CCJ 2012 - Computer Communications Journal Special Issue on Information-Centric Networking

Computer Communications Journal
Special Issue on Information-Centric Networking
*** Submission deadline: April. 15, 2012 ***

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is proposed as an architecture
for the future Internet. The basic idea is to make units of
information accessible to the networking protocols and turn them into
the unit of networking. Main advantages are conjectured to come from
a much better support for mobility, data security, as well as caching
and replication. ICN has by now been investigated in a number of
projects.
This special issue aims to collect new, innovative material on the
theory, the design, and the practical applicability of ICN. In
particular, material that advances the level of maturity, scalability
and real-life dependability of ICN are welcome.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Analytic models for the behavior of information-centric networking,
especially for scalability properties
- Models for workloads (both amount of traffic as well as kinds and
size of objects along with request patterns)
- Capacity analysis of ICN
- Caching in ICN, in particular, cache placement and cache management
(e.g., replacement algorithms) along with resource management for
caches, links, and routers
- Coexistence of ICN protocol stacks with legacy stacks (e.g., IP) as
well as coexistence of multiple ICNs with each other on the same
network fabric
- Suitability of ICN for all kinds of workloads, in particular,
streaming and interactive multimedia workloads
- Security in ICN
- Mobility support by ICN
- Energy efficiency of ICN
- Active objects in ICN, adding functionality and execution semantics
to information objects
- Consistency and coherence models for replicated, static or active
information objects, along with revision handling and updating
protocols
- Structuring applications on top of ICN (both legacy and possible new
applications) as well as suitable application programming interfaces
(complementing or replacing a "socket"-style interface standard)
- Interoperability between different ICN solutions
- Practical experience, test-beds, open-source software
Tentative Schedule
Submission deadline: April. 15, 2012
Author notification: June 30, 2012
Revised paper due: July 31, 2012
Final author notification: September 1, 2012
Guest Editors
Bengt Ahlgren, Swedish Insitute of Computer Science
Holger Karl, Universitat Paderborn
Dirk Kutscher, NEC Laboratories, Europe
Lixia Zhang, UCLA
Instructions for submission:
The submission website for this journal is located at
http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom. To ensure that all manuscripts are
correctly identified for consideration by the Special Issue, the
authors should select "Special Issue: Information-Centric Networking"
when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process.