Call for papers
DUE: August 1, 2013

IEEE Network Special Issue on
"Open Source for Networking: Development and Experimentation"

Open source plays an increasingly important role in the software and
communications industries. For example, open source implementations are
widely available for most of Internet protocols, from TCP/IP in kernel space
(such as Linux, Android and BSD-based systems), down to MAC/PHY in hardware
such as Ethernet and WLAN transceivers, and up to applications in user space
such as WWW clients, servers and proxies. Open sourced applications are
arguably becoming more prevalent than proprietary closed software. Hundreds
of open source networking packages have played important roles in our daily
life. The same open source spirit also goes to the development platforms for
simulation, rapid prototyping, software defined radio, and software defined
networking (with ns-3, NetFPGA, GNU radio and OpenFlow being examples in
each category respectively).

This special issue aims to provide a platform for sharing experiences on
developing network-related open sources from various aspects for a diverse
community of professionals from academia, industry and independent hackers.
Solicited articles include works reporting development experiences,
experimental studies, and enhancement works on important or new packages.
Open source packages of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

§ Development platforms: ns-3 (network simulator), NetFPGA (rapid
prototyping), OpenFlow (software defined networking), GNU radio (software
defined radio)

§ Utilities: Wireshark (packet sniffer), NIST Net (WAN emulator)

§ Hardware: DES/AES (crypto), OFDM and MIMO (modulation)

§ Protocol stacks: TCP/IPv4/IPv6 (Linux- and BSD-based protocol stacks),
bridging, drivers, socket, tc (traffic control for Linux), ipfw/dummynet
(traffic control for FreedBSD and Linux)

§ Daemon and library: Zebra, Quagga, Xorp (routing), RTP/RTCP library
(real-time protocol)

§ Network security: Snort (IDS), IPsec (VPN), Netfilter and iptables
(TCP/IP firewall), FWTK (application firewall), ClamAV (anti-virus),
SpamAssassin (anti-spam), Nessus (vulnerability scanner)

§ Network applications: bind (DNS), qmail (Mail), apache (HTTP), Darwin
(Streaming), Bit Torrent (P2P), Diaspora (social networking)

Submission
With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions,
prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Network guidelines for
authors that can be found at
http://www.comsoc.org/netmag/paper-submission-guidelines. Authors should
submit their manuscripts through ScholarOne for IEEE Network. Choose
"Special Issue — Open Source for Networking: Development and
Experimentation" from the drop down menu on the submission page.

Schedule
Manuscript Submission: August 1, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: December 1, 2013
Final Manuscript Due: January 15, 2014
Publication: March 2014

Guest Editors
Ying-Dar Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan,
ydlin@cs.nctu.edu.tw
Ren-Hung Hwang, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan,
rhhwang@cs.ccu.edu.tw
Grenville Armitage, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne,
Australia, garmitage@swin.edu.au
Vincenzo Eramo, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy,
vincenzo.eramo@uniroma1.it