February 2021 - telco-cg

SI on 6G Technologies and Applications CFP - IEEE VT Magazine
by Javier Manuel Gozalvez Sempere 18 Feb '21

18 Feb '21

CFP - Special Issue on 6G Technologies and Applications - IEEE VT Magazine (Impact Factor: 7.921) 5G networks have made a significant step towards developing a low latency tactile access network and open new opportunities for innovative automation of network resources and operations. As we progress on the deployment of 5G, work to define what 6G networks should be is under way. First ideas were presented in the first two 6G special issues published in the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (September 2019 and December 2020, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=10209) This 6G series will lay down the concepts, basic functionalities, supported services and break-through technologies for 6G networks. The next generation of communications networks will resemble the nervous system making use of new spectrum to create new smart infrastructures that feature proactive, secure and adaptive paradigms that can be enabled by AI/ML. Smart 6G networks should address energy efficiency in the telecommunications’ sector and contribute to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the goals of the European Green Deal, among others. With the increase of large autonomy of systems, the protection of the ‘nervous system’ against malicious attacks becomes also important. Moreover, the system autonomy and the large number of distributed sensor systems demand the simultaneous integration of distributed policies and new energy harvesting concepts. The move to machine-type communication demands radically separation of service processing and probably higher strict KPIs. These technologies and challenges will be considered within the context of 6G networks. This series is sponsored by the IEEE Future Networks initiative and is aimed at helping the research and industrial communities define and shape the architecture, technologies and services for 6G networks. We are soliciting original contributions that have not been published and are not currently under consideration by any other publications or conferences. Submission deadline: April 5th, 2021 The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - 6G Dimensions and KPI requirements - Methods and technologies to harness new spectrum - AI/ML assisted PHY and networking - MU-MIMO and new antenna technologies - New medium access technologies - 6G networks and solutions including 6G-U and private networks - New core network entities and interfaces - Network assurance and service provisioning - AI/ML for 6G network management - Cloudification, big data, orchestration, multi-access edge computing and IoT - Cyber security and encrypted connectivity - Wireless Networking using the optical spectrum – LiFi, visible light communications (VLC), optical camera communication (OCC) and free-space optical (FSO) communications - Quantum communications - Terahertz communications - Green 6G networks, wireless harvesting technologies and energy efficiency - 6G satellite and UAV networks - 6G-enabled vertical applications and services Submissions should clearly identify how they relate to 6G and how they would progress beyond current 5G technologies. Submitted papers should contain state-of-the-art research or technical material presented in a tutorial or survey style. All manuscripts must adhere to the IEEE VTM guidelines at http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtmagazine/submission.php. Authors should submit a PDF version of their manuscript to (select Special Issue when submitting) http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vtm-ieee Important Dates - Manuscript Submission Deadline: April 5th, 2021 - First Round Reviews: June 14th, 2021 - Submission for second round of reviews: July 23th, 2021 - Second Round Reviews and Editorial Decision: September 6th, 2021 - Publication: December 2021 Guest Editors: Klaus David, Kassel University, Germany, david(a)uni-kassel.de Anwer Al-Dulaimi, EXFO, Canada, anwer.al-dulaimi(a)exfo.com Harald Haas, The University of Strathclyde, U.K., harald.haas(a)strath.ac.uk Rose Hu, Utah State University, USA, rose.hu(a)usu.edu

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[BSC-2021] Technically co-sponsored by IEEE ComSoc and IFIP (Three Days Left for the Paper Submission)
by Mohamad Badra 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] Blockchains and Smart Contracts workshop (BSC) 19-21 April 2021, Paris, France http://www.ntms-conf.org/ntms2021/call-for-workshops/bsc2020 Submission Deadline (extended): Febrruary 07, 2021. Technically co-sponsored by IEEE & IFIP TC6. The Location may be changed or switched to online as a result of the ongoing arrangements surrounding COVID-19. Following the success of the previous edition of the workshop on Blockchains and Smart Contracts (BSC2019), we are pleased to announce the 2nd International Workshop on Blockchains and Smart Contracts (BSC 2021), which will be held in conjunction with the 10th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS 2021). Blockchain has recently emerged as a disruptive technology that may revolutionize the world economy and our societies, with applications in key industries including finance, insurance, energy, mobility, healthcare and logistics. A blockchain is typically a decentralized, trustless and continuously growing ledger that is used to record and keep track of every transactions across a peer-to- peer network of participants. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore, IFIP Digital Library as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. This technology is secure by design and leverages well known cryptographic protocols and distributed consensus algorithms to provide key characteristics, such as resilience, fault-tolerance, persistence, anonymity, auditability and data immutability. More recently, smart contracts, backed by the blockchain technology, have emerged as a promising means for automating the execution of business workflows and enforcing legal contracts, in a fully decentralized way and without the need for any trusted third parties. However, there are still major research challenges that need to be overcome to unlock the tremendous potential of blockchains, and before enabling a mass market penetration and adoption. The objective of this workshop is to bring together experts from various domains to explore the current state of the art of blockchains and its related challenges, and to discuss new ideas and innovations to design scalable and robust blockchain solutions that are technically, economically and legally viable. The workshop invites both academic researchers and industry practitioners to submit original and previously unpublished contributions covering the theoretical and practical aspects of the blockchain technology, smart contracts and their applications Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Cryptographic algorithms and protocols Distributed consensus algorithms Peer-to- peer communication protocols Architecture, scalability, governance and interoperability Smart contracts and workflow automation Validation of smart contracts using formal methods Decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) Data privacy, anonymity and confidentiality Data analytics and fraud detection Cryptocurrencies, markets and finance Crypto economics, incentives and gamification Applications, test-beds and platforms Regulatory and standards frameworks IMPORTANT DATES Papers Submission Deadline : February 7, 2021 Papers Acceptance Notification: March 8, 2021 Papers camera-ready: March 18, 2021 COMMITTEES Workshop Chair Kalpana Singh, IRT SystemX, France Khalifa Toumi, IRT SystemX, France Technical Program Committee Loic Lesavre, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States Rajeev Anand Sahu, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Veronika Kuchta, Monash University, Melbourne Ashok Prajapati, IEEE Computer Society South-East Michigan, United States Nicolas Heulot, IRT SystemX, France Ana Cavalli, Telecom Sud paris, France Zaynah Dargaye, Nomadic Labs, France Youyang Qu, Deakin University, Australia Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias, Inria, France Öznur Ozkasap, Koc University, Turkey Ahmed Soua, Vedecom, France Anis Laouiti, Télécom Sud Paris, France Fares Alharbi Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia Antoine Durand, IRT SystemX, France Hanen Idoudi, ENSI-University of Manouba, Tunisia Aymen Boudguiga, CEA LIST, France Suresh Veluru, Arclabs Research Center, Ireland Clément Huyart, Ercom, France Tesnim Abdellatif, EDF R&D, France Elyes Ben Hamida, Sagemcom, France Joaquin Garcia Alfaro, Télécom Sud Paris, France Nesrine Kaaniche, University of Sheffield, united kingdom Ridha Soua, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Steven Martin, University of Paris-Sud, France Wissam Mallouli, Montimage, France Yevhen Zolotavkin, Deakin University, Melbourne Gaurav Sharma, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Vishal Saraswat, Bosch, India Keshav Sood, Deakin University, Australia Önder Gurcan, CEA, France Bhagvan Kommadi, Quantica Computacao, India PAPER SUBMISSION Papers are to be submitted electronically on the EDAS web site of the conference in PDF format: https://edas.info/N27121 Submissions should be original and limited to 5 double-column pages, and should follow IEEE paper templates. Paper with more pages can be accepted however they need to be reduced to 5 pages for publication. Submission process Your paper must be printable in order to be accepted. The paper's cover page must include the following information: Title of paper. Authors' names and affiliations. Author contact and address (both postal and electronic). A short abstract. Keywords. In order to submit, you must first create an EDAS account. The EDAS system will e-mail you your password. Then you can login to EDAS using the password you have received by email. EDAS will provide you with a submissions homepage where you can register your paper submission and make appropriate changes. How to use EDAS to submit your paper: Create an account in the EDAS system at https://edas.info/N27121 Login to EDAS using your username and password (sent via email). Click on the "submit paper" image to submit a new paper, or select an existing submission to edit. Fill in the details of the paper. You will be required to provide information for co-authors not already registered with the system. Choose as many topics as apply to your paper. Choose the submit button to register your paper. Upload your paper using the provided form. You may choose not to upload a file immediately. You may upload a new version of your file at any time (prior to submission deadline) by returning to the EDAS system. Once you login, a list of submitted papers will be made available. Click on the upload image to upload a new version of your paper. After submission, reviews of your paper can be accessed from your submission list. If you have problems with the system, please e-mail contact(a)ntms-conf.org

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[NTMS'2021] (Three Days Left) Technically co-sponsored by IEEE ComSoc and IFIP (Submission Deadline: February 07, 2021)
by Mohamad Badra 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] 11th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security 19-21 April 2021, Paris, France http://www.ntms-conf.org/ Submission Deadline (extended): Febrruary 07, 2021. Technically co-sponsored by IEEE & IFIP TC6. The Location may be changed or switched to online as a result of the ongoing arrangements surrounding COVID-19 Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®, IFIP Digital Library and SCOPUS, as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases NTMS'2021 is the 11th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security that will be held from 19 to 21 April 2021 in Paris, France. NTMS'2021 aims at fostering advances in the areas of New Technologies, Wireless Networks, Mobile Computing, Ad hoc and Ambient Networks, QoS, Network Security and E-commerce, to mention a few, and provides a dynamic forum for researchers, students and professionals to present their state-of-the-art research and development in these interesting areas. The event will be combined with tutorial sessions and workshops. Tutorials will precede the main program, aiming at the dissemination of mature knowledge and technology advances in the field. Two or more Workshops will immediately follow the main conference, offering the opportunity for a more focused exchange of ideas and presentation of on-going research relevant to following tracks (More information and the full call-for-papers can be found on the conference web): Track 1 : Mobility & Wireless networks --------------------------------------- - Beyond 3G, 4G, LTE, and WiMAX Networks - Wireless Local Area Networks - Wireless Personal Area Networks - Wireless Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks - Wireless Vehicular Networks - Cognitive Radio Networks - Satellite Networks - Self-organizing and Re-configurable Wireless Networks - Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Network Solutions - Wireless MAC Protocols - Scheduling Techniques for Wireless Networks - Wireless QoS Routing Algorithms - Radio Resource Allocation and Management - Cross-layer Design and Optimization in Wireless Networks - Clustering, Topology Control, Coverage and Connectivity - Cooperation and Relaying in Wireless Networks - Analysis, Simulation and Performance Evaluation - Integration of Heterogeneous Mobile, Wireless and Wire-line Radio Access Networks - Mobility, Location Management and Handover Techniques for Wireless Mobile Networks - Multimedia over Wireless and Mobile Systems - Power-aware Architectures, Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless/Mobile Networks - Wireless Services and Middleware Platforms - Green Radio Communications - Measurements, Testbeds and Deployment of Wireless Systems Track 2: Security ----------------- Thematic areas: - Security engineering. Methodologies, formalisms, modeling, tools, code instrumentation - Cryptography. Algorithms, protocols, attacks - Security in distributed systems. - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems. - Light-weight cryptography. - Information Hiding. - Steganography - Privacy and Anonymity. - Security assurance. Evaluation, testing, formal proofs, certification. - Quantum Cryptography and QKD. - Trusted computing. Analyses and attacks, practical applications... - Surveillance and monitoring. Intrusion detection, monitoring techniques, architectures,... - Infrastructure. Middleware, proxies, PKIs, AAAs, SSO, credentials... - Social and psychological aspects of security. User-centered security evaluation, perception of security and threats... - Security and usability. Application areas: - Service Oriented Computing. Platform security, access control, Security of the SOC processes (Negotiation, Orchestration), Identification of services... - Cloud computing. Platform security, data protection, software protection, surveillance and dynamic reaction. - Ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing and ambient intelligence - Secure system models, development support, dynamic reaction, self-systems - Embedded systems. Dynamic replaceability, system security assessment, secure system composition, tampering-resistance... - Security in system evolution. Design for secure evolution, evolution-oriented surveillance, security patches... - Critical infrastructures. Protection architectures, redundancy and replication, scalability issues... Track 3: New Technologies & services ------------------------------------ - New generation Internet, Post IP and IPv6 - NGN architectures, protocols and services management and delivery - Web 2.0 applications and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystems) - Next generation systems & Service-oriented techniques - IPTV and content distribution networks - User-centric networking and services - multimedia indexing and retrieval - Personalized access to media systems - Context/content-aware services - Smart Homes and E-Health - Web Commerce & Services, Data models, Web searching & querying - Web Mining & Web Semantics - Web service based Grid computing and P2P computing - Advanced identification techniques (Biometrics, RFID, etc.) - Virtualization technologies for grid and parallel computing. - Interactive media, voice and video, games, immersive applications - Network virtualization, virtual private networks (VPN), and services - VoIP protocols and services - Content-based networking: caching, distribution, load balancing, resiliency - Mobile/wireless content distribution * * * * * Submission Instructions ------------------------ Papers should be in English, strictly not exceeding 5 double-column pages (3,000 words), in Adobe PDF format (which is the only accepted format for NTMS 2021). To access the full list of topics, submission guidelines, as well as venue and travel information please visit: {url} Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library Paper submission via EDAS --------------------------- {NEWPAPER} CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ------------------ Workshop proposals should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality and importance of the topic, the goals of the workshop, and the size of the interested community. Proposals should identify one or more chairs and several other individuals willing to serve on an organizing committee and assist with publicity and reviewing. Proposals should be 2-4 pages and contain at least the workshop description, goals, potential participants and list of organizers. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Papers Submission Deadline : February 7, 2021 Papers Acceptance Notification: March 8, 2021 Papers camera-ready: March 18, 2021 Workshop, tutorials & keynotes submission deadlines Submission deadlines: March 8, 2021 General Chairs -------------- Lorenzo Vangelista, University of Padova, Italy Organization chair ------------------ Layth Sliman, EFREI Engineering School, France Steering Committee ------------------ Azzedine Boukerche – University of Ottawa, Canada Mohamad Badra – Zayed University, UAE Pascal Urien – TELECOM ParisTech, France Stamatios Kartalopoulos – University of Oklahoma, USA Houda Labiod – Telecom ParisTech, France TPC Chairs ---------- Karina Sokolova, Paris School of Business, France Mobility and Wireless Track Chairs ---------------------------------- Stefano Tomasin, University of Padova, Italy Yessin NEGGAZ, EFREI, Paris Security Track Chairs --------------------- Nicola Laurenti, University of Padova, Italy Dellys Hachemi, ENI, Algeria New Technologies and Services Track chairs ------------------------------------------- Yvan Stroppa, CNRS, France Workshops Chairs ---------------- Elyes Ben Hamida, IRT, France Keynote/Tutorial Chair ---------------------- Nicolas Sklavos, University of Patras, Greece Publicity Chair ---------------- Mohamad Badra, Zayed University, UAE Finance/Sponsor Chair ---------------------- Ibrahim Hajjeh, Fransec, France

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