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 2022, The Twenty-First International Conference on Networks

ICN 2022 is scheduled to be April 24 - 28, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain under the NexComm 2022 umbrella.

The submission deadline is scheduled for January 20, 2022.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

All events will be held in a hybrid mode: on site, online, prerecorded videos, voiced presentation slides, pdf slides.

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============== ICN 2022 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


ICN 2022, The Twenty-First International Conference on Networks

General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2022/ICN22.html

Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2022/SubmitICN22.html


Event schedule: April 24 - 28, 2022


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 20, 2022


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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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.
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: https://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


ICN 2022 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2022/CfPICN22.html

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ICN 2022 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/5G/6G, IoT and sensor networks); Vehicular communications

New Internet technologies

SDN, SDX, NFV; 5G/6G and advanced mobile Internet; O-RAN; 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

Slicing and 5/6/7G technologies

Network slicing models; 5G Network slicing Architecture; 5G/6G Networks slicing; End to End (E2E) network slicing; Automated networks slicing; Network Slice as a Service(NSaaS); Service slicing; IoT service slicing; Slicing-as-a-Service (SlaaS); Slicing and orchestration; Latency-sensitive 5G services; Differentiated slice-based 5G services; 5G E2E (End to End), 6G Cellular data networks; Indoor 5G Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN); 5G mmWave; 7G and 8G network and High speed internet. Network slicing market. Networks slicing ROI (Return on Investment); 6-7-8G and ROI.

Computation and networking

Cloud computing; Fog computing; Edge computing; Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC); 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; Cognitive Radio for 5G; Cognitive and Intelligent Internet-of-Things (IoT) for 5G; Energy-aware, smart sensing and capacity-aware in advanced technologies; Mechanisms and protocols; Processing and devices; Measurement and management; 5G Cognitive operations; Applications

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ICN 2022 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2022/ComICN22.html

Publicity Chairs:

Lorena Parra, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Jose Luis García, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain