IEEE Communications Society
2009 International Communications Quality and Reliability (CQR) Workshop

The program for the 2009 CQR Workshop follows the structure of previous years; three themed days outlined below but with a difference. The themed sessions will occupy the morning of each workshop day. Afternoon sessions will consist of a choice of two parallel streams. Firstly, there will be a Technical Program of presentations with an academic orientation. Second, and building on the positive feedback from last year, there will be facilitated panel discussions drawing from the experience of recognised industry practitioners and leaders.

The IEEE CQR International Workshop is held annually with the purpose of bringing together industry and academic experts to present and discuss communications quality, reliability and security issues as they relate to real world issues. The output from the workshops adds to the community's body of knowledge and serves to inform, help form opinion, and to assist in the development of best practice and relevant standards. For more information, please visit: http://www.ieee-cqr.org/ .

Continuing the tradition of this series of workshops, CQR 2009 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in the areas listed below. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to the requirements, metrics, measurement, management, and dissemination of Communication Quality & Reliability.

The Technical Paper segment of CQR2009 covers various aspects of QoS and Reliability for the following networks/services:

* Grid and Distributed Computing
* Mobile and Ad Hoc Networks
* Overlay Networks
* Multimedia Networks and VoIP Services
* VPN, MPLS and Multicast Services
* Web Services
* Broadband Audio Visual Services
* Current and Next-generation Internet
* Emerging Technologies and Services

The detailed technical area includes:

* Measurements Techniques
* Network Architecture and Design
* Operations, Administration and Maintenance
* QoS Metrics and Measurement
* QoS Policy and Assessment
* Security and Reliability Issues
* Traffic Control
* Traffic Modeling and Characterization

Technical Paper Submission Guidelines

Papers should describe original work, and be 4-6 two-column and single-spaced pages or less in IEEE conference style. The cover page should clearly indicate the complete postal and electronic mailing addresses, as well as the phone and fax numbers of the contact author. Paper submissions must be made electronically via e-mail attachment in PDF format to
cqr-submission@ieee-cqr.org .
Hardcopy submissions will not be accepted.


General Program Co-Chairs
James Runyon, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
jrunyon@alcatel-lucent.com

Martin Guldberg, Verizon Wireless, USA
Martin.Guldberg@VerizonWireless.com

Technical Program Chair
Masayuki Murata, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Japan
murata@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp

Key Dates

Dec. 15, 2008 Paper submission deadline
Feb. 16, 2009 Notification of acceptance
Mar. 16, 2009 Camera-ready paper submission deadline
May 12-14, 2009 CQR2009 Workshop