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CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

CTRQ 2011: The Fourth International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service

April 17-22, 2011 - Budapest, Hungary

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/CTRQ11.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/CfPCTRQ11.html

Submission deadline: December 10, 2010

Technical co-sponsors:
    University of Maryland
    University of Plymouth
    Washington University in St. Louis
    Politehnica University of Bucharest
    University of Beira Interior, Portugal
    Telcordia Tehnologies Inc.
    Instituto de Telecomunicações
    TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION
    Huawei Technologies, China
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research,
standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies.
Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other
conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work
in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

CTRQ 2011 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Communication theory
Fundamentals in communication theory; Communications switching and routing; Communications
modeling; Communications security; Autonomic communications; Performance in communications;
Computer communications; Distributed communications; Wired and wireless communications; Signal
processing in communications; Multimedia and multicast communications; High-speed communications;
Delay-tolerant communications; Fault-tolerant networks; Reliable and safe communications;
Iterative coding and decoding techniques

Reliability
Reliability modeling; Reliability stress analysis; Dependency-related reliability; Reliability
prediction technologies; Reliability-aware topology control; Reliability in highly dynamic
networks and distributed systems; Reliability in sensitive networks (ehealth, financial, etc.);
Service versus network reliability; Reliability and human-related risks; Software reliability;
Software-based safety kernels; Reliability testing; Maintenance tools for system reliability;
QoS-driven reliability;

Quality of Service
QoS Design and architectures for networks and distributed systems; QoS modeling, adaptation and
monitoring; QoS policy assessment; QoS metrics and measurement; QoS-based routing; QoS-aware
applications and services; Provisioning and monitoring QoS constraints; QoS-based admission
control; QoS negotiation and mediation; User-profile QoS-aware mechanisms; QoS-network device
mechanisms (scheduling, queue management, traffic engineering, etc.); QoS and opportunistic
scheduling; QoS-aware resource management; QoS in WLAN, WPAN, WMAN and WiMAX (IEEE 802.11/15/16/20);
QoS in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks; QoS support in wireless networks for MAC protocols; QoS and
survivability in mobile environments;

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CTRQ Steering Committee
Eugen Borcoci, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
Joel Rodrigues, Instituto de Telecomunicações / University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Zary Segall, University of Maryland, USA
Michel Diaz, LAAS, France

CTRQ Advisory Chairs
Javier Del Ser Lorente, TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION - Zamudio, Spain
Bogdan Ghita, University of Plymouth, UK
Raj Jain, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

CTRQ Industry/Research Chairs
Xuewen Gong, Huawei Technologies, China
Maria Striki, Telcordia Tehnologies Inc., USA

CTRQ Publicity Chair
Alejandro Canovas Solbes, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/ComCTRQ11.html
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