CALL
FOR PAPERS
Computer
Communications Special Issue:
Monitoring
and Measurements of IP Networks
Guest
Editors:
Raouf
Boutaba (rboutaba@uwaterloo.ca), University of
Kevin Almeroth (almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu),
UC-Santa Barbara, USA
Important
Dates:
Deadline
for submissions:
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special issue is seeking original and unpublished contributions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
.
.
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,