DRCN 2009 - 7TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP DESIGN OF RELIABLE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS DRCN 2009

DRCN 2009 - DESIGN OF RELIABLE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
7TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
October 25-28, 2009 - Washington, D.C., USA
http://www.drcn2009.org

PURPOSE:
DRCN is a well established bi-lineal forum for scientists, engineers,
designers and planners from industry and academy who have interest in
reliability and availability of communication networks, end systems
and related topics. From equipment and technology for survivability to
network management and public policy, through theory and techniques
for survivable and robust network and application design, the aim of
the conference is to bring together people from those disciplines in a
lively forum. We hope you will join us in Washington, D.C. USA during
October 25-28, 2009.

SCOPE:
We seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, systems-related
and regulatory issues in the area of dependability and survivability
of communication networks, end-systems and infrastructure. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:

* Methodologies, equipment and technology for wired/wireless network
survivability
* Basic methods and theory for survivable network and systems design,
modeling and operation
* Multi-Layer and differentiation protection
* Fault management, monitoring and control
* Security issues in network reliability and its interdependence to
survivability
* Applications and services oriented survivability techniques (e.g,
P2P, multicast)
* Restoration of services under different types of failures
* Public policy issues for survivability and resilience
* Reliability to emerging technologies, (e.g., data centers, SCADA and
process control systems)
* Survivable network management and/or network planning
* Network resiliency to software attacks

PAPER SUBMISSION:
Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently
under review by another conference or journal. All papers for DRCN
2009 must be submitted electronically via the EDAS system
http://edas.info/. Please refer to the DRCN website for detailed
instructions on preparing and submitting the manuscript. All papers
will be peer reviewed by three TPC members. Accepted papers will
appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE. Pagelength is
limited to 8-pages in
two-column IEEE format.

Proposals for Tutorials are also being solicited. Tutorials (half-day
sessions) are intended to provide in-depth learning on a specific
topic of interest to the participants. Proposals for Tutorials should
consist of 1000 words summary, a 150 word abstract, and a cover page
listing the details of the presenter(s). Please contact the tutorial
chair (email: yqian-AT-ieee.org) directly to submit proposals for
tutorials, before May 15, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES:
April 1, 2009 Full Paper submission
May 15, 2009 Tutorial proposals due
June 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance
August 15, 2009 Camera Ready Final paper due

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
David Tipper, General Chair| University of Pittsburgh, USA
John Doucette, TPC Co-Chair| University of Alberta & TRLabs, Canada
Deep Medhi, TPC Co-Chair| University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Yi Qian, Tutorial Chair|National Institute Standards & Technology,USA
Yu Liu, Web Chair | Juniper Networks, USA
Debbie Day, Finance Chair| University of Pittsburgh, USA

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Didier Colle| Ghent University, Belgium
Mario Pickavet| Ghent University, Belgium
Geraldo Robson Mateus| Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Nelson L. S. da Fonseca| State University of Campinas, Brazil
Carlos Becker Westphall| Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Andre Girard| INRS-EMT and GERAD, Canada
Pin-Han Ho| University of Waterloo, Canada
Brigitte Jaumard| Concordia University, Canada
Lorne Mason| McGill University, Canada
Brunilde Sanso| Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Jing Wu| Communications Research Center Canada, Canada
Xuewen Gong| Huawei Technologies, China
Prosper Chemouil| Orange Labs, France
Adam Ouorou| Orange Labs, France
Achim Autenrieth| Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Joerg Eberspaecher| Munich University of Technology, Germany
Dominic Schupke| Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Meir Herzberg| ECI Telecom, Israel
Roberto Clemente| Telecom Italia, Italy
Achille Pattavina| Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Taesang Choi|ETRI, Korea
Bjarne Helvik| Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Michael Pioro| Warsaw University, Poland
Mohan Gurusamy| National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dave Johnson| British Telecom, UK
Yuanshun Dai| University of Tennessee, USA
Andrea Fumagalli| University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Raj Jain| Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Jean-Francois Labourdette| Verizon, USA
Eytan Modiano| MIT, USA
S. Raghavan| University of Maryland, USA
George Rouskas| North Carolina State University, USA
Jason Rupe| Qwest, USA
Iraj Saniee| AT&T Bell Labs, USA
Sudipta Sengupta| Microsoft Research, USA
Krishna Sivalingam| University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Arun Somani| Iowa State University, USA
Shekhar Srivastava| Huawei Technologies USA, USA
James Sterbenz| University of Kansas, USA
Suresh Subramaniam| George Washington University, USA
Kishor Trivedi| Duke University, USA
Jean-Philippe Vasseur| Cisco Systems, USA
Jonathan Weston-Dawkes| Mitre, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE:
Piet Demeester, Chair | Ghent University - IBBT - IMEC, Belgium
Prosper Chemouil | Orange Labs, France
Tibor Cinkler| Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Roberto Clemente | Telecom Italia Lab, Italy
Joerg Eberspaecher | Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany
Andreas Gladisch | T-Systems International, Germany
Wayne D. Grover | TRLabs, University of Alberta, Canada
David Tipper | University of Pittsburgh, USA