[WoNeCa-6] Hybrid Event on 8th-9th September 2022

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The Workshop

Network calculus is a versatile methodology for the queueing analysis of resource-sharing systems. It can deal with problems that are fundamentally hard for alternative methodologies, using bounds rather than striving for exact solutions. The high modeling power of network calculus has been used in several important network engineering applications such as time sensitive networks, wireless sensor networks and 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

Technical Program Commitee

Steffen Bondorf, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Anne Bouillard, Huawei Technologies France, France
Marc Boyer, ONERA/DTIS, University of Toulouse, France
Markus Fidler, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL, Switzerland
Ahlem Mifdaoui, ISAE-SUPAERO Toulouse, France
Amr Rizk, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany
Jens Schmitt, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

Organization Commitee

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, general chair
Ehsan Mohammadpour, local organization chair
Seyed Mohammadhossein Tabatabaee, publicity chair
Stéphan Plassart, web chair
Sounak Kar, zoom chair

Event Organization

Slot for every talk is 20min talk + 5min Q&A.

The best student presentation will be awarded with a prize! Voting will be anonymous and will take place during the closing session.

Social Event on Thursday evening will be a dinner cruise on Lake Geneva. We thank Huawei for funding this social event.

We use Slack for communication between participants during and around the workshop. The Slack workspace of WoNeCa6 is https://woneca6.slack.com. After registration, you should receive a link by email with instructions to join the Slack workspace. If you need assistance to join the Slack workspace, please contact stephan.plassart@epfl.ch.

Please send the slides of your presentation before Tuesday 6th September at 23:59 (conference time) to stephan.plassart@epfl.ch. The accepted format of the slides are pdf, pptx, keynote and html formats.

Call for Presentations

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.

The workshop is open to everyone who is interested in network calculus. If you would like to present you will need to submit:

  1. The title of your presentation.
  2. The abstract of your presentation.
  3. The name of the presenter.
Click HERE to submit the title, the abstract and the name. The submission period is over.

In case of contention, presentations will be selected based on topical coherence.

Important Dates

Submission of presentation title and abstract: June 10th, 2022

Notification of invitation for presentation: July 1st, 2022

Submission of full presentation slides by email to web chair: Tue Sept 6, 23:59

Workshop date: September 8th and 9th, 2022.

Registration

You need to be registered to assist to the conference even if you attend the conference remotely. Click HERE to register.

Registration fees are in Swiss Francs (CHF) and concerns only the physical attendees.

  • Registration up to 1st September 2022: 110 CHF
  • Registration after 1st September 2022: 140 CHF
  • Cancellation up to 1st September 2022: 10% penalty
    • Program

      Thurday, September 8

      08:00-08:30 Workshop Registration
      08:30-08:35 Opening [slides] [video]
      08:35-09:50 Session 1 (chair: Anne Bouillard):
        Ludovic Thomas (EPFL/ISAE): Worst-case Delay Bounds in Time-Sensitive Networks with Packet Replication and Elimination [slides] [video]
        Jorg Liebeherr (University of Toronto): Network Calculus Analysis of Microbursts in Data Center Networks [slides] [video]
        Steffen Bondorf (Ruhr University Bochum): Searching for Upper Delay Bounds in FIFO Multiplexing Feedforward Networks [slides] [video]
      09:50-10:10 Coffee Break
      10:10-12:00 Session 2 (chair: Amr Rizk):
        Steffen Bondorf (Ruhr University Bochum): Network Synthesis under Delay Constraints: The Power of Network Calculus Differentiability [slides] [video]
        Seyed Mohammadhossein Tabatabaee (EPFL): Worst-case Delay Analysis of Time-Sensitive Networks with Deficit Round-Robin [slides] [video]
        Christoph Funda (University Erlangen-Nuremberg): An industrial case study for performance evaluation of hardware-in-the-loop simulators with a combination of network calculus and discrete-event simulation [slides] [video]
        Raffaele Zippo (University of Pisa): Nancy: a library for Network Calculus [slides] [video]
      12:00-13:30 Lunch (upper floor of this building)
      13:30-14:45 Session 3 (chair: Markus Fidler):
        Paul Nikolaus (TU Kaiserslautern): Unleashing the Power of Paying Multiplexing Only Once in Stochastic Network Calculus [slides] [video]
        Mahsa Noroozi (Leibniz University Hanover): Statistical Age-of-Information Bounds using a Min-Plus Model [slides] [video]
        Ehsan Mohammadpour (EPFL): Analysis of Dampers in Time-Sensitive Networks With Non-Ideal Clocks [slides] [video]
      14:45-15:15 Coffee Break
      15:15-16:30 Session 4 (chair: Jörg Liebeherr):
        Anne Bouillard (Huawei Technologies France): Earliest-Deadline-First in Sink-Trees with Network calculus [slides] [video]
        Hussein Al-Zubaidy (Huawei Technologies France): Modeling and Performance Analysis of Heterogeneous Sink-Tree Networks [slides] [video]
        Marc Boyer (ONERA): A residual service curve of rate-latency server used by sporadic flows computable in quadratic time for network calculus [slides] [video]
      17:00 -
      open end
      WoNeCa Social Event (departure at 17:00 sharp by bus, in front of the main entrance of this building)

      Friday, September 9

      08:30-9:45 Session 5 (chair: Marc Boyer):
        Plassart Stéphan (EPFL): Equivalent Versions of Total Flow Analysis [slides] [video]
        Vlad-Cristian Constantin (TU Kaiserslautern): Improving Performance Bounds for WRR Schedulers Under Constrained Cross-Traffic [slides] [video]
        Lisa Maile (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg): Application of Network Calculus for Reliable and Predictable Behavior of IEEE 802.1CB Frame Replication and Elimination in Time-Sensitive Networks [slides] [video]
      9:45-10:15  Coffee Break
      10:15-11:30 Session 6 (chair: Steffen Bondorf):
        Anja Hamscher (TU Kaiserslautern): Leveraging Mathematical Programming to Harden Conjectures on Service Curves [slides] [video]
        Damien GUIDOLIN--PINA (RealTime-at-Work/ONERA): Equivalence between left and right continuity in the Network Calculus theory [slides] [video]
        Samie Mostafavi (KTH Royal Institute of Technology): Data-Driven Network Delay Violation Probability Prediction with Deep Learning [slides] [video]
      11:30-12:00 Panel on network calculus & Best presentation award [video]
      12:05-13:30 Lunch
      13:30-16:00 Breakout Session (self-organized and spontaneous meetings) in room INF 018.

      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-exclusive:

      Deterministic and stochastic network calculus, e.g.

      • traffic and service models
      • general topologies
      • numerical tightness

      Relation to other theories, e.g.,

      • queueing theory
      • discrete event dynamic systems
      • optimization

      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

      Tool support, e.g.,

      • numerical problems
      • numerical approximations
      • implementation experience

      Data transformation, e.g.,

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

       

      New applications, e.g.,

      • TSN, DetNet and 5G
      • energy storage
      • tactile internet
      • cache networks
      • real-time calculus

       

      • avionic networks
      • mission-critical networks
      • the power grid
      • wireless sensor networks
      • cyber-physical systems

      Access

      The workshop will take place in BC-01 in floor zero of BC building at EPFL campus at Écublens (near Lausanne), Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

      Accommodation

      Hotels:

      • Starling Hotel

        Starling Hotel Lausanne, Rte Cantonale 31, 1025 Saint-Sulpice.

        Nightly Rate:
            - CHF 160.--/night for a single room
            - CHF 195.--/night for a double room

        Reservation code: WONECA2022

        Click HERE to reserve

      • Ibis Lausanne Centre

        Hôtel ibis Lausanne Centre, Rue du Maupas 20, 1004 Lausanne.

        Nightly Rate:
            - CHF 170.--/night for a single room
            - CHF 185.--/night for a double room

        Reservation code: WONECA

      • Moxy Lausanne City

        Moxy Lausanne City, Rue de la Vigie 3, 1003 Lausanne.

        Nightly Rate:
            - CHF 179.--/night for a single room
            - CHF 189.--/night for a double room

        Reservation code: WONECA

        Click HERE to reserve

      • Best Western Plus Hotel Mirabeau

        BEST WESTERN PLUS Hotel Mirabeau Lausanne, Av. de la Gare 31, 1003 Lausanne.

        Nightly Rate:
            - CHF 220.--/night for a single room

        Reservation code: EPFL WONECA

        • Complementary information: If you are staying at a hotel in Lausanne, you are eligible for a free daily pass for public transportation within Lausanne. You must ask for the pass at the Hotel Desk. Moreover, you also can use public transport free of charge in Lausanne (the Metro and buses) on the day of your arrival to get to your hotel; you will need to show your hotel reservation in case the authorities ask for tickets.

6th Workshop on Network Calculus (WoNeCa-6)

Important Dates

Submission of presentation title and abstract: June 10th, 2022

Notification of invitation for presentation:
July 1st, 2022

Workshop date:
September 8th and 9th, 2022

EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland)

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