ITC 36: Towards Sustainable Digital Infrastructures
June 2nd - June 5th 2025, Trondheim, Norway
General Chairs
- Sara Alouf - INRIA, France
- Thomas Zinner - NTNU, Norway
TPC Chairs
- Anne Bouillard (Huawei Technologies, France)
- Y.C. Tay (National University Singapore, Singapore)
Homepage: https://itc36.itc-conference.org
ITC 36 Program in a Nutshell
ITC 36 Best Paper Award
ITC 36 has set up a Best Paper Award. This award has been offered based on the scientific quality of the paper. From the accepted papers, and based on the recommendation by the TPC, the TPC Chairs selected the paper “Energy/Performance Trade-Off in RANs with Dynamic Management of Frequency Bands” by Diletta Olliaro, Michela Meo, Matteo Sereno, Andrea Marin, Marco Ajmone Marsan.
Announcement: Internet TC 2023 Best Paper Award
The officers of IEEE COMSOC Internet TC (ITC) have instituted the “Internet TC Best Paper Award” as an activity starting 2013. All conferences supported by the Internet TC are eligible. The selection process is governed by a best paper selection committee. For the Internet TC 2023 Best Paper Award, the paper “Network-Calculus Service Curves of the Interleaved Regulator“
by Ludovic Thomas (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Jean-Yves Le Boudec
presented at 35th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC35), Turin, Italy, 2023 was selected. The announcement took place during ITC 36.
Arne Jensen Lifetime Achievement Award
The recipient of the 2025 Arne Jensen Lifetime Award is Dr. Deep Medhi, and the award was handed over to him during ITC36.
Deep Medhi gave a presentation titled “A Slice through Four Decades: Connecting the Dots” summarizing his seminal contributions to traffic routing and network design during the award session at ITC36. After that the award was handed over by Sabine Wittevrongel, the chairperson of the IAC.
70th Years Celebration Session
During ITC 36 we celebrated the history of ITC and the members of the community. The community was invited to share experiences and memories via a survey. We received responses from more than 20 members of the community including video clips of past events, video greetings, as well as pictures and stories about previous congresses. The celebration session took place in form of a panel discussion. The panel consisted of Deep Medhi, Peder Emstad, Ronnie Potter, Michela Meo, Sabine Wittevrongel, Prosper Chemouil and Markus Fiedler. Sara and Thomas moderated the session and guided the participants through the early years of ITC, its impact and legacy, and the community and friendship. Slides and selected contributions can be found below.
Slides from the Celebration Session.
A look back at ITC by Prosper Chemouil, Gerald A. Ash, James W. Roberts.</br>
ITC Memories by Abdulhalin Dandoush.</br>
ITC Greetings by Markus Fiedler.
ITC 36 Facts
- Number of technical sessions: 5
- Number of keynotes: 3
- Number of special sessions (invited talks): 1
- Number of papers (main conference only): 11 full papers / 2 short papers / 4 invited presentations
- Number of attendees: 39 full conference registrations, 14 workshop-only registrations
- Online Participants: more than 10 every day.
- WONECA workshop ~25 participants
- PhD workshop ~40 participants
Welcome Message from ITC 36 General Chairs
A warm welcome to Trondheim and to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)! We are honored to chair the organizing committee for the 36th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 36) and we hope you will enjoy its scientific program as well as the charms of the city.
The committee has prepared a superb program for the full event. Program Committee chairs Anne Bouillard and Y.C. Tay deserve our deepest thanks for leading the selection of 13 papers and 4 invited talks (details on the selection process are in their message). The Best Paper Award will be announced during the banquet.
It is a special pleasure to have the main conference completed with two keynote speeches by Ramesh K. Sitaraman and Stefan Schmid. The conference program also features an invited lecture by the recipient of the 2025 Arne Jensen Lifetime Award: Deep Medhi. As one of the highlights of ITC 36, the 70 year ITC celebration session will be held on the second day of the conference. A panel with current and past members of the International Advisory Council complemented by senior members of the community will animate this celebration.
Our grateful thanks go to many individuals for organizing the workshops of Tuesday and Wednesday-Thursday. In particular, Francescomaria Faticanti and Amr Rizk have put together a PhD workshop with 7 lightning presentations and 2 spotlight presentations in addition to a posters session and Yuming Jiang and Lisa Maile have organized a Workshop on Network Calculus with 11 presentations hosted by the conference.
We have received generous financial contributions from the Research Council of Norway and NTNU. Thanks to them, we could propose attractive registration fees.
We greatly appreciate the endorsement of the Internet Technical Committee that made possible the technical sponsorship by IEEE and IEEE Communications Society.
We thank also the IAC for supporting our best paper award, the IAC and Inria for financing our student grants’ program and our Travel Grant Chairs Theo Benson and Jacek Rak for managing the selection process.
We are extremely grateful to Poul Heegaard and Anna Cassigneul who have taken care of local organization issues, to Stefan Geißler for his dedication and patience as webmaster, to Stanislav Lange and Yuxuan Sun for doing a great job in disseminating information about ITC 36 throughout the world, and to Lea Skorin-Kapov and Maria Torres Vega for handling the publication process in coordination with IEEE Xplore.
Last but not least we are very grateful to the City of Trondheim for their generous support with organizing the social events.
Once again, we wish you a great stay in Trondheim. Enjoy the conference!
Sara Alouf and Thomas Zinner
General Chairs
ITC 36, 2025
Welcome Message from ITC 36 Technical Program Chairs
On behalf of the Technical Program Committee, we are delighted to
welcome you to ITC36, the 36th International Teletraffic Congress.
ITC36 takes place in Trondheim, Norway, between June 2nd and 5th.
ITC boasts a rich tradition since its founding in 1955 and has evolved into one of the most reputable networking conferences with a particular emphasis on rigorous methodology. Over more than 50 years, ITC has provided a forum for leading researchers from academia and industry to present and discuss key technological and methodological advances in the design, performance evaluation and control of communication networks, protocols and applications and in traffic measurement and management. ITC36 continues this tradition by featuring the theme “Towards Sustainable Digital Infrastructures”, which is well aligned with the concerns of the younger generation of engineers and academics.
The submission deadline was January 10.
Among the submissions to ITC36, there were 23 full papers and 4 short papers;
1 full paper was eventually withdrawn.
This submission rate was smaller than expected,
so the workload for the TPC was light.
Even so, most papers received 4 reviews, 2 papers required a 5th review,
and 2 papers had just 3 reviews (because one reviewer was late).
The review deadline was January 31,
after which the TPC discussed the papers online.
There was a TPC meeting on February 21 via Zoom,
during which 13 of the papers were discussed.
As a result, 12 full papers and 2 short papers were accepted.
The authors were notified on February 28.
Unfortunately, the authors for 1 of the accepted papers could not attend
the conference, and decided to withdraw their paper.
Only 1 submission was nominated by the TPC for Best Paper, namely
“Energy/Performance Trade-Off in RANs with Dynamic Management of Frequency Bands”
by Diletta Olliaro, Michela Meo, Matteo Sereno, Andrea Marin and Marco Ajmone Marsan,
so it received the award.
The TPC also recommended a list of 6 papers for fast-track submission to
the Elsevier journal Performance Evaluation.
These journal versions are expected to have some 30\% more content
(e.g. novel conceptual extension, new experiments that offer original insight,
new theoretical analysis, proofs not in the conference version).
They are to be submitted within 6 months of the conference,
and will receive additional reviews.
The accepted papers are assigned to 5 sessions in a single track at the conference.
Following previous practice, the program also includes 4 invited presentations
by authors of ITC-relevant papers that were recently published in journals,
but which have not been presented in conferences.
Of these, 3 are in an invited session (“What’s new in PEVA?”)
and 1 in Session IV (“Optimization”).
In line with the conference theme on sustainability,
1 technical session and 2 invited papers focus on energy issues.
We must thank many people for their contribution to shaping the ITC36 program:
First and foremost, the authors who submitted their papers to the conference;
next, the 60 TPC members who reviewed the submissions and made the final selection;
and finally, the General Chairs Sara Alouf and Thomas Zinner,
who guided the TPC Chairs throughout the process.
We are fortunate and proud to help play a role in organizing this conference
for the 70th anniversary of the ITC, and look forward to its further growth
in the years to come!
Anne Bouillard and Y.C. Tay
TPC Chairs
ITC 2025
