ContextQoS 2015 - Workshop on Context-aware QoS Provisioning and Management for Emerging Networks, Applications and Services (ContextQoS)

5th International Workshop on Context-aware QoS Provisioning and Management for Emerging Networks, Applications and Services
co-located with
24th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)
Context-aware QoS provisioning and management (also known as context-aware performance engineering) has many facets and most of the time novel tailored schemes are required to provide an appropriate level of QoS for different types of networks, applications and services.
The provisioning of a certain level of QoS according to the requirements of an entire context can hardly be accomplished in special networks, e. g. for Advanced Manufacturing, using traditional QoS provisioning and management schemes because these do not account for the requirements introduced by the new dynamic networks and applications. The definition of a certain level of QoS using the traditional models is just driven by technical aspects of the running applications. Novel context-aware schemes have to be developed to cope with the challenges given by these special networks. These must account for the dynamic requirements and ideally allow to permit system-independent usage.
Advanced Manufacturing is only one example for a new type of network that has to face special requirements. Context-awareness is required in several types of networks and for different types of applications and services. All of these are different. E.g., the occurring network traffic in Wireless Mesh Sensor Networks cannot be compared to network traffic of a corporate Intra-Network. Each of them have different constraints and demands that should be covered by a context-aware QoS provisioning and management system. This workshop, among other things, wants to bring together researchers to present and discuss novel approaches and solutions as well as recent results in this area of research, e.g. specially designed for Advanced Manufacturing, Cloud and Grid Computing, Wireless Mesh Networks, Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, Wireless and Mobile Sensor Networks, Private Home Networks as well as other types of Cyber Physical Systems and Networks.
Technical Topics
Performance engineering for Advanced Manufacturing
QoS for mission critical communications
Recognition of performance relevant context-patterns
Context-pattern transformation for QoS provisioning
Autonomous context-aware traffic classification
Concepts for achieving transparency to co-existing QoS mechanisms
Security and privacy of context-aware QoS approaches
Control protocols for distributed QoS provisioning and management
Performance-driven routing protocols and algorithms
Cross-platform QoS control
Context-dependent energy management
Cognitive QoS patterns in multi-agent systems
Implementation of context-aware QoS-drivers and middlewares
Concepts for usage of context-aware QoS approaches
Performance analysis of context-aware QoS approaches
Real-Time concepts for context-aware QoS control
Context-aware transmit power control
and all other topics not named at this point, but belonging to the main topic of this workshop