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CALL FOR PAPERS

18th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (AdHoc-Now 2019)
Luxembourg, 1-3 October 2019

Web: http://www.adhocnow2019.lu

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IMPORTANT DATES:
- Paper abstracts: 15 April 2019
- Deadline for paper Submissions: 30 April 2019
- Notification to the Authors: 15 July 2019
- Authors registration and camera ready: 1st August 2019
- End of early bird rates: 10 September 2019
- AdHoc-Now Conference 2019: 01-03 October 2019

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Three special tracks on the following topics

Internet of Things and satellite systems in the 5G era:
- Novel network architectures for satellite terrestrial networks
- IoT protocol optimisation for satellite terrestrial networks
- Satellite based backhaul for IoT traffic offloading
- Routing and caching strategies for hybrid networks
- IoT, Satellite Communication, Remote Sensing and Earth Observation

IoT for smart and precision agriculture:
- IoT for Crop, Irrigation and Agriculture management
- End-to-end farm management systems
- IoT for Climate Monitoring

IoT for Disasters Management:
- IoT for Disaster risk minimization and prediction
- IoT for Emergency response
- IoT for Disaster recovery

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Other topics of interest

In addition, the organisation team seeks for research papers in any of the following areas:
- Access Control
- Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems
- Algorithmic Issues
- Analytic Methods and Modelling for Performance Evaluation
- Ad Hoc Network Applications and Architectures
- Big Data Inspired Data Sensing
- Delay-Tolerant Networking
- Deterministic Networks
- Disaster Management
- Distributed Algorithms for Ad Hoc Networks
- Edge/fog computing
- Energy Efficiency
- Geometric Graphs
- Hybrid IoT-satellite networks
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Location Discovery and Management
- Long range IoT (LoRa, Sigfox, NB-IoT)
- Mobility Handling and Utilization
- Mobile Ad Hoc Computing Platforms
- Mobile Social Networking
- Precision Agriculture
- Processing and Networking Technologies Complexity and Computational Issues
- Protocol Optimisation
- Prototype systems and real-world deployment experiences
- Quality-of-Service
- Remote Sensing
- Routing Protocols (Unicast, Multicast, etc.)
- Satellite Communication
- Secure Services and Protocols
- Sensor Networks
- Self-Configuration
- Service Discovery
- Systems and Testbeds
- Software Defined Networking
- Space Weather
- Standardisation
- Timing Synchronization
- Vehicular Networks
- Wireless Mesh Networks

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For all the topics and tracks, authors are invited to submit full-length Research Papers, 12 pages long (single column) and Poster and demonstration abstracts, 6 pages long (single column). Templates are reported in the website of the conference.

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Contacts
The main contacts of the AdHoc-Now 2019 to be held in Luxembourg on 1-3 October 2019 are:

- Maria Rita PALATTELLA (LIST) as scientific main contact
- Marylène MARTIN (LIST) for the organisation of the conference.

For informations send an email to adhocnow2019 [at] list.lu

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Committees

Conference and Program Chair
Maria Rita Palattella, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chairs
Maria Rita Palattella, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Sinem Coleri Ergen, Koc University, Turkey
Stefano Scanzio, CNR-IEIIT, Italy

Publicity Arrangements Co-Chair
Latif Ladid, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Submission and Proceeding Chair
Albert Bel Pereira, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Registration Chair
Marylène Martin, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs and Web Chair
Céline Goncalves, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Marylène Martin, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)

Steering Committee
Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada
Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, United States
Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada
Ionise Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada

Technical Program Commitee (TPC)
Assis Flavio, UFBA – Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Barcelo-Ordinas Jose M., UPC, Spain
Bramas Quentin, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Bruneo Dario, University of Messina, Italy
Busnel Yann, IMT Atlantique, France
Calafate Carlos, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Cichon Jacek, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Di Maio Antonio, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
De Paola Alessandra, University of Palermo, Italy
Dujovne Diego, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
El Jaouhari Saad, IMT Atlantique, France
Elsts Atis, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Fragkiadakis Alexandros, FORTH, Greece
Giacobbe Maurizio, University of Messina, Italy
Iova Oana, INSA Lyon, France
Karyotis Vasileios, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Klasing Ralf, CNRS and University of Bordeaux, France
Leone Pierre, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Liang Weifa, Australian National University, Australia
Longo Francesco, University of Messina
Maillé Patrick, IMT Atlantique, France
Martinez Francisco J., University of Zaragoza, Spain
Mavromatis Ioannis, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Merlino Giovanni, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
Mitton Nathalie, Inria, France
Montavont Nicolas, IMT Atlantique, France
Montavont Julien, University of Strasbourg, France
Mosko Marc, Palo Alto Research Center
Natalizio Enrico, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
Nurchis Maddalena, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Palatella Maria Rita, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Papadopoulos Georgios, IMT Atlantique, France
Pahl Marc Olivier, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Papagianni Chrysa, Nokia Bell Labs, United States
Papavassiliou Symeon, Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (ICCS)
Postiglione Fabio, University of Salerno, Italy
Puliafito Carlo, University of Florence, Italy
Scarpa Marco, University of Messina, Italy
Soua Ridha, University of Luxemburg, Luxembourg
Stea Giovanni, University of Pisa, Italy
Syrotiuk Violet, Arizona State University, United States
Texier Geraldine, IMT Atlantique, France
Theoleyre Fabrice, CNRS, France
Tsiropoulou Eirini Eleni, University of New Mexico, United States
Turau Volker, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Vallati Carlo, University of Pisa, Italy
Weis Frédéric, University Rennes 1, France
Wrona Konrad, NATO Communications and Information Agency
Zorbas Dimitrios, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland