The enduring digital insurrection has brought on the appearance of new network applications intended to speed up worldwide sharing of information. The applications have embraced the well-known peer-to-peer (P2P) technology in innovative ways, eternally altering the world of personal computing. P2P systems—an alternative to conventional client–server systems— mostly support applications that offer file sharing and content exchange like music, movies, etc. The concept has also been effectively employed for high performance computing, Internet-based telephony etc. The unanticipated growth in popularity of P2P systems has raised a number of significant problems. This situation has led academicians and industry people towards stupendous research in the field.

The objective of International Workshop on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Technology - IWAP2PT’09 is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of P2P computing, and to provide an opportunity to share latest research results and thoughts on P2P systems and thereby uphold the research activities in this area.

IWAP2PT’09 invites researchers to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrates current research in all areas of P2P computing. All submissions will be thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts in the field based on originality, significance and clarity, only papers presenting novel research results or successful innovative applications are considered for publication in conference proceedings. All the accepted papers will be be published in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Papers in IEEE format (.pdf file) must be submitted electronically through EDAS.

The Camera-ready paper should be double-column, IEEE format, but in 10 pt font, and no longer than six pages (including all figures and references). Detailed instructions will be given after the accepted papers announcement.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Availability Management
Digital rights management
Fault Tolerance in P2P Systems
Grid Computing and P2P grids
Load Balancing Techniques
Mobile P2P Networks and o Mobile data management
Nature-inspired algorithms for P2P
Novel Architecture of Peer-To-Peer Systems
P2P and Autonomic Computing
P2P and Collaborative Learning
P2P applications and services
P2P measurements and control
P2P mobile sensors networks
P2P Resource Management
P2P services and Cloud computing
Peer-To-Peer Economics
Peer-To-Peer Live Streaming
Privacy in P2P Systems
Quality of Service and Quality of Experience
Resource Discovery in P2P Systems
Social Networks
Solutions for Free Riding and Partial Coverage in P2P
Trust and Reputation Management in P2P Systems
Video on Demand Peer-To-Peer File Sharing