Design of Reliable Communication NetworksOctober 25-28, 2009 - Washington, D.C., USA

If you have received the paper acceptance email from TPC Co-chairs, please use this author instructions to prepare your final camera ready paper. 

To present your paper and to consider its inclusion in the Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, you are required to

• Address the reviewers' comments, and create your final manuscript.
• Page length is limited to 8-pages in the IEEE double-column format using IEEE Conference Proceeding templates. For IEEEtran class in LaTeX, use the following as the first line in your LaTeX source file:
  • \documentclass[10pt, conference]{IEEEtran}
    (Note: with IEEE conferences, the author affiliation is listed under the author's name, unlike IEEE transactions)
• Go to IEEE PDF eXpress Website.
  • Create an IEEE PDF eXpress account (use conference ID: drcn09x; use 'new user' if you haven't used this site before.).
  • Use IEEE PDF eXpress to check if your PDF file is Xplore-compliant, OR, else, you can use this site to convert your source files into an IEEE Xplore-compliant PDF file (e.g., for LaTeX users, create a zip file that includes dvi and your eps figure files all together, and then upload the zip file for the system to convert into a compliant PDF file; for MSWord users, upload the Word file and let it convert and return a compliant PDF file)
• Upload the Xplore-compliant PDF file by August 15, 2009 to the EDAS system at http://edas.info/7305. (If you get any warning when uploading to EDAS, please ignore as long as the file has already passed the above PDF eXpress compliance test.)
• We're using IEEE e-copyright process. Once you're at your page for your paper in EDAS, click on the blue (+) button next to 'Copyright form'. This will then walk you through a series of steps. Make sure that the title/author list are exactly as it's in your paper. If any correction is to be done, please do this first at the above link before proceeding with the copyright step. Please complete the e-copyright form by August 15, 2009.
• At least one author of the paper must register at the full registration rate. A full author registration will allow up to a maximum of three accepted papers, in case you have multiple acceptance. The full rate is USD650 for ComSoc/IEEE members, and USD750 for Non-members. The full rate registration fee covers Admission to Keynote Sessions, Technical Sessions, *ALL* Tutorials, one copy of the Symposium Record, coffee breaks, lunches Monday through Wednesday, Welcome Reception, and Banquet. Once you're at your paper page in EDAS, click on the green button next to 'Registration' and follow the steps. Please complete the registration by August 15, 2009.

Formatting Instructions

Formatting checks are enforced in the EDAS submission phase for final manuscripts. Please allow extra time to fix any formatting errors.

• Max 8 pages in US lettersize or A4
• Maximum text width, 7.125 inch or 181mm
• Maximum text height, 9.625 inch or 245mm
• Minimum font size 10
• If you're using IEEE LaTeX template, make sure that your first line is:
       \documentclass[10pt, conference]{IEEEtran}
  (with IEEE conferences, the author affiliation is listed under the author's name, unlike IEEE transactions)
• Check that all fonts should be embedded in PDF file ♦
• Check that PDF file has no bookmarks ♦
• No page number, header, or footer.
• Disallow form fields
• Disallow links in PDF
• Disallow annotation (notes) in PDF
• Format errors prevent uploading of PDF file

♦ Required by IEEE Publications.

Due to IEEE technical co-sponsorship of DRCN, your final paper will be included in IEEE eXplore for archival value after the conference; however, IEEE reserves the right that if an acceptance paper is not presented at the conference, then it may be excluded from inclusion in IEEE Xplore.