Peer-to-Peer Networking Track

at Globecom 2007 General Symposium

Washington, D.C., November 26-30, 2007

SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED

IEEE GLOBECOM 2007, with the theme "Innovate, Educate, Accelerate", will feature a General Symposium and 9 technical symposia. The General Symposium will only accept papers on topics not covered by these symposia. The focus of the General Symposium is on Emerging Technologies. Prospective authors are invited to submit original contributions on all aspects of emerging technologies in communications, including, but not limited to, the following topics of interest.

The Peer-to-Peer Networking Track invites state-of-art work in all areas of peer-to-peer networking, overlay networking, peer casting, application layer multicasting, service overlays, peer-to-peer search algorithms. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Overlay architectures and topologies
  • Overlay maintenance algorithms
  • Overlay and application layer multicast
  • Peercasting and overlay content distribution
  • Federated and hierarchical overlays
  • One-hop and variable-hop overlays
  • Peer-to-peer SIP
  • Overlay support for mobile nodes
  • Measurement based overlays
  • Replication and load-balancing strategies
  • Service overlays
  • Peer-to-peer service/resource discovery
  • Tools for large-scale performance analysis
  • Distributed security techniques
  • Novel applications
  • Semantic routing
  • Advanced search and query techniques
  • Semantic search
  • Coupling of agent systems and P2P systems
  • Experience with deployed systems
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    Guidelines for Submission

    Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed six-page technical paper manuscript. Please see author information page for submission guidelines at the Globecom 2007 website. Papers should be submitted in pdf format by selecting Globecom 2007 General Symposium at the EDAS paper submission website (http://www.edas.info). Select the "Information, Communication, and Network Security" track when submitting the paper. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate.

    Important dates:

  • March 23, 2007 12:00 EST - Submissions due
  • July 1, 2007 - Notification of acceptance
  • Sept 1, 2007 12:00 EST - Camera ready copy
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    General Symposium TPC Co-chair

    John Buford (Avaya Labs, USA)

    Technical Program Committee

    Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne) 
Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic)
Michele Colajanni (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Yi Cui (Vanderbilt)
Anwitaman Datta (NTU)
Thomas Fuhrmann (Universitaet Karlsruhe)
Christos Gkantsidis (Microsoft Research)
Aaron Harwood (University of Melbourne)
Yiming Hu (University of Cincinnati)
Mehdi Jazayeri (Technische Universitaet Wien)
Vana Kalogeraki (University of California Riverside)
Wolfgang Kellerer (DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH)
Mario Kolberg (University of Stirling)
Arvind Krishnamurthy (University of Washington)
P. Krishnan (Avaya Labs)
Ben Leong (National University of Singapore)
Jin Li (Microsoft Research)
Ling Liu (Georgia Tech)
Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Alexander Löser (SAP Research)
Eng Keong Lua (NTT Laboratories)
Muthucumaru Maheswaran (McGill University)
Andreas Mauthe (Lancaster University)
Martin May (ETH)
Gianluca Moro (University of Bologna)
Akihiro Nakao (University of Tokyo)
Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London)
Venugopalan Ramasubramanian (Microsoft Research)
Reza Rejaie (University of Oregon)
Keith Ross (Polytechnic University) 
Christian Scheideler (T. U. Munich)
Subhabrata Sen (AT&T Research)
Kurt Tutschku (University of Würzburg) 
Robbert van Renesse  (Cornell University)
Olivier Waldhorst (Universitaet Karlsruhe)
Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University)
Haifeng Yu (National University of Singapore)
Wenjun Zeng (University of Missouri)