CTRQ 2010 - The Third International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service CTRQ 2010

The Third International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service CTRQ 2010

June 13-19, 2010 - Athens, Greece
The processing and transmission speed and increasing memory capacity might be a satisfactory solution on the resources needed to deliver ubiquitous services, under guaranteed reliability and satisfying the desired quality of service. Successful deployment of communication mechanisms guarantees a decent network stability and offers a reasonable control on the quality of service expected by the end users. Recent advances on communication speed, hybrid wired/wireless, network resiliency, delay-tolerant networks and protocols, signal processing and so forth asked for revisiting some aspects of the fundamentals in communication theory. Mainly network and system reliability and quality of service are those that affect the maintenance procedures, on the one hand, and the user satisfaction on service delivery, on the other hand. Reliability assurance and guaranteed quality of services require particular mechanisms that deal with dynamics of system and network changes, as well as with changes in user profiles. The advent of content distribution, IPTV, video-on-demand and other similar services accelerate the demand for reliability and quality of service.

The Third International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service, CTRQ 2010, continues a series of events focusing on the achievements on communication theory with respect to reliability and quality of service. The conference brings also onto the stage the most recent results in theory and practice on improving network and system reliability, as well as new mechanisms related to quality of service tuned to user profiles.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.

Communication theory

Fundamentals in communication theory
Communications switching and routing
Communications modeling
Communications security
Autonomic communications
Performance in communications
Computer communications
Distributed communications
Wired and wireless communications
Signal processing in communications
Multimedia and multicast communications
High-speed communications
Delay-tolerant communications
Fault-tolerant networks
Reliable and safe communications
Iterative coding and decoding techniques

Reliability

Reliability modeling
Reliability stress analysis
Dependency-related reliability
Reliability prediction technologies
Reliability-aware topology control
Reliability in highly dynamic networks and distributed systems
Reliability in sensitive networks (ehealth, financial, etc.)
Service versus network reliability
Reliability and human-related risks
Software reliability
Software-based safety kernels
Reliability testing
Maintenance tools for system reliability
QoS-driven reliability
Quality of Service

QoS Design and architectures for networks and distributed systems
QoS modeling, adaptation and monitoring
QoS policy assessment
QoS metrics and measurement
QoS-based routing
QoS-aware applications and services
Provisioning and monitoring QoS constraints
QoS-based admission control
QoS negotiation and mediation
User-profile QoS-aware mechanisms
QoS-network device mechanisms (scheduling, queue management, traffic engineering, etc.)
QoS and opportunistic scheduling
QoS-aware resource management
QoS in WLAN, WPAN, WMAN and WiMAX (IEEE 802.11/15/16/20)
QoS in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks
QoS support in wireless networks for MAC protocols
QoS and survivability in mobile environments
INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) January 20, 2010
Notification March 12, 2010
Registration March 26, 2010
Camera ready March 21, 2010

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.