DRCN 2018 - 14th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2018)

The International Conference on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) is a well-known forum for presenting excellent results and new challenges in the field of reliability and availability of communication networks and services. It brings together experts from industry, governments, and academia. DRCN is welcoming contributions on a wide range of topics of interest within the fields of Reliability, Availability and Serviceability as listed below.
Important dates
Submission deadline:
October 7, 2017
Acceptance notifications:
November 15, 2017
Camera-ready due:
December 1, 2017
Conference:
February 19-20, 2018
Detailed authors guidelines can be found here.
Topics
Network design and operational aspects of Reliability:
Survivability and traffic engineering for optical, IP and multi-layer networks
Robustness of multi-domain network and protocol architectures
Resilience in Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
High-availability for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) infrastructures
Network dependability in cloud networking
Dependability of cellular/mobile networks
Reliability of wireless access and mesh networking
Survivability in grid and distributed computing
Resilience of networked critical infrastructures
Theory and modeling:
Network reliability analysis
Methods for survivable network and systems design, analysis and operation
Planning and optimization of reliable networks, systems, and services
Network coding techniques to improve resilience
Decomposition techniques for reliable network optimization
Service differentiation based on recovery methods
Simulation techniques for network resilience
Resilience of Networked Services:
Quality of Experience (QoE) and network service availability assessments
Reliability requirements and metrics for users, businesses, and the society
Dependability of networked applications
Survivability of multimedia networks
Reliability and resiliency of data center networks
Recovery of overlay and peer-to-peer networks
estoration of services under various types of failures
Application and service-specific survivability techniques
Robustness of compound services
Broad context:
Telecommunication networks as an element of critical infrastructures
Risk and reliability in the Internet and enterprise networks
Public policy issues for survivability and resilience
Standardization of network resilience and reliability
Network resilience combined with economics and commercial issues
Network robustness to natural disasters
Robust network design for hostile environments
Security issues in networks and their relation to survivability
Network dependability and energy consumption trade-offs