Call for papers

Content Storage and Delivery in Peer-to-Peer Network
Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Guest Editors: Jin Li, Klara Nahrstedt and Hui Zhang

 

In academia and in industry, peer-to-peer (p2p) networks have been attracting great attention. Peer-to-peer file sharing applications, such as Napster, Gnutella, Kazaa and BitTorrent have witnessed tremendous success among end users. And the uses of peer-to-peer network for multimedia streaming, conferencing, gaming, file backup, and information retrieval are on the rise, attracting attention from developers and the end-users. Unlike a client-server based system, peers bring with them serving capacity. Therefore, as the demand of a peer-to-peer system grows, the capacity of the network also grows. This enables peer-to-peer based content storage and delivery to be cheap to build and superbly scalable. The peer-to-peer based solution is ideal to store and distribute large amounts of data associated with multimedia applications. In this special issue, we call for original contributions that support secured, efficient, and reliable peer-to-peer content storage and delivery.

The TOPICS of the special issue are as follows:

  • Peer-to-peer asynchronous content distribution (media file sharing)
  • Peer-to-peer synchronous content distribution (gaming/conferencing/AV broadcasting)
  • Peer-to-peer on demand information retrieval (audio/video streaming)
  • Multimedia quality-of-service support in peer-to-peer networks
  • Content discovery and location in peer-to-peer networks
  • Performance measurement and monitoring of peer-to-peer multimedia applications
  • Peer-to-peer multimedia network deployment experience
  • Security in peer-to-peer content distributions

Submission Procedure:

Authors should prepare manuscripts according to the Information for Authors as published at www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/tmm/infotmm.html. Note that mandatory overlength page charges and color charges will apply. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online IEEE manuscript submission system at http://tmm-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. When selecting a manuscript type, authors must click on Special Issue on Content Storage and Delivery in Peer-to-Peer Network. Authors should follow the instructions for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and indicate in the Comments to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is submitted for publication in the Special Issue on Content Storage and Delivery in Peer-to-Peer Network. A completed copyright form is required to be signed and faxed to 1-732-562-8905 at the time of submission. Please indicate the manuscript number on the top of the page.

Updated information of this call can be found at: http://research.microsoft.com/~jinl/2006/CFP_IEEE_multimedia.htm.

Schedule:
Submission deadline: November 15, 2006 [Hard deadline, please work hard to submit the paper before the deadline]
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2007
Final manuscript due date: July 1, 2007
Publication Date: October 2007


Guest Editors :
Jin Li, Communication and Collaboration Systems, Microsoft Research, WA, USA jinl@microsoft.com
Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA klara@cs.uiuc.edu
Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA hzhang@cs.cmu.edu