----Extended--- Submission Deadline: July 25 August 15 2011 (23:59 GMT)

Scope of the Workshop

The algorithms and methods of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology are often applied to networks and services with a high demand for scalability. The huge number of peers, the state space, as well as the interactions and relationships between peers and states often makes an analytical description intractable. Discrete event simulation is a tool which is able to incorporate all interactions and parameters and may reflect reality as accurately as possible. Large scale simulations, however, also require sufficient memory capacities and often exceed the available computational power: it might already be a problem just to keep the states of the peers in the main memory.

The 6th International Workshop on Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Peer-to-peer environments (MSOP2P) aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government to advance the state of the art in modeling, simulating and optimizing P2P environments. The workshop also offers the opportunity to discuss different techniques to make P2P simulations scalable, to debate the advantages and disadvantages of a simulation on packet level or on application level, and to
compare analytical models as well as emulations to results gained by simulation. The general venue will be a good occasion to share, to learn, and to discuss the latest results in this field of research.

Topics

• Modeling of P2P systems
• Performance evaluation of P2P systems
• Simulation of P2P systems
• Traffic management for P2P computing systems
• Algorithms for computing and performance implications in P2P environments
• Analytical modeling of Peer-to-Peer systems
• Quantitative analysis of Peer-to-Peer infrastructure and overlay networks
• Emulation of P2P systems
• Protocols for resource management/discovery/reservation/scheduling
• Workload characterization for P2P systems

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline (extended):	July 25, 2011
Notification of acceptance:	October 17, 2011
Camera ready papers due (firm):	November 18, 2011
Conference:	February 15-17, 2012

Submission Details:

Papers can be submitted through the EasyChair conference submission system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2012 with an indication of the name of the Special Session MSOP2P.

Papers will undergo a double blind peer review process. Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 5000 words in length and including a 150-200 word abstract. To facilitate an anonymous reviewing process, the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract. Moreover, the names of the authors of the paper must not appear in citations in the reference section. All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance.

Organization:

General Chair: Julien Bourgeois, University of Franche-Comté, France

Program Chair: Etienne Rivière, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Program Committee:

• Cosimo Anglano, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro", Italy
• Julien Bourgeois, LIFC - University of Franche-Comte, France
• Gilles Fedak, INRIA, France
  
• Rossano Gaeta, University of Torino, Italy
  
• Mark Jelasity, Hungarian Acad. Sci. and University of Szeged, Hungary
• André König, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
  
• Riccardo Lancellotti, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Lu Liu, University of Derby, United Kingdom
• Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada
• Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy
  
• Martin Quinson, University of Nancy, France
  
• Matteo Sereno, University of Torino, Italy
  
• Francois Spies, University of Franche-Comte, France
  
• Spyros Voulgaris, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
  
• Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan
  

Contact: julien.bourgeois@univ-fcomte.fr and etienne.riviere@unine.ch