CALL FOR PAPERS

DRCN 2016
International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks
http://www.drcn2016.org
March 14-17, 2016 - Paris, France.

Technically co-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Communications Society

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: October 12, 2015 (extended)
Notification of acceptance: January 8, 2015
Camera Ready Papers: January 29, 2016

SCOPE
The International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks
(DRCN) is a forum for presenting excellent results and new challenges
facing the field of the reliability and availability of communication
networks and services. It brings together experts from industry,
governments and academia, experienced in engineering, design and research.
We would like to invite you to contribute to and participate in DRCN
2016, which will be held in the very
heart of Paris, France, the
historical Latin Quarter district.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
* 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
 * Restoration 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

PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers by
the deadline October 2, 2015, for publication in the DRCN 2016
Conference Proceedings and for oral presentation during the conference.
All submissions should be written in English and should not exceed eight
(8) double-column printed pages (10-point font) including figures. All
papers must be formatted according to the IEEE manuscript template for
conference proceedings
(http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

All submissions must be done through EDAS. Only PDF files will be
accepted for the review process.  Paper submission site:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=20941.

During the initial paper submission process via EDAS, authors are
required to make sure that the pdf file and EDAS registration page of a
paper have the same list of authors and paper title, namely add all
authors in EDAS during the submission process. The author list of an
accepted paper can NOT be changed in the final manuscript. At least 1
author of accepted papers must be registered to the conference as
presenter in order to appear in the proceedings.

Please contact submissions@drcn2016.org if you have any questions about
submitting your manuscript.

VENUE
The conference will take place at Campus Les Cordeliers of the
University Pierre and Marie Curie, in the Centre of Paris.

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France
Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Stefano Secci, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France.
Eric Gourdin, Orange Labs, France

For more information, please visit: http://www.drcn2016.org