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FutureTech2020 Call for Papers (Springer LNEE indexed by EI and SCOPUS)
by 샤르마 프라딥 쿠마르 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

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Call for Workshop and Special Session Proposals of IEEE Blockchain 2020
by Blockchain IEEE 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

Call for Workshop and Special Session Proposals The IEEE Blockchain 2020 workshops and special sessions provide vibrant opportunities for academic researchers and industry practitioners to share their research experiences, original research achievements and practical development products on specific new challenges and emerging issues related to Blockchain. The themes of the Blockchain 2020 workshops and special sessions should be related to the scopes of the main conference, reflecting to advances in all aspects of blockchain. The organizers of the workshops and special sessions shall have responsibility of soliciting call for papers, forming program committee to review and select papers as well as planning workshop/session program. The registration fees for workshops and special sessions will be determined by and paid to the main conference other than the workshops or sessions. The main conference will provide workshop/session facilities including the working notes printing, meeting rooms, coffee breaks, lunches, dinners, proceedings, etc. The proceedings of the IEEE Blockchain 2020 workshops and special sessions will be published by in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Prospective Workshop Organizers should send a proposal containing the following information to IEEE Blockchain 2020 Workshop Chairs via email by Feb. 15, 2020: - Title of the workshop/session (Full name and Abbreviation) - Objectives, scope, and contribution to the main conference (up to 1 page) - Short bio of the key organizers and their experience on conference/workshop organization - Procedures for selecting papers, plans for advertising call for papers, and intentions for organizing journal special issues if possible - The expected number of participants - A tentative list of program committee members - The workshop website URL address if available Approved workshops should strictly follow the Important Dates of the main conference, particularly the Author Notification Date and the Camera-ready Paper Due Date. The submission deadline could be later than that of the main conference. But, a workshop should have sufficient time, say 5-7 weeks, for generating peer reviews. Generally, each paper should receive 2 or 3 peer reviews. In order to encourage the workshop/session organizers, the main conference will also provide the following benefits to the workshop/session organizers: (1) If a workshop will have at least 10 full registrations for accepted papers (excluding those borderline papers transferred from the main conference), then one of the main organizers can choose either to waive one of his or her papers for registrations or to get the travel grant to attend the conference. (2) If a workshop/session will have at least 20 full registrations for accepted papers (excluding those borderline papers transferred from the main conference), then the main organizers can also invite one keynote speaker for the workshop and the conference will provide free registration and travel grant for the keynote speaker. Look forward to your stimulating proposals and contributions to IEEE Blockchain 2020! IEEE Blockchain 2020 Workshop Chairs: Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA (yu.chen(a)sjsu.edu<mailto:yu.chen@sjsu.edu>) And also Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland (zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi)

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[JIPS] Call for Papers: Integration of AI in 5G Network Cybersecurity
by 샤르마 프라딥 쿠마르 01 Feb '20

01 Feb '20

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CFP: The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhode Island, Greece, August 2-6, 2020 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in August 2020, Rhode Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (TBD) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2020 Author Notification: April 07, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Organizer of Symposium on Blockchain and its Applications) Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland

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Call for Papers: Workshop on Assured Autonomous Systems
by Wood, Paul C. 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

Call for Papers: Workshop on Assured Autonomous Systems The Workshop on Assured Autonomous Systems (WAAS) plans to address the gap that exists between theory-heavy autonomous systems and algorithms and the privacy, security, and safety of their real-world implementations. Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence have shown great promise in automating complex decision-making processes across transportation, critical infrastructure, and cyber infrastructure domains. Practical implementations of these algorithms require significant systems engineering and integration support, especially as they integrate with the physical world. This integration is wrought with artificial intelligence (AI) safety, security, and privacy issues. Important Dates * Paper submission deadline: 2/3/2020 (Anywhere on Earth) * Acceptance notification: 2/17/2020 * Publication-ready Papers Due: 3/6/2020 * Workshop: 5/21/2020 The primary focus of this workshop is the: (1) detection of, (2) response to, and (3) recovery from AI safety, security, and privacy violations in autonomous systems. Key technical challenges include discriminating between application-layer data breaches and benign process noises, responding to breaches and failures in real-time systems, and recovering from decision making failures autonomously. Topics of Interest WAAS seeks contributions on all aspects of AI safety, security, and privacy in autonomous systems. Papers that encourage the discussion and exchange of experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, and works in progress are preferred. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): AI Safety * Detecting dataset anomalies that lead to unsafe AI decisions * Engineering trusted AI software architectures * Status of existing approaches in ensuring AI/ML safety and gaps to be addressed * AI safety considerations and experience from industry * Evaluating safety of AI systems according to their potential risks and vulnerabilities * Resilient, explainable deep learning, and interpretable machine learning * Game theoretic analysis on machine learning models * Misuse of AI and deep learning Security and Privacy * Detecting dataset anomalies that lead to autonomous system security and privacy violations * Differential privacy and privacy-preserving learning and generative models * Adversarial attacks on machine learning and defenses against adversarial attacks * Theoretical foundations of machine learning security * Formal verification of machine learning models and systems * Define and understand AI vulnerabilities and exploitable bugs in ML systems * Improve resiliency of AI methods and algorithms to various forms of attacks Submission Guidelines You are invited to submit regular papers of up to six pages, or four pages for works in progress, including references. To be considered, papers must be received by the submission deadline. Submissions must be original work and may not be under submission to another venue at the time of review. Please mark all of your conflicts of interest when submitting your paper. Papers must be formatted for US letter (not A4) size paper. The text must be formatted in a two-column layout, with columns no more than 9.5 in. tall and 3.5 in. wide. The text must be in Times font, 10-point or larger, with 11-point or larger line spacing. Authors are strongly recommended to use the latest IEEE conference proceedings templates. Failure to adhere to the page limit and formatting requirements are grounds for rejection without review. For any questions, contact the workshop organizers at ieeewaas(a)gmail.com<mailto:ieeewaas@gmail.com> Presentation Form All accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop and included in the IEEE workshop proceedings. Due to time constraints, accepted papers will be selected for presentation as either talk or poster based on their review score and novelty. Nonetheless, all accepted papers should be considered as having equal importance. One author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop and present the paper for it to be included in the proceedings. Submission Site Submissions should be made online at: https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2020/WAAS/

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[Announcement]: Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS 2020 Winter Workshop), Springer HCIS journal (IF: 3.212), Jeju, Korea
by 샤르마 프라딥 쿠마르 21 Jan '20

21 Jan '20

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CFP: The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhode Island, Greece, August 2-6, 2020 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in August 2020, Rhode Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (TBD) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Journal Special Issues - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: January 05, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: March 01, 2020 Author Notification: April 07, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: May 02, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Organizer of Symposium on Blockchain and its Applications) Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland

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CFP Extended- 6G Technologies and Applications Special Issue - IEEE VT Magazine (IF 6.145)
by Gozalvez Sempere, Javier Manuel 21 Dec '19

21 Dec '19

CALL FOR PAPERS - Special Issue on 6G Technologies and Applications - IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (Impact Factor: 6.145) Extended submission deadline (final): January 24th, 2020 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 has already started to define what 6G networks should be. First ideas were presented in the recent 6G special issue published in VTM (September 2019). Building on the success of this issue and the IEEE Future Networks 5G Series, this new 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 to create new smart infrastructures that feature proactive, secure and adaptive paradigms. With the increase of large autonomy of systems, the protection of 'nervous system' against malicious attacks becomes significantly important. Moreover, the system autonomy and the large number of distributed sensor systems demand the simultaneous integration of 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. 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 - Cloudification, bigdata, 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 - Wireless harvesting technologies and energy efficiency - 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 Extended Submission Deadline (final): January 24th, 2020 - First Round Reviews: April 24th, 2020 - Submission for second round of reviews: June 12th, 2020 - Second Round Reviews: August 11th, 2020 - Publication: December 2020 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 Edinburgh, U.K. h.haas(a)ed.ac.uk Rose Hu, Utah State University, USA rose.hu(a)usu.edu Editor in Chief: Javier Gozalvez (j.gozalvez(a)umh.es) Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain

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CFP Extension - AI-Driven Cyber Security Threats to Future Networks Special Issue - IEEE VT Magazine (IF 6.145)
by Gozalvez Sempere, Javier Manuel 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

Extended submission deadline (final): January 6th, 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS - Special Issue on AI-Driven Cyber Security Threats to Future Networks - IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (Impact Factor: 6.145) 5G and Beyond 5G (B5G) networks will support a variety of services and verticals (enhanced mobile broadband, health, industry 4.0, smart energy and automotive). These services, verticals and the critical components that compose 5G architecture (e.g., radio access, edge and core networks) face new cyber security risks and challenges. A new generation of smart threats defined as Artificial Intelligence (AI)-attacks has emerged. These threats can utilize AI to attack 5G networks or services or hack the AI algorithms used by 5G components. In the first case, AI can be utilized to launch attacks against targets such as autonomous vehicles, drones or manufacturing machinery. In the second case, attackers hack the Machine Learning (ML) algorithms by modifying for instance the labels of ML's classification functions and altering the training data, which cause a decrease on the accuracy classification rate. These threats require a new era of cyber security approaches based on robust AI algorithms to protect future networks from AI-related attacks. Future solutions must consider 5G and B5G network constraints (e.g. overhead, latency, energy and bandwidth consumption). In this special issue, we invite high-quality original submissions on AI-based solutions for cyber security in 5G and B5G networks. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - AI-attacks against 5G and B5G networks. - AI modeling for network behavior in 5G and B5G networks. - Attacks detection and prediction based on deep and reinforcement learning in 5G and B5G networks. - Cyber protection based on advanced learning to secure 5G and B5G networks. - Cyber threats intelligence based on AI to secure 5G and B5G networks. - AI-cyber security approaches in virtualized environments. - Cyber security games to protect 5G and B5G services. - Lightweight AI-based cyber security to protect low-resources 5G and B5G services and devices (e.g. IoT devices). - AI-cyber defense for 5G and B5G-based vertical applications. 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 - Extended submission deadline: January 6th, 2020 - First Round Reviews: February 28th, 2020 - Submission for second round of reviews: April 10th, 2020 - Second Round Reviews: June 5th, 2020 - Publication: September 2020 Guest Editors: Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, University of Burgundy, France, Sidi-Mohammed.Senouci(a)u-bourgogne.fr Hichem Sedjelmaci, Orange Labs, France, hichem.sedjelmaci(a)orange.com Chadi Assi, Concordia University Montreal, Canada, assi(a)ciise.concordia.ca Jiajia Liu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, liujiajia(a)nwpu.edu.cn Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland, mshrehmani(a)gmail.com Elias Bou-Harb, Florida Atlantic University, ebouharb(a)fau.edu Editor in Chief: Javier Gozalvez (j.gozalvez(a)umh.es) Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain

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CFP- 6G Technologies and Applications Special Issue - IEEE VT Magazine (IF 6.145)
by Gozalvez Sempere, Javier Manuel 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

CALL FOR PAPERS - Special Issue on 6G Technologies and Applications - IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (Impact Factor: 6.145) Submission deadline: December 20th, 2019 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 has already started to define what 6G networks should be. First ideas were presented in the recent 6G special issue published in VTM (September 2019). Building on the success of this issue and the IEEE Future Networks 5G Series, this new 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 to create new smart infrastructures that feature proactive, secure and adaptive paradigms. With the increase of large autonomy of systems, the protection of 'nervous system' against malicious attacks becomes significantly important. Moreover, the system autonomy and the large number of distributed sensor systems demand the simultaneous integration of 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. 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 - Cloudification, bigdata, 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 - Wireless harvesting technologies and energy efficiency - 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: December 20th, 2019 - First Round Reviews: April 24th, 2020 - Submission for second round of reviews: June 12th, 2020 - Second Round Reviews: August 11th, 2020 - Publication: December 2020 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 Edinburgh, U.K. h.haas(a)ed.ac.uk Rose Hu, Utah State University, USA rose.hu(a)usu.edu Editor in Chief: Javier Gozalvez (j.gozalvez(a)umh.es) Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain

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