Department of Computing
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Announcement and Call for Papers
THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKING CONFERENCE
HET-NETs '05
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PERFORMANCE MODELLING AND EVALUATION OF
HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS
Craiglands Hotel*, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, U.K.
Monday 18th - Wednesday 20th July, 2005
Supported by
* EU Network of Excellence Euro-NGi;
* British Computer Society (BCS) Perf. Eng. Specialist Group;
* Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEE, U.K.);
* European Commission - IST and NoE Programmes;
* ACATS Forum, ATS Network Consortium Proprietary, EU;
* Siemens AG (Germany);
* Motorola (U.K.);
* Solinet GmbH (Germany);
* Ericsson (Italy);
* Alcatel SEL AG (Germany);
* Vodafone (Germany);
* 4Plus Technologies SA (Greece);
* Teletel Telecoms & IT (Greece);
* INFORMS Applied Probability Society (U.S.A);
* Eng. and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, U.K.);
* School of Informatics, University of Bradford (U.K.);
(* The Craiglands is a delightful Victorian country hotel on the edge of the
beautiful Yorkshire Dales and near the famed Ilkley Moor.)
General Chair
* Professor Demetres Kouvatsos, University of Bradford, U.K.
Advisory Board
* Prof.Klaus Hackbarth, University of Cantabria, Spain: 'Experimental
Validation and Measurement Platforms'
* Prof.Jim Martin, Clemson University, U.S.A.: ‘Broadband Access and TCP
Performance’
* Prof. Isi Mitrani, University of Newcastle, U.K.: 'Quantitative
Methodologies and Performance Modelling Tools'
* Prof. Maria Simon, Universidad De La Rebublica Montevideo, Uruguay:
'Congestion Control and End-to-End Quality of Service (QoS)’
* Dr. Roberto Sabella, Ericsson Lab, Italy: 'Traffic Modelling and
Engineering'
* Zhili Sun, Surrey University, U.K.: ‘Evolving Heterogeneous Network
Architectures’
* Dr. Michael Truss, Motorola, Ireland: 'Applied Innovation in
Heterogeneous Networks'
* Dr. Kostas Vlachodimitropoulos, Cosmote – Official Sponsor of Athens
2004 Olympic Games, Greece: ‘Performance Monitoring and New
Technologies’
Nature of Event and International Support
HET-NETs is an International Working Conference focusing on the ‘Performance
Modelling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks’. It is an annual event
organised under the auspices of the EU Network of Excellence (NoE) Euro-NGi
with the support and collaboration of other EU IST and NoE consortiums and
reputable international academic/industrial organisations worldwide.
Aims and Objectives
The generic aims of the HET-NETs Working Conference are to motivate
fundamental research and technological advances into the major domains of
converging multi-service heterogeneous networks and support joint programme
of research activities towards collaboration, dissemination and spreading
research excellence worldwide. The main objectives of the conference are to
contribute towards both the theoretical and applied investigations into
* traffic measurement, modelling, characterisation, management and
engineering;
* performance modelling, quantitative analysis, optimisation, congestion
control, monitoring, evaluation and prediction of evolving and
convergent multi-service networks of diverse technology, such as those
based on all-IP, mobile, wireless ad hoc and optical switch
architectures towards the design and dimensioning of the next generation
Internet (NGI) and beyond;
Description, Scientific/Engineering Content and Programme
Over recent years a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in
industry and academia, towards the performance modelling, evaluation and
convergence of multi-service networks of diverse technology, such as IP,
ATM, MPLS, D-WDM, IPO, WLL, xDSL, Metro-WDM, Gigabit Ethernet, WLAN,
all-optical networks, Ad-hoc wireless networks as well as GSM, GPRS, UMTS &
4G mobile systems and beyond. However, many interesting and important
performance engineering issues, such as those involving heterogeneous
network architectures & technology integration, traffic engineering,
management & congestion control as well as design & optimisation of access
and multi-layer networks, need to be addressed and resolved before a global
and wide-scale integrated broadband network infrastructure can be
established for the efficient support of multimedia applications with
different quality of service (QoS) guarantees. Of crucial importance is the
design and engineering of the next generation (NG) Internet including the
creation of generic evaluation platforms capable of measuring and validating
the performance of heterogeneous networks and multi-services
interoperability. Moreover, robust quantitative methodologies and
performance modelling tools are needed, such as those based on novel
queueing network models (QNMs), spatial modelling (SM) and stochastic Petri
nets (SPNs), in order to provide a theoretical underpinning leading to both
credible and cost-effective exact and approximate algorithms for the
performance prediction of heterogeneous networks and associated protocols.
The Third International Conference on the Performance Modelling and
Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks (HET-NETs '05) aims to contribute to
fundamental theoretical and applied research into the performance modelling,
analysis and dimensioning of evolving networks of diverse technology.
HET-NETs '05 is the third event organised under the auspices of the EU
Network of Excellence (NoE) Euro-NGi , a part of the EU Commission’s
‘Broadband for All’ NoE Research Programme, focusing on the ‘Design and
Engineering of the Next Generation Internet - Towards the Convergence of
Multi-Service Networks’. The conference is staged in co-operation with other
academic and industrial organisations worldwide including two major EU IST
consortiums, namely, IASON focusing on the design and development of
performance measurement platforms for heterogeneous networks and EVOLUTE
dealing with seamless multimedia services over all IP-based infrastructures.
As with the earlier HET-NETs '03 & ’04 events, the Third International
Working Conference HET-NETs '05 provides the friendly and informal working
atmosphere in which both experts and new researchers from industry and
academia worldwide exchange novel ideas and establish new research
initiatives.
The HET-NETs ’05 International Working Conference is soliciting original
research papers, tutorials, poster papers and research works-in-progress
reviewing current state of progress and addressing state-of-the-art research
and technological development in the field of performance modelling and
evaluation of convergent multi-service heterogeneous networks and the NGI.
In particular, delegates are encouraged to present recent advances in
§ Traffic characterisation, engineering and performance modelling
aspects towards the management, integration, dimensioning, congestion
control, bandwidth sharing and end-to-end QoS of evolving heterogeneous
network architectures and emerging cost-effective Internet technologies;
§ Design and development of experimental performance validation &
measurement platforms and traffic engineering implementations, test-beds and
prototypes for multi-services inter-operability, protocols and convergent
networks of diverse technology;
§ Performance optimisation of the topology, layout, flow and
capacity design of protected multi-layer core and robust access
multi-service networks of diverse technology subject to reliability and
performance related security & pricing schemes.
§ Applied methods and efficient mobility/hand off solutions for
seamless, efficient and reliable communication and mobile network QoS
optimization, capacity utilization, high resource demanding services and
management, based on enhanced performance against traditional and current
state of the art mechanisms;
§ Analytic, numerical and simulation methodologies for the
quantitative analysis and optimisation of finite SM and QNMs for the
performance evaluation and control of heterogeneous networks with bursty,
self-similar and multi-fractal traffic flows of long-range dependence (LRD)
and short-range (SRD) dependence and, where appropriate, their
approximation, with tolerable accuracy, by simpler traffic processes.
Contributions are invited on, but are not limited to, the following
technical themes:
* Integration of Fixed, Optical and Wireless Networks;
* Evolving Switch Architectures for Core, IP and Ad Hoc Networks;
* Inter-Operability of Wireless, Terrestrial and Satellite Networks;
* Traffic Measurements, Modelling, Characterisation & Management;
* Novel and adaptive Management Protocols for Heterogeneous Networks;
* Modelling and Analysis of Heterogeneous Internet Access;
* Real-time Voice/Video Transport over Heterogeneous Networks;
* QoS in Multi-Service Wireless and Optical Networks;
* Call Admission and Traffic Shaping Policies;
* Congestion and Flow Control Mechanisms and Bandwidth Sharing Schemes;
* Cell/Packet Level Scheduling and Resource Allocation Strategies;
* Optimisation of Multi-Layer Core & Access Networks;
* QoS Routing, Load Balancing Techniques and Network Resilience;
* Performance Related Security, Pricing and Reliability Schemes;
* Experimental/Measurement Platforms/Test-Beds and Network Design Tools;
* Spatial Tele-Traffic Models in Mobile Networks;
* Numerical and Analytic Methodologies for SM and QNMs with Blocking;
* Large Deviation Theory and Network Calculus;
* Parallel and Distributed Rare Event Simulation Techniques;
Technical Themes
Contributions are encouraged on, but are not limited to, the following
technical themes:
* Integration of Fixed, Optical and Wireless Networks;
* Evolving Switch Architectures for Core, IP and Ad Hoc Networks;
* Inter-Operability of Wireless, Terrestrial and Satellite Networks;
* Traffic Measurements, Modelling, Characterisation & Management;
* Novel and adaptive Management Protocols for Heterogeneous Networks;
* Modelling and Analysis of Heterogeneous Internet Access;
* Real-time Voice/Video Transport over Heterogeneous Networks;
* QoS in Multi-Service Wireless and Optical Networks;
* Call Admission and Traffic Shaping Policies;
* Congestion and Flow Control Mechanisms and Bandwidth Sharing Schemes;
* Cell/Packet Level Scheduling and Resource Allocation Strategies;
* Optimisation of Multi-Layer Core & Access Networks;
* QoS Routing, Load Balancing Techniques and Network Resilience;
* Performance Related Security, Pricing and Reliability Schemes;
* Experimental/Measurement Platforms/Test-Beds and Network Design Tools;
* Spatial Tele-Traffic Models in Mobile Networks;
* Numerical and Analytic Methodologies for SM and QNMs with Blocking;
* Large Deviation Theory and Network Calculus;
* Parallel and Distributed Rear Event Simulation Techniques;
Provisional Scientific Committees (PCs)
The PCs of HET-NETs '05 relate to four special tracks:
Special Track I: 'Traffic Engineering & Performance Evaluation'
Ake Arvidsson, Ericsson, Sweden
Villy Baek Iversen, Lyngby, Denmark
Monique Becker, Evry, France
Andre-Luc Beylot, Toulouse, France
Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy
Laurie Cuthbert, London, U.K.
Khaled Elsayed, Cairo, Egypt
David Harle, Strathclyde, U.K.
Helmut Hlavacs, Vienna, Austria
Ilias Iliadis, IBM Zurich, Switzerland
Andrzej Jajszczyk, Cracow, Poland
Laszlo Jereb, Budapest, Hungary
Mikael Johansson, KTH, Sweden
Daniel Kofman, Paris, France
Kimon Kontovassilis, Athens, Greece
Ulf Korner, Lund, Sweden
Paul Kuehn, Stuttgart, Germany
Hanoch Levy, Tel-Avid, Israel
Yoni Levy, AT&T Labs, U.S.A.
Renato Lo Cigno, Trento, Italy
Michael Logothetis, Patras, Greece
Nicholas Mitrou, Athens, Greece
Sandor Molnar, Budapest, Hungary
Victor Netes, Komset, Moscow, Russia
Jonathan Pitts, London, U.K.
Paulo Pereira, Lisbon, Portugal
Michael Pioro, Warsaw, Poland
Guy Pujolle, Paris, France
David Remondo-Bueno, Barcelona, Spain
Michel Riguidel, Paris, France
Maria Simon, Montevideo, Uruguay
Phuoc Tran-Gia, Wuerzburg, Germany
Rob van der Mei, Telecom, Netherlands
Rui Valadas, Aveiro, Portugal
Tereza Vazao, Lisbon, Portugal
Jorma Virtamo, Helsinki, Finland
Special Track II: 'Measurement Platforms & Networks’ Optimisation'
Frank Ball, Oxford, U.K.
Miklos Boda, Ericsson, Hungary
Stefano Giordano, Pisa, Italy
Boris Grabner, Telekom Austria AG, Austria
Gerard Hebuterne, Evry, France
David Hutchison, Lancaster, U.K.
Paola Iovanna, Ericsson, Italy
Stefan Köhler, Wuerzburg, Germany
Vangelis Kollias, Teletel SA, Greece
George Kormentzas, Samos, Greece
Nigel Linge, Salford, U.K.
Rodolfo Lopez Alandros, Alcatel SEL AG, Germany
Hermann De Meer, London, U.K.
Madjid Merabti, Liverpool, U.K.
Lewis McKenzie, Glasgow, U.K.
Roger Peplow, Natal, South Africa
Ruben Perreira, Liverpool, U.K.
Guido Petit, Alcatel SEL AG, Belgium
Lisa Ritchie, Solinet GmbH, Germany
Sebastia Sallent, Catalunya, Spain
Patrick Thiran, Lausanne, Switzerland
Norbert Vicari, Wuerzburg, Germany
Gerrd-Jouchin Wintterle, Alcatel SEL AG, Germany
Special Industrial Track III: 'Applied Innovation in Convergent Multiservice
Networks'
Nigel Baker, Motorola, U.K.
Ana Garcia Armada, Madrid, Spain
Alejandro Beccera, Telefonica, Spain
Fernando Casadevall, Catalunya, Spain
John.Cosmas, Brunel, U.K.
Haitham Cruickshank, Surrey, U.K.
Luc Deneire, Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
Manuel Dinis, Portugal Telecom, Portugal
Markus Fiedler, Karlskrona, Sweden
Jorge Gato, Vodafone, Spain
Felicita Di Giandomenica, Pisa, Italy
Nigel Jefferies, Vodafone, U.K.
Terje Jensen, telenor, Norway
Jaakko Lahteenmaki, Vtt, Finland
Thomas Magedanz, Focus, Germany
Luis Munoz, Cantabria, Spain
Nineta Polemi, Expertnet, Greece
Michael Truss, Motorola, Ireland
Speros Velentzas, Motorola, U.K.
Domonique Verchere, Alcatel, France
Kostas Vlahodimitropoulos, Cosmote, Greece
Special Track IV: 'Quantitative Methodologies and Analytic Tools'
Eitan Altman, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
Vladimir Anisimov, Kiev, Ukraine & GlaxoSmithKline, U.K.
Simonetta Balsamo, Venice, Italy
Pavel Bocharov, Moscow, Russia Richard
Sem Borst, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Richard Boucherie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Onno Boxma, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Chris Blondia, Antwerp, Belgium
Alexandre Brandwajn, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
Tien Do, Budapest, Hungary
Herwig Bruneel, Ghent, Belgium
Vicente Casares-Giner, Valencia, Spain
Ram Chakka, Norfolk, U.S.A.
Tadeusz Czachorski, Gliwice, Poland
Peder Emstad, Trondheim, Norway
Jean-Michel Fourneau, Paris, France
Richard Gibbens, Cambridge, U.K.
Erol Gelenbe, London, U.K.
Guenter Haring, Vienna, Austria
Peter Harrison, London, U.K.
Boudewijn Haverkort, Twente, Netherlands
Frank Kelly, Cambridge, U.K.
Udo Krieger, Bamberg, Germany
Isi Mitrani, Newcastle, U.K.
Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, Glasgow, U.K.
Antonio Pacheco, Lisboa, Portugal
Nihal Pekergin, Paris, France
Haris Skianis, Athens, Greece
Maciej Stasiak, Poznan, Poland
Janos Sztrik, Debrecen, Hungary
Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto, Japan
Sandrine Vaton, ENST Bretague, France
Manolo Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica I+D, Spain
Sabine Wittevrongel, Ghent, Belgium
Michael Woodward, Bradford, U.K.
Local Organising Committee
The event is organised with the local support of the members of the
Networks and Performance Engineering Research Group (PERFORM), University
of Bradford, England, U.K.
Salam Assi, Bradford, U.K.
Irfan Awan, Bradford, U.K.
Shafinaz Buruhanudeen, Bradford, U.K.
Rod Fretwell, Bradford, U.K.
Sundamoorthy Kannan, Bradford, U.K.
Yue Li, Bradford, U.K.
Wie Li, Bradford, U.K.
Geyong Min, Bradford, U.K.
Is-Haka Mkwawa, Bradford, U.K.
Karim Sadik, Bradford, U.K.
Kevin Smith, Bradford, U.K.
Sotiris Tantos, Bradford, U.K.
Charalambos Mouchos, Bradford, U.K.
Neel Shah, Bradford, U.K.
Athanasios Tsokanos, Bradford, U.K.
Conference Organisation
The HET-NETs ’05 working conference will facilitate, in support of the
Euro-NGi’s jointly executed research activities, specialised technical
sessions and/or workshops/meetings, as appropriate. The event will also
motivate and encourage the submission of integrated researchl papers,
tutorials and 'works-in-progress' co-authored by members of different
research groups in EU and worldwide;
The Technical Programme of HET-NETs '05 will spread over a period of three
days (18-20/7/05 and focus on current developments worldwide in the theory
and practice of traffic engineering, performance modelling, evaluation,
optimisation and control issues as well as applications for convergent
multi-service heterogeneous networks. It will include three categories of
papers namely, full research papers and extended tutorial papers (selected
subject to an initial tentative peer review) as well as shorter 'works in
progress' papers (selected subject to relevance & potential impact). The
selected papers will be presented in two parallel sessions reflecting the
main technical themes of the conference. In addition, poster research papers
will be solicited and EU project & industrial demonstrations will be
organised, as appropriate. Evening social events will include excursions to
the Bradford Museum of Photography, Film and Television and stately homes in
the area of Yorkshire Dales - to be announced).
Schedule & Publications
Prospective authors of HET-NETs '05 are invited to submit - for PCs and peer
selection review - by
Wednesday the 1st of June 2005
* Full research papers up to a maximum of 10 A4 size pages (single spaced
text);
* Technical abstracts of approximately 300 words for academic research
'works-in-progress' and poster contributions;
* Proposals for tutorial papers of up to 2 A4 size pages (single spaced
text);
to Dr. Is-Haka Mkwawa and Mrs Salam Adli Assi (Networks and Performance
Engineering Research Group, University of Bradford, Tel: +44-1274-233934,
Fax: +44-1274-233920) by using the E-mail address of the HET-NETs
Conference:
hetnets@scm.brad.ac.uk
All proposed submissions should be in English and be sent electronically as
E-mail attachments (using postscript, msword or pdf file format). Full
research papers should include an abstract of up to 300 words and a relevant
list of up to 5 key words, names of authors and their affiliation.
Following acceptance, authors will be notified via email by
Friday the 17th of June 2005
to prepare in camera ready form, subject to the instructions of the
designated website of the conference, the final versions of their papers
(single spaced text), subject to referees remarks, as appropriate, for their
inclusion into HET-NETs '05
* Technical Proceedings of full research papers up to a maximum of 10 A4
size pages (single spaced text);
* Participants Volume of research 'works-in-progress' of not more than 6
A4 size pages or shorter poster papers of not more than 3 A4 size pages
(single spaced text);
* Tutorials Volume of not more than 35 A4 size pages (single spaced text)
to be published by 'Networks UK' (ISBNs to be announced). Note that the
copyright of the HET-NETs '05 papers remains with the authors. These papers
should reach HET-NETs '05 electronically via email by
Friday the 1st of July 2005
After the event, authors of mature work will be invited to submit extended
versions of their papers up to a maximum of 25 A4 pages (single spaced text)
by
Friday the 14th of October 2005
for consideration for publication, subject to a subsequent PC & peer review,
in one of the planned special HET-NETs '05 journal issues (to be announced).
Moreover, negotiations are also being finalised for securing the publication
of the Handbook "Performance Evaluation and Next Generation Internet" which
will be broadly based on extended/revised tutorial papers of the HET-NETs
'03-'05 International Working Conferences.
For further information prospective participants are welcome to contact
Prof. Demetres Kouvatsos, General Chair (E-mail:
D.D.Kouvatsos@scm.brad.ac.uk, Tel.: +44-1274-233941) and/or Dr. Is-Haka
Mkwawa and Mrs Salam Adli Assi (E-mail:hetnets@scm.brad,.ac.uk, Tel.:
+44-1274-233934)
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Note
A new HET-NETs special publication issue of the Journal of Performance
Evaluation entitled “Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous
Networks'’, based on extended refereed papers of the HET-NETs '03
International Working Conference, has the following co-ordinates:
Performance Evaluation, Vol. 59, 2005. It is also available on line at
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