Berlin time Wednesday, March 8 Thursday, March 9 Friday, March 10
9:00 ‑ 10:00 am   Keynote 1 Keynote 2
10:00 ‑ 10:30 am   Coffee Break Coffee Break
10:30 ‑ 11:00 am   Invited Talk Session 1 Invited Talk Session 4
11:00 am ‑ 12:00 pm   Session 1 - Transport Session 4 - Disaster
12:00 ‑ 1:00 pm   Lunch Lunch
1:00 ‑ 1:30 pm   Invited Talk Session 2 Invited Talk Session 5
1:30 ‑ 2:30 pm   Session 2 - Modeling Session 5 - 5G
2:30 ‑ 3:00 pm   Coffee Break DRCN Best Paper Award and Closing Ceremony
3:00 ‑ 3:15 pm Opening Session 3 - Security Coffee Break
3:15 ‑ 3:30 pm Tutorials
3:30 ‑ 5:00 pm RECODIS Session at DRCN
5:00 ‑ 6:00 pm Panel Discussion on "Reliable 5G Networks"  
6:00 ‑ 7:00 pm Welcome Reception  
7:00 ‑ 8:00 pm    
8:00 ‑ 9:00 pm Conference Dinner  
9:00 ‑ 11:00 pm    

Wednesday, March 8

Wednesday, March 8 3:00 - 3:15

Wednesday, March 8 3:15 - 6:00

Tutorials

Wednesday, March 8 6:00 - 9:00

Thursday, March 9

Thursday, March 9 9:00 - 10:00

Keynote 1

Thursday, March 9 10:00 - 10:30

Thursday, March 9 10:30 - 11:00

Invited Talk Session 1

Designing a Resilient Virtual Topology in a Multi-Layer Datacenter Interconnection Network
Yuri Smirnov (Facebook Inc, USA)

Thursday, March 9 11:00 - 12:00

Session 1 - Transport

Chair: Joao Pedro (Infinera Unipessoal Lda & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Comparison of Various Reliable Transport Architectures for Long-Haul Networks
Onur Turkcu, Abishek Gopalan, Biao Lu and Parthiban Kandappan (Infinera, USA)
A Multiple-Link Failures Enumeration Approach for Availability Analysis on Partially Disjoint Paths
Nehuen Gonzalez-Montoro (National University of Córdoba & IDIT - CONICET, Argentina); Renato Cherini (National University of Córdoba, Argentina); Jorge M Finochietto (National University of Córdoba & CONICET, Argentina)
Connection Management in a Resilient Transport Protocol
Truc Anh N. Nguyen (The University of Kansas, USA); James P. G. Sterbenz (University of Kansas, USA)

Thursday, March 9 12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

Thursday, March 9 1:00 - 1:30

Invited Talk Session 2

Thursday, March 9 1:30 - 2:30

Session 2 - Modeling

Chair: Suresh Subramaniam (George Washington University, USA)
Finding Minimum Node Separators: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method
Joohyun Lee (Hanyang University, Korea (South)); Jaewook Kwak (The Ohio State University, USA); Hyang-Won Lee (Konkuk University, Korea (South)); Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University, USA)
Modelling Spectrum Assignment in a Two-Service Flexi-Grid Optical Link with Imprecise Continuous-Time Markov Chains
Cristina E. M. Rottondi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Alexander Erreygers (Ghent University, Belgium); Giacomo Verticale (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Jasper De Bock (Ghent University, Belgium)
Routing Optimization for SDN Networks Based on Pivoting Rules for the Simplex Algorithm
Fabien Geyer (Airbus, Germany)

Thursday, March 9 2:30 - 3:00

Coffee Break

Thursday, March 9 3:00 - 5:00

Session 3 - Security

Chair: James P. G. Sterbenz (University of Kansas, USA)
Towards Cloud Security Improvement with Encryption Intensity Selection
Mortada Aman (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Egemen K. Çetinkaya (Verizon, USA)
Using SEIRS Epidemic Models for IoT Botnets Attacks
M. Todd Gardner (Federal Aviation Administration, USA); Cory Beard (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA); Deep Medhi (University of Missouri-Kansas City & NSF, USA)
Spectral Analysis of Backbone Networks Against Targeted Attacks
Tristan Shatto (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Egemen K. Çetinkaya (Verizon, USA)
Improving the Robustness to Targeted Attacks in Software Defined Networks (SDN)
Diego F. Rueda (Universitat de Girona, Spain); Eusebi Calle (University of Girona, Spain); Jose L Marzo (Universitat de Girona, Spain)

Thursday, March 9 5:00 - 7:00

Panel Discussion on "Reliable 5G Networks"

Thursday, March 9 8:00 - 11:00

Conference Dinner

Friday, March 10

Friday, March 10 9:00 - 10:00

Keynote 2

Multi-layer resilience schemes and their control plane support
Victor Lopez (Telefonica, Spain)

Friday, March 10 10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

Friday, March 10 10:30 - 11:00

Invited Talk Session 4

Friday, March 10 11:00 - 12:00

Session 4 - Disaster

Chair: Deep Medhi (University of Missouri-Kansas City & NSF, USA)
Analysis of Node-Resilience Strategies under Natural Disasters
Manuel Aprile (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland); Natalia Castro (Universidad de la República, Uruguay); Franco Robledo (Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Uruguay); Pablo Gabriel Romero (Facultad de Ingeniería. Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Determination of the Minimum Cost Pair of D-Geodiverse Paths
Amaro F. de Sousa (Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro, Portugal); Dorabella Santos (INESC-Coimbra, Portugal); Paulo P Monteiro (Universidade de Aveiro & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Multi-Carrier Interconnection-based Emergency Packet Transport Network Planning in Disaster Recovery
Sugang Xu (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Noboru Yoshikane (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan); Masaki Shiraiwa (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Takehiro Tsuritani (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan); Hiroaki Harai (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Yoshinari Awaji (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan); Naoya Wada (NICT, Japan)

Friday, March 10 12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

Friday, March 10 1:00 - 1:30

Invited Talk Session 5

Friday, March 10 1:30 - 2:30

Session 5 - 5G

Survivable BBU Hotel placement in a C-RAN with an Optical WDM Transport
Bahare Masood Khorsandi (Nokia, Germany); Carla Raffaelli (University of Bologna, Italy); Lena Wosinska and Paolo Monti (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Matteo Fiorani (Ericsson Research, Sweden)
Survivability of Fixed Mobile Convergent Access Networks
Attila Mitcsenkov and Tibor Cinkler (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Achille Pattavina and Francesco Musumeci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
AI for SLA Management in Programmable Networks
Imen Grida Ben Yahia (Orange Labs, France); Jaafar Bendriss (Orange Lab, France); Prosper Chemouil (Cnam, France); Djamal Zeghlache (Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Samovar & Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France)

Friday, March 10 2:30 - 3:00

DRCN Best Paper Award and Closing Ceremony

Friday, March 10 3:00 - 3:30

Coffee Break

Friday, March 10 3:30 - 5:00

RECODIS Session at DRCN

The Robust Node Selection Problem aiming to Minimize the Connectivity Impact of any Set of p Node Failures
Amaro F. de Sousa (Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro, Portugal); Deepak Mehta (United Technologies Research Centre, Ireland); Dorabella Santos (INESC-Coimbra, Portugal)
A repeated game formulation of network embedded coding for multicast resilience in extreme conditions
Christian Esposito and Aniello Castiglione (University of Salerno, Italy); Francesco Palmieri (Università di Salerno, Italy); Florin Pop (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Jacek Rak (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
Interdependence between Power Grids and Communication Networks: A Resilience Perspective
Lúcia Martins (University of Coimbra & INESC-Coimbra, Portugal); Rita Girao-Silva (FCTUC, University of Coimbra & INESC-Coimbra, Portugal); Álvaro Gomes (University of Coimbra (DEEC) & INESC Coimbra, Portugal); Luisa Jorge (Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics (CeDRI), IPB, Bragança & INESC Coimbra, Portugal); Francesco Musumeci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Jacek Rak (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
Enumerating Shared Risk Link Groups of Circular Disk Failures Hitting k nodes
Balázs Vass (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Erika R. Bérczi-Kovács (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary); János Tapolcai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)