RNDM 2016 - 8th International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling

Program of RNDM 2016

Time	Tuesday, September 13, 2016	Wednesday, September 14, 2016	Thursday, September 15, 2016
9.00-10.30		Keynote Talk II Technical Session	Technical Session
10.30-11.00		Coffee break	Coffee break
11.00-13.00	Registration (starts at 12:00)	Technical Session	Technical Session
13.00-14.00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14.00-16.00	Opening Session Keynote Talk I Panel Discussion	Technical Session	USRR'16 Session
16.00-16.30	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
16.30-18.30	COST-RECODIS Special Session	Technical Session	Technical Session Closing Session + BPA
19.30-22.30	Welcome Reception	Gala Dinner

September 13, 2016

Registration (12:00 - )

Lunch (13:00 - 14:00)

Opening Session (14:00 - 14:15)

Plenary Session
Keynote Talk I - 14:15-15:10
Disaster resilience of telecom infrastructure Biswanath Mukherjee (University of California, Davis, US), IEEE Fellow

	Abstract To combat the rising risk of disasters (e.g., hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, flooding, etc.) against our national/global interests and economic wellbeing - events which could lead to a domino effect of catastrophic failures of telecommunications, power, transportation, financial, and other critical infrastructures - novel methods are needed to provide protection in our information and communication networks. Topics such as the following will be discussed in this talk: normal preparedness, enhanced preparedness, degraded service under resource crunch, content connectivity (vs. network connectivity) due to the increasing deployment of cloud services, correlated cascading failures in interdependent networks, etc.

	Biography Biswanath Mukherjee is Distinguished Professor at University of California, Davis, where he has been a faculty member since 1987 and was Chairman of Computer Science during 1997-2000. He received the BTech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (1980) and PhD from University of Washington, Seattle (1987). He was General Co-Chair of the IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference 2011, Technical Program Co-Chair of OFC'2009, and Technical Program Chair of the IEEE INFOCOM'96 conference. He is Editor of Springer's Optical Networks Book Series. He has served on eight journal editorial boards, most notably IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and IEEE Network. In addition, he has Guest-Edited Special Issues of Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and IEEE Communications. To date, he has supervised 64 PhDs to completion and currently mentors 18 advisees, mainly PhD students. He is winner of the 2004 Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award and the 2009 College of Engineering Outstanding Senior Faculty Award at UC Davis. He is co-winner of ten Best Paper Awards from various conferences, including Optical Networking Symposium Best Paper Awards at IEEE Globecom 2007 and 2008. He is author of the graduate-level textbook Optical WDM Networks (Springer, January 2006). He served a 5-year term on Board of Directors of IPLocks, a Silicon Valley startup company (acquired by Fortinet). He has served on Technical Advisory Board of several startup companies, including Teknovus (acquired by Broadcom). He is founder of Ennetix and Skydoot, two startup companies incubated at UC Davis. He is winner of the IEEE Communications Society's inaugural (2015) Outstanding Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering work on shaping the optical networking area". He is an IEEE Fellow.


Panel Discussion - Disaster resilience - research challenges and perspectives (15:10 - 16:10) Panelists: - Ferhat Dikbiyik, Sakarya University, Turkey - Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California, Davis, US - James P.G. Sterbenz, The University of Kansas (US), Lancaster University (UK), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK)


Coffee Break (16:10 - 16:30)


Technical Session I - Special session of COST CA15127-RECODIS (16:30 - 18:30)
1.	Disaster-Resilient Communication Networks: Principles and Best Practices Andreas U. Mauthe and David Hutchison (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Egemen K. Cetinkaya (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Ivan Ganchev (University of Limerick, Ireland & Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski, Bulgaria); Jacek Rak (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland); James P. G. Sterbenz (University of Kansas & Lancaster University (UK), USA); Matthias Gunkel (Deutsche Telekom Technik & Fixed Mobile Engineering Deutschland, Germany); Paul Smith (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria); Teresa Gomes (University of Coimbra & INESC COIMBRA, Portugal)

2.	A survey of strategies for communication networks to protect against large-scale natural disasters Teresa Gomes (University of Coimbra & INESC COIMBRA, Portugal); Janos Tapolcai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Christian Esposito (Università di Salerno, Italy); David Hutchison (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Fernando A. Kuipers (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Jacek Rak (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland); Amaro F. de Sousa (Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro, Portugal); Athanasios C. Iossifides (Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece); Rui Travanca (University of Aveiro, Portugal); João Andre (LNEC, Portugal); Luisa Maria Garcia Jorge (IPB & INESC Coimbra, Portugal); Lucia Martins (University of Coimbra & INESC-Coimbra, Portugal); Patricia Ortiz Ugalde (Innovalia Association & Research Organisation, Spain); Alija Pasic (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Dimitrios P Pezaros and Simon Jouet (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom); Stefano Secci (University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France); Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy)

3.	A Survey on Network Resiliency Methodologies against Weather-based Disruptions Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy); João Andre (LNEC, Portugal); Peter Babarczi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Torsten Ingo Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland); Eirik L Følstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Poul E. Heegaard (Norwegian University of Science and Technology & NTNU, Norway); Ali Hmaity (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Marija Furdek (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Luisa Maria Garcia Jorge (IPB & INESC Coimbra, Portugal); Wojciech Kmiecik (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland); Carmen Mas Machuca (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Carmo Medeiros (Institute of Telecomunications, University of Coimbra, Portugal); Francesco Musumeci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Lucia Martins (University of Coimbra & INESC-Coimbra, Portugal); Alija Pasic (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Jacek Rak (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland); Steven Simpson (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Rui Travanca (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Artemios G. Voyiatzis (SBA Research, Austria)

4.	Technology-related Disasters: A Survey towards Disaster-resilient Software Defined Networks Carmen Mas Machuca (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Stefano Secci (University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France); Petra Vizarreta (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Fernando A. Kuipers (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Antonios Gouglidis and David Hutchison (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Simon Jouet and Dimitrios P Pezaros (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom); Ahmed Mustafa Elmokashfi (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway); Poul E. Heegaard (Norwegian University of Science and Technology & NTNU, Norway); Sasko Ristov (University of Innsbruck & Institute of Computer Science, Austria)

5.	An overview of security challenges in communication networks Marija Furdek and Lena Wosinska (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Roza Goscien (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland); Konstantinos Manousakis (University of Cyprus & KIOS Research Center, Cyprus); Michal Aibin (Wroclaw University Of Technology & Simon Fraser University, Poland); Krzysztof Walkowiak (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland); Sasko Ristov (University of Innsbruck & Institute of Computer Science, Austria); Jose Luis Marzo (Universitat de Girona, Spain)


Welcome Reception


September 14, 2016

Plenary Session - "Resilience vs energy efficiency" (9:00-10:30)
Keynote Talk II - 9:00-10:00
Reliable smart energy networks Yan Zhang (Simula Research Laboratory & University of Oslo, NO), IEEE Senior Member, IET Fellow

	Abstract Smart energy networks is an emerging communication and networking paradigm that utilizes a two-way communications architecture to closely monitor and reliably support smart grid operations. Reliability is one of the crucial requirements as well as challenges in the smart grid. This talk will mainly introduce our recent studies on advanced communications, control and optimization techniques for reliable smart energy networks. We also present new challenges related to reliability aspects, including false price information, wide penetration of electronic vehicles and Vehicle-to-Grid networks.

	Biography Prof. Yan Zhang is currently Head of Department and Chief Scientist, Department of Networks at Simula Research Laboratory, Norway. He is also an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. From 1 September 2016, he will take the new position as a full-time Full Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. His main responsibility is to focus on Energy Informatics related research, education and collaboration programs at the University. He received a PhD degree in School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is IEEE Access Associate Editor. He also serves as the guest editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Access, and IEEE Internet of Things journal. He serves as chair positions in a number of conferences, including IEEE PIMRC 2016, IEEE CloudCom 2016, IEEE ICCC 2016, IEEE CCNC 2016, WCSP 2016, WICON 2016, IEEE SmartGridComm 2015, and IEEE CloudCom 2015. He serves as TPC member for numerous international conference including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, and IEEE WCNC. His current research interest include: next-generation wireless networks leading to 5G, reliable and secure cyber-physical systems (e.g., smart grid, healthcare, and transport), machine-to-machine communications, Internet-of-Things, economic approaches (e.g., game theory) for networks performance optimization. He has received 8 Best Paper Awards. He has 5ESI “Highly Cited Papers”. He is IEEE VTS (Vehicular Technology Society) Distinguished Lecturer. He is also a senior member of IEEE, IEEE ComSoc, and IEEE VT society. He is a Fellow of IET.


1.	Design considerations for energy efficient, resilient, multi-layer networks (SP) Anna Manolova Fagertun (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark); Line Hansen (DTU Fotonik, Denmark); Sarah Ruepp (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)


Coffee Break (10:30 - 11:00)


Technical Session II - Theory of network resilience (11:00 - 13:00) Chair: Teresa Gomes (University of Coimbra & INESC COIMBRA, Portugal)
1.	ILP-based Heuristic Method for the Multi-period Survivable Network Augmentation Problem (FP) Yali Wang and John Doucette (University of Alberta, Canada)

2.	Factorization Theory in Diameter Constrained Reliability (FP) Eduardo A Canale (Facultad Politecnica, Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, Paraguay); Pablo Gabriel Romero (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay); Gerardo Rubino (Inria/Irisa, France)

3.	Maximization of Protected Demand in Telecommunication Networks using Partial Disjoint Paths (SP) Amaro F. de Sousa (Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro, Portugal); Luis Gouveia (University of Lisbon, Portugal); Pedro Patricio (University of Beira Interior & Centro de Matematica, Aplicacoes Fundamentais e Investigacao Operacional, Portugal)

4.	Network Utility Problem and Easy Reliability Polynomials (SP) Eduardo A Canale (Facultad Politecnica, Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, Paraguay); Pablo Gabriel Romero (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay); Gerardo Rubino (Inria/Irisa, France); Xavier Warnes (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

5.	Duality in Stochastic Binary Systems (SP) Pablo Gabriel Romero (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)


Lunch (13:00 - 14:00)


Technical Session III - Optical networks survivability (14:00 - 16:10) Chair: Krzysztof Walkowiak (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
1.	Switching Link Group Failure Localization via Monitoring Trails in All-Optical Networks (FP) Alija Pasic and Peter Babarczi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

2.	Managing Software Failures and Capacity Assignment to Control Interval Availability in PONs (FP) Alvaro Fernandez and Norvald Stol (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

3.	Robust Plans for Spectrum Allocation in Elastic Flexgrid Optical Networks (FP) Christina Buesing, Arie M. C. A. Koster and Martin Tieves (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

4.	Techno-Economic Analysis of a Software-Defined Optical Media Contribution and Distribution Network (SP) Bram Naudts and Marlies Van der Wee (Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium); Luc Andries (SDNsquare & Gaston Crommenlaan 10 bus 101, Belgium); Sofie Verbrugge (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium); Didier Colle (iMinds - Ghent University, Belgium)

5.	Quantitative Analysis of Dynamic Dedicated Path Protection in Elastic Optical Networks (SP) Jaume Comellas and Gabriel Junyent (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

6.	Dual-Failure Availability Analysis for Multi-Flow Shared Backup Path Protected Mesh Networks (SP) Wenjing Wang and John Doucette (University of Alberta, Canada)


Coffee break (16:10 - 16:30)


Technical Session IV - Models and algorithms of resilient networks design (16:30 - 18:30) Chair: Amaro F. de Sousa (Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro, Portugal)
1.	Resilient Availability and Bandwidth-aware Multipath Provisioning for Media Transfer Over the Internet (FP) Sahel Sahhaf and Wouter Tavernier (Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium); Didier Colle (iMinds - Ghent University, Belgium); Mario Pickavet (Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium)

2.	Geodiverse Routing Protocol with Multipath Forwarding (FP) Yufei Cheng (University of Kansas, USA); Truc Anh N. Nguyen and Md. Moshfequr Rahman (The University of Kansas, USA); Siddharth Gangadhar (University of Kansas, USA); James P. G. Sterbenz (University of Kansas & Lancaster University (UK), USA)

3.	An efficient heuristic for calculating a protected path with specified nodes (FP) Lucia Martins (University of Coimbra & INESC-Coimbra, Portugal); Teresa Gomes (University of Coimbra & INESC COIMBRA, Portugal); David Tipper (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

4.	A New Arc-Disjoint-Trees Scheme for Survivable Multicasting in Mixed-Graph Sparse-Splitting Optical Networks (FP) Luis Raposo (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Teresa Gomes (University of Coimbra & INESC COIMBRA, Portugal); Lucia Martins (University of Coimbra & INESC-Coimbra, Portugal); Costas K. Constantinou and Georgios Ellinas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

5.	On the complexity of routing and spectrum allocation in survivable elastic optical network with unicast and anycast traffic (SP) Roza Goscien and Krzysztof Walkowiak (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland); Miroslaw Klinkowski (National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland)

6.	Different strategies for Dynamic Multicast Traffic Protection in Elastic Optical Networks (SP) Michal Aibin (Wroclaw University Of Technology & Simon Fraser University, Poland); Krzysztof Walkowiak (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland/Canada)


Gala Dinner


September 15, 2016

Technical Session V - Disaster resilience (9:00 - 10:30) Chair: Jaume Comellas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
1.	Earthquake Preparedness Strategies for Telecom Backbone with Integration of Early Warning Systems and Optical WDM Networks (invited) Melike Oguz, Ferhat Dikbiyik, H. Serdar Kuyuk

2.	Enumerating Circular Disk Failures Covering a Single Node (invited) Balazs Vass, Erika Berczi-Kovacs, Janos Tapolcai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

3.	Threat Awareness for Critical Infrastructures Resilience (SP) Antonios Gouglidis, Benjamin Green, Jeremy Busby, Mark Rouncefield and David Hutchison (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Stefan Schauer (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria)


Coffee Break (10:30 - 11:00)


Technical Session VI - Methods of evaluation and improvement of network resilience (11:00 - 13:00) Chair: Jacek Rak (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
1.	Introducing Database Communication Technologies for YANG-based TED Replication in Multi-domain Networks (invited) G. Cecchetti, F. Cugini, F. Paolucci, P. Castoldi, A. Giorgetti

2.	Improving the fault tolerance of multi-robot networks through a combined control law strategy (FP) Cinara Ghedini (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil); Carlos H. C. Ribeiro (Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Brazil); Lorenzo Sabattini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

3.	Keyword-Driven Security Test Automation of Customer Edge Switching (CES) Architecture (FP) Amir Kc (Aalto University, Finland); Ana E Goulart (Texas A&M University, USA); Raimo Kantola (Aalto University, Finland)

4.	Analysis and Complexity of Pandemics (SP) Juan Piccini and Franco Robledo (Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay); Pablo Gabriel Romero (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)

5.	Graph Resilience Improvement of Backbone Networks via Node Additions (SP) Mohammed J.F. Alenazi (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)


Lunch (13:00 - 14:00)


Technical Session VII - USRR'16 Workshop Session (14:00 - 16:00)
1.	Network Graph Transformation Providing Fast Calculation of Paths for Resilient Routing (FP) Kanstantsin Myslitski, Jacek Rak, Lukasz Kuszner (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)


Coffee break (16:00 - 16:30)


Technical Session VIII - Resilience of virtualized and cloud architectures (16:30 - 18:00) Chair: John Doucette (TRLabs, University of Alberta, Canada)
1.	Virtual Network Function Placement For Resilient Service Chain Provisioning (FP) Ali Hmaity (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Marco Savi (Create-Net, Italy); Francesco Musumeci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy); Achille Pattavina (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

2.	Controller Placement Strategies for a Resilient SDN Control Plane (FP) Petra Vizarreta and Carmen Mas Machuca (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

3.	Towards Policy Refinement for Resilience Management in Cloud (FP) Syed Noor ul Hassan Shirazi (Lancaster University & InfoLab21, United Kingdom); Steven Simpson, Kanza Noor Syeda, Andreas U. Mauthe and David Hutchison (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)

4.	Reliable Virtual Machine Placement in Distributed Clouds (SP) Song Yang and Philipp Wieder (GWDG, Germany); Ramin Yahyapour (GWDG - University Goettingen, Germany)


Closing Session + Best Paper Award + Announcement of RNDM 2017 (18:00 - 18:30)