ITC 2014 - 26th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 26)

After years of traffic growth, network over-provisioning policies have shown their limitations. Thus, traffic modeling and analysis have regained an important role to the provisioning of performance models, evaluation methods, monitoring and management approaches that allow for efficient dimensioning of network resources for various network technologies and communication requirements. In fact, such tools are of utmost importance for increased sustainability of communication solutions, which in turn improve the sustainability of environment, society and businesses. The motto of ITC 26 has been chosen with these challenges in mind. Since 1955, ITC has successfully been integrating researchers and practitioners in striving for understanding and mastering network performance issues in an ever-changing landscape of communication technology and services that trigger new demands to accommodate.
ITC 26 is bound to provide significant technological and methodological contributions to create a positive momentum in sustainable service delivery. Specific teletraffic-related topics in network technologies and applications of interest include, but are not limited to:
Network technologies and applications Network planning, QoS, performance and sustainability Traffic measurement, management, and security related issues
Future networks design
Green ICT
Network virtualization
Cloud networking
Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
Data center networks
Carrier networks
Optical networks
Cellular networks
Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC)
Wireless ad-hoc and mesh networks
Delay-tolerant networks
Sensor networks
Internet of Things (IoT)
Machine-to-Machine (M2M)
Application layer networks and overlays
P2P and distributed lookup
Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
Information-Centric Networking (ICN)
IPTV, WebTV, HTTP-based streaming
Distributed, grid, and cloud computing
Web-services and SOA
Social networks and crowd sourcing
Tele-medicine, -education, -metry
Network design methods
Energy efficiency
Capacity planning methods and tools
Planning for multi-carrier networks
Cross-layer design and optimization
Performance of wireless/wired networks
QoE, QoS, SLA, and GoS
Resource allocation and management
Optimization techniques
Game-theoretic models
Random graph models
Scheduling algorithms
Queuing and traffic models
Performance and reliability tradeoffs
Robustness and reliability issues
Simulation methods and tools
Network coding
Pricing and billing
Business models for service deployment
Network tomography
Big data traffic modeling and management
Self-optimization
Traffic engineering
Dynamic bandwidth management
Intelligent adaptive routing
Location and mobility management
Multi-domain issues
Overload and congestion control
Admission control
Traffic and performance monitoring
Protection, switching, and restoration
Anomaly detection
Detection of DoS attacks
Attack mitigation methods
Worm and virus propagation
Epidemiological models
Privacy and trust
Organization
Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Conference Co-Chairs
Åke Arvidsson, Ericsson AB, Sweden
Ulf Körner, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
TPC Co-Chairs
Hiroshi Saito, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Japan
Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Keynote Co-Chair
Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Tutorial Co-Chairs
Ron Addie Univ. of Southern Queensland, Australia
Krys Pawlikowski Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand
Workshop Co-Chairs
Franco Davoli, University of Genua, Italy
Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Würzburg, Germany
Publicity Co-Chairs
Florin Ciucu University of Warwick, UK
Minghua Chen Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Publication Co-Chair
Dragos Ilie Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Web / EDAS Co-Chair
Patrik Arlos Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
International Advisory Council
Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France (Chair)
Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Würzburg, Germany, (Vice-Chair)