The Sixteenth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications

ICWMC 2020

October 18, 2020 to October 22, 2020 - Porto, Portugal

Deadlines

Submission

Jul 15, 2020

Notification

Aug 09, 2020

Registration

Aug 23, 2020

Camera ready

Sep 03, 2020

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

ICWMC 2020 - The Sixteenth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications

October 18, 2020 - October 22, 2020

ICWMC 2020

ISSN: 2308-4219
ISBN: 978-1-61208-794-8

ICWMC 2020 is colocated with the following events as part of InfoWare 2020 Congress:

  • ICCGI 2020, The Fifteenth International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology
  • ICWMC 2020, The Sixteenth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications
  • VEHICULAR 2020, The Ninth International Conference on Advances in Vehicular Systems, Technologies and Applications
  • INTERNET 2020, The Twelfth International Conference on Evolving Internet
  • COLLA 2020, The Tenth International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications
  • INTELLI 2020, The Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Applications
  • VISUAL 2020, The Fifth International Conference on Applications and Systems of Visual Paradigms
  • HUSO 2020, The Sixth International Conference on Human and Social Analytics
  • BRAININFO 2020, The Fifth International Conference on Neuroscience and Cognitive Brain Information

ICWMC 2020 Steering Committee

 

Dragana Krstic
University of Niš
Serbia


 

Rajat Kumar Kochhar
Ericsson
Sweden


 

Magnus Jonsson
Halmstad University
Sweden


     

 

Special tracks:

OCTA: 5G Optical Communications Technologies and Applications
Chair: Sofien Mhatli, ISI Kef, University of Jendouba and SERCOM-LAB University of Carthage, La Marsa, Tunisia sofiene.mehtlli@isikef.u-jendouba.tn

DSIoT: Data Science for the Internet of Things
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ali Kadhum Idrees, University of Babylon, Iraq ali.idrees@uobabylon.edu.iq

RRA: Radio Interface and Resource Allocation for 5G Systems and Beyond
Chair: Prof. Dr. Varese Salvador Timóteo, Associate Professor, State University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil varese@unicamp.br

ENSEC: Emerging Networks & Security
Dedicated site: https://www.ena-sec.com/
Chair: Assistant Professor, Dr. Karim Zkik, TICLab, International University of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco karim.zkik@uir.ac.ma

 

ICWMC 2020 conference tracks:

Future in mobile systems

Mobility-centric world; Cooperative communications; Indoor and outdoor mobility; Extended satellite services; Mobile sensing and optimizations; Detection of mobile malware; Wearable-based of motion sensing and measurement; Wearable body-to-body networks; Emerging sensing methods; Automatic personal fitness assistance; Vehicular connectivity at crossroads; Cross-layer protocols for IoT traffic in 5G; Software Defined Networks (SDN)-based mobility management; Machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT); Mobile Cloud: WiFi signal-based human activity recognition; Dynamic spectrum access; Cognitive mobility; Wavefront multiplexing techniques; Edge computing in visual analytics; Cooperative content retrieval and distribution; Collaborative spectrum sensing; mm-Wave picocells; Reconfigurable Radio Frequency (RF) receivers; Traffic-aware of NFV (Network Function Virtualization); Energy harvesting; Large-scale array of dense distributed antennas; Advanced modulation schemes; 3GPP LTE enhancements and 5G; Resource Allocation in dense 5G deployments; Commodity devices; Physical vibration virtual keyboard; Tactile and haptic mobile Internet; Commodity WiFi devices; Macro-Femto interference avoidance; Mobile apps anomalies; GPS localization errors

Indoor & Outdoor Communication

Indoor and outdoor localization; Indoor and outdoor navigation; Road networks applications; Tracking; Walking directions;  Mapping; Reference points; Sensing & Lighting;  mmWave interference; Autonomous vehicles; Pedestrian localization; Industrial environments; Aerial vehicles; Non-RSS range-based systems; Time of Flight; Range modeling; Velocity estimation; Calibration & Auto-calibration; Uncertainty; Error mitigation; Observability

Mobility trends

SDN, SDX, NFV; 4G/5G and advanced mobile Internet;  Internet of X (everything, things, people, etc.); Internet, Virtualization and Cloud; Big Data and mobile networks;  Sensing and sensor networks; Energy-aware in mobile networks; Cellular cognitive networks; Future routing mechanisms; Mobility and wireless; Mobility enabling protocols; Mobile software; Service composition in mobile environments; Knowledge and service discovery in mobile environments; On-demand mobility; User presence in mobile environments

Wireless Communications Basics

Coding & modulation & equalization; Channel modeling and characterization; Equalization/Synchronization; Transform-domain communication; Multiple access algorithms and schemes; Antenna and RF subsystems; Smart antennas, adaptive antennas, MIMO and beam forming; MIMO and OFDM Based PHY Layer technologies; CDMA Systems

Radio Interfaces and Systems

Radio communications systems; Radio resource management; Radio transmission technologies; Power and interference control; Interference Cancellation for Wireless Mobile Systems; Power management for small terminals; Energy map; Channel Measurement and Characterization

Spectrum Allocation and Management

Spectrum efficiency analyses; Dynamic spectrum access networks; Spectrum management; Interference mitigation and management techniques 

Circuits for Wireless Communications

Wireless ASICs; Wireless technologies; RF Design issues

Wireless and Mobility

Mobility management; Location-based services and positioning; Micro and macro-mobility; Mobility, location and handoff management; Mobile and wireless IP; Wireless broadband mobile access; Routing in multihop, ad hoc and sensor networks; Wireless multicasting; Wireless mesh networks; Topology control in wireless

Protocols for wireless and mobility

Wireless protocols, architectural and design concepts; Protocols for air interfaces and networks; Wireless MAC protocols: Design and analysis; Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks; Middleware for handhelds and mobile services nodes; Proxies and middleware for wireless networks

Traffic and congestion control, QoS, Resource Management

Traffic Modeling and Analysis; 3G/4G Bandwidth on Demand; QoS and mobility; End-to-end QoS; QoS profiling and pricing; Traffic Engineering; Congestion and admission control 

Wireless and mobile technologies

Micro-mobility and macro-mobility; Wireless LANs; Home and Personal Area Networks: Bluetooth, ZigBeee, etc; Wireless MANs:802.16, 802.20; Wireless WANs: 2G/3G/4G; Mobile ad hoc networks and multi-hop wireless; Sensor networks and applications; Ultra-wideband and short-range networks; High altitude platforms and satellites; Emergency wireless communications; Wireless real-time communications; RFID systems (including readers and transponders in LF, HF and UHF bands)

Performance Evaluation, Simulation and Modeling of wireless networks and systems

Performance and QoS in wireless networks; Radio channel modeling (wave propagation and measurements); Mobile/wireless networks modeling and simulation; Performance of end-to-end protocols over wireless networks 

Management of wireless and mobile networks

Mobility and QoS management; Billing technologies and tools; Policy Based Management in wireless LANS and MANs; Wireless and Mobile Network Planning; Mobile Database Access and Design

Security in wireless and mobile environment

Security and robustness in wireless networks; Privacy, Authentication Authorization and Accounting  (AAA); Encryption and Cryptography; Key Management Protocols; Digital Rights Management and Multimedia Protection

Networks convergence and integration

2G/3G/4G integration; Convergence of 3G wireless and Internet cross-layer design in wireless networks; WLAN/3G/4G integration; Wireless-wireline convergence; Heterogeneous Networks (WAN, Wireless MAN, WLAN); IP Multimedia subsystems (IMS); Next Generation Network Architecture- mobility issues; Coexistence of mobile radio networks; End to End QoS in Heterogeneous environment; Signaling for integrated wireline/wireless networks 

Applications and services based on wireless infrastructures

Mobile & Wireless applications & services; Service discovery: protocols and frameworks; Personalized services and applications; Audio-visual and mobile multimedia applications; Media and content distribution over wireless networks 

Standardization and regulations

Position on standards & fora on wireless and mobile networks; Wireless Networks Standards and Protocols; Communications regulations; 802.11 WLAN Standards; 802.16 WMAN Standards; 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards; HSDPA Technology and Standards; Next Generation Network standards

Design and  implementation

Emerging wireless technologies; Cross-layer optimizations in wireless networks; Design and implementation of mobile information systems; Software defined radio and re-configurability; Joint PHY/MAC design

Wireless and mobile network deployment

Business models on wireless networks; Market trends and regional developments; M-commerce; Lessons learnt for wireless deployment in schools Lessons learnt for wireless deployment in special regions; Specialized wireless networks; Heterogeneous wireless network deployment (e.g., combining 802.11, 802.16 and 3G networks)

Cooperative and Cognitive Vehicular Networks

Architectures and platforms of cognitive vehicular network; Distributed artificial intelligence techniques for cognitive networks; Cognitive vehicular routing metrics and supporting protocols; Reduced complexity cognitive networks; Physical and MAC layer issues; Protocols design for cognitive vehicular networks; Cross-layer optimization in cognitive networks; Security issues for vehicular and cognitive networks; Testbed experiment, applications and new advances; Cooperative vehicular networks; QoS provisioning in heterogeneous networks ; Managing vertical handover; Multihoming; IPv6 GeoNetworking; Vehicular network architectures and protocols ; Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks and cognitive networks; Mobility management and topology control; Standardization and Development of vehicular networks

Convergence and social mobility

Convergence of mobile networks with the Web 2.0; Convergence on architecture and services; Open service capabilities; Open exposure of telco capabilities; Open Web APIs, SOA and SDP); Interworking strategies; Mobile terminals as sources for User-generated content; Architecture and services for user-generated content; Auto-description and metadata synthesis for telecom-generated for user-generated content; Social mobile networks; User behavior profiling; Social connections (social graphs, contacts, etc); Services and architectures/solutions for social mobile services


Deadlines:

Submission

Jul 15, 2020

Notification

Aug 09, 2020

Registration

Aug 23, 2020

Camera ready

Sep 03, 2020

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

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