The Twentieth International Conference on Networks

ICN 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:



- ICN 2021, The Twentieth International Conference on Networks



- SOFTNETWORKING: Advances in Software Defined Networking and Network

Functions Virtualization



ICN 2021 is scheduled to be April 18 - 22, 2021 in Porto, Portugal under

the NexComm 2021 umbrella.



The submission deadline is January 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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============== ICN 2021 | Call for Papers ===============



CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS





ICN 2021, The Twentieth International Conference on Networks



General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/ICN21.html



Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/SubmitICN21.html



Event schedule: April 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: January 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are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under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





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



Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/CfPICN21.html



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



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



Cognitive radio

Fundamentals; Cognitive radio and emerging technologies; Energy-aware,

smart sensing and capacity-aware in advanced technologies; Mechanisms

and protocols; Processing and devices; Measurement and management;

Applications



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ICN 2021 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/ComICN21.html



Publicity Chairs

Lorena Parra, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Jose Luis García, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

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