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1st International Workshop on Traffic Engineering, Modelling, Analysis, Control and Simulation (TEMACS’09)

Towards a revolution of faster networks and better quality of service

The first International Workshop on Traffic Engineering, Modelling, Analysis, Control and Simulation (TEMACS) is a one-day / two days event held in conjunction with the Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems (SIMUTools 2009), which will be held in Rome, Italy, on March 2-6, 2009.  

  
In the recent years, the impact of network traffic patterns (due to P2P file-sharing, audio and video, online gaming, chatting etc.) is noticeable in the form of degrading quality of service (QoS). The exponential growth of the number of servers, as well as the number of users, causes the performance of the Internet to be problematic. The Internet is a large-scale, wide-area network, for which the importance of measurement, simulation, analysis and control of traffic is vital. Traffic models can exhibit the congestion nature of the network as well as traffic characteristics which can contribute to network management such as resource allocation, capacity planning and buffer management. Accurate models can provide the information for complicated signals and system performance through both analysis and simulation. It is obvious that the volume of traffic will grow over thousand times in the next few years due to the commercial adoption of P2P applications which is related to Grid Computing.

The aim of this workshop is to unite all network researchers, traffic engineers and experts in order to develop traffic models, simulation techniques and algorithms to determine the current and future traffic patterns towards the improvement of QoS of the future network. The workshop values both theoretical and practical research contributions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Traffic modelling
• Traffic engineering architectures
• Traffic characterization
• Traffic analysis techniques
• Simulation techniques
• Traffic synthesis
• Traffic engineering with protocols and devices
• Traffic management and control
• Congestion control
• Traffic control algorithms
• Bandwidth management
• Traffic performance evaluation

• Traffic Shaping
• Distributed traffic
• Grid-based traffic
• QoS traffic in wired and wireless networks

All accepted papers will be made available in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library.