Routing builds connections between nodes, and provides forwarding services to above applications and end users. As the underlying infrastructure and core functions of all data networks, routing systems are crucial to the network architecture and its overall performance. 

Diversified networks are emerging and legacy networks are keeping evolution, which entails an investigation into the invariant rationale behind and addressing the new challenges of routing technology. This symposium is to bring together researchers and engineers in communication, computer and social networks from academic and industry to discuss and exchange their new achievements and novel ideas in routing theories, protocol designs and system implementations.

The 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Network Evolution and Routing Innovation ( Routing09 ) will be held in conjunction with the 8th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC09),December 12-14, 2009, Chengdu, China.

This symposium covers routing technology in various networks, including Internet, NGN, MANET (Mobile Ad hoc Network) and Vehicular Network, Airborne,Satellite and Deep Space Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless Mesh Network, Cognitive Radio Networks, DTN (Delay-and-disruption Tolerant Network), Optical Network, P2P and WEB Searching, Social Networks, etc. The topics include but are not limited to:

(1) Routing Theories, Models and Algorithms
· Routing architecture and addressing scheme in complex networks
· Routing in Internet of Networks
· Routing correctness conditions and validation
· Routing scalability and scalable routing model
· Robustness of the Internet as a complex system
· Dependable networking and routing service model

(2) Routing Optimization and Control
· Reality and practice of QoS routing and multi-constrained routing
· Energy-efficient routing in wireless and high-performance networks
· QoE (Quality of Experience) routing
· Advances in multi-path routing
· Situation-aware and bio-inspired routing
· Routing and traffic engineering
· Policy-based routing and configuration management
· Semantic routing
· Search and routing in social networks

(3) Secure and Dependable Routing
· Routing attacker model
· Routing behavior monitoring and improvement
· Secure routing protocol
· Strong security and high performance solutions
· Trust routing and reputation subsystem
· Network coding and reliable routing
· Resilient routing

(4) Autonomic Routing and Cooperation
· Self-organization in routing system
· Autonomous security for ISPs or wireless nodes
· Selfish routing and game-based routing
· Socio-economic models of routing
· Inter-ISP competition and cooperation
· Cooperative content distribution between ICP and ISP
· Cooperative security monitoring and routing management

(5) Future Internet Routing
· Future Internet architecture and routing evolution
· Locator/identifier separation routing
· User centric routing
· Geographic routing and location-based service
· Routing in Internet of Things
· Routing and search in Internet of Contents and Services

(6) Routing Implementation and Device Designs
· Routing performance analysis
· Large-scale routing simulation and experiments
· High performance switches and routers
· New challenges in address look-up algorithms
· Optical routing and switching
· Power-aware switching and routing
· Switching and routing for Cloud Computing environments