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 This special issue is seeking original and unpublished contributions addressing issues related to IP performance monitoring and analysis for enterprise networks and the Internet.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. 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