Subject: [SAM] Last Call - P2P Multicasting (P2PM07) - Call For Papers Sept 7 deadline

From: "John Buford" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 14:54:30 -0400

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Multicasting (P2PM'07)
www.samrg.org/p2pm07/
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IEEE Consumer and Communications and Networking
Conference 2007 (IEEE CCNC 2007)
Jan 11, 2007, Las Vegas, NV, USA
www.ieee-ccnc.org

The convergence of networked consumer electronics and
peer-to-peer networking enables new applications that
require efficient multicast communication.  These
applications include peercasting of multimedia streams,
multi-party conferencing, multi-player games, and group chat.
Many consumer applications of multicasting involve small
groups of users, and future P2P multicast services could
need to support millions of simultaneous groups.

Due to delayed deployment of native multicast, various
end-system, application layer (ALM) and overlay multicast
(OM) designs have been proposed.  In the future, these
protocols are expected to coexist and integrate with
native IP multicast protocols while offering more flexible
deployment options and scaling to support a greater number
of simultaneous multicast groups.

P2PM’07 is intended to serve as a continuing forum for
scientists and engineers in academia and industry to
exchange and discuss their experiences, new ideas, and
research results about all aspects of P2P multicasting.
It will address the challenges, technologies, and architectures
leading to real-world solutions that provide P2P users
with efficient, flexible, and deployable multicast services.
The principal theme of P2PM’07 is the development of protocols,
architectures and applications of peer-to-peer multicasting
and the performance evaluation of these designs.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not
limited to:

	Peer-to-peer overlays with multicast support
	Small group multicast
	Explicit multicasting
	Application Layer Multicast (ALM)
	Overlay Multicast (OM)
	Peercasting
      Multicasting in mobile networks
	Hybrid multicasting architectures
	Comparitive analysis of ALM and OM architectures
	Scalable integration of QoS mechanisms
	Overlay content distribution
	Multi-path routing for overlay multicasting
	Methods for group formation and discovery that scale to
       large numbers of groups
	Support for highly dynamic group membership
	Efficient multicast for limited-resource nodes and access links
	Control mechanisms for hybrid systems
	Underlay network support and optimization
	Deploying, diagnosing, debugging, and managing P2P multicast services
	Geocasting
	Multicasting in the global information grid (GIG)
	Integration with network- and application-layer security mechanisms

Important dates:
    Sept 7, 2006    Papers due
    Sept 30, 2006   Reviews returned
    Oct 10, 2006    Camera ready copy due
    Jan 11, 2007    Workshop

Organizers

   John Buford, Panasonic Princeton Laboratory
   Keith Ross, Polytechnic University

Technical Program Committee (preliminary)

   William Atwood (Concordia University)
   Bobby Bhattacharjee (University of Maryland)
   Fabián Bustamante (Northwestern University)
   Gary Chan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
   Xiaoming Fu (University of Goettingen)
   Ali Ghodsi (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)
   Baochun Li (University of Toronto)
   Alan Messer (Samsung Electronics)
   Jeremy Mineweaser (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
   Khaled Ragab (University of Tokyo)
   Mark Pullen (George Mason University)
   Sanjay Rao (Purdue University)
   Keith Ross (Polytechnic University)
   Günter Schäfer (Technische Universität Ilmenau)
   Zahir Tari (RMIT University)
   Kurt Tutschku (University of Würzburg)
   Li Xiao (Michigan State University)
   Heather Yu (Panasonic Princeton Laboratory)
   Wenjun Zeng (University of Missouri, Columbia)

Further information:
   See the following web sites:
   www.samrg.org/p2pm07/
   http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/callforpapers/P2PM_workshop/index.html

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