2nd Benelux workshop
"Performance analysis of communication systems"
PATS, Antwerp, Belgium
February 5 (Monday) and 6 (Tuesday), 2007
Programme & Abstracts | Speakers & Participants |Registration |Workshop Report | Practical Information
History and Goals of the workshop
The first Benelux workshop on the performance analysis of communication systems was staged in March 2003 by EURANDOM in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. It was successfully organized to stimulate the interaction between various strong groups in this field situated in Belgium and The Netherlands. About 20 talks were scheduled and close to 60 researches attended the workshop.
As many years have passed meanwhile and a new generation of PhD students has risen, a new impulse to strengthen existing and new cooperations seems appropriate. As such, the second Benelux workshop on the performance analysis of communication systems is to be staged at the University of Antwerp.
With the ever-growing integration of computing devices in the way people live and communicate among each other, new challenges in traffic engineering, Quality-of-Service provisioning and network design appear rapidly.
To mention just a few more recent networking areas:
(i) Distributed and wireless systems including sensor networks, ad-hoc networks and body-area networks.
(ii) Optical network design, traffic characterization and Quality-of-Service provisioning.
(iii) Satellite networks supporting high capacity under varying weather conditions.
Queueing theory continues to provide a key tool to study performance issues in each of the areas above (and many more). In addition, performance issues arise that concern, e.g., routing, scheduling, admission control, and pricing, requiring techniques from fields like combinatorial optimization, linear programming, control theory, stochastic geometry, and economics.Program schedule
A .pdf file with the program schedule can be downloaded here.Abstracts
A .pdf file listing all the abstracts can be downloaded here. This document is also available with a cover page (+10 Mbyte).Invited talks