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This special issue is seeking original and unpublished contributions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
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