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*                          Call for Papers                              *
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*                 COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS [Elsevier]                    *
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*          Special Issue on Reliable Network-based Services             *
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SCOPE
In the today's provision of network services, a rapid development of 
many new technologies (like virtualization or cloud computing) and 
applications (e.g., social networking) can be seen. They have a 
considerable engineering, commercial and societal impact and pose 
numerous challenges to designers. One class of issues is the continuous 
offering of services in spite of various types of failures that are 
everyday events in networks. The increasing complexity, the 
participation of many different autonomous entities in the service 
provision, the lack of information, coordinated actions as well as 
governance makes this challenge increasingly difficult. In addition to a 
design of reliable network segments, server clusters etc., new 
technological issues like stability and failure management across 
heterogeneous autonomous systems arise. They also involve novel fields 
at the border of technology, business and society, like risk-awareness 
or influence of public policy.

The goal of this issue is to present state of the art research 
contributions that focus on the reliable network-based services (RNS) 
provisioning. Contributions are invited from prospective authors with 
interests in the indicated special issue topics and related areas of 
application. All contributions should be of high quality, original, 
unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Topics of 
interest include, but are not limited to:

- Network and service resilience:
	+ reliability requirements and metrics for individual users, business, 
and the society
	+ service differentiation based on recovery methods
	+ dependability of networked applications and network-based services
	+ application and service-specific survivability techniques
- Commercial and societal context:
	+ telecommunication networks as an element of critical national 
infrastructures
	+ network resilience combined with economics and business issues
	+ risk and reliability in the Internet and enterprise networks
- Operational aspects:
	+ resilience of multi-domain connections in the Internet
	+ reliability of emerging technologies (e.g., network virtualization, 
thin client architectures)
	+ network dependability in cloud computing
	+ interaction between fault management and traffic handling
- Theory and modeling
	+ reliability analysis
	+ methods and theory for survivable networks and systems
	+ simulation techniques for network and service resilience

SCHEDULE
Manuscript submission deadline: December 1, 2011
First notification:             March 1,    2012
Submission of revised paper:    May 1,      2012
Notification of acceptance:     July 1,     2012

GUEST EDITORS
Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland, 
piotr.cholda@agh.edu.pl
Bjarne E. Helvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 
Norway, bjarne.e.helvik@item.ntnu.no

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 inclusion into the Special Issue, the authors 
have to select "Special Issue: RNS" when they reach the "Article Type" 
step in the submission process.
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