The Seventeenth International Conference on Networks

ICN 2018

April 22, 2018 to April 26, 2018 - Athens, Greece

Deadlines

Submission

Jan 17, 2018

Notification

Feb 26, 2018

Registration

Mar 12, 2018

Camera ready

Mar 17, 2018

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).

Publication

Published by IARIA Press (operated by Xpert Publishing Services)

Archived in the Open Access IARIA ThinkMind Digital Library

Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal

Indexing Procedure

Affiliated Journals

ICN 2018 - The Seventeenth International Conference on Networks

April 22, 2018 - April 26, 2018

ICN 2018

ISSN: 2308-4413
ISBN: 978-1-61208-625-5

ICN 2018 is colocated with the following events as part of NexComm 2018 Congress:

  • ICDT 2018, The Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Telecommunications
  • SPACOMM 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Advances in Satellite and Space Communications
  • ICN 2018, The Seventeenth International Conference on Networks
    • SOFTNETWORKING 2018, The International Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization
  • ICONS 2018, The Thirteenth International Conference on Systems
  • MMEDIA 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Advances in Multimedia
  • PESARO 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Performance, Safety and Robustness in Complex Systems and Applications
  • CTRQ 2018, The Eleventh International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service
  • COCORA 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Advances in Cognitive Radio
  • ALLDATA 2018, The Fourth International Conference on Big Data, Small Data, Linked Data and Open Data
    • KESA 2018, The International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Semantic Annotation
  • SOFTENG 2018, The Fourth International Conference on Advances and Trends in Software Engineering

Special tracks:

SOFTNETWORKING: Advances in Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization
Chair and Coordinator:Eugen Borcoci, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania eugen.borcoci@elcom.pub.ro

MLWN: Machine Learning Aided Approaches for Next-Generation Wireless Networks
Chair and Coordinator: Jingjing Wang, Tsinghua University, China wang-jj14@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
Co-Chairs:
Zhongxiang Wei, University of Liverpool, UK hszwei@liv.ac.uk
Hongyang Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China yangli@ee.cuhk.edu.hk

NFV-SDN: Advances in Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks
Chairs and Coordinators:
Dr. Ting Wang, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, China twangah@connect.ust.hk
Prof. Dr. Lu Wang, Shenzhen University, China wanglu@szu.edu.cn

NetSoftware: Next Generation Networks Management in Softwarized Infrastructures using SDN and NFV
Chairs and Coordinators:
Alcardo Alex Barakabitze, Plymouth University, UK Alcardoalex.barakabitze@plymouth.ac.uk
Dr. Hellen Maziku, Tennessee State University, Nashville, USA hmaziku@my.tnstate.edu

SNP: Smart Network Platforms for Wireless Devices
Chair and Coordinator: Mr Karthikeyan Subramaniam, Samsung Research India – Bangalore, India karthikeyan.s@samsung.com

ICN 2018 conference tracks:

Communication
Communication theory; Communications switching and routing; Communications modeling; Communications security; Computer communications; Distributed communications; Signal processing in communications; Multimedia and multicast communications; Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, sensor networks); Vehicular communications

New Internet technologies
SDN, SDX, NFV; 4G/5G and advanced mobile Internet;  Internet of X (everything, things, people, etc.); Internet, Virtualization and Cloud; Internet and Big Data;  Sensing and sensor networks;  Energy-aware networks; Content-oriented networking; Cellular cognitive networks; Future routing mechanisms

Networking
Next generation networks [NGN] principles; Storage area networks [SAN]; Access and home networks; High-speed networks; Optical networks;  Peer-to-peer and overlay networking; Mobile networking and systems; MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks; Vehicular Networks; GRID networks, Cloud and Visualization;  Broadband networks; Small cell networks; Sensing and sensor networks

Computation and networking
Cloud computing; Fog computing; Internet computing; Mobile computing; Ubiquitous computing; Real-time computing; Big data-based computing;  Services computing and opportunistic computing; High Performance Computing (HPC); Fast data processing;  Fast switching and routing protocols; Parallelization of algorithms and applications; Energy-efficient High Performance Computing

Networking metrics
Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA]; Reliability, availability, serviceabiliy [RAS]; Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring; Voice over IP services; Performance evaluation, tools, simulation; Network, control and service architectures; Network signalling, pricing and billing; Network middleware; Telecommunication networks architectures; On-demand networks, utility computing architectures; Applications and case studies

Next generation networks (NGN) and network management
NGN protocol design and evaluation NGN Standard Activities [ITU, TMF, 3/4/5GPP, IETF, etc.]; NGN Device Instrumentation; Network Management, scheduling and policy; NGN policy-based control; Networks policy-based management; Management of autonomic networks and systems; Delay tolerant networks; Mobility management


Deadlines:

Submission

Jan 17, 2018

Notification

Feb 26, 2018

Registration

Mar 12, 2018

Camera ready

Mar 17, 2018

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).

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