Main Topics of the Conference

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas:

Operational aspects

Fault management, monitoring, and control
Methodologies, equipment and technology for network survivability
Survivability of optical and multi-layer networks
Reliability of wireless access and mesh networking
Resilient wired access networks
Dependability of cellular/mobile networks including horizontal handover
Resilience of multi-domain connections in the Internet
Reliability of emerging technologies (e.g. network virtualization, thin client architectures)
Survivability in grid and distributed computing
Network dependability in cloud computing
Management of survivable networks

Network reliability analysis
Methods and theory for survivable network and systems design, analysis and operation (including scalability and complexity)
Planning and optimization of reliable networks, systems, and services
Simulation techniques for network resilience

Reliability requirements and metrics for individual users, businesses, and the society
Restoration of services under various types of failures
Service differentiation based on recovery methods
Dependability of networked applications
Recovery of overlay and peer-to-peer networks
Application and service-specific survivability techniques
Survivability of multimedia networks including voice over IP, IPTV, and content delivery
Reliability and resilience of data centre networks
Robustness of compound services