Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Computing Systems
To appear in
Performance Evaluation: An International Journal
Peer-to-peer computing systems have emerged as the dominant consumer
of residential Internet subscribers' bandwidth. These systems
continue to evolve, differentiating today's state-of-the-art from earlier
instantiations such as Napster, KaZaA, Gnutella, and Morpheus. Peer-to-peer
systems are characterized as being decentralized, self-organizing distributed
systems that cooperate to exchange data.
Designing protocols for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) environments is an exciting research
area that has produced remarkable results in scalability,
robustness, location, distributed storage, and system measurements.
This special issue is dedicated to recent advances in P2P computing systems,
specifically focusing on performance evaluation and optimization of these
systems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
SUBMISSION DETAILS: Prospective authors are invited to submit their original
and previously unpublished papers via the on-line submission site.
The authors are encouraged to submit by e-mail an electronic copy of the
paper in pdf or ps format. Contributed papers may not exceed 25 double-spaced
pages including all figures and illustrations. The first page of the
submission should include the title, the names and affiliations of the authors,
including complete postal and e-mail addresses, telephone, and fax
numbers, a 150-word abstract, and 5-7 index terms (keywords). Submitted papers
will undergo the standard review procedures of the journal of Performance
Evaluation.
Important Dates:
· Submission Deadline: April 16, 2004 (extended by request)
· Author Notification:
August 1, 2004
· Final Manuscript Due: November 30, 2004
· Tentative Publication Date: March 2005
Special Issue Guest Editors:
John C.S. Lui |
Vishal Misra |
Dan Rubenstein |