Call For Papers - Main Conference

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Track 1: Ubiquitous Communication Technologies and Networking

• Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz communications
• Modulation, coding, and diversity techniques 
• OFDM, MIMO, multi-user MIMO, and massive MIMO
  
• Multiple access techniques in wireless networks
• Optical wireless access networks
• Visible light communications and networks
• Free space optical communications and networking
• Power line communication technologies
• Maritime, space and underwater communications
• Beyond 4G and 5G communications
• Heterogeneous and small-cell networks
• Satellite communication and networks
• Physical-layer secrecy and privacy
• Quality of service provisioning schemes
• Cognitive and flexible radio
• Channel estimation, characterization, and synchronization techniques
• Optical data center networking
• Radio-over-fiber
• Visible light positioning and navigation
• Ultraviolet communications and networks
• Optical wireless sensing and monitoring
• Optical switching technologies, devices, and architectures
• Energy harvesting and green wireless communications
• Software-defined mobile/wireless networks
• Mesh, relay, sensor and ad hoc networks
• Delay-tolerant and fault-tolerant networking
• Seamless inter-networking, self-organization and self-healing
• Routing in ubiquitous networks
• Resource management and optimization
• Integrated wireless/optical networks
• Mobility, localization, navigation, and handoff management
• Wireless broadcast, multicast and streaming
• Congestion and admission control
• Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN and WAN
• Dynamic bandwidth allocation in 4G, B4G, 5G and Pervasive Systems
• Provisioning, measuring and controlling QoS, QoE, QoC and QoI in Pervasive Environments
• Cross-layer design and emerging protocols for Pervasive Networks

Track 2: Ubiquitous Internet of Things: Emerging Technologies and Breakthroughs

• Internet connectivity for IoT
• Data architectures, brokering and management
• Security, privacy, trust, and access control for IoT
• Edge and cloud computing for IoT
• Mobility, localization and management aspects of IoT
• Internet of Things scalable infrastructures, architectures and platforms
• Beyond 4G and 5G involvement in IoT environment
• Innovative context aware IoT services and applications
• Crowdsensing and sourcing, and social IoT
• Incentive mechanisms for participatory crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications
• Energy harvesting and green technologies for IoT
• Object naming in the IoT/IoE environments
• Fundamentals and characterization of IoE communications
• Multiple access protocols for IoT environment
• Resource management techniques for IoT environment
• Routing and control protocols for ultra-dense IoT environment
• Game theory and learning for IoT ubiquitous communications
• Identity management and object recognition
• Embedded Systems, wearables devices, and Body Sensor Networks
• Multi-sensor fusion in IoT
• Distributed computing and storage in IoT
• Data Fusion and management, and big data analytics for IoT
• Autonomous vehicles and self-driving
• Cooperative driving for autonomous vehicles
• Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles (UAV) platforms and networking
• Standardization, regulation and industrial efforts for IoT
• Business models, monetization and ecosystems of IoT
• Lightweight communication protocols and data structures for IoT
• Radio Frequency Identification
• Low power chip/system design for IoT
• Integration of software defined networks with IoT
• Machine-to-Machine (M2M), Device-to-Device (D2D) communications
• Application-oriented solutions (Healthcare, Military, Supply Chains, Environment, Agriculture, Smart cities, Education, ...)
• Cyber Physical Systems design and networking
• Advanced technologies for dense and ultra-dense network deployment
• Clustering, topology control, coverage, and connectivity

Track 3: Mobile Edge Networking and Fog-Cloud Computing

• Mobile cloud networking, architectures, and platforms
• Cloud radio access networks
• Security, privacy and reliability for ubiquitous cloud computing
• Crowdsensing models and architectures
• Energy efficient resource allocation for cloud-based systems
• Resources management, provisioning, and migration in cloud systems
• Cloud data storage and management models
• Network and service functions virtualization, and programmable infrastructures
• SDN, objects abstraction and virtualization
• Fog and Edge computing
• Hybrid cloud integration
• X As A Service in ubiquitous clouds
• Resource management, optimization, and provisioning in the cloud
• Quality of Service for cloud applications
• Big Data analytics in clouds
• Virtualization aware networking
• Service modeling, specification, discovery, monitoring, control, composition, and brokering
• Techniques and methods for cloud design and analysis
• Cluster and smart Grid
• Vehicular and sensor cloud networks
• Consumer-centric applications and services using mobile edge platforms
• Cloud on Demand: agility and scalability
• Fog-based and Cloud Radio Access Networks
• Fog-Cloud interactions and enabling protocols
• Data centers and infrastructures
• Interaction between the edge and the cloud
• Cloud economics
• Risk compliance and governance for cloud networking
• Software development platforms and innovative applications
• Cloud service-level agreements and cloud context-level agreements
• Virtual network management and orchestration

Track 4: Data Engineering for Ubiquitous Environments

• Data engineering models
• Machine learning and data mining
• Deep learning
• Data science and big data
• Cloud, high performance, and scalable computing
• Multimedia streaming over mobile networks
• Collaborative streaming for Ubiquitous Networks
• On Demand video streaming
• ICN enabled mobile video delivery
• Provisioning user QoE in ICN
• Analytics for information centric networking decision in 5G
• Cyber security and defense in Big Data
• Big Data analytics and applications in pervasive systems
• Big Data platforms for 5G
• Data classification, retrieval, clustering, and visualization
• Knowledge discovery and transformation
• Artificial intelligence and decision support systems
• Formal methods, fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and ant colony optimization
• Data query processing and optimization in databases
• Temporal, spatial, sensor, and multimedia databases
• Distributed, Parallel, and Peer-to-Peer Databases
• Ubiquitous data management
• Cooperation, competition, learning and autonomy in pervasive systems
• Context-aware and profile-aware pervasive systems
• Content caching/storage and dissemination in pervasive systems
• Adaptive, autonomic and context-aware computing
• Data Grids, Data Warehousing, and OLAP
• Economics in pervasive systems
• Signal, image, and video processing for pervasive systems
• Game-theoretic models and application in pervasive systems

Track 5: Cyber Security for Ubiquitous Communication

• Legal and policy issues in cyber security and defense
• Availability, privacy, authentication, trust, access control, and key management
• Formal and theoretical techniques of cyber security
• Incident response techniques in networked and distributed systems
• Security and privacy in wireless and mobile systems
• Cyber security engineering
• Intrusion Detection
• Risk analysis and management in cyber security
• Storage systems protection and forensics
• Economic and management aspects of cyber security and privacy
• Evidentiary aspects and forensics of digital crimes
• Cybercrime scenarios modeling, analysis, and investigation
• Hypothetical reasoning in cyber incident response
• Collaborative and distributed techniques for cyber defense and cyber investigation
• Active, adaptive, and intelligent defense systems
• Embedded security
• Evidence preservation, management, storage and reassembly
• Anti-forensics and anti-anti forensics prevention, detection, and analysis
• Multimedia security
• Traffic jamming and defenses
• Lightweight security techniques
• Large-scale investigations in large networks and Big Data
• Privacy and Security in Big Data
• Security and privacy in clouds
• Techniques for tracking and trace-back of attacks in ubiquitous systems 
• Data hiding, extraction, and recovery technique
• Security in distributed, virtual, and cloud environments
• Cyber security architectures
• Defense in depth
• Cybersecurity of industrial control systems and critical infrastructures
• Cyber physical systems security
• Supervisory control and data acquisition security
• Bio-inspired security