Second Call for Papers ----------- DRCN 2007 6th International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communications Networks www.drcn.org 7-10 October 2007 - La Rochelle, France

General Information DRCN 2007 (International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communications Networks) is the 6th Workshop of a successful series started in Bruges, Belgium (1998), and subsequently held in Munich, Germany (2000), Budapest, Hungary (2001), Banff, Canada (2003) and Ischia Island, Italy (2005). DRCN 2007 will be held on October 7-10, 2007 in La Rochelle, France. DRCN is now a well-established forum for scientist of both industry and academy who have interest in reliability and availability of telecommunication networks, and related topics. From Equipment and technology for survivability to network management and monitoring, through methods and theory for survivable and robust network design, the aim of the conference is to bring together people from those disciplines and to gather researchers from the academia and practitioners from the industry in order to address network and service reliability issues. DRCN 2007 will be based around the central theme "Reliability issues in network convergence" and will feature all the new challenges encountered in the field of telecommunications from access to core networks, sharpened by the fixed/mobile convergence. The workshop will thus provide a forum where the academia will have the opportunity to present up-to-date research results and the industry can describe emerging technologies and new research problems incurred. DRCN 2007 is technically supported by a number of societies including IEEE ComSoc, Informs Telecom, SEE, ITC, EURO, and various IST European Projects.

Important Dates Paper submission deadline: January 15, 2007 Authors notification: March 31, 2007 Deadline for full-length camera ready paper: May 31, 2007 Conference Dates: October 7-10, 2007

Scope Under the central theme "Reliability issues in network convergence", topics of relevance for DRCN 2007 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, VCAT 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, SRG issues * Fast restoration in mesh-based networks * Reliability and availability analysis methods and theory * Multi-layer network design

Network Planning, Management, Monitoring and Control * IP core network design (Ethernet, dual routers, MPLS core and POP design) * 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 SLAs * Survivable metro-edge/access and core network evolution planning * Techno-economical assessment of reliable network architectures * Multi-layer, multi-service and multi-domain planning * Traffic, appropriate traffic measurements to use for simulations

Operations, Applications and Services Oriented * Business case studies of survivable service offerings * Novel applications and service requirements (health care, for example) * Government and defense needs for reliability / availability / survivability * Reliability and fault tolerance of web server clusters, storage area networks (SAN), fixed and mobile wireless and satellite * Disaster recovery, ad-hoc networks * Critical Interdependencies among Critical National Infrastructures * Inter-Infrastructure Effects of Outages

Submission and Author Instructions Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Authors are invited to submit contributions through the <JEMS Web Conference Management System> at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/drcn2007, as DRCN 2007 supports electronic submission only. Three steps are required: 1. Creation of a personal account (if the author does not already have one) 2. Registration of your Paper: in particular, this requires to include the abstract of the Paper and to tick, in the Topic list, between 1and 3 topics which the paper is related with 3. Upload of the paper (Only in pdf format)

Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 8 pages using IEEE format. Submissions must include the title, author(s) and affiliation, e-mail address, and postal address. In case of multiple authors, indicate which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings using IEEE camera ready format. To facilitate the preparation of your submission, IEEE Proceedings templates are available in rtf and LaTex styles at www.drcn.org. Do not forget to convert your paper to pdf format afterwards, as JEMS conference systems is set to accept pdf format only.

All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Final versions of accepted papers will be 8 printed pages including figures in IEEE 2-column style.

Authors of accepted papers must attend the conference to present their contributions. At least one author of each accepted paper must thus register at the full member/non-member rate for the conference in order for that paper to appear in the electronic proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation. For a manuscript for which all authors are students, one student author will be required to register at the full registration rate. Author registration must be done by May 31, 2007.

For any questions concerning paper submission or the technical program, please contact the DRCN 2007 TPC co-chairs mailto:tpcchairs@drcn.org (email: tpcchairs@drcn.org).

Adam Ouorou Chairman, Technical Program Committee, DRCN 2007 Prosper Chemouil Steering Committee, DRCN

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