Kansas City, USA
March 25-27, 2015 (Tutorials on March 24)
DRCN | 2015
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  • About

    DRCN is a well-established annual forum for scientists, engineers, designers and planners from industry, government and academia who have interests in the reliability and availability of communication networks and services. The conference covers topics from equipment and technology for survivability to network management & public policy, through theory and techniques for survivable and robust networks and application design. The aim of the conference is to bring together people from industry, government and academia in those disciplines in a lively forum.

     

    Extended version of accepted papers are targeted for consideration in a special issue of Springer’s Journal of Network and Systems Management.

     

    The 11th DRCN edition will be held in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. The conference will be enriched by a set of tutorials and invited talks. We seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, systems-related and regulatory issues in the area of dependability and survivability of communication networks, end-systems and infrastructure.

  • Topics
    Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas: Network design and operational aspects: Survivability of optical and multi-layer networks Recovery techniques for IP routing and Layer-2 switching Resilient wired access networks Reliability of wireless access and mesh networking Dependability of mobile networks Network reliability and dependability in cloud computing and grid networks Reliability and recovery of Software-Defined Networks (SDN) and Network (Function) Virtualization (NFV) Self-healing and autonomic networks Survivability Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and Information-Centric Networks (ICN) Fault management, monitoring, and control Resilience of multi-domain connections in the Internet Management of survivable networks Green Networking and reliability Robust design of smart grid Reliable Communication Networks for Real-Time and Cyber Physical Systems Theory and modeling: Network reliability analysis Methods and theory for survivable network and systems design, analysis and operation (including scalability and complexity) Planning and optimization of reliable networks, systems, and services Simulation/emulation techniques for network resilience Modeling, design, and analysis techniques for integrated cyber security and survivability Network modeling and security for distributed cyber-attack detection and identification in communication networks Resiliency of network services: Reliability requirements and metrics for individual users, businesses, and the society Restoration of services under various types of failures Network coding and reliability Service differentiation based on recovery methods Dependability of networked applications Recovery of overlay and peer-to-peer networks Application and service-specific survivability techniques Reliability and resilience of data centre networks Robustness of compound services Broad context: Communication networks as an element of critical infrastructures Public policy issues for survivability and resilience Standardization of network resilience and reliability Network resilience combined with economics and commercial issues Quality of experience and network survivability Dependability and energy consumption trade-offs Risk assessment formalisms and measurement caused by cyber-attacks on communication networks Risk and reliability in the Internet and enterprise networks Vulnerability analysis to natural disasters or physical attacks Robust design against natural disasters or attacks New and emerging threats
  • Deadlines

     

    Submission of papers for review       November 25, 2014

     

    Submission of short and poster papers     December 20, 2014

           (Work-in-progress papers also welcome)

     

    Acceptance notifications       January 15, 2015

     

    Short papers acceptance notifications     January 20, 2015

     

    Camera-ready papers due       January 29, 2015

     

    Tutorial sessions       March 24, 2015

     

    Start of the conference       March 25, 2015

  • Guidelines

    Short Papers: 4 page limit

    Poster Paper (Extended Abstract): 2 page limit

     

    All submissions should be written in English with a max. paper length (all included) of 8 double-column printed pages (10-point font) including figures. All papers must be formatted according to the IEEE manuscript template for conference proceedings and submitted via EDAS. At least 1 author of accepted papers must be registered to the conference as presenter in order to appear in the proceedings.

  • Flyer

    A PDF version of the Call for Papers can be downloaded here.

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