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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

9:00 - 9:45 

Invited Talk (in the MMB/DFT Plenary)

James Gross: Critical Machine-to-Machine Communications: Performance Models vs. Reality in the 10-10 Regime

9:45 - 10:00 Opening
10:00 - 11:15  Session 1: Wireless Channel
  Sami Akin: On the Transmission Rate Strategies in Cognitive Radio
  Fengyou Sun: Further Properties of Wireless Channel Capacity
  Nico Becker: A Non-stationary Service Curve Model for Performance Analysis of Transient Phases in Cellular Networks
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Session 2: Load Balancing and Bandwidth Estimation
  Invited Talk by Amr Rizk: Saving Resources on Wireless Uplinks: Models of Queue-aware Scheduling
  Katarzyna Wasielewska: Network Calculus in the Practice - Available Bandwidth Estimation
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:20 Session 3: Stochastic Analysis
  Invited Talk by Florin Ciucu: A Unified Queueing Analysis of Markov Modulated Processes
 

Kui Wu: Copula Analysis for Statistical Network Calculus

  Alireza Shekaramiz: Window Flow Control Systems with Random Service
 

Michael Beck: Window Flow Controller and Subadditivity

15:20 - 15:35 Coffee Break
15:35 - 17:15 Session 4: Deterministic Analysis
  Anne Bouillard: Symbolic Computation for Worst-case Performance Bounds in Tree-network and Application to Networks with Cyclic Dependencies
  Kai Lampka: Network Calculus with Compact Domains
  Ahlem Mifdaoui: Extended Applications of PMOO principle
 

Steffen Bondorf: Bounding Flow Arrivals in Feed-forward Networks

17:15 - 17:30 Closing

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.

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.,