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Conference on Design of Reliable Communication Networks 2017 

Program 

The FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM will be published here shortly.

 

Preliminary Conference Program Structure

Wednesday, March 8

 

15:00 – 15:15

Opening

15:15 18:00 Tutorials

18:00 – 21:30

Welcome Reception

Thursday, March 9

 

09:00 - 10:00

Keynote Speech: "Reliability in Optical Networks"
Suresh Subramaniam (George Washington University, USA)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00 Invited Talk Session 1:  “Designing a Resilient Virtual Topology in a Multi-Layer Datacenter Interconnection Network”
Yuri Smirnov (Facebook, USA)
11:00 - 12:00 Session 1 - Transport
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:30 Invited Talk Session 2: "Techno-economic modelling for reliable ICT networks and Service"
Sofie Verbrugge (IDLab, Belgium)
13:30 - 14:30 Session 2 - Modeling
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:30 Session 3 - Security and Resilience against Network Attacks
17:00 - 18:30 Panel Discussion on “Reliable 5G Networks” by Professor Frank Fitzek (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks at Technical University Dresden, Germany)
20:00 - 23:00 Conference Dinner at Augustiner Keller Munich (an unique bavarian atmosphere style restaurant of a genuine Munich beer garden and Pub)

Friday, March 10

09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speech: “Multi-layer resilience schemes and their control plane support”
Víctor López (Telefónica Global CTO, Spain)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00 Invited Talk Session 4: "Network Avoiding Heavy Rainfall"
Hiroshi Saito (NTT Network Technology Labs., Japan)
11:00 - 12:00 Session 4 - Disaster
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:30

Invited Talk Session 5: "DynPaC: Leveraging SDN to provide Bandwidth on Demand services over GEANT"
Eduardo Jacob (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

13:30 - 14:30 Session 5 - 5G
14:30 - 15:00 DRCN Best Paper Award and Closing Ceremony
15:00 End of DRCN 2017
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00 RECODIS Session at DRCN

 

Tutorial - March 8, 15:15 - 18:00

Peter Schneider, Nokia Bell Labs, Tutorial Speaker at DRCN 2017

 

"Securing Cloud-Based Programmable 5G Networks"
Peter Schneider (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany)

 

This tutorial introduces you to the world of network security. We will have a look at the different types of cyber threats and learn about state-of-the-art protection measures, considering network types such as optical transport networks as well as cellular networks. Future 5G mobile networks are expected to be based on virtualized network functions running "in the cloud", or more specifically, on central and distributed data centers, interconnected via software-defined transport networks. Moreover, these networks will adopt the concept of network slicing, allowing network operators to provide different virtual networks on a common infrastructure. Therefore, we will put some focus on the security aspects of network function virtualization (NFV), software defined networking (SDN) and network slicing – all hot topics in current security Research.

João Pedro (Instituto de Telecomunicações / Coriant Portugal), Tutorial Speaker at DRCN 2017

 

 

"Designing the Next-Generation of Flexible and Reliable Optical Transport Networks"
João Pedro (Instituto de Telecomunicações / Coriant Portugal)

In this tutorial you will become familiar with next-generation optical transport networks, characterized not only by their intrinsic reliability and augmented capacity but also by new degrees of flexibility. Noteworthy, these derive from advancements such as flexible-rate line interfaces, capable of fine adjustments between capacity and reach, high-capacity and modular switching platforms, improving channel fill ratio, and an optical infrastructure exploiting a flexible spectrum grid and diverse optical node architectures. Although these new features are seen as key to reduce network operators’ capital expenditures (by decreasing the cost per bit transported) and provide them with the hardware flexibility that unleashes the potential of software defined networking (SDN), their efficient usage brings new challenges to network design and operation. This will be main focus of the tutorial, which will on one hand highlight the expected benefits from the new advancements, while on the other give insight on their impact in network design, planning and operation.

 

Invited Talks / Keynote

Suresh Subramaniam (George Washington University, USA), Keynote at DRCN 2017

 Keynote Speech - March 9, 09:00

 

 

"Reliability in Optical Networks"
Suresh Subramaniam (George Washington University, USA)  

Free Space Optical (FSO) links are becoming increasingly popular due to their high capacity. However, their reliability remains a concern due to the strong influence of weather conditions such as fog and clouds on the availability of FSO links. In this talk, several networking approaches to improving the reliability of FSO-based mesh networks are discussed.
Vicor Lopez, Keynote Speaker at DRCN 2017

Keynote Speech - Mach 10, 09:00

 

“Multi-layer resilience schemes and their control plane support”
Víctor López (Telefónica Global CTO, Spain)

Network operators design and manage IP/MPLS and optical networks on a per-layer basis,  to the point that they are run as different business areas within the operator. However, there are clear CAPEX and OPEX savings that network operators can achieve by simplifying the network infrastructure.  Moreover, the evolution of optical equipment and the introduction of network programmability are accelerating the adoption of multi-layer schemes in real networks. This paper revisions the planning process considering resilience schemes for IP and optical networks. It also presents an evolutionary view on the control plane and SDN paradigms that enable the support of multi-layer schemes in real networks.
Hiroshi Saito, Invited Talk at DRCN 2017

Invited Talk Session 4 - March 10, 10:30



"
Network Avoiding Heavy Rainfall"
Hiroshi Saito (NTT Network Technology Labs., Japan)

In this talk, I present a disaster avoidance control method for use against heavy rainfall and discusses its effectiveness through actual weather data and hazard area data.
By using empirical data, I show that the proposed method reduces the probability of service disconnection to almost zero even for heavy rainfall causing landslides.
In our experimental system, the proposed method was implemented through software defined network Technology.
Eduardo Jacob, University of the Basque, Spain, Invited Speaker at DRCN 2017 Invited Talk Session 5 - March 10, 13:00  

 

"DynPaC: Leveraging SDN to provide Bandwidth on Demand services over GEANT"
Eduardo Jacob (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

The Bandwidth on Demand Service is  a very good mechanism to get high bandwidth for specific time bounded applications over shared communication infrastructures. Traditionally, supporting this kind of services does imply a great amount of manual configuration with hinders it’s massive use. In this talk the approach we are following in GEANT to implement a resilient Bandwidth on Demand service over a SDN core network will be presented. DynPaC supports path computation, an advanced reservation and scheduling mechanism, fault restoration for gold services and offers interfaces to external protocols that allow for example to implement multi domain capabilities. By using SDN we can easily re-route and move flows to improve the utilization of the network and facilitate the automated management.
                                                                                                                          
Yuri Smirnov, Facebook, USA, Invited Talk at DRCN 2017

 Invited Talk Session 1 - March 9, 10:30

 

 "Designing a Resilient Virtual Topology in a Multi-Layer Datacenter Interconnection Network”
Yuri Smirnov (Facebook, USA)

This paper describes a number of approaches to the greenfield design of a logical topology in a multi-layer datacenter interconnection (DCI) network with protection against pre-determined classes of failures. The design of the network is evaluated through a combination of key metrics including, but not limited to, latency, cost, and capacity. An aspect that adds to the complexity of the design process is the requirement to use pure shortest path IP routing instead of Traffic Engineering routing. In this paper we describe the context of this specific design problem and show how we addressed it through a combination of exhaustive search, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Mathematical Programming (MP) techniques.
                                                                                                                        
Sofie Verbrugge (IDLab, Belgium), Invited Speaker at DRCN 2017

 Invited Talk Session 2 - March 9, 13:00

 

"Techno-economic modelling for reliable ICT networks and Service"
Sofie Verbrugge (IDLab, Belgium)

 

Techno-economics aims at translating technological innovation into business opportunities and challenges and can be applied in a wide range of applications domains like novel networking approaches, smart cities and smart mobility, smart energy and smart home, smart care, smart factory and smart media. It can therefore support decision makers at both public (government, regulators, cities, hospitals, etc.) and private actors (telco's, equipment vendors, data companies, etc.)
This talk will provide a state of art with respect to typical methodologies and techniques used for techno-economic research. Those include cost and revenue models, investment analysis techniques, business models and value networks, competition modeling and modeling the impact of uncertainty. Finally, the techno-economic research portal will be presented, an initiative to share standards, tools and templates amongst researchers in the techno-economics domain.

 

Panel Discussion

Frank Fitzek at DRCN 2017

 March 9, 17:00 - 18:30

 

“Reliable 5G Networks”
Frank Fitzek (Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks at Technical University Dresden, Germany)

 

Accepted Papers

Session 1 - Reliability in Transport Networks

Comparison of Various Reliable Transport Architectures for Long-Haul Networks
Onur Turkcu, Abishek Gopalan, Biao Lu and Parthiban Kandappan (Infinera, USA)

A Multiple-Link Failures Enumeration Approach for Availability Analysis on Partially Disjoint Paths
Nehuen Gonzalez-Montoro (National University of Córdoba & IDIT -  CONICET, Argentina); Renato Cherini (National University of Córdoba, Argentina); Jorge M Finochietto (National University of Córdoba & CONICET, Argentina)

Connection Management in a Resilient Transport Protocol
Truc Anh N. Nguyen (The University of Kansas, USA); James P. G. Sterbenz (University of Kansas & Lancaster University (UK), USA)

Session 2 - Modeling and Methods for Network Reliability

Finding Minimum Node Separators: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method
Joohyun Lee (The Ohio State University, USA); Jaewook Kwak (North Carolina State University, USA); Hyang-Won Lee (Konkuk University, Korea); Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University, USA)

Modelling Spectrum Assignment in a Two-Service Flexi-Grid Optical Link with Imprecise Continuous-Time Markov Chains
Cristina E.M. Rottondi (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), Switzerland); Alexander Erreygers (Ghent University, Belgium); Giacomo Verticale (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Jasper De Bock (Ghent University, Belgium)

Routing Optimization for SDN Networks Based on Pivoting Rules for the Simplex Algorithm
Fabien Geyer (Airbus Group Innovations, Germany)

Session 3 - Security and Resilience against Network Attacks

Towards Cloud Security Improvement with Encryption Intensity Selection
Mortada Aman and Egemen K. Çetinkaya (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

Using SEIRS Epidemic Models for IoT Botnets Attacks
M. Todd Gardner (University of Missouri, Kansas City & Federal Aviation Administration, USA); Cory Beard and Deep Medhi (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)

Spectral Analysis of Backbone Networks Against Targeted Attacks
Tristan Shatto and Egemen K. Çetinkaya (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

Improving the Robustness to Targeted Attacks in Software Defined Networks (SDN)
Diego F. Rueda and Eusebi Calle (University of Girona, Spain); Jose Luis Marzo (Universitat de Girona, Spain)

Session 4 - Disaster Resiliency

Analysis of Node-Resilience Strategies under Natural Disasters
Manuel Aprile (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland); Natalia Castro (Universidad de la República, Uruguay); Franco Robledo (Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Uruguay); Pablo Gabriel Romero (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

Determination of the Minimum Cost Pair of D-Geodiverse Paths
Amaro F. de Sousa (Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro, Portugal); Dorabella Santos (Instituto de Telecomunicações - Pólo de Aveiro, Portugal); Paulo P Monteiro (Universidade de Aveiro & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Multi-Carrier Interconnection-based Emergency Packet Transport Network Planning in Disaster Recovery
Sugang Xu (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Noboru Yoshikane (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan); Masaki Shiraiwa (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Takehiro Tsuritani (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan); Hiroaki Harai (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Yoshinari Awaji (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan); Naoya Wada (NICT, Japan)

Session 5 - Survivability in 5G and Programmable Networks

Survivable BBU Hotel placement in a C-RAN with an Optical WDM Transport
Bahare Masood Khorsandi and Carla Raffaelli (University of Bologna, Italy); Lena Wosinska and Paolo Monti (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Matteo Fiorani (Ericsson Research, Sweden)

Survivability of Fixed Mobile Convergent Access Networks
Attila Mitcsenkov and Tibor Cinkler (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Achille Pattavina and Francesco Musumeci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Comparison of Various Reliable Transport Architectures for Long-Haul Networks
Onur Turkcu, Abishek Gopalan, Biao Lu and Parthiban Kandappan (Infinera, USA)

AI for SLA Management in Programmable Networks

Imen Grida Ben Yahia (Orange Labs, France); Jaafar Bendriss (Orange Lab, France); Prosper Chemouil (Orange Labs & OLN/CNC, France); Djamal Zeghlache (Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis & UMR 5157 CNRS - Samovar, France)

Contact

VDE Konferenz Service
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Telefon: 069 6308-275
Telefax: 069 6308-144
jasmin.kayadelen@vde.com
Sponsors of DRCN 2017
Airbus, Sponsor of DRCN 2017
ADVA Optical Networking SE, Bronze Sponsor at DRCN 2017
 
 
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