Technical Program

DRCN 2019 - Program at a Glance

	Tuesday, March 19		Wednesday, March 20		Thursday, March 21
08:30	Registration Open	Registration Open	Registration Open	Registration Open	Registration Open	Registration Open
09:00		Opening Session (9:20-9:30)		Technical Session III: Resilience in Wireless Networks		Technical Session V: Reliability Analysis
09:30		Keynote Talk I: 5G Challenges and Contributions Regarding Reliability, Francisco Fontes
10:00
10:30		Coffee Break
11:00		Technical Session I: Availability and Survivability		Coffee Break		Coffee Break
11:30				Keynote Talk II: Reliable Optical Metro Networks for 5G communications, Massimo Tornatore		Keynote Talk III: Reliable networking in the Secure Networking for a Data Center Cloud in Europe (SENDATE) project, Yvan Pointurier
12:00
12:30		Lunch Break		Lunch Break		Lunch Break
13:00
13:30
14:00		Technical Session II: Reliable Network Design and Routing		Technical Session IV: Virtual Network Resilience		Special Session: Disaster Resilience in Communication Networks - Supported by COST CA15127-RECODIS Project
14:30
15:00
15:30		Coffee Break				Closing Session + Best Paper Award
16:00		Visit to the UC (Library: 16:30 sharp!)		Coffee Break		Coffee Break
16:30				Tutorial: Driving Towards a Reliable Edge, by Xavi Masip
17:00
17:30
18:00		Welcome Reception
18:30
19:00
19:30
20:00				Conference Dinner
		Registration Open
		Technical Sessions / Special Session
		Keynote Talks / Tutorial
		Breaks
		Social Program

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Social program

Includes a Guided visit to the Old University, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

A welcome reception will take place at Centro Cultural D. Dinis (less than five minutes walk from the Conference location).

Lunch will take place at Loggia which is a "panoramic terrace restaurant with a breathtaking view over the University, the Mondego River, and the loggia (porch) of the Machado de Castro National Museum, one of the richest in Portugal", and about five minutes walk from the Conference location.

The Conference dinner with the performance of a group of Fado from Coimbra will take place at Restaurant Nacional (downtown).

 

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DRCN 2019 Draft Program

 

Tuesday, March 19

Opening Session 9:20 – 9:30

Room: Pedro Nunes

Keynote Talk I 9:30 – 10:30

5G Challenges and Contributions Regarding Reliability, Francisco Fontes, Altice Labs, Portugal

Room: Pedro Nunes

 

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Technical Session I: Availability and Survivability 11:00 – 12:20

Room: Pedro Nunes

 

1.     Modelling and Evaluating NFV-Enabled Network Services under Different Availability Modes
Besmir Tola¹, Gianfranco Nencioni², Bjarne E. Helvik¹, Yuming Jiang^1
1Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
²University of Stavanger, Norway

2.     A Combinatorial Optimization Framework for the Design of Resilient iBGP Overlays 
Cristina Mayr, Claudio Risso, Eduardo Grampín
Universidad de la República, Uruguay

3.     Design of Survivable Coarse/Fine Hybrid Granular Routing Optical Networks based on Iterative Path-Pair-Loop Inflation
Keisuke Itakura, Yojiro Mori, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Ken-Ichi Sato
Nagoya University, Japan

4.     Recovery and Optimization of Post-Disaster Cellular Networks
Ayman Abdel-Hamid, David Tipper, Prashant Krishnamurthy
University of Pittsburgh, USA

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Technical Session II: Reliable Network Design and Routing 14:00 – 15:30

Room: Pedro Nunes

1.     The Minimum Cost D-Geodiverse Anycast Routing with Optimal Selection of Anycast Node
Amaro F. de Sousa¹, Dorabella Santos^2
1Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro, Portugal
²INESC Coimbra, Portugal

2.     Heuristic Approach for the Design of a High Availability Structure
Rita Girão-Silva¹, Lúcia Martins¹, Teresa Gomes¹, David Tipper², Abdulaziz S. Alashaikh^2
1University of Coimbra & INESC Coimbra, Portugal
²University of Pittsburgh, USA

3.      Backup Resource Allocation Model for Virtual Networks with Probabilistic Protection against Multiple Facility Node Failures
Fujun He, Takehiro Sato, Eiji Oki
Kyoto University, Japan

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Social Program: Visit to the University of Coimbra 16:00 – 18:00 (Library: 16:30 sharp!)

Social Program: Welcome Reception 18:00 – 19:00

 

Wednesday, March 20

Technical Session III: Resilience in Wireless Networks 9:00 – 11:00

Room: Pedro Nunes

1.        Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring of Critical Infrastructures Using Identifying Codes
Kaustav Basu¹, Sanjana Dey², Subhas Chandra Nandy², Arunabha Sen^1
1Arizona State University, USA
²Indian Statistical Institute, India

2.        eNodeB Failure Detection From Aggregated Performance KPIs in Smart-city LTE Infrastructures
Orestes G. Manzanilla-Salazar, Filippo Malandra, Brunilde Sansò
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada

3.        Evaluation of a wireless physical security method for flying objects based on the frequency selectivity of the propagation channel
Adrian Exposito Garcia¹, Hector Esteban², Lorenzo Rubio², Martin Kubisch¹, Dominic A. Schupke^1
1Airbus, Germany
²Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

4.        Creating and Handling Ever-changing Communication Scenarios in Tactical Networks
Roberto Rigolin F. Lopes¹, Pooja Hanavadi Balaraju², Peter Sevenich^1
1Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany
²RWTH Aachen University, Germany

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Keynote Talk II 11:30 – 12:30

Reliable Optical Metro Networks for 5G communications, Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano, Italia & University of California, Davis, USA
WG2 leader of COST CA15127 Action "Resilient Communication Services Protecting End-user Applications from Disaster-based Failures" (RECODIS).

Room: Pedro Nunes

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Technical Session IV: Virtual Network Resilience 14:00 – 16:00

Room: Pedro Nunes

1.       Distance-Based Virtual Network Embedding to Achieve Resilient Cooperative IoT Services
Nagao Ogino^1,2, Takeshi Kitahara^1
1KDDI Research, Japan
²The University of Electro-Communications, Japan

2.       On Coding for Reliable VNF Chaining in DCNs
Anna Engelmann¹, Admela Jukan¹, Rastin Pries^2
1Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany
²Nokia Bell Labs, Germany

3.       Building Highly Reliable Networks with GRASP/VND Heuristics
Mathias Bourel¹, Eduardo A. Canale², Franco Robledo¹, Pablo Gabriel Romero¹, Luis Stábile^1
1Universidad de la República, Uruguay
²Facultad Politécnica, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay

4.       A Performance Comparison of Containers and Unikernels for Reliable 5G Environments
João Barraca Filipe¹, Flávio Meneses^1,2, Asad Ur Rehman¹, Daniel Corujo^1,2, Rui L. Aguiar^1,2
1Institute of Telecommunications, Aveiro, Portugal
²University of Aveiro, Portugal

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Tutorial: Driving Towards a Reliable Edge, by Xavi Masip 16:30 – 18:30

Room: Pedro Nunes

Social Program: Conference Dinner 20:00 (with Fado) at Nacional Restaurant

 

Thursday, March 21

Technical Session V: Reliability Analysis 9:00 – 11:00

Room: Pedro Nunes

1.       Building Reliability-Improving Network Transformations
Eduardo Canale¹, Franco Robledo², Pablo Gabriel Romero², Julián Viera^2
1Facultad Politécnica, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay
²Universidad de la República, Uruguay

2.       Reconsidering Network Availability and Time
David Tipper
University of Pittsburgh, USA

3.       On the Robustness of Distributed Computing Networks
Jianan Zhang¹, Hyang-Won Lee², Eytan Modiano^1
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
²Konkuk University, Korea

4.       Towards Carrier-Grade Service Provisioning in NFV
Yordanos Tibebu Woldeyohannes, Besmir Tola, Yuming Jiang
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

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Keynote Talk III 11:30 – 12:30

Reliable networking in the Secure Networking for a Data Center Cloud in Europe (SENDATE) project, Yvan Pointurier, Nokia Bell Labs, France

Room: Pedro Nunes

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Special Session: Disaster Resilience of Communication Networks - Supported by COST CA15127-RECODIS Project - 14:00 – 15:30

Room: Pedro Nunes

1.       Weighted Euclidean Steiner Trees for Disaster-Aware Network Design
Luís Garrote¹, Lúcia Martins², Urbano Nunes¹, Martin Zachariasen^3
1Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra, Portugal
²University of Coimbra & INESC Coimbra, Portugal
³University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

2.       Efficient Online Virtual Machines Migration for Alert-Based Disaster Resilience
Omran Ayoub¹, Obed Huamani¹, Francesco Musumeci¹, Massimo Tornatore^1,2
1Politecnico di Milano, Italy
²University of California, Davis, USA

3.       Evaluation and Design of Elastic Optical Networks Resilient to Multiple Node Failures
Fábio Barbosa^1,2, Amaro de Sousa^1,2, Agostinho Agra^1
1University of Aveiro, Portugal
²Institute of Telecommunications, Aveiro, Portugal

 

Closing Session + Best Paper Award 15:30 – 16:00

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