification of acceptance: February 2005
Final papers due: April 2005
Publication:  Summer 2005
 
The measurement of IP network performance has been the subject of a 
significant amount of recent research. The ultimate goal is to 
provide Internet service providers, as well as end-users, sufficient 
understanding of end-to-end network performance characteristics, 
routing behavior and network anomalies. This understanding is 
important for developing new network models, protocols, and resource 
optimization required to assure an acceptable quality of service. 
However, the ever changing traffic mix in the Internet, the appearance 
of peer-to-peer applications, and the increasing demand for mobility 
represent new challenges for IP performance management. Performance 
measurement involves a number of steps including monitoring, sampling, 
filtering, and analyzing data on-line/off-line and from many 
local/remote points.  
 
This special issue is seeking original and unpublished contributions 
addressing issues related to IP performance monitoring and analysis 
for enterprise networks and the Internet. Of particular interest are 
novel monitoring and measurement techniques that improve the 
state-of-the-art in data collection; experiments that collect, 
analyze, and make available data for use by other researchers; and 
analysis of data collected from local or wide area networks that give 
insights into Internet behavior. Examples of selected topics include 
but are not limited to:
 
. IP measurements and monitoring 
 . Measurement methods, tools and infrastructures
. Measuring voice and video performance over IP 
 . Traffic engineering and measurement of traffic matrices
. Workload characterization and traffic analysis 
 . Web, peer-to-peer and overlay networks measurements
. Active and passive measurement techniques 
 . Design of monitoring systems
. Path measurements and filtering 
 . Measurements of mobility and grid services
. Sampling and filtering techniques 
. Network/Internet topology discovery
 . SLA and Quality of Service monitoring 
. Network security attack analysis
 . Experimental test beds and results 
. Reassessment of previous measurement findings
 
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Guidelines on formatting the paper are given at 
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom
<http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom> . Authors are invited to 
submit full original papers in electronic form (PDF or postscript) 
to one of the guest editors.
 
 
Ehab Al-Shaer, PhD
Associate Professor, 
School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems
DePaul University, Chicago, IL