4th International Workshop on
Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Peer-to-Peer Environments

MSOP2P 2010

In conjunction with PDP 2010
Pisa, Italy
February 17-19, 2010

http://www.laas.fr/InternationalWorkshopMSOP2P/
http://www.pdp2010.org/



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, 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 4th 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 the merits of different techniques to make P2P simulations scalable, debate
the advantages and drawbacks of simulation on packet level or on application level, and compare analytical models as well as emulations to
results gained by simulation. The venue will be a good occasion to share, learn, and discuss the latest results in this field of research.

Topics

* Modeling of P2P systems
* Simulation of P2P systems
* Emulation of P2P systems
* Performance evaluation of P2P systems
* Design of P2P environments
* Protocols for P2P environments
* Protocols for resource management/discovery/reservation/scheduling
* Traffic management for P2P computing systems
* Algorithms for computing and performance implications in P2P environments
* Quantitative analysis of Peer-to-Peer infrastructure and overlay networks
* Workload characterization for P2P systems
* Auto organization in Peer to peer systems.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: July 20, 2009
Notification of acceptance: October 5, 2009
Camera ready papers due: October 30, 2009 or later
Conference: February 17-19, 2010


Submission Details

Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 5000 words in length and including a 150-200 words abstract.
This corresponds approximately to 8 IEEE double column pages. To facilitate an anonymous reviewing process, the first page
of the paper should contain only the title and abstract. Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society. Authors of
accepted papers are expected to register and present the paper at the Conference.
Papers intended for the Workshop must be submitted through the PDP 2010 submission system; please don't forget to quote
the name of the workshop when uploading your paper. Papers must adhere to the formatting rules of the conference and will
undergo the same review process as all papers submitted to the conference.

Organization

Chair
Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France

Program Committee
Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA, France
Julien Bourgeois, University of Franche-Comté, France
Giovanni Chiola, Universita di Genova, Italy
Vasilios Darlagiannis, EPFL, Switzerland
Didier El Baz, CNRS, France
Gilles Fedak, INRIA Futurs, France
Tobias Hossfeld, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Sam Joseph, University of Hawaii, USA
Riccardo Lancellotti, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka University, Japan
Nikolas Liebau, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Gaeta Rossano, Universita di Torino, Italy
Matteo Sereno, Universita di Torino, Italy
Francois Spies, University of Franche-Comte, France
Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan


Contact: elbaz@laas.fr