CTRQ 2009, The Second International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service

July 20-25, 2009 - Colmar, France

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CTRQ09.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPCTRQ09.html

Submission deadline: February 20, 2009


Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE France Section

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster Forum special submission with on progress and challenging ideas.


CTRQ 2009 Special Areas (details in the CfP on site):

Communication theory

Fundamentals in communication theory
Communications switching and routing
Communications modeling
Communications security
Autonomic communications
Performance in communications
Computer communications
Distributed communications
Wired and wireless communications
Signal processing in communications
Multimedia and multicast communications
High-speed communications
Delay-tolerant communications
Fault-tolerant networks
Reliable and safe communications

Reliability

Reliability modeling
Reliability stress analysis
Dependency-related reliability
Reliability prediction technologies
Reliability-aware topology control
Reliability in highly dynamic networks and distributed systems
Reliability in sensitive networks (ehealth, financial, etc.)
Service versus network reliability
Reliability and human-related risks
Software reliability
Software-based safety kernels
Reliability testing
Maintenance tools for system reliability
QoS-driven reliability

Quality of Service

QoS Design and architectures for networks and distributed systems
QoS modeling, adaptation and monitoring
QoS policy assessment
QoS metrics and measurement
QoS-based routing
QoS-aware applications and services
Provisioning and monitoring QoS constraints
QoS-based admission control
QoS negotiation and mediation
User-profile QoS-aware mechanisms
QoS-network device mechanisms (scheduling, queue management, traffic engineering, etc.)
QoS and opportunistic scheduling
QoS-aware resource management
QoS in WLAN, WPAN, WMAN and WiMAX (IEEE 802.11/15/16/20)
QoS in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks
QoS support in wireless networks for MAC protocols
QoS and survivability in mobile environments

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CTRQ Advisory Chairs
Michel Diaz, LAAS, France
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA // Concordia University, Canada
Zary Segall, University of Maryland, USA

CTRQ 2009 General Chair
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France

CTRQ Technical Program Committee Chairs
Eugen Borcoci, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest (UPB), Romania
Joel Rodriques, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

CTRQ 2009 Industry Research Chair
Ivan Gojmerac, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria

CTRQ 2009 Organizing Committee
Abdelhafid Abouaissa, University of Haute Alsace, France
Herve Boeglen, University of Haute Alsace, France
Marc Gilg, University of Haute Alsace, France
Benoit Hilt, University of Haute Alsace, France
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France