Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (P2PNA) has received significant attention from both academia and industry in recent years. The aim of the Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications journal is to disseminate state-of-the-art research and development results in this rapidly growing research area, to facilitate the deployment of P2P networking and applications, and to bring together the academic and industry communities, with the goal of fostering interaction to promote further research interests and activities, thus enabling new P2P applications and services. The journal not only addresses research topics related to networking and communications theory, but also considers the standardization, economic, and engineering aspects of P2P technologies, and their impacts on software engineering, computer engineering, networked communication, and security.

Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications is committed to the timely publication of high-quality, original papers that advance the cutting-edge research in the area of peer-to-peer networking, services, and applications. The journal serves as a forum for tackling the technical problems arising from both file sharing and media streaming applications. It also includes state-of-the-art technologies in the P2P security domain.

Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications publishes regular papers, tutorials and review papers, case studies, and correspondence from the research, development, and standardization communities. Papers addressing system, application, and service issues are encouraged. The Journal covers all subject areas of peer-to-peer networking and applications including, but not limited to:

P2P ad hoc and sensor networks
P2P application and services
P2P content access and distribution
P2P economics
P2P enabled technologies
P2P file sharing
P2P media streaming
P2P multicasting and multimedia delivery
P2P overlay networks
P2P security issues
P2P wireless and mobile networks
Architectures and protocols
Convergence/co-existence of P2P and other networks
Data and index structures
Modeling, performance and robustness
QoS
Replication and load-balancing strategies
Semantic routing and search
It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal. Papers extending previously published conference papers are acceptable, as long as the journal submission provides a significant contribution beyond the conference paper, and the overlap is noted clearly at the beginning of the journal submission. If you have any question about whether the overlap with another paper is "substantial," please include in the paper a discussion of the similarities and differences with other papers, including the unique contribution(s) of the PPNA submission.

Editor-in-Chief
Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada
xshen@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Associate Editors
Nikos Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Shan Chang, Donghua University, China
Nan Cheng, Xidian University, China

Francesco Chiti, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

Sajal Das, University Texas at Arlington, USA 

Yong Ding, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China

Khalid Elgazzar, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Nelson L. S. da Fonseca, State University of Campinas, Brazil
Khaled Hatem Almotairi, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia
Peter Langendoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany
Hongwei Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Lu Liu, University of Derby, UK
Rongxing Lu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Mohamed M. E. A. Mahmoud, Tennessee Tech University, USA
Vojislav B. Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
Kaoru Ota, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan 

Benedetta Picano, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

Wei Quan, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Ju Ren, Central South University, China
Mi Wen, Shanghai University of Electric Power, China 

Kuan Zhang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Yongbing Zhang, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China