Themes
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies emcompass development of P2P techniques and applications which represent a significant fraction of the whole Internet traffic. The advancement of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies cover both soft and hard research problems. The soft side of P2P research works include study of P2P with respect to the social-psychological issues such as education, behavior and learning.

The hard side of P2P includes P2P for file sharing and content dissemination, live video broadcasting, multiparty interactive gaming, as well as for large scale VoIP and teleconferencing applications. The current peer-to-peer applications and protocols have been designed for peers running in normal PCs and a variety of terminals (PDAs, NAS boxes, etc.) and access networks (xDSL, Wi-Fi, WiMax, WMNs, etc.) equipped with a broadband connection to the Internet.Simulation technique is one of the approches that is widely used to evaluate perforamnce and design of a proposed model of a P2P model and application.

This is a not expensive and fast way to test novel solutions. The use of P2P as a media platform and communication channel have also allowed a truly distributed knowledge network and multi user collaborative game and message eco-system to be built for education, behavior, conceptual business model, and organizational learning study.

Topics

Social network analysis for P2P and distributed computing systems
Online social network (OSN)-based systems and designs
P2P-based social networking architectures
P2P-based solutions to cloud computing and data center problems
Evolution of P2P communities and systems
Reputation, security, incentives, and economics in P2P systems
Mobile P2P and social networking systems
P2P overlays, file sharing, and streaming systems
User behavior analysis and modeling in OSNs
Security and privacy in OSNs
Evolutions and dynamics of OSNs and their implications
Decentralized OSN Applications
Social graph analysis
Information retrieval and query support
P2P for cloud computing
Semantic overlay networks and semantic query routing
P2P for grids, clouds, and datacenters
Deployed (commercial) applications and systems
Security, trust, and reputation
Cooperation, incentives, and fairness
P2P economics
Social networks
Overlay architectures and topologies
Overlay interaction with underlying infrastructure
Overlay monitoring and management
Self-organization
P2P applications and systems over mobile networks
Measurements and modeling of P2P systems
Performance, robustness, and scalability
Methodological issues in the experimental evaluation of P2P applications and protocols
Statistical analysis of experimental data gathered from real world P2P applications
Validation of simulation models and analytic models based on large-scale experimental testbeds
Evaluation of peer-to-peer applications with regard to non-functional requirements, such as performance, scalability, fault tolerance, availability and accessibility
Evaluation of peer-to-peer applications and protocols in wireless multi-hop networks