WoNeCa 2012 - 2012 International Workshop on Network Calculus (WoNeCa 2012)

Workshop on Network Calculus (WoNeCa 2012) in conjunction with MMB&DFT 2012

March 19 - 21, 2012 in Kaiserslautern (Germany)
http://www.mmb2012.de

SCOPE

The network calculus has established as a versatile methodology for the queueing analysis of resource sharing based systems. Its prospect is that it can deal with problems that are fundamentally hard for alternative methodologies, based on the fact that it works with bounds rather than striving for exact solutions. The high modelling power of the network calculus has been transposed into several important applications for network engineering problems, traditionally in the Internet’s Quality of Service proposals IntServ and DiffServ, and more recently in diverse environments such as wireless sensor networks, switched Ethernets, or Systems-on-Chip.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers with an interest in the theory of network calculus as well as those who want to apply existing results in new applications. The workshop will serve to promote the network calculus theory to researchers with an interest in applied queueing models for data communication.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The topics of this workshop are related to fundamental aspects as well as applications of network calculus. The following list of topics is non-excluding:

Deterministic and stochastic network calculus, e.g.

traffic and service models

general topologies

numerical tightness
Feedback systems, e.g.,

TCP network calculus

window flow control

retransmission-based systems
Loss systems, e.g.,

bounded queues
wireless links
Aggregate multiplexing, e.g.,

optimization-based approaches
stochastic case
Data transformation, e.g.,

end-to-end analysis
in-network processing
network coding
Relation to other theories, e.g.,

queueing theory
discrete event dynamic systems
New applications, e.g.,

real-time calculus
avionic networks
mission-critical networks
the power grid
wireless sensor networks
Tool support, e.g.,

numerical problems
numerical approximations
implementation experience

CONTRIBUTION FORMAT

WoNeCa-2012 encourages the submission of either long papers or extended abstracts, describing original work on theoretical aspects and applications of the network calculus. Authors should submit a PDF paper version, which should not exceed 15 pages for long papers and 2 pages for extended abstracts. All the submissions must adhere to the LNCS format, and should be sent by e-mail to woneca-AT-mmb2012.de.

All accepted long paper contributions will appear in the conference proceedings, whereas the accepted extended abstracts will appear in a technical report of the University of Kaiserslautern. Authors of the extended abstracts retain the copyright of their work.

TPC CO-CHAIRS

Anne Bouillard, ENS, France ( Anne.Bouillard-AT-ens.fr)
Florin Ciucu, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories / TU Berlin, Germany ( florin-AT-net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de)
Markus Fidler, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Germany ( markus.fidler-AT-ikt.uni-hannover.de)

TPC MEMBERS

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL, Switzerland
Francois Baccelli, INRIA, France
Marc Boyer, ONERA, France
Samarjit Chakraborty, TU München, Germany
Yuming Jiang, Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology, Norway
Nicolas Navet, INRIA, France
Stephen Patek, University of Virginia, USA
Gianluca Rizzo, IMDEA Networks, Spain
Moshe Sidi, Technion, Israel
David Starobinski, Boston University, USA
Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa, Italy
Lothar Thiele, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Yue Wang, Central University of Finance and Economics, China
Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada