Submission
Paper submission guidelines
Papers can be submitted either as full papers or as short papers (following the IEEE single-spaced two-column format and a 10-point font size). Full papers should not exceed 10 pages and short papers should not exceed 5 pages. Short papers are expected to present work that is less mature but holds promise, articulate a high-level vision, describe challenging future directions or offer results that do not merit a full submission. Please note that short papers also need evaluation results or analysis to corroborate the claims of the paper and that a paper longer than 5 pages is treated as a full paper.
Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the EDAS paper-submission website linked from the conference website. IEEE templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word, as well as related information, can be found at the IEEE Digital Toolbox webpage. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Communications Society.
All submissions will be evaluated using a double-blind review process. To ensure blind reviewing, papers should be anonymized by removing author names and affiliations, as well as by masking any information about projects and bibliographic references, etc. that might reveal the authors' identities. Papers that are not properly anonymized will be rejected without review. Submitted papers should describe original and previously unpublished research and are not allowed to be simultaneously submitted or under review elsewhere.
*Note:* P2P 2012 will experiment with two changes to the traditional reviewing process: two-phase reviewing and "open reviews". These changes are an effort to provide additional feedback to authors of submitted papers and make the overall reviewing process more transparent. Specifically, all paper submissions will receive between 3 and 5 reviews each; while all papers will receive at least 3 reviews, papers of sufficient quality will undergo a second reviewing phase. In addition, the camera-ready version of each accepted paper will be accompanied by a 1-page summary that consists of the significant portions of the (anonymized) reviews that the paper received during the reviewing process and a 1-paragraph summary by the authors detailing how they addressed the reviewers' comments. The conference proceedings as well as the conference website will include the camera-ready version of each accepted paper together with the corresponding 1-page summary review.
In addition to the main conference, IEEE P2P 2012 will have a poster and demo session, and a conference best paper award.
Thanks to the supporting organizations, P2P 2012 also plans to offer a small number of travel grants . Application Information for these grants will be published in the P2P'12 web site.
