-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: Proxy Support for Streaming on the Internet Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:30:04 -0300 From: Nelson Fonseca nfonseca@ic.unicamp.br To: itc@comsoc.org

*IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on***

*Proxy Support for Streaming on the Internet*

Recent technological advances have led to a substantial interest in Internet streaming issues. The reasons for this increased interest are many. Broadband connectivity to home users is now available via technologies such as Cable modems and DSL. Commercial organizations like Akamai have deployed global content distribution networks that allow streaming of content from edge servers, alleviating many of the drawbacks of streaming data over best-effort networks. Despite hurdles in the deployment of IP multicast, application-level multicast of content permits scalable delivery of high bandwidth content to a large number of users.

These exciting technological advances have raised a number of interesting researchquestions. How can edge servers (proxies) be employed for scaling the delivery of popular streaming content to very large numbers of users? Can peer-to-peer streaming be used to alleviate the load on popular servers and proxies? How can streaming content be delivered effectively to small devices such as PDAs and cell phones? How can techniques such as multi-path streaming be used to reduce packet loss How feasible is it to use TCP for streaming content? The Feature issue on "Proxy Support for Streaming in the Internetis" is devoted to these emerging issues in Internet streaming.

*Potential topics of interest include:*

Scalable video delivery Peer to peer streaming Multi-path streaming TCP streaming Edge servers and content delivery networks for streaming

*Schedule*

*Submission Deadline: December 1st, 2003* Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2004 Final Manuscript: May 1st, 2004 Publication: August 2004

*Submission*

Papers can be of tutorial nature or present new research and development material. Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines regarding the manuscript and its format. For details, please refer to the "Information for Authors" in the IEEE Communications Magazine website (http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/ sub_guidelines.html)

Earlier submissions are encouraged to allow for better issue planning. Manuscripts must be submitted through the magazine's submissions Web site at: http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/ You will need to register and then proceed to the author center. Choose "Agug2004/Proxy Support for Streaming on the Internet" in the drop down menu in the author center.

*Guest Editors*

Nelson L. S. da Fonseca, Institute of Computing, State University of Campinas, e-mail: nfonseca@ic.unicamp.br

Prashant Shenoy, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, e-mail: shenoy@ cs.umass.edu