Call for Papers - DRCN 2018 

14th International Conference on the
Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2018)
February 19-20, 2018
Orange Gardens, Paris area, France

In conjunction with the 21st Conference on
Innovations in Cloud, Internet and Networks (ICIN 2018)
technically co-sponsored by IEEE ComSoc

The International Conference on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) is a well-known forum for presenting excellent results and new challenges in the field of reliability and availability of communication networks and services. It brings together experts from industry, governments, and academia. DRCN will focus on a wide range of topics of interest within the fields of reliability, availability, and serviceability as listed below.

Topics of interests
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
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
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
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

Author information
DRCN 2018 solicits papers of up to 8 pages in IEEE format.
Submissions should be original, unpublished work, not currently under review by other conferences or journals.
Papers submitted to DRCN 2018 will be assessed based on originality, technical soundness, clarity and interest to a wide audience.
Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done electronically through EDAS:
http://edas.info/N23999
Accepted papers will be published in the ICIN Proceedings and presented papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
There will be an overall best paper award.
Extended versions of best papers will be selected for fast-track publication in the Journal Annals of Telecommunications.

Important dates
Paper submission deadline: October 7, 2017
Acceptance notification: November 15, 2017
Camera ready papers: December 1, 2017
Authors registration: December 1, 2017

TPC Co-Chairs
Eric Gourdin, Orange Labs, France
Jérémie Leguay, Huawei, France
Michael Menth, University of Tübingen, Germany

verall arrangements
Aziza Lounis, DNAC, France

We welcome your contributions and look forward to your participation at DRCN 2018.


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