[aims-announce] CFP - IJNM Special Issue Economic Traffic Management

[David Hausheer]

[Apologies for multiple postings]

Call for Paper

Special Issue of the International Journal on Network Management
(IJNM) on "Economic Traffic Management"

http://www.csg.uzh.ch/news/ijnm-etm

Publication: February 2011

Scope of the Special Issue

Economic perspectives in network management have recently attracted a
high level of attention, especially due to the fact that network
management tasks have become very complex, now optimizing various
dimensions of a network operation. Route optimizations,
Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning, and traffic management
determine a few of these often conflicting dimensions. In view of the
dramatic increase of overlay traffic, driven among others by
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications, more traditional optimizations now
tend to be superseded by economically-driven traffic management
solutions. Such solution are especially suitable to cases involving
millions of individual users injecting traffic into the networks of
multiple interacting network service providers, acting on different
tiers and pursuing different incentives. Due to the decentralization
of these players and to the commercialization of service offerings, a
scalable and economically-driven approach offers a wider range of
interesting alternatives for optimization, traffic management, network
management, and respective legal views in general.  Moreover, it
allows for the system to reach a viable equilibrium, where each of the
players still pursues his own interests and no further coordination
has to be assumed.

Thus, it is the major goal of this Special Issue to present innovative
approaches and solutions for economically-driven management tasks,
with a selected emphasis on economic traffic management questions and
auxiliary aspects. Those aspects relate physical network domains to
application characteristics in order to enable an efficient and
decentralized decision as well as operation involving optimized data
transfer. Therefore, this Special Issue of the International Journal
on Network Management covers ongoing research in the area of traffic
management, its related economics, and supporting models, mechanisms,
and technologies. Dedicated application scenarios, such as that of P2P
applications, overlay networks, or virtual networks, are of high
interest, as well as the study of scenarios involving interactions
among them. Tutorial-style articles in these fields are also
solicited, if they provide a structured introduction and a clear
overview of state-of-the-art technologies, mechanisms, or
architectures, and newly emerging challenges as well as problems.

Areas of Interest

Contributions in the following areas are of specific interest but are
not limited to:

  * Economic Traffic Management
  * Incentive Schemes for Networked Services
  * Accounting and Charging Mechanisms
  * Protocols as Economic Support Functions
  * Economically-driven Network Architectures
  * Pricing Models for Commercial Services
  * QoS Management and Economic Effects
  * Economic Security Management
  * Energy-efficient Network Management
  * Economics of Self-organized and Peer-to-Peer Networks
  * Economics in Cloud Computing
  * Economics of Virtualized Networks and Systems
  * Economics of Networked Applications and Services
  * Efficient Bandwidth Allocations
  * Future Internet Socio-Economics
  * Applied Methods for the Evaluation of Economic Effects, such as
    Game Theory, Queuing Theory
  * Service Level Agreement Management
  * Legal and Regulative Aspects of Commercial Service Offerings

Indexing Information

IJNM is indexed at Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA/CIG), COMPENDEX
(Elsevier), Computer Science Index (EBSCO), Computing Reviews (ACM),
CSA Technology Research Database (CSA/CIG), INSPEC (IET), and SCOPUS
(Elsevier).

Important Information

Authors should send their submissions in PDF format only and by e-mail
to ijnm at ifi.uzh.ch. The paper submission should not exceed 20 pages.
Author instructions are available at
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/5703/home/ForAuthors.html
and the respective LaTeX template can be found at
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/5703/home/
latex_class_file.htm. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. In case
of an acceptance, the final and camera-ready version has to take into
account comments of reviewers and needs to follow the template's
requirements.

Important Deadlines

Submission Deadline:        May 15, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2010
Final Version:              September 30, 2010
Publication:                February 2011

Submissions by e-mail to ijnm at ifi.uzh.ch in PDF only.

Guest Editors

  * David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    <hausheer at ifi.uzh.ch>
  * George D. Stamoulis, Athens University of Economics and Business,
    Greece <gstamoul at aueb.gr>
  * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    <stiller at ifi.uzh.ch>