The Fourteenth International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service

CTRQ 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:

- CTRQ 2021, The Fourteenth International Conference on Communication

Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service

CTRQ 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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============== CTRQ 2021 | Call for Papers ===============



CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS



CTRQ 2021, The Fourteenth International Conference on Communication

Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service



General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/CTRQ21.html



Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/SubmitCTRQ21.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are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under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



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



Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/CfPCTRQ21.html



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



Communication theory

Fundamentals in communication theory; Communications switching and

routing; Communications modeling; Communications security; Autonomic

communications; Performance in communications; Computer communications;

Distributed communications; Wired and wireless communications; Signal

processing in communications; Multimedia and multicast communications;

High-speed communications; Delay-tolerant communications; Fault-tolerant

networks; Reliable and safe communications; Iterative coding and

decoding techniques



Quality and reliability in smart environments

Quality in advanced wireless networks (LTE, 3/4G, 4.5G -LTE Advanced

Pro-, 5G); Quality and reliability in high velocity mobile networks;

Quality and reliability in mobile (big, huge) data processing; Quality

and reliability in data collection and dissemination; Quality and

reliability on dense sensor networks; Quality and reliability in

vehicular and transportation systems; Quality and reliability in aerial

an underwater vehicles; Quality and reliability evaluation in new

computing paradigms (fog computing, cloudlets, mobile edge); Quality and

reliability in smart cities; Quality and reliability of elderly patient

alarms and e-health systems; Quality and reliability enforcement in

nano/femto cells; Quality and reliability on energy harvesting in Green

environments; Quality and reliability metrics via Quality-of-Experience

and customer reports; Quality and reliability testbeds for smart

environments



Assessing quality and reliability

Assessing data dissemination accuracy in opportunistic networks;

Assessing Internet traffic on high speed railways; Assessing the

guidelines for energy-aware software for wearable devices; Offloading

floating car data; Interference mitigation in body-to-body area

networks; Spatial correlation for heterogeneous cameras in multimedia

sensor networks; Managing applications with different delay

sensitivities; Assessing quality and reliability for off-the-shelf

devices; Assessing quality and reliability of Handover protocols;

Assessing context correctness for secure mobile collaboration; Assessing

security and reliability through linked data in cloud and fog computing;

Assessing reliability and quality for context and social-aware

recommender systems; Assessing reliability of vehicular density

estimation using vehicular communications; Assessing quality of service

of VoIP over high velocity networks



Reliability and maintenance

Reliability modeling; Reliability stress analysis; Dependency-related

reliability; Reliability prediction technologies; Reliability-aware

topology control; Reliability in highly dynamic networks and distributed

systems; Reliability of storage systems; Reliability in sensitive

networks (ehealth, financial, etc.); Service versus network reliability;

Reliability and human-related risks; Software reliability;

Software-based safety kernels; Reliability testing; Maintenance tools

for system reliability; QoS-driven reliability; Reliability in

processing Big Data



Quality of Service

QoS design and architectures for networks and distributed systems; QoS

modeling, adaptation and monitoring; QoS policy assessment; QoS metrics

and measurement; QoS-based routing; QoS-aware applications and services;

Provisioning and monitoring QoS constraints; QoS-based admission

control; QoS negotiation and mediation; User-profile QoS-aware

mechanisms; QoS-network device mechanisms (scheduling, queue management,

traffic engineering, etc.); QoS and opportunistic scheduling; QoS-aware

resource management; QoS in WLAN, WPAN, WMAN and WiMAX (IEEE

802.11/15/16/20); QoS in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks; QoS

support in wireless networks for MAC protocols; QoS and survivability in

mobile environments



Quality

Quality of Experience (QoE); QoS/QoE relationship; QoS/QoE mapping;

QoS/QoE management; QoS/QoE issues in wireless networks; Quality of

Handoff; Quality of Diagnosis; Quality of Context; Quality of Big Data;

Quality in advanced wireless networks (4/5G); Quality in SDN



Reliability and QoS for future mobile networks

Mobile network expansion solutions; Quality in 5G radio-access networks;

End-to-end network architecture and infrastructure; Interworking between

heterogeneous networks and technologies; Automated management,

orchestration and operation of network functions; Software defined

networking (SDN); Mobility management, energy efficiency, power cost

reduction; Network function virtualization (NFV) of small cells;

Self-organizing network functionalities for virtualized small cells;

Reliability of open source software in future mobile networks; Accuracy

in Indoor/outdoor positioning; Reliability on massive connectivity handling



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CTRQ 2021 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2021/ComCTRQ21.html



Publicity Chairs

Lorena Parra, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Jose Luis García, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

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