[Mycolleagues] CFP: Network-Aware Peer to Peer (P2P) and Internet Video

Network-Aware Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Internet Video

Call for Papers

Video and peer-to-peer contents are both rapidly increasing Internet bandwidth demands. Recent reports predict an “exaflood” from advances in video over the Internet, rich media content, and user-generated content (UGC). Another trend is the continued popularity and growth of peer-to-peer (P2P) content delivery. Many estimates say that P2P accounts for most of the current Internet traffic, and that video accounts for most of the growth in Internet traffic. New systems and studies to optimize future P2P and video traffic can have a very high impact on the future of the Internet.

In many cases, P2P traffic traverses long distances across core networks and multiple Internet service provider (ISP) networks, even though the content could have been retrieved from a much closer location. Internet video is similar and often delivered from distant servers via multiple, redundant, unicast streams. To address this, there has been a spate of recent effort on systems, information exchange, and control to enable efficient P2P and video content distribution. New systems and protocols are needed to enable Internet content to work in concert with the network to be delivered from the best source or over the least congested links. Localized P2P traffic may only traverse a few hops instead of ten or twenty; allowing a vast decrease in core network bandwidth. Application-layer multicast streaming and emerging new content delivery systems using P2P are also being created and optimized for efficiency.

Promoting state-of-the-art contributions from different research and industrial fields, directly involved or applicable in solving the issues and obstacles of P2P networking and P2P video, is the scope of this special issue. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Network-aware P2P and source-aware P2P
• Selecting P2P sources and P2P routing to account for network loading
• P2P with network awareness and control
• Localized P2P
• Linkages between network providers and Internet services
• Using standards for NGN, IMS, SIP, and so forth for P2P
• P2P in Next-Generation Service Overlay Networks (NGSONs)
• P2P Content Distribution Networks (CDNs)
• P2P Video on Demand (VOD)
• Systems for legitimizing P2P and controlling P2P content
• Streaming P2P video systems and analyses
• Application-layer multicast for P2P streaming with multiple trees, meshes, data chunks, swarms, and so forth
• P2P and video bandwidth usage; current trends and future growth
• Distribution of user-generated content (UGC)
• Use of local cache servers
• P2P combined with server-based content distribution
• Proactive network Provider Participation for P2P

Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due	June 1, 2009
First Round of Reviews	September 1, 2009
Publication Date	December 1, 2009

Lead Guest Editor

• Ken Kerpez, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA

Guest Editors

• Yuanqiu Luo, Huawei Technologies USA, Plano, TX 75075, USA
• Stan Moyer, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
• John Buford, Avaya Labs Research, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920, USA
• Dave Marples, Technolution B.V., Mansfield NG18 9DY, UK