BoD 2008 Call for Papers

The Call for Papers is also available as PDF (PDF, 22 KB), ASCII (TXT, 6 KB), and PowerPoint (PPT, 588 KB).

The workshop seeks original papers in the following four areas that serve as basis for bandwidth on demand:

• Technical design of scalable, reliable, and cost-effective bandwidth trading infrastructures, including market mechanisms as a way to increase efficiencies
• • Scalability of bandwidth trading mechanisms
    
  • Secure and reliable bandwidth trading mechanisms
  • IP-based and decentralized trading mechanisms
  • P2P trading infrastructures, distributed markets, P2P auctions
  • Management of bandwidth trading infrastructures
  • Provisioning of bandwidth on demand
  • Provisioning of networks on demand
• Economic studies and modeling of market and business models in carrier and service provider networks
• • Economics of networks on demand
  • Economic management of network virtualization
  • Game theoretical bandwidth on demand models
  • Cost and revenue models
  • Bandwidth on demand business models
  • Market liquidity aspects
    
• Resource allocation and provision in non-profit bandwidth trading systems (economic modeling, incentive mechanisms, policies)
• • Neighborhood wireless mesh networks
  • Peer-to-peer Internet access sharing
  • Network testbed infrastructures (e.g., GENI, Planetlab)
    
• Industrial developments of new technologies that facilitate or create impediments to bandwidth on demand
• • Network virtualization technologies
  • Wireless mesh networks
  • Network management aspects
  • Technical improvements in transport and data networks
    
• Legislative and regulatory issues related to the Telecom Act and in comparison to other commodities markets such as the electric grid
• • Telecom legislation
  • Telecom regulation
  • Commodities markets
  • Legal issues of P2P trading infrastructures
    

Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 8 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process. Papers exceeding 8 pages, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review.

Submissions must be in PDF and will be handled using the JEMS system. Please refer to the submission instructions or contact bod08@ifi.uzh.ch for additional information. Those papers accepted will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

• Paper registration deadline: January 25, 2008
• Submission deadline: January 25, 2008
• Notification of acceptance: February 20, 2008
• Final versions of papers due: March 4, 2008
• Workshop date: April 11, 2008