Traffic and Performance Issues in Networks of the Future
Scope
The networking community is facing a rapid evolution and diversification of all network types: Internet, Ethernet, optical and wireless technology as well as overlay networks, and others. The proliferation of broadband applications, the emergence of new technologies, changes in usage, etc. require the continual reappraisal of traffic management procedures and mechanisms as well as the development of new tools for understanding and modelling traffic and associated functions. As a matter of fact, advances in optical and wireless technologies will open new possibilities for networks in the near future with new performance problems in terms of traffic management. Similarly, the massive emergence of video applications as well as the generalization of mobility will modify the nature of traffic in the next few years. All these issues call for the design of new performance tools and models.
In addition, there is currently considerable worldwide activity on the design of new architectural principles, concepts for future networks, and testbed implementations. It is, therefore, essential to understand how technological innovations and content-centric networking will impact our ability to control traffic. New architectural elements and business models are needed to finally meet user expectations for quality and security of their communications in a cost-effective way. Such traffic and performance issues related to current modifications in today's traffic as well as to the networks of the future are the focus of this special issue of Annals of Telecommunications.
This special issue solicits submission of papers with original contributions related to traffic and performance issues in wired, optical, and wireless computer networks and communication systems.
Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:
Network planning
- Capacity planning methods and tools
- Planning for multi-carrier networks
- Planning for robustness and reliability
- Performance and reliability tradeoffs
- Network design for real-time applications
- Planning efficient content delivery
Traffic management
- Intelligent, adaptive routing
- Protection switching and restoration
- Probabilistic, opportunistic routing
- Overload and congestion control protocols and mechanisms
- Admission control
- Dynamic/adaptive bandwidth management
- Mobility management
- Application and content traffic management
- Traffic management through MPLS
- Traffic management in ad-hoc networks
- Autonomic traffic management
Performance monitoring and forecasting
- Traffic measurement
- Traffic monitoring methods
- Forecasting techniques
- Measurement-based characterization of new application traffic (including video traffic)
- Network tomography
- Reports of measurement results from operational networks
Analytical models and methods
- Source models of new web-based applications (e.g. multimedia, peer-to-peer)
- Traffic models of voice, video and data applications
- Queuing models for multi-media traffic
- Resource allocation methods
- Protocol performance models
- Algorithms for self-optimization of resource allocation and traffic management
QoS and associated performance issues
- Performance and reliability targets of new web-based applications, including WebTV
- Performance over wireless and wireline transport technologies
- VoIP QoS in WiFi and WiMax environments
- Pricing and quality of service provisioning
- Pricing and billing, game theory, business models for QoS
Applications
- P2P and distributed lookup
- Self-organized structures
- Distributed & grid computing
- Content delivery and storage area networks
- IPTV
- Web-services & service-oriented architectures
- Internet of Things
- Tele-medicine, -education, -metry, etc.
Network technologies
- Optical networks
- Mobile networks, models for mobility
- IMS
- UMTS, WiFi, WiMax, ad-hoc and sensor networks
- IP/MPLS/Carrier Ethernet networks
- Application layer networks and overlays in general, including Virtualization
Security
- Anomaly detection
- Detection of DoS attacks
- Attack mitigation methods
- Worm and virus propagation
- Epidemiological models
Theory
- Control
- Queueing
- Scheduling
- Data analysis
- Optimization
- Simulation methodology and tools
Guest Editors
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Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France
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Fabrice Guillemin, Orange Labs, France
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Michael Menth, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
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Deep Medhi, University of Missouri – Kansas City, USA
Papers must be written in English and describe original research not published or currently under review by other journals or conferences. They should be prepared and submitted according to the instructions available at: http://www.annals-of-telecommunications.com/p_en_publish_6.html
Important Dates
- Manuscript submission: January 8th, 2010
- Expected Publication: End 2010
