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Reconnect the World, Reconnect to CCNC

19th IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)
Las Vegas, January 8-11, 2022 (IN-PERSON)
https://ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org
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The IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, is a major annual international conference. Taking advantage of its co-location with the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which is the world's largest trade show on consumer technology, CCNC is organized to help the consumer electronics industry drive the advancement of the numerous wireless and wireline communications technologies that will one day provide on-demand access to both entertainment and information anytime, anywhere, regardless of time or location. This includes a detailed analysis of nearly every technological area ranging from cognitive and peer-to-peer networking to the designer services and tools used to ensure ease-of-use, security and stunning interactivity.

The conference will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of large scale experimentation, home/consumer networking, efficient wireless spectrum use, enabling technologies, and novel applications and services. The conference will include a peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, special sessions, industry track sessions, tutorials, and demonstration sessions.

In addition, IEEE CCNC 2022 is proud to announce three distinguished keynote speakers: Prof. Mehdi Bennis, Head of the Intelligent Connectivity and Networks/Systems Group (ICON), University of Oulu, Finland, Prof. Yingying (Jennifer) Chen, Associate Director of the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB), Rutgers University, USA, and Dr. Sunghyun Choi, Senior Vice President and Head of the Advanced Communications Research Center at Samsung Research.

As a concrete sign of return to a new normalcy, we are pleased to announce that the conference will be held in-person in Las Vegas, USA. Like pre-Covid conferences, authors of accepted papers are required to register for the conference at the full (non-student, member or non-member) rate, and the paper must be presented in-person by one of the authors of that paper. Special provisions, such as the possibility to upload pre-recorded videos of their presentations or to present their works via Zoom, will apply to authors unable to leave their countries of origin/to enter the US or to travel in general, due to Covid-19 restrictions or to well-documented health reasons.

Claudio Casetti, General Chair, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Marco Di Felice, TPC Chair, University of Bologna, Italy
Bang Chul Jung, Vice TPC Chair, Chungnam National University, Korea

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CALL FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS
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Submissions are welcomed for the following technical tracks in consumer communications and networking. Submit your paper at:
https://ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/authors/call-technical-papers

Track 1 – Networking Solutions for Social Applications, Multimedia Communications and Games
CFP: https://ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/sites/ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/files/track1.pdf
Submission link: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28318&track=106190
Track Chairs:
Silvia Mirri, University of Bologna, Italy (email: silvia.mirri@unibo.it)
Marco Furini, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy (email: marco.furini@unimore.it)

Track 2 – Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing and Networking
CFP: https://ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/sites/ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/files/track2.pdf
Submission link: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28318&track=106185
Track Chairs:
Kiho Lim, William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA (email: limk2@wpunj.edu)
Tony Quek, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore (email: tonyquek@sutd.edu.sg)

Track 3 –Protocols for Next Generation Wireless Systems
CFP: https://ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/sites/ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/files/track3.pdf
Submission link: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28318&track=106191
Track Chairs:
Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA (email: syrotiuk@asu.edu)
Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA (email: shiwen.mao@gmail.com)

Track 4 – Wireless & Optical Communications: Fundamentals and PHY
CFP: https://ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/sites/ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/files/track4.pdf
Submission link: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28318&track=106195
Track Chairs:
Koji Ishibashi, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan (email: koji@ieee.org)
Suman Kumar, Troy University, USA (email: skumar@troy.edu)

Track 5 – 5G and Onwards to 6G
CFP: https://ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/sites/ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/files/track5.pdf
Submission link: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28318&track=106183
Track Chairs:
Josep M. Jornet, Northeastern University, USA (email: jmjornet@buffalo.edu)
Sara Pizzi, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy (email: sara.pizzi@unirc.it)

Track 6 – IOT: From Sensors to Vertical Applications
CFP: https://ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/sites/ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/files/track6.pdf
Submission link: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28318&track=106188
Track Chairs:
Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia (email: pjayaraman@swin.edu.au)
Carlo Vallati, University of Pisa, Italy (email: c.vallati@iet.unipi.it)

Track 7 – CyberSecurity, Privacy and Blockchains
CFP: https://ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/sites/ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/files/track7.pdf
Submission link: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28318&track=106193
Track Chairs:
Joongheon Kim, Korea University, Republic of Korea (email: joongheon@korea.ac.kr)
Shamik Sengupta, University of Nevada, Reno, USA (email: ssengupta@unr.edu)

Track 8 – Wearable Computing Systems: Devices, Applications and Analytics
CFP: https://ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/sites/ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/files/track8.pdf
Submission link: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28318&track=106189
Track Chairs:
Raffaele Gravina, University of Calabria, Italy ((email: r.gravina@dimes.unical.it))
Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Washington State University, USA (email: hassan.ghasemzadeh@wsu.edu)

Track 9 – Communications and Applications for Connected and Autonomous
Vehicles on Land, Water, and Sky
CFP: https://ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/sites/ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/files/track9.pdf
Submission link: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28318&track=106186
Track Chairs:
Christoph Sommer, TU Dresden, Germany (email: sommer@ccs-labs.org)
Francesco Malandrino, CNR-IEIIT, Italy (email: francesco.malandrino@ieiit.cnr.it)

Track 10 – AI/ML for Communications and Networking
CFP: https://ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/sites/ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/files/track10.pdf
Submission link: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28318&track=106184
Track Chairs:
Melike Erol-Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada (email: melike.erolkantarci@uottawa.ca)
Ming Li, Dalian University of Technology, China (email: mli@dlut.edu.cn)

Track 11 – Network Softwarization and Virtualization
CFP: https://ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/sites/ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/files/track11.pdf
Submission link: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28318&track=106194
Track Chairs:
Berk Canberk, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey (email: canberk@itu.edu.tr)
Andreas Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden (email: andreas.kassler@kau.se)

Track 12 – Emerging Topics in Consumer Communications and Networking
CFP: https://ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/sites/ccnc2022.ieee-ccnc.org/files/track12.pdf
Submission link: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28318&track=106197
Track Chairs:
Thorsten Herfet, Saarland University, Germany (email: herfet@cs.uni-saarland.de)
Tan Guoping, Hohai University, China (email: guoping_tan@hotmail.com)
Siyuan Zhou, Hohai University, China

Important Dates
Technical Papers due: July 31, 2021 (EXTENDED)
Acceptance Notification: September 20, 2021