Due to the increased complexity of today’s networking infrastructures and the proliferation of services offered, a pressing need for their automatic operation and maintenance has been established. This fact is mainly associated with the cost, time and reliability required for managing efficiently such huge systems. Furthermore the adaptive configuration of networked systems’ operational parameters can lead to stable or even increased performance. Self organization concepts and techniques are already playing an important role in the 4th generation of mobile communications. Indeed Long Term Evolution (LTE) includes Self-Organizing Networks (SON) concepts already from Release 8, which was finalized in March 2009 and defines three application categories: Self-Configuration, Self-Optimisation and Self-Healing. Furthermore there are obvious advantages in applying self organization concepts in ad-hoc and sensor networks. Self organization aspects are expected to proliferate in 5G networks due to the densification and heterogeneity that they present in addition to the introduction of Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and Software Defined Network (SDN) concepts. This workshop aims in presenting the latest research on the concepts of self organized networking and adaptive communications, highlight their necessity and provide provide solutions, both from industry and academia.

Topics of interest

Adaptive configuration of mobile communication networks
Self organization in IoT and M2M communications
Self organization concepts for efficient ad-hoc networking
Self organization in vehicular communications & networks
Adaptive and self-organized sensor networks
Self organization in Cognitive Radios Networking
Machine learning for communications
Self-organization for network optimization and management
Self-organization and network reliability, QoS, QoE
Self organization for enhancing energy efficiency in communication networks
Adaptive resource allocation in communication networks
Performance evaluation of self organization concepts in multi-system, multi-vendor communication environments
Big data techniques for complexity management in communication networks
Self organization concepts in 5G networks
Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
SON test-beds and experimental results
Self organization for ubiquitous service provision over complex networking infrastructures
People-centric networking
Participatory sensing / mobile crowdsensing systems
Self organization standards and protocols

Technical Program Committee

Malamati Louta, University of Western Macedonia, Greece

Albena Mihovska, University of Aalborg, Denmark

Irene Karapistoli, Capritech, UK

Stefan Mangold, Lovefield Wireless GmbH, Switzerland

Stefan Fischer, University of Lübeck, Germany

Fotis Foukalas, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Angelos Rouskas, University of Piraeus, Greece

Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus, Greece

Steven Latré, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy

Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy

Athanasios Panagopoulos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

George T. Karetsos, Technology Education Institute of Thessaly, GREECE

Thomas Lagkas, University of Sheffield, UK

Franco Davoli, University of Genoa, Italy

Carlo Gianelli, University of Ferreira, Italy