The Fourth International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2011) April 16, 2011

The processing and transmission speed and increasing memory capacity might be a satisfactory solution on the resources needed to deliver ubiquitous services, under guaranteed reliability and satisfying the desired quality of service. Successful deployment of communication mechanisms guarantees a decent network stability and offers a reasonable control on the quality of service expected by the end users. Recent advances on communication speed, hybrid wired/wireless, network resiliency, delay-tolerant networks and protocols, signal processing and so forth asked for revisiting some aspects of the fundamentals in communication theory. Mainly network and system reliability and quality of service are those that affect the maintenance procedures, on the one hand, and the user satisfaction on service delivery, on the other hand. Reliability assurance and guaranteed quality of services require particular mechanisms that deal with dynamics of system and network changes, as well as with changes in user profiles. The advent of content distribution, IPTV, video-on-demand and other similar services accelerate the demand for reliability and quality of service.

The Third International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service, CTRQ 2010, continues a series of events focusing on the achievements on communication theory with respect to reliability and quality of service. The conference brings also onto the stage the most recent results in theory and practice on improving network and system reliability, as well as new mechanisms related to quality of service tuned to user profiles.

We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

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.

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

Quality

Quality of Experience (QoE)

QoS/QoE relationship

QoS/QoE mapping

QoS/QoE management

QoS/QoE issues in wireless networks

Quality of Handoff

Quality of Diagnosis

Quality of Context

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