Networks for the e-society

The 14th edition of International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium (shortly: Networks 2010) held in Warsaw, Poland. Networks 2010 was a four-day professional and scientific event organized by Warsaw University of Technology in co-operation with Polish Association of Telecommunication Engineers (SIT). The conference was focused on network design and planning methods including the issues of routing, traffic flows and optimization that are necessary to deliver the promise of the Network of the Future. Over 100 technical papers submitted by researchers form America, Asia, Australia, and Europe were carefully reviewed by the Members of the Technical Program Committee and external reviewers. The accepted 51 high quality papers were finally organized into 16 technical sessions. 6 keynote talks, 8 invited papers, and 4 tutorials enriched the conference program. Authors of the top 17 regular papers have been invited to publish extended versions of their papers in this special issue of Telecommunication Systems Journal. The Networks 2010 conference (September 27–30, Warsaw, Poland) was the 14th event in the series of the International M. Pióro · K. Szczypiorski ( ) Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw University of Technology, Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-665 Warsaw, Poland e-mail: [email protected] M. Pióro e-mail: [email protected] J. Rak Gdansk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland e-mail: [email protected] Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposia. Since its first edition held in Paris thirty years ago, the meetings have been attracting world-class participants from all over the world, ranging from telecom operators, regulatory and standard bodies, through systems and software companies and research units from universities and industry, to systems integrators. The conference was organized by Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) in co-operation with Polish Association of Telecommunication Engineers (Poland). The technical sponsors of the conference were IEEE Poland Section, FP7 Network of Excellence Euro NF, and Polish Academy of Sciences. Networks 2010 was a four-day professional and scientific event focused on network design and planning methods including the issues of network planning and optimization that are necessary to deliver the promise of the Network of the Future. The motto of Networks 2010 was Networks for the e-Society. The conference presentations addressed mainly the issues of optical networks design, management and optimization techniques, quality of service, economic aspects of network design, routing in future generation networks, economic evaluation of new solutions, routing methods and algorithms (optimizing resource efficiency, robustness, and costs), evolution and future generation of wireless systems, optimization in network planning including resilience, and network security. Around 100 technical papers submitted by researchers from America, Asia, Australia, and Europe were carefully reviewed by the Members of the Technical Program Committee and external reviewers. The accepted 51 high quality papers were finally organized into 16 technical sessions. On top of that, 6 keynote talks, 8 invited papers, and 4 tutorials enriched the conference program. The conference was attended by more than 130 participants. Conference papers