CALL FOR PAPERS

DRCN 2016 – International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks
www.drcn2016.org
14-17 March 2016, Paris, France.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: October 2nd, 2015
Notification of acceptance: December 4th, 2015

SCOPE:
The International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) is a forum for presenting excellent results and new challenges facing the field of the reliability and availability of communication networks and services. It brings together experts from industry, governments and academia, experienced in engineering, design and research.
We would like to invite you to contribute to and participate in DRCN 2016, which will be held in the very heart of Paris, France, the historical Latin Quarter district.

Topics of interest include
Network design and operational aspects of Reliability
• Survivability and traffic engineering for optical, IP and multi-layer networks
• Robustness of multi-domain network and protocol architectures
• Resilience in Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
• High-availability for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) infrastructures
• Network dependability in cloud networking
• Dependability of cellular/mobile networks
• Reliability of wireless access and mesh networking
• Survivability in grid and distributed computing
• Resilience of networked critical infrastructures
Theory and modeling
• Network reliability analysis
• Methods for survivable network and systems design, analysis and operation
• Planning and optimization of reliable networks, systems, and services
• Network coding techniques to improve resilience
• Decomposition techniques for reliable network optimization
• Service differentiation based on recovery methods
• Simulation techniques for network resilience
Resilience of Networked Services
• Quality of Experience (QoE) and network service availability assessments
• Reliability requirements and metrics for users, businesses, and the society
• Dependability of networked applications
• Survivability of multimedia networks
• Reliability and resiliency of data center networks
• Recovery of overlay and peer-to-peer networks
• Restoration of services under various types of failures
• Application and service-specific survivability techniques
• Robustness of compound services
Broad context
• Telecommunication networks as an element of critical infrastructures
• Risk and reliability in the Internet and enterprise networks
• Public policy issues for survivability and resilience
• Standardization of network resilience and reliability
• Network resilience combined with economics and commercial issues
• Network robustness to natural disasters
• Robust network design for hostile environments
• Security issues in networks and their relation to survivability
• Network dependability and energy consumption trade-offs

Venue
The conference will take place at Campus Les Cordeliers of the University Pierre and Marie Curie, in the Centre of Paris.

General chairs
• Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France
• Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Technical Program Chairs
• Stefano Secci, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France.
• Eric Gourdin, Orange Labs, France