BoD 2010 Call for Papers

The Call for Papers is also available as PDF (PDF, 184 KB), ASCII (TXT, 4 KB), and PowerPoint (PPT, 694 KB).

The workshop seeks original papers in the following areas that serve as basis for Bandwidth-on-Demand (BoD):

• Scalable bandwidth allocation in optical, wireless, and Internet domains
• Network management schemes for BoD
• Fully decentralized and peer-to-peer-based bandwidth allocation
• Economic and cost-effective bandwidth allocation
• Energy-efficient bandwidth allocation
• Incentive mechanisms and bandwidth allocation policies
• Economic management of network resources
• Bandwidth provisioning on demand
• Provisioning of networks on demand
• Market-based allocation mechanisms such as auctions
• Secure and robust network provisioning
• Economic studies in carrier and service provider networks
• Market and business models
• Cost and revenue models
• Market liquidity aspects
• Game theoretical bandwidth allocation models
• Network allocation in test-bed infrastructures like GENI or PlanetLab
• The economics of federation and policy design
• Network provisioning in non-profit systems like neighborhood networks
• Peer-to-peer Internet access sharing
• Industrial developments of new network technologies like network virtualization
• Bandwidth allocation in virtual and overlay networks
• Bandwidth allocation in wireless mesh networks
• Technical improvements in transport and data networks
• Legislative and regulatory issues
• Legal issues of bandwidth allocation

Papers must be written in English and will be subject to a full review process. Papers are solicited as full papers of no more than 8 pages or short papers (position statements or work-in-progress papers) of no more than 4 pages in IEEE two-column format. Papers exceeding these limits, 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 bod10@lists.ifi.uzh.ch for additional information. Those papers accepted will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

• Paper registration deadline: January 4, 2010 (extension to January 11)
• Submission deadline: January 4, 2010 (extension to January 11)
  
• Notification of acceptance: February 8, 2010
• Final versions of papers due: February 19, 2010
• Workshop date: April 23, 2010