[ ARCHIVE ] 1st International Workshop on Peer to Peer Networks (PPN´07)

Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 26, 2007

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag 

 

Peer to Peer Networks, in which peer distributed computers around the Internet form a cooperative network to combine and share their resources, have recently gained a lot of attention in the social, commercial, and academic communities and attracted a lot of interest in research. They provide a great potential for building a cooperative networks that are self-organizing, efficient, and scalable to some extent.

Some of the benefits of a peer to peer approach include improving scalability by avoiding dependency on centralized points, eliminating the need for costly infrastructure by enabling direct communication among clients, and enabling resource aggregation.

While file-sharing has been very successful, peer-to-peer networks are important and useful for more than just (illegal) sharing of song and video files. One of the early driving forces behind the peer-to-peer concept is that there are many computers in homes and offices that lie idle for large chunks of time. Why then not leverage these idle resources to do something useful, like sharing computation or sharing content?.

The primary goal of this workshop is to serve as an active forum for researchers in the field of peer to peer networking, to meet and exchange background and current challenges in this area.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest includes the following (but are not limited to) themes:

  • service and resource discovery in peer to peer networks
  • data dissemination in peer to peer networks
  • data management in peer to peer networks
  • security in peer to peer networks
  • quality of service in peer to peer networks
  • real time applications in peer to peer networks
  • performance evaluation of peer to peer networks
  • protocols for peer to peer networks
  • peer to peer networks interoperability


Program Commitee Chairs:


Farid Naït-Abdesselam
IRCICA/LIFL - INRIA Futurs
University of Science and Technology of Lille, France.
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Jiankun Hu
RMIT University
Melbourne, Australia
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Azzedine Boukerche
SITE, University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Canada.
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Program Committee Members

Marinho Pilla Barcellos - Unisinos, Brazil.
Jalel Ben-Othman - University of Versailles, France.
Brahim Bensaou - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Tarek Bijaoui - Carthage University, Tunisia.
Jean Carle - University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France.
Song Ci - University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.
Pilar Herrero - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
Ashfaq Khokhar - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
Nouredine Melab - University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France.
Alberto Montresor - University of Trento, Italy.
Florent Nolot - Université of Reims, France.
Aris Ouksel - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
Douglas Reeves - NC State University, USA.
Ahmed Serhrouchni - Telecom Paris, France.
Orazio Tomarchio - University of Catania, Italy
Kurt Tutschku - University of Wurzburg, Germany.
Carlos Becker Westphall - Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Sherali Zeadally - University of the District of Columbia, USA.