Network design and operational aspects of Reliability:

• Survivability and traffic engineering for optical, IP and multi-layer networks

• Robustness of multi-domain network and protocol architectures

• Resilience in Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

• High-availability for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) infrastructures

• Network dependability in cloud networking

• Dependability of cellular/mobile networks

• Reliability of wireless access and mesh networking

• Survivability in grid and distributed computing

• Resilience of networked critical infrastructures

Theory and modeling:

• Network reliability analysis

• Methods for survivable network and systems design, analysis and operation

• Planning and optimization of reliable networks, systems, and services

• Network coding techniques to improve resilience

• Decomposition techniques for reliable network optimization

• Service differentiation based on recovery methods

• Simulation techniques for network resilience

Resilience of Networked Services:

• Quality of Experience (QoE) and network service availability assessments

• Reliability requirements and metrics for users, businesses, and the society

• Dependability of networked applications

• Survivability of multimedia networks

• Reliability and resiliency of data center networks

• Recovery of overlay and peer-to-peer networks

• estoration of services under various types of failures

• Application and service-specific survivability techniques

• Robustness of compound services

Broad context:

• Telecommunication networks as an element of critical infrastructures

• Risk and reliability in the Internet and enterprise networks

• Public policy issues for survivability and resilience

• Standardization of network resilience and reliability

• Network resilience combined with economics and commercial issues

• Network robustness to natural disasters

• Robust network design for hostile environments

• Security issues in networks and their relation to survivability

• Network dependability and energy consumption trade-offs