SCOPE

Applications such as e-commerce, remote medicine and education, the Internet, travel-displacement by teleconferencing or virtual presence are seen as part of a thriving information society. The transport and service infrastructures on which these, and unimagined new applications will be based, must be reliable without question, but also be efficient in their realization. The paradigm of a purely best-efforts Internet suffices for fewer applications. More business communication and Intranet / datacentre services are mission-critical. A major challenge in network design and network management and monitoring, and a key to profiting from network integrity, is to provide various levels of availability assurance at costs corresponding to what the applications warrant. Under this central theme detailed topics of relevance for DRCN include but are not limited to:

Equipment and Technology for Survivability:
• Next-generation SONET/SDH, resilient packet rings (RPR), coarse WDM, Ethernet, WDM optical and photonic networks
• IP-centric control, GMPLS, fast IGP, OSPF, IS-IS convergence, integrated IP and optical mechanisms
• Fault detection and isolation schemes, link monitoring protocols, digital wrapper, GFP, LCAS applications to restoration
• Reliability or availability of key equipment: MEMs, Lasers, OXCs
• Photonic cross-connect and OADM designs
• Impact of ultra long haul DWDM on restoration strategies and architecture

Basic Methods and Theory for Survivable Network Design and Operation:
• Algorithms for survivable routing, capacity planning and reconfiguration
• Design and evolution of ring, mesh, hybrid, p-cycle, loop-back, shared-backup path, and other architectures
• Physical and virtual topology design, design heuristics, simulation and experimental methods
• Integration of survivability and dynamic demand adaptation techniques
• Survivable design under demand uncertainty
• Supporting multiple quality of protection and multiple failure design considerations, SRLG issues
• Fast restoration in mesh-based networks
• Reliability and availability analysis methods and theory 

Network Planning, Management, Monitoring and Control:
• Multi-technology network management (MTNM), monitoring and control
• Network planning, simulation, visualization and analysis tools
• Operations research methods in design, pre-planning, and on-line operations
• Coordinating multi-layer and multi-service survivability requirements
• Rapid service provisioning, pre-provisioning, inventory strategies, and service level agreements
• Survivable metro-edge/access and core network evolution planning

Operations, Applications and Services Oriented:
• Protection requirements for different of network services
• Business case studies of survivable service offerings
• Novel applications and service requirements (health care, for example)
• Government and defence needs for reliability / availability / survivability
• Reliability and fault tolerance of web server clusters, storage area networks (SAN), fixed and mobile wireless and satellite
• Disaster recovery, ad-hoc networks

Papers are particularly welcomed on reliability and survivability aspects of non-traditional networking contexts such as SANs, satellite networks, or server farms for example, as well as papers documenting case studies, measurement programs and data and operational accounts of actual failures, their impacts, and the recovery process.