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.
A special issue in a top journal related to conference topics is being negotiated by the organizing committee.
The 10th DRCN edition will be held in the glorious city of Ghent, Belgium. 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 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
Theory and modelling:
• 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 techniques for network resilience
Resiliency of network services:
• Reliability requirements and metrics for individual users, businesses, and the society
• Restoration of services under various types of failures
• 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
• Security issues in networks and their relation to survivability
• Dependability and energy consumption trade-offs
• Risk and reliability in the Internet and enterprise networks
• New and emerging threats
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: October 18, 2013
Acceptance notification: January 13, 2014
Camera-ready due: January 31, 2014
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length (including title, abstract, figures, references, etc.) of eight (8) double-column printed pages (10-point font) including figures. All papers must be formatted according to the IEEE manuscript template for conference proceedings.
STEERING COMMITTEE
Piet Demeester, Ghent University – iMinds, Belgium
Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France
Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Roberto Clemente, Telecom Italia, Italy
Robert Doverspike, AT&T Labs, USA
Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Ken-ichi Sato, Nagoya University, Japan
Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA
TPC CHAIRS
Didier Colle, Ghent University–iMinds, Belgium
Wouter Tavernier, Ghent University-iMinds, Belgium
Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
GENERAL CHAIR
Piet Demeester, Ghent University – iMinds, Belgium
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Mario Pickavet, Ghent University – iMinds, Belgium
