CFP : 4th International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks DRCN 2003

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See: http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/drcn2003/ CFP: http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/drcn2003/drcn2003-cfp.html 4th International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks DRCN 2003 The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada 19-22 October 2003 "Design and Management of Highly Reliable Networks and Services" ABOUT DRCN The International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) is a biannual conference to provide a platform for presentations and discussions of recent developments and future trends in communication networks and network subsystems focusing on all aspects of network reliability. The workshops generally consists of technical presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, posters, exhibitions and demos. DRCN 2003 will be held in The Banff Centre in beautiful Banff National Park, Alberta, in Canada's majestic Rocky Mountains on 19-22 October 2003, and will mark the first time the conference is held outside of Europe. Please explore the DRCN 2003 website for more information. This 4th DRCN workshop is a follow-up of the first three workshops: DRCN 1998, Brugge, Belgium DRCN 2000, Munich, Germany DRCN 2001, Budapest, Hungary CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION General Chair: Wayne D. Grover- TRLabs / University of Alberta, Canada Co-Chair: Roberto Clemente - Telecom Italia Lab, Italy Honorary Founding Chair: Piet Demeester - Ghent University, IMEC, Belgium Technical Program Chair: David Tipper - University of Pittsburgh, USA Publications Chair: Mike MacGregor - University of Alberta, Canada Tutorials Chair: Deep Medhi - University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Exhibits Chair: Marco Tacca - The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Publicity Chair - Europe: Lena Wosinska - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Publicity Chair -USA: Yu Liu - OPNET, USA Publicity Chair - Canada: Antoine Abou-Arrage - Bell Canada Treasurer: Tara Stevens - TRLabs, Canada Secretariat: Linda Richens - TRLabs, Canada Special Advisory Representatives Optical Networks Magazine: Imrich Chlamtac -University of Texas at Dallas, Editor-in-Chief, Optical Networks Magazine Journal of Network and Systems Management: Manu Malek - Stevens Institute of Technology, Editor-in-Chief. Journal of Network and Systems Management INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Europe, Asia, Israel and South America Tee-Hiang Cheng - Institute for Communications Research, Singapore Tibor Cinkler - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Joerg Eberspaecher - Technical University of Munich, Germany Andreas Gladisch - T-Nova, Deutsche Telecom, Germany Meir Herzberg - Lightscape Networks, Israel Dave Johnson - British Telecommunications plc, England Jean Philippe Vasseur - Cisco Systems, France Carlos Becker Westphall - UFSC, Brazil USA Paul Bonenfant - Photuris Sid Chaudhuri - Tellium Kevin DeMartino - Verizon Communications Andrea Fumagalli - The University of Texas at Dallas Nasir Ghani - Sorrento Networks P. Harshavardhana - VPISystems Raj Jain - Nayna Networks and Ohio State University Yu Liu - OPNET Muriel Medard - MIT Eytan Modiano - MIT Kamal Raychaudhuri - Lucent, Bell Laboratories Jason Rupe - Qwest Communications International Inc. Krishna Sivalingam - University of Maryland Baltimore County Suresh Subramaniam - The George Washington University Jonathan Weston-Dawkes - Corvis Jennifer Yates - AT&T Research Hui Zang - Sprint Advanced Technology Laboratories Canada Dennis Akins - SED Systems Moe Barakat - InfoMagnetics Technologies Matthieu Clouqueur - TRLabs / University of Alberta John Doucette - TRLabs / University of Alberta Peter Edwards - Bell Canada Tim Fell - TELUS Alan Graves - Nortel Networks John Gruber - Ceyba Geoff Hayward - Yotta Yotta Changcheng Huang - Carleton University Michael Leydon - QCC Communications Corp. Jim Slevinsky - TELUS Alan Solheim - Innovance Networks Patrick Soriano - HEC University of Montreal Jing Wu - Communications Research Centre Canada Al Yam - SaskTel Oliver Yang - University of Ottawa PURPOSE DRCN 2003 is a major forum for scientists, engineers, designers and planners concerned with reliability and availability of communication networks and services. The continued rapid growth of Internet traffic, even in the downturn, leaves little doubt that ongoing rounds of network build-out are ahead. Now is the time to profit from lessons-learned and to innovate regarding efficiency, flexibility, and profitability in the realization of highly reliable networks and services. The next round of networks and services must be even more robust but also more imaginative, efficient, flexible, manageable, and ultimately profitable and rewarding for users, carriers and vendors. DRCN 2003 is especially timely and relevant to influence the approaches industry takes, and the direction of ongoing research, as we head into recovery and renewed growth. SCOPE Applications such as e-commerce, remote medicine and education, the Internet, travel-displacement by teleconferencing or virtual presence are seen as part of a thriving information society. The transport and service infrastructures on which these, and unimagined new applications will be based, must be reliable without question, but also be efficient in their realization. The paradigm of a purely best-efforts Internet suffices for fewer applications. More business communication and Intranet / datacentre services are mission-critical. A major challenge in network design and network management and monitoring, and a key to profiting from network integrity, is to provide various levels of availability assurance at costs corresponding to what the applications warrant. Under this central theme detailed topics of relevance for DRCN include but are not limited to: Equipment and Technology for Survivability * Next-Generation SONET/SDH, resilient packet rings (RPR), coarse WDM, Ethernet, WDM optical and photonic networks * IP-centric control, GMPLS, fast IGP, OSPF, IS-IS convergence, integrated IP and optical mechanisms * fault detection and isolation schemes, link monitoring protocols, digital wrapper, GFP, LCAS applications to restoration * reliability or availability of key equipment: MEMs, lasers, OXCs * photonic cross-connect and OADM designs * impact of Ultra Long Haul DWDM on restoration strategies and architecture Basic Methods and Theory for Survivable Network Design and Operation * algorithms for survivable routing, capacity planning and reconfiguration * design and evolution of ring, mesh, hybrid, p-cycle, loop-back, shared-backup path, and other architectures * physical and virtual topology design, design heuristics, simulation and experimental methods * integration of survivability and dynamic demand adaptation techniques * survivable design under demand uncertainty * supporting multiple quality of protection and multiple failure design considerations, SRLG issues * fast restoration in mesh-based networks * reliability and availability analysis methods and theory Network Planning, Management, Monitoring and Control * Multi-Technology Network Management (MTNM), monitoring and control * network planning, simulation, visualization and analysis tools * operations research methods in design, pre-planning, and on-line operations * coordinating multi-layer and multi-service survivability requirements * rapid service provisioning, pre-provisioning, inventory strategies, and service level agreements * survivable metro-edge/access and core network evolution planning Operations, Applications and Services Oriented * protection requirements for different of network services * business case studies of survivable service offerings * novel applications and service requirements (health care, for example) * government and defence needs for reliability, availability, and survivability * reliability and fault tolerance of Web server clusters, storage area networks (SAN), fixed and mobile wireless and satellite * disaster recovery, ad-hoc networks Papers are particularly welcomed on reliability and survivability aspects of non-traditional networking contexts such as SANs, satellite networks, or server farms for example, as well as papers documenting case studies, measurement programs and data and operational accounts of actual failures, their impacts, and the recovery process. CO-OPERATION WITH RELATED JOURNALS The main aspects of the conference theme: "Design and Management of Highly Reliable Networks and Services" are reflected in the mandates of two periodical publications that are cooperating with DRCN 2003 to emphasize these topics and encourage high quality papers in these areas. Authors of selected papers on Design of Survivable Optical Networks will be invited to submit a revised and extended version for publication in Optical Networks Magazine. Authors of selected papers on topics of Network Management will be invited to submit a revised and extended version for publication in the Journal of Network and Systems Management. In addition it has been traditional for the IEEE Communications Magazine to publish a summary report of the Conference. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions due---------------- April 15, 2003 Notification of acceptance------------- June 2, 2003 Tutorial proposals due ------------------June 15, 2003 Final papers due----------------------- August 15, 2003

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4th International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks
DRCN 2003
The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada
19-22 October 2003
"Design and Management of Highly Reliable Networks and Services"


ABOUT DRCN

The International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks
(DRCN) is a biannual conference to provide a platform for presentations and
discussions of recent developments and future trends in communication
networks and network subsystems focusing on all aspects of network
reliability.

The workshops generally consists of technical presentations, tutorials,
panel discussions, posters, exhibitions and demos.

DRCN 2003 will be held in The Banff Centre in beautiful Banff National Park,
Alberta, in Canada's majestic Rocky Mountains on 19-22 October 2003, and
will mark the first time the conference is held outside of Europe.

Please explore the DRCN 2003 website for more information.

This 4th DRCN workshop is a follow-up of the first three workshops:
DRCN 1998, Brugge, Belgium
DRCN 2000, Munich, Germany
DRCN 2001, Budapest, Hungary

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

General Chair: Wayne D. Grover- TRLabs / University of Alberta, Canada
Co-Chair: Roberto Clemente - Telecom Italia Lab, Italy
Honorary Founding Chair: Piet Demeester - Ghent University, IMEC, Belgium
Technical Program Chair: David Tipper - University of Pittsburgh, USA
Publications Chair: Mike MacGregor - University of Alberta, Canada
Tutorials Chair: Deep Medhi - University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Exhibits Chair: Marco Tacca - The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Publicity Chair - Europe: Lena Wosinska - Royal Institute of Technology,
Sweden
Publicity Chair -USA: Yu Liu - OPNET, USA
Publicity Chair - Canada: Antoine Abou-Arrage - Bell Canada
Treasurer: Tara Stevens - TRLabs, Canada
Secretariat: Linda Richens - TRLabs, Canada

Special Advisory Representatives
Optical Networks Magazine: Imrich Chlamtac -University of Texas at Dallas,
Editor-in-Chief, Optical Networks Magazine
Journal of Network and Systems Management: Manu Malek - Stevens Institute of
Technology, Editor-in-Chief. Journal of Network and Systems Management

 

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Europe, Asia, Israel and South America
Tee-Hiang Cheng - Institute for Communications Research, Singapore
Tibor Cinkler - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Joerg Eberspaecher - Technical University of Munich, Germany
Andreas Gladisch - T-Nova, Deutsche Telecom, Germany
Meir Herzberg - Lightscape Networks, Israel
Dave Johnson - British Telecommunications plc, England
Jean Philippe Vasseur - Cisco Systems, France
Carlos Becker Westphall - UFSC, Brazil

USA 
Paul Bonenfant - Photuris
Sid Chaudhuri - Tellium
Kevin DeMartino - Verizon Communications
Andrea Fumagalli - The University of Texas at Dallas
Nasir Ghani - Sorrento Networks
P. Harshavardhana - VPISystems
Raj Jain - Nayna Networks and Ohio State University
Yu Liu - OPNET
Muriel Medard - MIT
Eytan Modiano - MIT
Kamal Raychaudhuri - Lucent, Bell Laboratories
Jason Rupe - Qwest Communications International Inc.
Krishna Sivalingam - University of Maryland Baltimore County
Suresh Subramaniam - The George Washington University
Jonathan Weston-Dawkes - Corvis
Jennifer Yates - AT&T Research
Hui Zang - Sprint Advanced Technology Laboratories

Canada 
Dennis Akins - SED Systems
Moe Barakat - InfoMagnetics Technologies
Matthieu Clouqueur - TRLabs / University of Alberta
John Doucette - TRLabs / University of Alberta
Peter Edwards - Bell Canada
Tim Fell - TELUS
Alan Graves - Nortel Networks
John Gruber - Ceyba
Geoff Hayward - Yotta Yotta
Changcheng Huang - Carleton University
Michael Leydon - QCC Communications Corp.
Jim Slevinsky - TELUS
Alan Solheim - Innovance Networks
Patrick Soriano - HEC University of Montreal
Jing Wu - Communications Research Centre Canada
Al Yam - SaskTel
Oliver Yang - University of Ottawa

PURPOSE

DRCN 2003 is a major forum for scientists, engineers, designers and planners
concerned with reliability and availability of communication networks and
services. The continued rapid growth of Internet traffic, even in the
downturn, leaves little doubt that ongoing rounds of network build-out are
ahead. Now is the time to profit from lessons-learned and to innovate
regarding efficiency, flexibility, and profitability in the realization of
highly reliable networks and services. The next round of networks and
services must be even more robust but also more imaginative, efficient,
flexible, manageable, and ultimately profitable and rewarding for users,
carriers and vendors. DRCN 2003 is especially timely and relevant to
influence the approaches industry takes, and the direction of ongoing
research, as we head into recovery and renewed growth.

SCOPE

Applications such as e-commerce, remote medicine and education, the
Internet, travel-displacement by teleconferencing or virtual presence are
seen as part of a thriving information society. The transport and service
infrastructures on which these, and unimagined new applications will be
based, must be reliable without question, but also be efficient in their
realization. The paradigm of a purely best-efforts Internet suffices for
fewer applications. More business communication and Intranet / datacentre
services are mission-critical. A major challenge in network design and
network management and monitoring, and a key to profiting from network
integrity, is to provide various levels of availability assurance at costs
corresponding to what the applications warrant. Under this central theme
detailed topics of relevance for DRCN include but are not limited to:

Equipment and Technology for Survivability

    * Next-Generation SONET/SDH, resilient packet rings (RPR), coarse WDM,
Ethernet, WDM optical and photonic networks
    * IP-centric control, GMPLS, fast IGP, OSPF, IS-IS convergence,
integrated IP and optical mechanisms
    * fault detection and isolation schemes, link monitoring protocols,
digital wrapper, GFP, LCAS applications to restoration
    * reliability or availability of key equipment: MEMs, lasers, OXCs
    * photonic cross-connect and OADM designs
    * impact of Ultra Long Haul DWDM on restoration strategies and
architecture

Basic Methods and Theory for Survivable Network Design and Operation

    * algorithms for survivable routing, capacity planning and
reconfiguration
    * design and evolution of ring, mesh, hybrid, p-cycle, loop-back,
shared-backup path, and other architectures
    * physical and virtual topology design, design heuristics, simulation
and experimental methods
    * integration of survivability and dynamic demand adaptation techniques
    * survivable design under demand uncertainty
    * supporting multiple quality of protection and multiple failure design
considerations, SRLG issues
    * fast restoration in mesh-based networks
    * reliability and availability analysis methods and theory

Network Planning, Management, Monitoring and Control

    * Multi-Technology Network Management (MTNM), monitoring and control
    * network planning, simulation, visualization and analysis tools
    * operations research methods in design, pre-planning, and on-line
operations
    * coordinating multi-layer and multi-service survivability requirements
    * rapid service provisioning, pre-provisioning, inventory strategies,
and service level agreements
    * survivable metro-edge/access and core network evolution planning

Operations, Applications and Services Oriented

    * protection requirements for different of network services
    * business case studies of survivable service offerings
    * novel applications and service requirements (health care, for example)
    * government and defence needs for reliability, availability, and
survivability
    * reliability and fault tolerance of Web server clusters, storage area
networks (SAN), fixed and mobile wireless and satellite
    * disaster recovery, ad-hoc networks

Papers are particularly welcomed on reliability and survivability aspects of
non-traditional networking contexts such as SANs, satellite networks, or
server farms for example, as well as papers documenting case studies,
measurement programs and data and operational accounts of actual failures,
their impacts, and the recovery process.


CO-OPERATION WITH RELATED JOURNALS
The main aspects of the conference theme: "Design and Management of Highly
Reliable Networks and Services" are reflected in the mandates of two
periodical publications that are cooperating with DRCN 2003 to emphasize
these topics and encourage high quality papers in these areas. Authors of
selected papers on Design of Survivable Optical Networks will be invited to
submit a revised and extended version for publication in Optical Networks
Magazine. Authors of selected papers on topics of Network Management will be
invited to submit a revised and extended version for publication in the
Journal of Network and Systems Management. In addition it has been
traditional for the IEEE Communications Magazine to publish a summary report
of the Conference.




IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submissions due---------------- April 15, 2003
Notification of acceptance------------- June 2, 2003
Tutorial proposals due ------------------June 15, 2003
Final papers due----------------------- August 15, 2003