NEWS

• New Network Calculus Mailing List Available: see https://lists.geant.org/sympa/info/netcal-list
• WoNeCa is over (all presentations are online) - thanks to all, it was great fun :-) 
               In a democratic election, Steffen Bondorf won the Best Presentation Award - congrats, Steffen!

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.

Workshop Organizers

Markus Fidler, Leibniz University Hannover, DE

Jens Schmitt, University of Kaiserslautern, DE

Workshop Registration

The workshop is integrated into the MMB/DFT 2016 conference and we suggest to also take registering to this event into consideration, but a WoNeCa-only registration is also possible here.

Workshop Program

Format of the Workshop

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.

If you like to present then please send an email to jschmitt@cs.uni-kl.de and markus.fidler@ikt.uni-hannover.de with the title of your presentation and the name of the presenter. In case of contention, presentations will be selected based on topical coherence.

Important Dates

Submission of presentation title: January 22, 2016 (passed)

Notification of invitation for presentation: January 29, 2016 (passed)

Workshop: April 6, 2016 

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.

• traffic and service models
• general topologies
• numerical tightness

Feedback systems, e.g.,

• TCP network calculus
• window flow control
• retransmission-based systems

Loss systems, e.g.,

• bounded queues
• wireless links

Aggregate multiplexing, e.g.,

• optimization-based approaches
• efficient algorithms
• stochastic case

Data transformation, e.g.,

• end-to-end analysis
• in-network processing
• network coding

Relation to other theories, e.g.,

• queueing theory
• discrete event dynamic systems
• optimization

New applications, e.g.,

• real-time calculus
• avionic networks
• mission-critical networks
• the power grid
• wireless sensor networks

Tool support, e.g.,

• numerical problems
• numerical approximations
• implementation experience