 International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS)
 Call For papers Special Issue on: "Performance Assessment of New Internet Services"
Guest Editors:
Prof. Dr. Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Würzburg, Germany
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institue of Technology, Sweden The internet has shown to be the major enabler for all kinds of services via a common infrastructure. Since the early applications, such as remote login, e-mail, file transfer and web browsing, many new applications and services have entered the stage, where overlay networks play an important role. When broadband access technologies reached private users, file sharing became popular. Telecommunication providers have discovered internet technology as a cost-saving alternative to classical telecom technology. 3GPP has standardised the internet multimedia
system (IMS), which is nowadays even used in the world of fixed access networks to handle the co-existence of voice, TV and internet (so-called Triple Play) on access links.
New application domains, such as e-health, e-government, e-tourism etc., have appeared. Many new services use other services, forming composite services or service supply chains based on the internet. Thus, the "anything-over-IP-over-anything" principle has become a reality.
This emergence of new applications raises challenges. The internet has never been designed for fulfilling all imaginable application needs. Over the years, the basic best-effort paradigm has been enhanced by network-level quality of service (QoS) measures. Even so, internet packet delivery cannot be guaranteed. Applications try to adapt themselves to these volatile conditions, e.g. by modifying the intensity of the data flows or adding some kind of redundancy to be used for error correction which fits the Internet principle of end-to-end control. However, in order to reach the right interplay between applications and services and the internet infrastructure, a good understanding of the characteristics of both is mandatory.
Against this background, this Special Issue focuses on performance assessment of emerging applications and services using the internet.
 Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
- Overlay-based services
- Services in triple play scenarios
- Composite services and service supply chains
- Mission-critical services
Within these topics may be reported, among others:
- Measurement methods and results
- Characterisation of application traffic, including identification of suitable parameters
- Relationships between user perception and network-level parameters
- Traffic modelling, including matching methods
- Assessment of quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE)
- Queuing models, taking particularities of service and networks into account
- Simulation studies
Notes for Prospective Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere
All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page
Important Dates
Full papers due: 31 January 2008 (extended dealine)
Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2008
Camera-ready papers due: 30 April, 2008
Tentative date of appearance: Fall 2008 Editors and Notes
You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to both the following:
Prof. Dr. Phuoc Tran-Gia
University of Wurzburg
Institute of Computer Science
Wurzburg
Germany
Email: trangia@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Markus Fiedler
Blekinge Institue of Technology
Department of Telecommunication Systems
Karlskrona
Sweden
Email: markus.fiedler@bth.se
with a copy to:
IEL Editorial Office
E-mail: ijcnds@inderscience.com
Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor |
