Scope

The Research on peer-to-peer systems is rapidly growing, but the current deployment focus on infrastructure services such as routing and searching protocols and so on. The ultimate success of a peer-to-peer system rests on the three pillars of scalable and robust system design, useful apps for different users and alignment of economic interests among the participating peers.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines to discuss the application deployment of P2P systems, application of economic theories to P2P system design, and future directions and challenges in this area.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)

Security for p2p applications

Supporting underlays for overlay applications

Deployed application experience

Performance of p2p applications

Monitoring and administration of large p2p systems

DHT in the small, e.g., in corporate environment

Distributed multi-user internet games

The Application Interface of DHT

Interconnection of P2P networks

Incentives and disincentives for cooperation

Network externalities and scale economies

Accounting and settlement mechanisms

Payment and currency systems

User behavior and system performance

Economic impact to network providers

The program of the workshop will be a combination of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussion.

Submission and Publication

Submissions should include an abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 8 pages, including tables and figures, with PDF, PostScript, or MS Word format. Prospective authors can electronically submit their papers in PDF format to the online submitting system. If you can not log in the online submitting system please send your paper directly to: deng-qn@cs.sjtu.edu.cn

Accepted papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Paper format please refor to:
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html

Important Dates

Submission deadline:

Author notification:

Camera-ready Due:

May 30, 2005

July 10, 2005

Aug 6, 2005

Steering Committee

Scott Shenker, UC Berkeley, ICS

Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.

Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia

Antony Rowstron, Microsoft research

Ben Zhao, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Workshop Co-Chairs

Qianni Deng

Department of Computer Science

Shanghai JiaoTong Univ. P.R. China

deng-qn@cs.sjtu.edu.cn

Zhichen Xu

Yahoo! Inc

701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089

zhichen@yahoo-inc.com

Panel Chair

Ben Zhao

University of California, Santa Barbara

ravenben@cs.ucsb.edu

Program committee

Guihai Chen ( NanJin Unv.)

Wei Chen ( Microsoft Research Asia)

Yafei Dai (PeKing Unv.)

Qianni Deng (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.)

Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University)

Hai Jin (HuaZhong Univ. of Sci.&Tech.)

Christos Karamanolis (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto.USA)

Magnus Karlsson (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto.)

Lionel M. Ni (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CN)

Antony Rowstron (Microsoft research)

Frank Zhigang Wang (Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility)

Nong Xiao (National Univ. of Defence Tech.)

Zhichen Xu ( Yahoo! Inc )

Ben Zhao (UC Santa Barbara)

Weimin Zheng (TsingHua Univ. CN)

Aoying Zhou (FuDan Univ. CN)