The processing and transmission speed and increasing memory capacity might be a satisfactory solution on the resources needed to deliver ubiquitous services, under guaranteed reliability and satisfying the desired quality of service. Successful deployment of communication mechanisms guarantees a decent network stability and offers a reasonable control on the quality of service expected by the end users. Recent advances on communication speed, hybrid wired/wireless, network resiliency, delay-tolerant networks and protocols, signal processing and so forth asked for revisiting some aspects of the fundamentals in communication theory. Mainly network and system reliability and quality of service are those that affect the maintenance procedures, on the one hand, and the user satisfaction on service delivery, on the other hand. Reliability assurance and guaranteed quality of services require particular mechanisms that deal with dynamics of system and network changes, as well as with changes in user profiles. The advent of content distribution, IPTV, video-on-demand and other similar services accelerate the demand for reliability and quality of service.

The Fifteenth International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service, CTRQ 2022, continues a series of events focusing on the achievements on communication theory with respect to reliability and quality of service. The conference brings also onto the stage the most recent results in theory and practice on improving network and system reliability, as well as new mechanisms related to quality of service tuned to user profiles.

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.

CTRQ 2022 conference tracks:

Communication theory
Fundamentals in communication theory; Communications switching and routing; Communications modeling; Communications security; Autonomic communications; Performance in communications; Computer communications; Distributed communications; Wired and wireless communications; Signal processing in communications; Multimedia and multicast communications; High-speed communications; Delay-tolerant communications; Fault-tolerant networks; Reliable and safe communications; Iterative coding and decoding techniques

Quality and reliability in smart environments
Quality in advanced wireless networks (LTE, 3/4G, 4.5G -LTE Advanced Pro-, 5G); Quality and reliability in high velocity mobile networks; Quality and reliability in mobile (big, huge) data processing; Quality and reliability in data collection and dissemination; Quality and reliability on dense sensor networks; Quality and reliability in vehicular and transportation systems; Quality and reliability in aerial an underwater vehicles; Quality and reliability evaluation in new computing paradigms (fog computing, cloudlets, mobile edge); Quality and reliability in smart cities; Quality and reliability of elderly patient alarms and e-health systems; Quality and reliability enforcement in nano/femto cells; Quality and reliability on energy harvesting in Green environments; Quality and reliability metrics via Quality-of-Experience and customer reports; Quality and reliability testbeds for smart environments

Assessing quality and reliability
Assessing data dissemination accuracy in opportunistic networks; Assessing Internet traffic on high speed railways; Assessing the guidelines for energy-aware software for wearable devices; Offloading floating car data; Interference mitigation in body-to-body area networks; Spatial correlation for heterogeneous cameras in multimedia sensor networks; Managing applications with different delay sensitivities; Assessing quality and reliability for off-the-shelf devices; Assessing quality and reliability of Handover protocols; Assessing context correctness for secure mobile collaboration; Assessing security and reliability through linked data in cloud and fog computing; Assessing reliability and quality for context and social-aware recommender systems; Assessing reliability of vehicular density estimation using vehicular communications; Assessing quality of service of VoIP over high velocity networks

Reliability and maintenance
Reliability modeling; Reliability stress analysis; Dependency-related reliability; Reliability prediction technologies; Reliability-aware topology control; Reliability in highly dynamic networks and distributed systems; Reliability of storage systems; Reliability in sensitive networks (ehealth, financial, etc.); Service versus network reliability; Reliability and human-related risks; Software reliability; Software-based safety kernels; Reliability testing; Maintenance tools for system reliability; QoS-driven reliability; Reliability in processing Big Data

Quality of Service
QoS design and architectures for networks and distributed systems; QoS modeling, adaptation and monitoring; QoS policy assessment; QoS metrics and measurement; QoS-based routing; QoS-aware applications and services; Provisioning and monitoring QoS constraints; QoS-based admission control; QoS negotiation and mediation; User-profile QoS-aware mechanisms; QoS-network device mechanisms (scheduling, queue management, traffic engineering, etc.); QoS and opportunistic scheduling; QoS-aware resource management; QoS in WLAN, WPAN, WMAN and WiMAX (IEEE 802.11/15/16/20); QoS in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks; QoS support in wireless networks for MAC protocols; QoS and survivability in mobile environments

Quality
Quality of Experience (QoE); QoS/QoE relationship; QoS/QoE mapping; QoS/QoE management; QoS/QoE issues in wireless networks; Quality of Handoff; Quality of Diagnosis; Quality of Context; Quality of Big Data; Quality in advanced wireless networks (4/5G); Quality in SDN

Reliability and QoS for future mobile networks
Mobile network expansion solutions; Quality in 5G radio-access networks; End-to-end network architecture and infrastructure; Interworking between heterogeneous networks and technologies; Automated management, orchestration and operation of network functions; Software defined networking (SDN); Mobility management, energy efficiency, power cost reduction; Network function virtualization (NFV) of small cells; Self-organizing network functionalities for virtualized small cells; Reliability of open source software in future mobile networks; Accuracy in Indoor/outdoor positioning; Reliability on massive connectivity handling