IEEE Network special issue on web performance - call for papers (fwd)
From: Johan Hjelm (hjelm@w3.org)
Date: Mon, Aug 16 1999
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 15:12:39 +0200
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From: Johan Hjelm <hjelm@w3.org>
Subject: IEEE Network special issue on web performance - call for papers (fwd)
From: Ioanis Nikolaidis (yannis@cs.ualberta.ca)
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 14:10:32 -0600
Subject: IEEE Network Magazine - Special Issue on Web Performance
Reply-to: yannis@cs.ualberta.ca
Call For Papers
IEEE Network Magazine
Special Issue on Web Performance
Guest Editors:
Ioanis Nikolaidis Carey Williamson
Computing Science Department Department of Computer Science
University of Alberta University of Saskatchewan
Edmonton, AB, Canada Saskatoon, SK, Canada
T6G 2H1 S7N 5A9
Phone: +1-780-492-5757 Phone: +1-306-966-8656
Fax: +1780-492-1071 Fax: +1-306-966-4884
Web: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~yannis
email: yannis@cs.ualberta.ca Web:
http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/carey/
email: carey@cs.usask.ca
Scope:
Currently, a large fraction of users access network resources through
web clients/browsers. The popularity of web browsers is due to their
ability to provide a uniform, yet flexible, approach to presenting and
rendering information. The performance perceived by users of web
applications depends on the performance of the protocols that
operate between web clients and servers. In this context, it becomes
important to gain insight into the factors that influence the performance
of the related protocols. Some of the questions that naturally arise
are:
What are the performance requirements of the different types of
web-based applications? What are the typical user access patterns and to
what extent can they be exploited to improve performance? What are
the limits of proxy caching architectures? What efficient ways exist to
support mobile web client (or even server) devices? Is an
diffserv/intserv framework sufficient for new applications? Overall, where are
the bottlenecks in the current system? These are among the issues
that this special issue of IEEE Network seeks to address. Of
particular interest are papers presenting traffic measurements and other
empirical performance data from actual web clients, servers, caches and
network backbones as well as architecture and design papers for systems
that have been implemented and are currently operational.
Topics of interest include:
Web server/client workloads.
Cache/proxy architectures and performance.
Diffserv/Intserv services support for the web.
Performance implications of dynamic content.
HTTP extensions and HTTPng performance.
Active network support for web services.
Techniques for low bandwidth links and/or mobile devices.
Manuscript Submission:
Authors are requested to send an email to either of the
guest editors, Ioanis Nikolaidis, (yannis@cs.ualberta.ca),
or Carey Williamson, (carey@cs.usask.ca), providing a URL
where a postscript or PDF file can be downloaded by the guest
editors.
Note: Potential authors may wish to consult the sections
on author information and guidelines for reviewers, which
are given at
http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/techcom/ntwrk/authors.html
Schedule:
Paper Submission Deadline: OCTOBER 1, 1999
Feedback to Authors: December 15, 1999
Final Manuscripts to Publisher: January 31, 2000
Publication of Special Issue: May/June 2000
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Johan HJELM
Ericsson Research, User Applications Group
Currently visiting engineer at the W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium
hjelm@w3.org
http://www.w3.org/People/W3Cpeople.html#Hjelm
Fax +1-617-258 5999, Phone +1-617-253-9630
MIT/LCS, 545 Tech. Sq. Cambridge MA 02139 USA
opinions are personal, always my own,
and not necessarily those of Ericsson or the W3C.
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