The Seventeenth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications

ICWMC 2021


Computer Networks & Wireless Communication



INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate

groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original

scientific results to:

- ICWMC 2021, The Seventeenth International Conference on Wireless and

Mobile Communications

ICWMC 2021 is scheduled to be July 18 - 22, 2021 in Nice, France under

the InfoWare 2021 umbrella.

The submission deadline is April 19, 2021.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article

versions to one of the IARIA Journals: 
https://www.iariajournals.org

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============== ICWMC 2021 | Call for Papers ===============



CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS



ICWMC 2021, The Seventeenth International Conference on Wireless and

Mobile Communications



General page: 
https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/ICWMC21.html



Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/SubmitICWMC21.html



Event schedule: July 18 - 22, 2021



Contributions:

- 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 at 
www.iaria.org]

- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]



Submission deadline: April 19, 2021



Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA

Journals:  
https://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.:

https://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library:

https://www.thinkmind.org



The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of

concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,

running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors

are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under

review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not

limited to, topic areas.



All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in

terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,

Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.



Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules:


https://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html





ICWMC 2021 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)



Call for Papers: 
https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/CfPICWMC21.html



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ICWMC 2021 Tracks (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)



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



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ICWMC 2021 Committee: 
https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/ComICWMC21.html



Publicity Chairs

Mar Parra, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Alvaro Liebana, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

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