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CALL FOR PAPERS

TRAC 2016 -- 7th International Workshop on TRaffic Analysis and Characterization
Technically Sponsored by IEEE
September 5-9 2015
Coral Beach Hotel, Paphos, Cyprus

http://conferences.telecom-bretagne.eu/trac2016/


SCOPE

The continued evolution of the Internet is characterized by dramatic changes in the way users behave, interact with and use the network. Today's Internet content and applications are increasingly delivered by ever larger content delivery networks (CDNs) and cloud infrastructures. The sheer development of novel end-user apps and multimedia services demands more and better user centric quality concepts and metrics applied to real world operational networks.

Other changes in the Internet, such as the explosion of mobile traffic and the growing deployment of encryption (e.g. HTTPS Everywhere) demand new approaches for characterizing and analyzing network traffic. Malicious and abusive traffic continues to evolve as well, and techniques for detection must evolve in kind.

The seventh edition of the TRAC workshop continues to serve as a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and discuss their experiences and research results about all aspects of traffic classification, characterization, and analysis.


TOPICS

The workshop is soliciting high quality papers discussing original and innovative experimental activities, unpublished and not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, on topics including (but not limited) to the following:

* Traffic analysis and characterization algorithms and techniques
* Detection, analysis, and classification of network anomalies
* Platforms for on-line, real-time traffic analysis and characterization
* Evaluation of traffic classification and analysis techniques
* Data-reduction techniques for traffic analysis and visualization
* Privacy-preservation in traffic analysis, classification, and characterization
* Effects of anonymization on traffic analysis, classification, and characterization
* Identification and classification of encrypted traffic
* QoE-based traffic analysis and characterization
* Advanced algorithms for deep packet inspection
* Big data frameworks for traffic analysis
* Post-DPI approaches for traffic classification
* Applications of traffic analysis to network security
* Traffic analysis studies on operational networks and large-scale traffic data sets
* Applications of traffic analysis to network operations and management
* Ultra-high rate traffic analysis, classification, and characterization
* Analysis and characterization of mobile and wireless traffic
* Forwarding-plane support for network measurement and analysis


SUBMISSIONS

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers using the EDAS system. Submitted papers must be no longer than six (6) IEEE style pages including results, figures and references. Papers will be reviewed by the standard reviewing procedure. Accepted papers will be published on the IEEE Xplore Digital Library


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: March 15, 2016
Notifications: April 15, 2016
Camera-ready: May 10, 2016


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Workshop Chairs:

* Christian Callegari (University of Pisa, Italy)
* Pedro Casas (AIT Austrian Institure of Technology, Austria)
* Sandrine Vaton (TELECOM Bretagne, France)


Technical Program Committee:

* Isabel Amigo (Telecom Bretagne, France)
* Andrea Baiocchi (University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
* Pere Barlet-Ros (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain)
* Pablo Belzarena (UdelaR, Uruguay)
* Gennaro Boggia (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
* Valentín Carela-Español (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain)
* Benoit Donnet (Université de Liège, Belgium)
* Hamza Dahmouni (INPT Rabat, Morocco)
* Alessandro D'Alconzo (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria)
* Pierdomenico Fiadino (FTW Vienna, Austria)
* Markus Fiedler (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
* Alessandro Finamore (Telefonica Research, Spain)
* Kensuke Fukuda (NII Tokyo, Japan)
* Eduard Glatz (HSR, Switzerland)
* Eduardo Grampin (UdelaR, Uruguay)
* Francesco Gringoli (University of Brescia, Italy)
* Mirja Kühlewind (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
* Federico Larroca (UdelaR, Uruguay)
* Matthieu Latapy (LIP6 - CNRS and UPMC, France)
* Marco Mellia (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
* Maurizio Naldi (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)
* Ludovic Noirie (Alcatel-Lucent, France)
* Philippe Owezarski (LAAS-CNRS, France)
* Antonio Pescapé (University of Naples, Italy)
* Fabio Ricciato (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
* Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez (ICSI, US)