Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (SCIE indexed)
~Special Issue Call for Papers~ Peer-to-peer as an infrastructure service Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communication has attracted significant interest from both academia and industry, and has become a successful communication paradigm for diverse Internet applications, including file sharing, live streaming, and video on demand. Today P2P applications account for over 70% of the Internet traffic, and the percentage is still growing. P2P has also been used to facilitate the development of such new generation of applications as social networking and cloud computing. Many of these systems use P2P as an underlying engine to boost their performance and to reduce the deployment costs. Examples include the Amazon EC2 cloud platform that opens a dedicated interface for BitTorrent, and LeafWeb P2P gaming platform that allows users to invite others from their Facebook profiles to play online games. Yet there remain a number of challenges for P2P to be a fundamental infrastructure service for pervasive Internet applications: It is necessary to deal with peer churns to provide stable and robust quality-of-service; the inventiveness of individual users and that of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have to be carefully addressed for incorporating a P2P engine; and security issues have been brought to the front end as substantial P2P based attacks, viruses and botnets appear. These problems can be even more severe with the emerging new applications. The objective of this special issue is to summarize the recent research and development toward making P2P a better infrastructure service. The topics of interest for the special issue include, but are not limited to: P2P system modeling, simulation, and measurement P2P incentive mechanism Interaction between P2P and ISP Security Issues of P2P systems P2P with new generation of applications, e.g., social networking, cloud computing Important Dates Paper submission deadline:December 30, 2011 Notification to authors:March 30, 2012 Revisions:May 31, 2012 Date of publication: 2012 Guest Editors: Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University Ke Xu, Tsinghua University Yongqiang Xiong, Microsoft Research Asia Dongchao Ma, North China University of Technology Kai Shuang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
