Subject: [icnrg] Call for Paper: IEEE Communications Magazine - The Quest for Information Centric Networking

From: Kaiping Xue <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 23:21:31 +0800

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** CALL FOR PAPERS ** IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic

The Quest for Information Centric Networking

It is now a common belief that the current Internet
will soon reach both its architectural limits and its
capacity limits. The 80-20 rule for network traffic
depicts a highly asymmetric supply-demand relationship in
today’s networks, which renders the current client-
server model of interaction inefficient. As a result,
significant portions of today’s network traffic are
repetitive, and it creates a vast waste of resources and
unnecessary traffic jams. It can be argued that the
current bottleneck of network capacity is not due to lack
of connections or point-to-point link quality. Rather,
it is the insufficient utilization of the network
capacity with respect to the content being communicated.
Recently, the capability to perform computation, storage,
and communication in various network devices, including
user terminals, access points, routers and gateways, has
advanced significantly. It has reached a stage where the
majority of standard network devices are expected to have
large storage, fast computing, and high-speed communication
as default configurations. Such ubiquitous capabilities
have augmented the system design dimensions and opened
up a new array of exciting opportunities.

Though fifty years have been spent on developing the
current Internet, some new Internet systems and architectures are being
studied and developed in the present Internet R&D field.
The concept of “Future Internet” has been proposed
in 2005, since researchers believed that many problems
could not be solved under the current Internet structure.
Substantial research efforts in Europe, America, and Asia,
as well as within the vendors and network operators have
resulted in promising proposals to address the limitations of the current
Internet architecture. Among future network architectures
and systems, Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is
an attractive model that has received a notable interest
from the research community due to its stirring characteristics. Several
projects have proposed revolutionary ICN architectures for better
management of the Internet usage, which moves from host-
centric communication to receiver-driven data retrieval. A significant
characteristic of this novel architecture is to evolve the
Internet infrastructure to directly support this use by
introducing uniquely named data as a core Internet principle. Data becomes
independent from location, application, storage, and
means of transportation, enabling transparent and
pervasive in-network caching and replication.

The aim of this Feature Topic (FT) is thus to provide a
forum for the discussion of the vital issues relevant to
technology challenges and design aspects of leveraging
ubiquitous computation, storage, and communication capabilities in ICN. We
solicit high-quality papers that explore various aspects
of ICN, including but not limited to the following topics:

  *  Content distribution, cache replacement and corporative caching in ICN
  *  Naming schemes in ICN, including scalable name
resolution for flat names
  *  Scalable Name-based routing for ICN
  *  Flexible and reliable transmission control and
congestion control issues in ICN
  *  Joint optimization of interest forwarding, content
caching and packet scheduling in ICN
  *  Security and privacy, including scoping of information objects and
access control to them
  *  Migration mechanisms from today’s networking technologies to ICN
  *  Intelligent behavioral decision making and network control in ICN

 Important Dates

  *  Manuscript Submission Deadline: September 15, 2018
  *  Decision Notification: December 15, 2018
  *  Final Manuscript: February 15, 2019
  *  Publication Date: April 2019

Guest Editors

  *  Kaiping Xue, Dept. of EEIS, University of Science and
Technology of China, [email-masked]
  *  David S. L. Wei, Dept. of CIS, Fordham University, [email-masked]
  *  Roberto Bruschi, S3ITI Federated National Laboratory, Italy,
[email-masked]
  *  Chih-Lin I, China Mobile Research Institute,  [email-masked]

Submissions Guidelines

Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as
indicated in the Information for Authors section of the Paper
Submission Guidelines
at the IEEE Communications Magazine Web site at  https://www.comsoc.org/
commag/author-guidelines .

All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the
deadline through Manuscript Central at  https://mc.manuscriptcentral.
com/commag-ieee. Select the "February 2019/ The Quest for Information
Centric Networking" topic from the drop-down menu of Topic/Series titles.