------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pdf version of Call for papers: http://www.rndm.pl/2014/CFP_RNDM2014.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Extended versions of top RNDM 2014 papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of Networks journal (Wiley) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers RNDM 2014 6th International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling November 17-19, 2014, Barcelona, Spain http://www.rndm.pl technically co-sponsored by: ---------------------------- IEEE Communications Society IFIP TC6 WG 6.10 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission web page: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17117 --------------------------------------------------------------------- S2CN 2014 Workshop(Survivable Content-Oriented and Cloud-Ready Networking) co-located with RNDM 2014: http://www.rndm.pl/2014/S2CN/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- RNDM has been established as a single-track workshop each time attracting world-class participants from both academia and industry working in the area of reliable networks design and modeling. RNDM 2014 follows the success of the first five events that took place in St. Petersburg (2009, 2012), Moscow (2010), Budapest (2011), and Almaty (2013) accordingly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The topics cover, but are not necessarily limited to the following: - businesses aspects of resilience in content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - coordination of multilayer survivability operations, - design of dedicated/shared backup paths, - end-to-end resilience, - energy efficiency in survivable networks, - energy efficiency in survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - fast service recovery, - fault and disruption tolerance evaluation, - fault management and control in survivable networks, - Future Internet reliability, - green networks reliability, - impact on detection accuracy and latency on survivability, - management issues in reliable networks design, - management of survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - methods for measurement, evaluation, or validation of survivability, - metrics of reliable communications, - modeling different types of failures, - modeling malicious behavior or attacks on networks, - models and algorithms of survivable networks design and modeling, - multilayer networks survivability, - network dependability, - network reliability vs. economy-related issues, - network reliability standardization aspects, - new and emerging threats in cloud computing and content-oriented networks, - optical networks survivability, - p-cycles and other protection structures, - planning and optimization of survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - planning and optimization of reliable networks, - QoS and QoE in reliable communications, - restoration strategies under different types of failures, - reliable networks performance evaluation, - reliability and resilience of in data centers, - reliability of wireless-wired communications, - reliability of wireless sensor networks, - reliability of multi-domain communications, - reliability of emerging communication technologies, - reliability of vehicle-to-vehicle communications, - resilient cloud computing architectures and solutions, - resilient content-oriented networks architectures and solutions, - role of redundancy in survivable networks, - security-related issues in reliable networks, - self-regenerative networks, - service-oriented survivability, - service resilience differentiation, - simulation/emulation techniques for network resilience in content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - Software-Defined Networks (SDN) for survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networking, - survivability of anycast and multicast networks, - survivability of converged services (VoIP, IP-TV, Mobile TV), - survivability of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), - survivability of grid and distributed computing systems, - survivability of P2P and overlay systems, - survivability under traffic grooming in multilayer networks, - theory and methods of reliability and availability, - use of self-healing techniques in surviving attacks, - wireless access networks survivability, - wireless mesh networks survivability The authors are encouraged to submit via EDAS (https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17117) full papers describing original, previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in the area of reliable networks design and modeling. All submitted papers will be reviewed. The total length of a paper should not exceed 7 pages formatted according to the two-column template. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. The Best Paper Award will be given. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: July 20, 2014 - Notification deadline: Sept. 15, 2014 - Camera-ready: Sept. 30, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------- RNDM 2014 Organization: ----------------------- General Chair Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Co-chairs Gangxiang (Steven) Shen, Soochow University (CN) James P.G. Sterbenz, The University of Kansas (US), Lancaster University (UK) Steering Commiittee Maurice Gagnaire, Telecom ParisTech (FR) Josep Sole Pareta, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (ES) Mario Pickavet, Ghent University - IBBT (BE) Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Lund University (SE) Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) James P.G. Sterbenz, The University of Kansas (US), Lancaster Univ. (UK) Publicity Co-chairs Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra (PT) Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa (CA) Sun-il Kim, University of Alabama in Huntsville (US) William Liu, Auckland University of Technology (NZ) Wojciech Molisz, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Pablo Romero, Universidad de La Republica (UY) Hideaki Yoshino, Nippon Institute of Technology (JP) Jie Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Program Committee Nail Akar, Bilkent University (TR) Achim Autenrieth, ADVA Optical Networking SE (DE) Peter Babarczi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU) Thomas Bauschert, Chemnitz University of Technology (DE) Walid Ben-Ameur, Telecom SudParis (FR) Eusebi Calle, University of Girona (ES) Cicek Cavdar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE) Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology (PL) Egemen Cetinkaya, Missouri University of Science and Technology (US) Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU) John Doucette, TRLabs, University of Alberta (CA) George Ellinas, University of Cyprus (CY) Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Leeds (UK) Luigi Fratta, Politecnico do Milano (IT) Maurice Gagnaire, Telecom ParisTech (FR) Alessio Giorgetti, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (IT) Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra (PT) Eric Gourdin, Orange Labs (FR) Ece Guran Schmidt, Middle East Technical University (TR) Lei Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN) Anwar Haque, Bell (CA) Hiroshi Hasegawa, Nagoya University (JP) Bjarne Helvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO) Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo (CA) Yutaka Ishibashi, Nagoya Institute of Technology (JP) Brigitte Jaumard, Concordia University (CA) Jason Jue, University of Texas, Dallas (US) Noriaki Kamiyama, NTT (JP) Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa (CA) Sun-il Kim, University of Alabama in Huntsville (US) Arie Koster, RWTH Aachen (DE) Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS (RU) Darli Mello, University of Brasilia (BR) Wojciech Molisz, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Annalisa Morea, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs(FR) Dritan Nace, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne (FR) Sema Oktug, Istanbul Technical University (TR) Mario Pickavet, Ghent University - iMinds (BE) Eleni Palkopoulou, CISCO (GR) Dimitri Papadimitriou, Alcatel-Lucent Bell (BE) Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Lund University (SE) Marco Quagliotti, Telecom Italia (IT) Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Pablo Romero, Universidad de La Republica (UY) Sarah Ruepp, Technical University of Denmark (DK) Samir Sebbah, Concordia University (CA) Marcus Schoeller, NEC (DE) Arun Somani, Iowa State University (US) Salvatore Spadaro, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - UPC (ES) Dimitri Staessens, Ghent University - iMinds (BE) Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University (US) Marco Tacca, University of Texas, Dallas (US) Janos Tapolcai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU) Wouter Tavernier, Ghent University - iMinds (BE) David Tipper, Pittsburgh University (US) Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology (GR) Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano (IT) Kishor Trivedi, Duke University (US) Jean Philippe Vasseur, CISCO (FR) Luis Velasco, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (ES) Dominique Verchere, Alcatel-Lucent (FR) Krzysztof Wajda, AGH University of Science and Technology (PL) Krzysztof Walkowiak, Wroclaw University of Technology (PL) Roland Wessaely, atesio GmbH (DE) Lena Wosinska, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE) Hideaki Yoshino, Nippon Institute of Technology (JP) Hongfang Yu, Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China (CN) Jie Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN) Wen-De Zhong, Nanyang Technological University (SG) Mateusz Zotkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology (PL)