COMMUNICATIONS QoS, RELIABILITY AND PERFORMANCE MODELING

Symposium Co-Chairs
Fabrizio Granelli, DISI, University of Trento (granelli@disi.unitn.it)
Hajime Nakamura, KDDI R&D Labs. Inc. (nakamura@kddilabs.jp)

Sponsoring Technical Committees
Communication Systems Integration & Modeling
Communications Quality & Reliability

Scope
Communication networks are designed to provide service to their users with acceptable quality level. For that, network traffic should be analyzed and properly controlled so that the desired Quality of Service requirements of applications and Services are achieved. The diversity of applications characteristics and current network technologies demand specific modelling and design tools. Moreover, different techniques including analytical modeling, simulation, measurement and monitoring are required in order to support design and dimensioning of communication networks and services.

This symposium emphasizes the design, resource allocation and performance evaluation advances required in order to deliver the expected high quality and reliability in telecommunication networks and services. The symposium will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research on the challenging issues related to the requirements, metrics, measurement, management, and dissemination, as well as performance modeling for the emerging era of network services.

This symposium aims at papers that describe original and unpublished contributions addressing various aspects of performance modeling, QoS and reliability in telecommunication networks. Authors are invited to submit original technical papers covering but not limited to the topics of interest listed below.

Topics of interest

• Quality in Multimedia Networks including Voice over IP and IPTV
• Quality, Scalability and Performance in the Internet
• Quality and Performance in Wireless and Mobile Networks
• Quality, Reliability and Performance in Optical Networks
• Quality and Performance in Autonomic Systems
• Quality and Performance in Grid and Distributed Computing
• Quality and Performance in Peer-to-Peer Networks
• Quality and Performance for Network and Services
• Quality and Resource Allocation for network services, VPN, Web
• Performance Modeling of Next Generation Networks
• Scalability, Robustness and Resilience
• Standardization Aspects of QoS and Reliability
• Performance Evaluation Techniques
• Design of Networks and Network Services
• Cross-layer Design, Modeling and Optimization
• Application / Service Oriented Networking
• Network Simulation Techniques
• Network Modeling
• Network Measurement and Monitoring Techniques
• Resource Allocation for Networks and their services
• Traffic and Workload Modeling and Characterization
• Traffic and Workload Control
• Traffic Economics
• Traffic Engineering and Traffic Theory
• Metrics and models for quality of experience (QoE)

Technical Program Committee
Marina Aguado, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Ozgur Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Ahmet Akyamac, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Celio Albuquerque, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
Jussara Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy
Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
Bob Callaway, IBM, USA
Joachim Charzinski, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Periklis Chatzimisios, University of Macedonia, Greece
Lydia Chen, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Chi-Ming Chen, AT&T, USA
Carol Davids, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State University, USA
Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece
Do Young Eun,North Carolina State University, USA
Matthias Falkner, Cisco, Germany
Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy
Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy
Annie Gravey, Institut Telecom - Telecom Bretagne, France
Hiroaki Harai, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Go Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan
Toru Hasegawa,KDDI Labs., Japan
Changcheng Huang, Carleton University, Canada
Ichiro Inoue, NTT, Japan
Kenji Ishida, Hiroshima City University, Japan
Tomohiro Ishihara, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan
Susumu Ishihara, Shizuoka Univ., Japan
Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia
Georgios Karagiannis, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonikii, Greece
Ryoichi Kawahara, NTT Service Integration Laboratories, Japan
Dzmitry Kliazovich, University of Trento, Italy
Aleksandar Kolarov, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Nelson L. S. da Fonseca,State University of Campinas, Brazil
Richard La, University of Maryland at College Park, USA
D. Larrabeiti, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Georgios Lazarou, Mississippi State University, USA
Ralf Lehnert, Technische Universitaet Dresden (Dresden University of Technology), Germany
Luis Henrique Maciel Kosmalski Costa, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Aniket Mahanti, University of Calgary, Canada
Kenichi Mase, Niigata University, Japan
Ashraf Matrawy, Carleton University, Canada
Cesar Augusto Melo, State University of Amazonas, Brazil
Michael Menth, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Andreas Mitschele-Thiel, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
Noriharu Miyaho, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Tutomu Murase, NEC Corp., Japan
Hajime Nakamura, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan
Kiyohide Nakauchi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Hidenori Nakazato,Waseda University, Japan
Yuji Oie, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Ioannis Papapanagiotou, North Carolina State University, USA
Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Antonio Pescape',University of Naples, Italy
Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Juergen Quittek, NEC Europe Ltd, Germany
Peter Reichl, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria
Marcelo Rubinstein, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Stefan Rugel, O2 Germany, Germany
Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece
Feng Shu, IMEC Nederland, The Netherlands
Harry Skianis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Dan Keun Sung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Akira Takahashi, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan
Yukiko Takeda, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
Shuji Tasaka,Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Toshinori Tsuboi, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
Hiromi Ueda, Tokyo Univeisity of Technology, Japan
Hans van den Berg, University of Twente, Netherlands
Christos Verikoukis, Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia, Spain
Yannis Viniotis, North Carolina State University, USA
Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan
Ning Wang, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Christian Wietfeld, University of Dortmund, Germany
Steven Wright, AT&T, USA
Miki Yamamoto, Kansai University, Japan
Katsunori Yamaoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Tatsuya Yamazaki, National Institute of Information Communications Technology, Japan
Tokumi Yokohira, Department of Communication Network Engineering, Okayama University, Japan
Tetsuya Yokotani, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan
Hideaki Yoshino, NTT, Japan
Marat Zhanikeev, Waseda University, Japan
Artur Ziviani, LNCC, Brazil

Presentation Style
The Globecom 2009 Technical Program Committee will go through a rigorous process to review all the papers submitted and select the best ones among them. The accepted papers will be presented in the conference either in a lecture style or in a poster style format. This distinction has no relationship with the quality of the accepted papers whatsoever. It is purely due to the limitations of the conference rooms available for lecture style presentations. Papers will be selected for lecture-style or poster-style presentation, solely based on the need to ensure topic homogeneity in lecture-style sessions.   All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and IEEExplore without any indication of the presentation mode.