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The International Symposium on Future Mobile Networks:
5G and Beyond

5G 2015

June 21 - 26, 2015 - Brussels, Belgium


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This symposium is part of AICT 2015.

 
   
   

Call for Papers:

The symposium highlights the major factors/drivers towards 5G and beyond:

  • Trends/tendencies related to user demand changes for different services/applications up to 2020 and beyond
    • demand for services/applications from different groups of end-users and its extrapolation by 2020 and upwards
  • New technologies, innovations, network solutions to meet the requirements/demand from the side of end-users, mobile network operators, service providers
    • Enhancements/advances related to network architecture, design and deployment at the level of RANs and Core Network
  • Cost/gain ratio issues of new technologies, concepts, network solutions
    • techno-economical considerations, impact on current specifications/standards
  • “Political” factors and 5G development
    • Requirements/restrictions from the side of regulation, standardization, market players, politicians

Topics:

  • 5G applications and services
  • Traffic forecasts, trends, patterns, modeling
  • 5G requirements and network scenarios
  • End-to-end network architecture and infrastructure
  • Interworking between heterogeneous networks and technologies
  • Automated management, orchestration and operation of network functions
  • Massive data gathering and analysis infrastructure for automated decision-making
  • Spectrum and infrastructure sharing
  • Key 5G RAN technologies
  • Software-defined core and edge networks
  • Key disruptive technologies: SDN/NFV, mobile cloud computing, ICN, semantic networking, etc.
  • The role of open source software in 5G
  • Indoor/outdoor positioning
  • Massive connectivity handling
  • Energy-efficient networking
  • Security and privacy issues
  • 5G simulation, emulation, evaluation tools and testbeds
  • Technoeconomics of future mobile networks
  • New business models
  • Spectrum, regulation, and standardization for 5G
Committees:

5G Symposium Chairs

Andrey Krendzel, Huawei Technologies, Finland
Marc Portoles Comeras, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA

5G Advisory Committee

Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus, Greece
Mischa Dohler, King's College London, UK
Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College London, the United Kingdom
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technologies, Finland
Kari Leppänen, Huawei Technologies, Finland
Josep Mangues-Buffaluy, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain
Chih-Lin I, Green Communication Research Center, China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing, P. R. China
Robert W. Heath Jr., Univ. Texas-Austin, USA
Jose F. Monserrat, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

5G Research Liaison Committee

Zhili Sun, 5GIC, University of Surrey, UK
Ömer Bulakci, Huawei European Research Center, Germany
Mehdi Bennis, Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland
Wensheng Zhang, Shandong University, China

5G Industry Liaison Committee

Ngoc-Dung Dao, Huawei, Canada
Piotr Pietrzyk, Nutaq/Telecom Market Intelligence, Poland
Prakash Suthar, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
Ilaria Thibault, 5G Technologies, Vodafone, UK

5G 2015 Technical Program Committee

Iñaki Estella Aguerri, Huawei Technologies, France
Sergey Andreev, Tampere University of Technologies, Finland
Faouzi Bader, Supélec-Rennes, France
Erdem Bala, InterDigital Communications Inc., USA
Anass Benjebbour, NTT DOCOMO, Inc., Japan
Lazar Berbakov, Institute Mihailo Pupin, Serbia
Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Elias Chavarria, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Kwang-Cheng Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Giuseppe Cocco, German Aerospace Center - DLR, Germany
Paolo Dini, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain
Victor Dot, Hutchison 3G UK (Three), United Kingdom
Avadora Dumitrescu,  Nokia Networks, Finland
Roman Dunaytsev, St-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, Russia
Omar El Ayach, Google, USA
Ana Galindo-Serrano, ALTEN, Orange Labs, Paris, France
Xavier Gelabert, Huawei Sweden, Sweden
Amirhossein Ghanbari, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Philip Ginzboorg, Aalto University/Huawei, Finland
Markus Gruber, Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG, Germany
David Gutierrez Estevez, Huawei Technologies, USA
Yongming Huang, Southeast University, China
Chih-Lin I, Green Communication Research Center, China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing, China
Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Surrey, UK
Janne Janhunen, Centre for Wireless Communications / University of Oulu, Finland
Shi Jin, Southeast University, China
Eduard Jorswieck, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Branislav Jovic, University of Auckland, New Zealand
David Lopez-Perez, Bell Laboratories Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Ilaria Malanchini, Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG, Germany
Geneviève Mange, Bell Labs - Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG, Germany
Patrick Marsch, Nokia Networks, Poland
Werner Mohr, Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH, Germany
José Núñez, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain
Piotr Pietrzyk, Nutaq/Telecom Market Intelligence, Poland
Alberto Rico, Qualcomm, USA
Onur Sahin, Innovation Labs - InterDigital Europe, UK
Tommy Svensson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi University/Academy of Finland, Finland
Jussi Turkka, Magister Solutions Ltd., Finland
Pal Varga, Budapest University of Technology and Economics/AITIA International Inc., Hungary
Johanna Vartiainen, CWC, University of Oulu, Finland
Du Yinggang, Huawei Technologies, Sweden
Engin Zeydan, Avea, Turkey
Haibin Zhang, TNO, The Netherlands

(to be completed)

Instructions for the Authors

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper)

Jan 27 February 23, 2015

Notification

March 30, 2015

Registration

April 15, 2015

Camera ready

May 12, 2015

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Contribution types

  • regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
  • presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
  • demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]
  • doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:

Details on contributions and proposals.

FORMATS

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here. Latex templates are also available.

Slides-based contributions can use the corporate/university format and style.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of contribution acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

We would recommend that you should not use too many extra pages, even if you can afford the extra fees. No more than 2 contributions per event are recommended, as each contribution must be separately registered and paid for. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to ensure that the paper will be included in the conference proceedings and in the digital library, or posted on the www.iaria.org (for slide-based contributions).

Publishing Information:

Published by IARIA XPS Press

Archived in the free access ThinkMindTM Digital Library
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.

ISBN: 978-1-61208-411-4


Submit a Paper:

First, fill out the submission form with information about your paper. Please, fill it out only once for each paper, and do not resubmit it. Contact the address below if you run into any difficulties.

As the designated correspondence author, you will then receive a first e-mail message containing the paper ID. The information in the email will allow you to submit your paper.

If you have some problems send your paper via this e-mail (please report your paper ID in the text of your mail AND the name of the conference).

The conference staff will contact you only if the paper does not print properly or has other problems.

You can change information about your paper, submit brief corrections, view an email trail, and even edit your personal information by following the link in the initial confirmation email.

Touristic Information:

Touristic information is available from the hosting conference, AICT 2015.

Hotels and Travel:

Hotels and travel information is available from the hosting conference page, AICT 2015.

Tutorials:

Tutorials are available from the hosting conference page, AICT 2015.

Preliminary Program:

Preliminary program is available from the hosting conference page, AICT 2015.

Camera Ready:

Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.

LaTex templates can be found here.

More information coming after the paper accept/reject notifications are sent out.

Registration Form:

One registration form covers the registration of the paper and the participation of one presenter.

If an author has two (or more) accepted papers, each paper must be registered with a separate form.

Every participant must register separately. (if two co-authors attend, they each must register)

There are a limited number of prebooked hotel rooms. We suggest you reserve yours at the same time with the paper registration. The flight information can be sent at a later date.

Registration form download:

Note: If you attend but do not have a paper to present, use paper number "0" on your registration form.

The registration form in RTF format can be found here. [note: form will be available after notification is sent]

Attendance guidelines:

During IARIA events, photos and recordings may be made. By registering to and/or attending IARIA events, you consent to allow IARIA to make and distribute such material for informational, publicity, promotional and/or reporting purposes in print or electronic media.

Video recording of presentations by attendees are not allowed without written permission from IARIA and the on-site OK of the presenter.

Copyrighted presentation material may be photographed or copied for personal use only, not for reproduction or distribution. Material labeled confidential or proprietary may not be photographed or copied.

Presence:

If for unforeseen reasons physical presence at the conference location is not  possible, proceedings will not be mailed:
- the articles are freely available from ThinkMind digital library, www.thinkmind.org
- a receipt can be requested from the email address listed in the header of the registration form

Statistics:

Statistics are available from the hosting conference page, AICT 2015.

Photos:

Photos are available from the hosting conference page, AICT 2015.

Awards:

Awards are available from the hosting conference page, AICT 2015.

 
 

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