IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 SYMPOSIUM ON
COMMUNICATIONS QoS, RELIABILITY AND PERFORMANCE MODELING
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Submission Deadline
March 15th, 2009

Symposium Co-Chairs
Fabrizio Granelli, DISI, University of Trento (granelli@disi.unitn.it)
Hajime Nakamura, KDDI R&D Labs. Inc. (nakamura@kddilabs.jp)

Sponsoring Technical Committees
Communication Systems Integration & Modeling
Communications Quality & Reliability

Scope
Communication networks are designed to provide service to their users with acceptable quality level. For that, network traffic should be analyzed and properly controlled so that the desired Quality of Service requirements of applications and Services are achieved. The diversity of applications characteristics and current network technologies demand specific modelling and design tools. Moreover, different techniques including analytical modeling, simulation, measurement and monitoring are required in order to support design and dimensioning of communication networks and services.

This symposium emphasizes the design, resource allocation and performance evaluation advances required in order to deliver the expected high quality and reliability in telecommunication networks and services. The symposium will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research on the challenging issues related to the requirements, metrics, measurement, management, and dissemination, as well as performance modeling for the emerging era of network services.

This symposium aims at papers that describe original and unpublished contributions addressing various aspects of performance modeling, QoS and reliability in telecommunication networks. Authors are invited to submit original technical papers covering but not limited to the topics of interest listed below.

Topics of interest

* Quality in Multimedia Networks including Voice over IP and IPTV
* Quality, Scalability and Performance in the Internet
* Quality and Performance in Wireless and Mobile Networks
* Quality, Reliability and Performance in Optical Networks
* Quality and Performance in Autonomic Systems
* Quality and Performance in Grid and Distributed Computing
* Quality and Performance in Peer-to-Peer Networks
* Quality and Performance for Network and Services
* Quality and Resource Allocation for network services, VPN, Web
* Performance Modeling of Next Generation Networks
* Scalability, Robustness and Resilience
* Standardization Aspects of QoS and Reliability
* Performance Evaluation Techniques
* Design of Networks and Network Services
* Cross-layer Design, Modeling and Optimization
* Application / Service Oriented Networking
* Network Simulation Techniques
* Network Modeling
* Network Measurement and Monitoring Techniques
* Resource Allocation for Networks and their services
* Traffic and Workload Modeling and Characterization
* Traffic and Workload Control
* Traffic Economics
* Traffic Engineering and Traffic Theory
* Metrics and models for quality of experience (QoE)

Important information
Starting from this year's edition, the symposium will implement a rebuttal process, in order to enable authors to provide feedback on reviewers' comments before papers' selection.