CFP

Call for Demos IEEE MeditCom 2021

IEEE MeditCom 2021 Demo track provides a space for researchers and practitioners to bring hands-on experiences to conference attendees. We look forward to the interesting demonstrations of:

  • Functional prototypes of devices and systems
  • Mobile and wearable applications and services
  • New interaction techniques
  • Innovative examples of mobile experiences
  • Toolkits and prototyping techniques for mobile and wearable interfaces

Demo submissions should be made via EDAS by following this link:

https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28280&track=105976

IMPORTANT DATES

Two-page demo descriptions/proposal: 15 April 2021

Notification of acceptance: 30 May 2021

Technical demonstrations showing/presenting innovative and original research are solicited. In general IEEE MeditCom 2021 Demo track is interested in demonstrations and Proof of Concept implementations of technology that validate important research issues or showcase realistic applications in the following topics of interest (but not limited to):

  • 5G Mobile Systems and their Components
  • Network Architectures, SDN, NFV
  • Cloud Communications and Data-center Networks
  • Optical Networks and Systems, Radio over Fiber
  • Mobile and Wireless Communications and Networking and Beyond
  • Molecular and Nanoscale Communications
  • Satellite and Space Communications
  • Underground and Underwater Communications
  • Image, Speech and Signal Processing for Communications
  • Big Data and Machine Learning for Communications
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Internet of Things, Smart grids, and Vehicular Networks
  • Green Communications and Energy Efficient Computing
  • Network Applications and Services
  • Analytical Models, Simulation, Testbeds & Prototypes
  • Network Management and Cognitive Radio
  • QoE/QoS Support and Cross-layer Optimization
  • Performance Evaluation of Communication Systems
  • Massive MIMO, Signal Processing, and Coding
  • Advanced PHY and MAC techniques
  • Security, Privacy, Trust and Blockchain
  • Cybersecurity

DEMO paper submission instructions

Submissions should be a two-page proposal summary that follows the IEEE formatting guidelines: refer to the IEEE submission instructions for details. Be as specific as possible in describing what you will demonstrate or display as demo.

A complete submission should be two pages in length and will include the following:

  • A 35-word abstract
  • An Overview section giving a full description of the research and technologies to be demonstrated
  • An Innovation section describing the problem and novelty of the approach in solving it
  • A section describing the relevance for MeditCom explaining why the MeditCom audience and communities should be interested in this demo
  • The demo proposal summary should explain the objective and contents of the demo, and detail its configuration and main elements. The objective should be to demonstrate an innovative application, a working prototype or a novel concept
  • Demonstrations should be based on technical achievements and prototypes at a research stage (i.e. no pre-commercial or product demonstrations are allowed).

The demo session will take place online or locally, depending on the conference type (hybrid or virtual). Summaries of accepted demos will be included in the IEEE MeditCom 2021 Proceedings. Accepted and presented summaries will be submitted to IEEE Xplore®.

DEMO CO-CHAIRS

Lena Wosinska, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Harilaos Koumaras, NCSR Demokritos, Greece

Special Issue “Experimentation in 5G and Beyond Networks: State of the Art and the Way Forward” on Sensors Journal (MDPI)

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As defined by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards in the Release 15 specifications, only recently has the first phase of the 5th Generation (5G) of cellular systems started to be deployed worldwide. Each country, based on its own needs and local market requests, has decided on its own deployment roadmap of 5G services. For instance, as of August 2020, not all European countries have launched commercial 5G services. This ongoing first phase of deployment will be followed by enhanced versions of the standards in the following years. Therefore, in parallel with the commercial rollout, the capability to experiment and validate the planned new features, thanks to data-driven analyses based on field trials and measurements, is of extreme interest to the whole 5G ecosystem, including researchers, standardization bodies, network operators, small and medium-sized enterprises, technology and equipment providers, and verticals. These analyses make it possible to identify correlations between deployment choices and achievable 5G key performance indicators (KPIs), while guiding towards system optimization and enhancement. The definition of KPIs, as well as measurement and validation methodologies, are complex tasks in 5G scenarios, due to intrinsic dependencies with specific use cases, services, and applications.

Within the above context, this Special Issue aims to collect original contributions on experimental aspects of 5G and beyond networks and systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Design, implementation, and usage of 5G and beyond experimental testbeds and platforms (e.g., those in the scopes of EU 5G-PPP and US PAWR programs);
  • Design, implementation, and usage of 5G open-source tools for automated resource instantiation, management, monitoring, and data analysis;
  • End-to-end measurement and validation frameworks for 5G KPIs;
  • Experimental analysis and ML/AI-based modeling and optimization of 5G technologies and paradigms, including:
    • 5G New Radio (NR) and 5G Core (5G Core);
    • Network slicing, management and orchestration, and SDN/NFV;
    • MEC, fog and edge computing;
    • 5G multi-access and multi-connectivity at different network layers (e.g., 5GNR-LTE interworking, 5GNR-WiFi aggregation, and multipath transport protocols applied to 5G);
    • Spectrum sharing, coexistence, and management mechanisms;
    • mmWave communication and networking;
  • Experimental analysis and ML/AI-based modeling and optimization of 5G vertical-specific applications, including
    • High-demanding multimedia applications;
    • Smart cities;
    • Industrial automation;
    • Intelligent transport systems and vehicular applications;
    • E-health;
    • Mission-critical services;
  • 5G and beyond standardization activities towards KPI measurement and validation;
  • Description and usage of 5G open datasets.

The Special Issue seeks original, unpublished papers addressing key issues and challenges in 5G and beyond experimentation. Survey, review, and tutorial papers on aspects related to the above topics will also be considered for publication. Papers shall contain original material, not currently submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be judged by their technical merit and relevance to the Special Issue.

Guest Editors
Dr. Giuseppe Caso
Prof. Anna Brunstrom
Prof. Özgü Alay
Dr. Harilaos Koumaras
Dr. Almudena Díaz Zayas
Dr. Valerio Frascolla

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sensors is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI’s English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

QoE-FI 2015

IEEE Workshop on Quality of Experience-Based Management for Future Internet Applications and Services

Recent technological advances have enabled a constant proliferation of novel immersive and interactive services that pose ever-increasing demands to our communication networks and add to their load. Examples are: social TV, immersive environments, mobile gaming, HDTV over mobile, 3D virtual world, book/newspaper consumption, social networking, IPTV applications, just to cite a few. Some of these services have already reached a major market success especially because a user-centered approach has been followed to design the whole process of content production, service activation, content consumption, and service (and network) management.
In addition, we witness the trend of migrating end-to-end multimedia communication systems/platforms to the cloud. Media processing and consumption in the cloud requires attention from two main perspectives: maintenance of processing-related cloud operations over the execution time considering the end-user and application-related QoS/QoE requirements via dynamic resource provisioning; and the parallelization and abstraction of media processing tasks for the optimization of limited and shared cloud resources. Furthermore, the domain of Smart Cities offers new opportunities and use cases, but at the same time poses new challenges for keeping users engaged and interested in those services. This also includes other aspects such as quality of life as well as critical considerations such as user safety, particularly when it comes to urban transport and emergency scenarios.
In this dynamically evolving context, network operators and service providers are struggling to keep their increasingly sophisticated customers content while remaining profitable at the same time. Consequently, optimization and management of QoE has become crucial issue in the deployment of successful services and products. However, even if the concept itself may seem straightforward to understand, it requires rather complex implementation processes for efficient performances in real end-to-end systems/networks. The complexity of QoE is mainly due to the difficulties in its modelling, evaluation, and mapping to objective Quality of Service (QoS) parameters, which,for more than a decade, has been used as a partial substitution to QoE, and due to its multi-dimensional end-to-end nature covering a wide range of networks, applications, systems, devices, contexts and expertise.

On this background, the workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers from academia and industry to identify and discuss technical challenges, exchange novel ideas, explore enabling technologies, and report latest research efforts that cover a variety of topics including, but not limited to:

– QoE evaluation methodologies and metrics
– Frameworks and testbeds for QoE evaluation (crowd-sourcing, field testing, etc.)
– QoE studies & trials in the context of Smart Cities
– QoE models, their applications and use cases
– QoE for immersive audio-video and interactive multimedia communication environments
– QoE-aware cross-layer design
– QoE-driven media processing and transmission over the cloud and over the top (OTT)
– QoE control, monitoring and management strategies
– QoE in community-focused interactive systems
– KPI and KQI definition for QoE optimization in different environments
– Integration of QoE in infrastructure and service quality monitoring solutions
– Media analytics from QoE Big Data
– Standards for media coding (HEVC, HEVC for 3D, etc.) and transport (DASH, MMT, XMPP, etc.)
– Future Media Internet architectures

Submitted papers must represent original material which is not currently under review in any other conference or journal and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed the six-page standard IEEE conference two-column format. Please see the author information page for submission guidelines on the ICC 2015 website http://icc2015.ieee-icc.org

Link: http://qoe-fi.diee.unica.it
When Jun 8, 2015 – Jun 12, 2015
Where London
Submission Deadline Jan 10, 2015
Notification Due Feb 14, 2015
Final Version Due Feb 15, 2015

 

Future Network & MobileSummit 2011

Future Network & Mobile Summit 2011 Conference and Exhibition
15 – 17 June 2011, Warsaw, Poland

Future Network & MobileSummit 2011 (previously ICT-MobileSummit) is the twentieth in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 600 delegates from industry and research to share experiences and research results, identify future trends, discuss business opportunities and identify opportunities for international research collaboration under the ICT Theme of Framework Programme 7 (FP7). It will thus contribute to showcasing European research in the field, and position it within the multiplicity of related initiatives supported in other regions of the world.

Future Network & MobileSummit 2011 will address all the challenges of building the Future Internet, which will be based on mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications infrastructures. It showcases European research in the field, and positions it within the multiplicity of related initiatives supported in other regions of the world.

The Scientific Programme incorporates all the key constituents of Future Communication Networks including the themes Radio Access and Spectrum, Converged and Optical Networks, and Future Internet Technologies.

Supported by the European Commission and eMobility, the Future Network & MobileSummit’s reputation is based on high quality networking, plenary sessions that discuss strategic issues in core thematic areas, and paper sessions that showcase original results in all areas of mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications systems and networks.

Future Network & MobileSummit 2011 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Poland Communications Chapter Krakow, IEEE Poland Computer Chapter and IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter.

While European funded research results are of particular interest, innovative research funded commercially or at national level is equally interesting from a community perspective. The participation of representatives of leading commercial, research and regulatory organizations in the Conference Community ensures a stimulating and high quality networking environment.

Call for Papers
Important Deadlines:
Submission deadline for full papers: 10 December 2010
Acceptance decision: 29 January 2011
Final Paper Submission: 11 March 2011

The scientific programme for Future Network & MobileSummit 2011 is based on an open Call for Papers and the conference language is English.
Interested presenters are encouraged to prepare a paper of 6 – 8 pages and submit online by 10 December.
All papers are double blind reviewed. Please ensure that there are no contact details within the text of your paper submission for review (Word document or PDF), the properties of the file or the file name prior to uploading it onto the server. Please enter all authors and co-authors details as part of the online submission form. Please ensure that the paper uploaded by 10 December is your final version to be reviewed as all papers will be assigned to the TPC following the paper submission deadline.
All submissions will be double blind reviewed by the Technical Programme Committee and authors will receive feedback by 29 January. Accepted authors will then be invited to submit a final paper taking account of feedback provided for inclusion in the conference proceedings by 11 March.

Core Thematic Priorities for Future Network & MobileSummit 2011
– Access and Spectrum
– Next-generation Radio System Architectures and Protocols
– Cooperative Wireless Networking
– Advanced Physical Layer Techniques
– Cognitive and Reconfigurable Radio Systems
– Radio Spectral Coexistence and Future Frequency Bands
– Radio Network and Terminal Self-configuration and -management

Converged and Optical Networks
– WDM and long-reach Passive Optical Networks
– Mobile Access Networks based on Free-space Optical Technology including Infrared and Visible Light
– Next-generation Active Optical (P2P) Networks
– Gigabit Home and In-Building Networks
– Fixed-mobile Convergence including Infrastructure Convergence, Centralisation in Radio-over-fibre, Femto-cells and Supporting Solutions

Future Internet Technologies
– Future Internet Architecture and Protocol Design
– Scalable Architectures for the Real World Internet
– Future Internet Self-Management Frameworks
– Network Overlay, Virtualisation and Federation
– Future Internet Experimental Facilities and Benchmarking
– Platforms and Middleware for Seamless Service and Content Delivery
– Security, Trust and Privacy in the Future Internet

More information is available at
www.futurenetworksummit.eu/2011/default.asp?page=c4p