Workshop 10

The Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling RNDM 2009
Dates: tba
Contacts: Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Tentative program: [ pdf ]

Call for papers: [ pdf ]

Submit your paper here [ EDAS ]

Communication networks spanning large areas are subject to frequent failures, mostly being unintentional. The reasons include natural disasters, as well as human errors. However, many failures are now often the result of intentional interruptions, also referred to as malicious attacks. Network operators thus need their networks to be reliable. One of the means towards assuring the certain level of service reliability is to make the networks survivable, i.e. capable of providing the continuous service in the presence of failures.

The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers from both academia and industry to present the high-quality results in the area of reliable networks design and modeling.

The topics cover, but are not necessarily limited to the following:

- wired/wireless network survivability,
- optical networks survivability,
- models and algorithms of survivable networks design and modeling,
- methods for measurement, evaluation, or validation of survivability,
- role of redundancy in survivable networks,
- design of dedicated/shared backup paths,
- p-cycles and other structures, impact of detection accuracy and latency on survivability,
- fast service recovery, service resilience differentiation,
- theory and methods of reliability and availability,
- fault management and control in survivable networks,
- multilayer network survivability,
- survivability under traffic grooming in multilayer networks,
- coordination of multilayer survivability operations,
- restoration strategies under different types of failures,
- modeling malicious behaviour or attacks on networks,
- use of self-healing techniques in surviving attacks,
- self-regenerative networks.

The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in the area of reliable networks design and modeling. All papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore (approved) and indexed in relevant databases. Papers must be submitted electronically via EDAS . The total length of a paper should not exceed 6 pages formatted according to the instructions Template and Instructions on How to Create Your Paper (DOC, 92KB)

Extended version of best papers of special merit will be considered for possible fast track publication in the Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier).

General Chair

Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Technical Program Committee

Piotr Chołda, AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland)
Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary)
John Doucette, TRLabs, University of Alberta (Canada)
Maurice Gagnaire, Telecom ParisTech (France)
Wayne D. Grover, TRLabs, University of Alberta (Canada)
Bjarne E. Helvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
Brigitte Jaumard, Concordia University (Canada)
Sun-il Kim, University of Alabama (USA)
Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka University (Japan)
Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS (Russia)
Lorne Mason, McGill University (Canada)
Wojciech Molisz, Gdansk University of Technology (Poland)
Sebastian Orlowski, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (Germany)
Mario Pickavet, Ghent University (Belgium)
Micha Pióro, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland), Lund University (Sweden)
Ece Guran Schmidt, Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
Samir Sebbah, Concordia University (Canada)
Arun Somani, Iowa State University (US)
János Tapolcai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary)
David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology (Greece)
Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University (USA)
Dominique Verchére, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (France)
Krzysztof Wajda, AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland)
Krzysztof Walkowiak, Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland)
Wen-De Zhong, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Roland Wessäly, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (Germany)
Lena Wosinska, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)