Call for Papers
Special Track Abstract:
Traditional
web services are deployed through middleware-initiated, tightly coupled
integration approaches that leverage dedicated networking infrastructure and
centralized servers. In recent years, this server-centric model is being
rapidly replaced by a new paradigm that finds large-scale services enabled by
participating peer nodes and the sharing of various data/networking resources
pertained to each peer.
Such a
paradigm shift is evidenced by the blossoming of new peer-to-peer (P2P)
services emerged on the Internet, many of which have entered into stage of
wide-area deployment, day-to-day operation, and commercial practices. Among the
most popular are P2P file sharing, P2P streaming, P2P real-time communication,
P2P content distribution, distributed caching, and distributed storage service,
each of which serves a particular domain of Internet users. In addition, to
facilitate the operation of these services, a wide range of “P2P meta services”
have been developed, such as OpenDHT service,
Peer-to-peer NAT/FW traversal service, P2P lookup service, and the like.
Even with
all the developments, many challenges lie ahead on the P2P services front. As
an example, current research initiatives are already using P2P concepts to
allow devices, such as TVs, DVD players, game consoles, sensors, just to name a
few, to be seamlessly connected to
offer their functionality as services. Given the trend that services will
become submersed within the very fabric of these networks, how to effectively
and efficiently describe, advertise and discover services in a large P2P
network? How to design or adapt P2P networks to automatically and adaptively
accommodate new network services for the purpose of offering value-added
services? How to make P2P services composable? Or,
even more rigorously, how to design the distributed, lightweight intermediaries
to take the place of today’s centralized server-based approaches by driving
intelligence into the network itself?
This special
session on P2P services is a timely retrospective on the advancements in P2P
services and a helpful dialogue on future technology trends to boost the
adoption of the P2P concept into future web service designs. It also aims to
bring together researchers and practitioners in the area to exchange out-of-box
ideas on related topics.
Call for Papers
We
are soliciting original works that address all aspects related to design,
development, evaluation, and analysis of P2P services. The topics include, but
are not restricted to:
1.
Overviews and comparisons of web-services and P2P services
2.
Experiences and measurements of deployed P2P
applications/services
3.
Service oriented architectural designs of P2P networks or
distributed systems
4.
Service description, advertisement, and discovery in P2P
networks
5.
Novel P2P applications/services (including mobile and sensor
networks)
6.
Security, reliability, and management of P2P services
7.
P2P service composition
8.
QoS provisioning in P2P networks
9.
Optimization of existing P2P applications and services
For
formatting and submission guidelines, please see the submission guidelines
available on the ISM2006 web page. Please
submit papers directly to the organizers via email.
Important Dates
Dr. Guobin
(Jacky) Shen
Microsoft Research
Email:
Jacky.Shen@microsoft.com
Dr.
Yi Cui
EECS
Department,
Email:
yi.cui@vanderbilt.edu