The network calculus has established as a versatile methodology for the queueing analysis of resource sharing based systems. Its prospect is that it can deal with problems that are fundamentally hard for alternative methodologies, based on the fact that it works with bounds rather than striving for exact solutions. The high modelling power of the network calculus has been transposed into several important applications for network engineering problems, traditionally in the Internet’s Quality of Service proposals IntServ and DiffServ, and more recently in diverse environments such as wireless sensor networks, switched Ethernets, or Systems-on-Chip.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers with an interest in the theory of network calculus as well as those who want to apply existing results in new applications. The workshop will serve to promote the network calculus theory to researchers with an interest in applied queueing models for data communication.
Florin Ciucu, University of Warwick, UK
Markus Fidler, Leibniz University Hannover, DE
Jens Schmitt, University of Kaiserslautern, DE
The workshop is integrated into the MMB/DFT 2014 conference and we suggest to also take registering to this event into consideration, but a WoNeCa-only registration is also possible here.
The idea is to have an informal meeting with presentations of recent work in the context of network calculus (theory, applications, tool support) and gather as many network calculus experts as possible to discuss about the future development of the theory and its application opportunities. Hence, there are no written papers and everyone can present his/her "hottest" recent research on network calculus.
| 8:30-8:45 | Opening |
| 8:45-10:00 | Session 1: Analysis of Wireless Networks |
| Amr Rizk: Aspects on the Flow-Level Performance of Wireless Fading Channels (slides) | |
| Hussein Al-Zubaidy: Service Characterizations and Performance Analysis for Multi-Hop Multiaccess Wireless Channels (slides) | |
| James Gross: Effective Service Capacity of Cellular Systems (slides) | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-11:20 | Session 2: Deterministic Analysis 1 |
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Yuming Jiang: Performance Analysis of Multiclass FIFO: Motivation, Difficulty and a Network Calculus Approach (slides) |
| Marc Boyer: Accuracy of Network calculus for Embedded Systems: Successes and Challenges (slides) | |
| 11:20-12:20 | Perspective Talk |
| Jörg Liebeherr: Getting a Grip on Network Delays (slides) | |
| 12:20-13:20 | Lunch Break |
| 13:20-14:35 | Session 3: Stochastic Analysis |
| Hao Wang: A Network Calculus Modeling Flow Transformations with Variable Packet Lengths (slides) | |
| Felix Poloczek: Martingale-Envelopes: Theory and Applications (slides) | |
| Michael Beck: Towards a Statistical Network Calculus - Dealing with Uncertainty in Arrivals (slides) | |
| 14:35-15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:00-16:40 | Session 4: Deterministic Analysis 2 and TCP |
| Mark Schmidt: Application of Network Calculus to Multicast Flows in Ethernet Networks Supporting IEC61850 | |
| Steffen Bondorf: Cross-Traffic Arrival Bounds (slides) | |
| Ulrich Klehmet: Strictness of Rate-Latency Service Curves (slides) | |
| Fabien Geyer: Advances in TCP Network Calculus – Handling Crosstraffic and ON/OFF Flows | |
| 16:40-16:45 | Closing |
Topics of Interest
The topics of this workshop are related to fundamental aspects as well as applications of network calculus. The following list of topics is non-excluding:
Deterministic and stochastic network calculus, e.g.
Feedback systems, e.g.,
Loss systems, e.g.,
Aggregate multiplexing, e.g.,
Data transformation, e.g.,
Relation to other theories, e.g.,
New applications, e.g.,
Tool support, e.g.,
