DRCN 2019 - 15th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks

Since its creation in 1998, The International Conference on the Design
of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) has become over the years a
well-established forum for scientists from both industry and academy who
have interest in reliability and availability of communication networks,
and related resilience topics. The aim of the conference is to bring
together people from various disciplines, ranging from engineering of
survivable equipment and network technologies to network management and
monitoring, through methods and models for survivable and robust network
design. As such, DRCN is a well-known forum for presenting excellent
results and new challenges in the field of reliable communication
networks and services.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute and participate in the
15th edition of DRCN in Coimbra, Portugal, on March 19-21, 2019.
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Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
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- Resilience in 5G networks
- Availability of 5G networks and services
- Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC)
- Design of resilient and reliable IoT systems
- Resilience in Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
- High-availability for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
infrastructures
- Network dependability in cloud networking
- Dependability of cellular/mobile networks
- Survivability and traffic engineering for optical, IP and multi-layer
networks
- Robustness of multi-domain network and protocol architectures
- Reliability of wireless access and mesh networks
- Survivability in grid and distributed computing
- Reliability and resiliency of data center networks
- Recovery of overlay and peer-to-peer networks
- Risk and reliability in the Internet and enterprise networks
- Communication reliability for smart city applications and intelligent
transport systems
- Methods for survivable network and systems design, analysis and
operation
- Planning and optimization of reliable networks, systems, and services
- Network reliability analysis
- Reliability and robustness of networks optimized and managed based on
AI/Machine Learning techniques
- Data analytics and Machine Learning for fault diagnosis
- Network coding techniques to improve resilience
- Decomposition techniques for reliable network optimization
- Service differentiation based on recovery methods
- Simulation techniques for network resilience
- Quality of Experience (QoE) and network service availability
assessments
- Reliability requirements and metrics for users, businesses, and the
society
- Dependability of networked applications
- Restoration of services under various types of failures
- Application and service-specific survivability techniques
- Robustness of compound services
- Resilience of networked critical infrastructures
- 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
- Network resilience combined with economics and commercial issues
- Standardization of network resilience and reliability
- Public policy issues for survivability and resilience
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Paper Submission
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The authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers
for presentation at the conference and publication in the
DRCN 2019 Proceedings. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review
process and all submissions must be done electronically through
EDAS: https://edas.info/N25127.
All submissions must be written in English and must use standard
IEEE two-column conference templates that can be downloaded from:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templa....
Papers can be of two types: Full papers or Short papers, up to 8 pages
and 5 pages respectively, including tables, figures and references.
Full papers accepted as short papers will be required to be reduced
to 5-pages length.
At least one author is required to register, at the full rate,
to present accepted papers at the conference and for the paper to appear
in the proceedings.
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Venue
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The conference will take place at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
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= Important dates =
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- Paper submission: September 21, 2018
- Notification to authors: November 30, 2018
- Camera-ready papers: December 14, 2018
- Conference: March 19-21, 2019
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Organization
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General Co-Chairs
Prosper Chemouil, Independent Advisor, France
Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra and INESC Coimbra, Portugal
TPC Co-Chairs
Dominic Schupke, Airbus, Germany
David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Overall Arrangements
Lúcia Martins, University of Coimbra and INESC Coimbra, Portugal