2017 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (IEEE CSCN 2017)

IEEE CSCN 2017


Computer Networks & Wireless Communication



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2017 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking
(IEEE CSCN 2017)
http://www.ieee-cscn.org/
Helsinki, Finland, 18 – 21 September 2017
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====== INTRODUCTION ========
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to invite you to submit your work to the 2017 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications & Networking (CSCN’17) http://www.ieee-cscn.org/ to be held in Helsinki, Finland’s capital 18 – 21 Sept., 2017. IEEE CSCN 2017 will be collocated with IEEE 5G-IoT Summit in Helsinki, together forming the Helsinki5GWeek. Standards play a key role in the success of the communications industry, as enablers of global systems inter-operability. IEEE CSCN aims for closing the gap between researchers, scientists and standards experts from academia, industry and different standardization bodies. It will serve as a platform for presenting and discussing standards-related topics in the areas of communications, networking and related disciplines, facilitating standards development as well as cooperation among the key players. IEEE CSCN will deliver high quality technical as well as visionary papers, which will be reviewed and selected by an international technical program committee (TPC) representing both academia and industry, with a strong standardization background. In 2017, IEEE CSCN will be divided into 5 tracks designed to cover the diverse space of technologies which together comprise a modern communication system and our connected society. The tracks solicit new and previously unpublished papers that address the emerging relevant architectures and the standardization approaches and strategies that these may take. For each track, paper topics may include (but are not limited to):
====== TRACKS ========
** Track on Wireless Communication and Networking
- Physical layer and MAC layer design for cellular and other wireless networks.
- Dynamic scheduling, power control, interference management, and QoS management in 5G wireless networks.
- Topology, deployment, and optimization of wireless networks, including heterogeneous, ultra dense, and mesh networks, device to device (D2D) communication, relays and wireless backhaul, as well as dynamic radio topology based on moving cells.
- New control signaling for heterogeneous networks.
- mmWave access, backhaul and self-backhauling.
- Massive and FD-MIMO communications, hybrid and coordinated beamforming technologies.
- Application of SDN, NFV, and cloud computing to 5G (and legacy) RAN and core network architectures and implementations, such as network slicing.
- C-RAN and flexible fronthaul / backhaul.
- Green and energy efficient wireless networks.
- Massive MTC (mMTC) and long distance communications.
- Automotive/V2X and ultra-reliable communications.
- LTE/Wi-Fi/Wi-Gig interworking and aggregation.
- Spectrum regulation above 24GHz.
- R&D and standardization activities towards 5G and IMT-2020.
- Wireless optical communications.
- Satellite communications.
** Track on Internet of Things
- IoT architecture design and optimizations
- IoT security and privacy of IoT devices and services
- System optimization to support Ultra-Low complexity devices
- Standardised semantic data description framework and technologies
- IoT communication procedure enhancements
- Experience and lessons learnt for standards based IoT large scale pilots
- IoT standards platforms interworking
- IoT standards gap analysis
- 5G Networks and IoT
- Software Defined Network (SDN) and IoT
- Industrial Internet of Things
- Factory of Things
- Edge Computing, Fog Computing and IoT
- IPv6-based IoT Networks
- IoT protocols such as IPv6, 6LoWPAN, RPL, 6TiSCH, WoT
- IoT security in the sense of massive IoT deployments, e.g., embedded SIM management
** Track on Network Softwarization
- SDN and NFV frameworks and architectures
- SDN northbound, southbound and east-west interfaces
- SDN programming languages and data models
- Progress and future challenges in ETSI NFV
- Progress and future challenges in IETF/IRTF related WGs/RGs
- SDN and NFV in wireless and mobile networks
- Orchestration and Management in SDN and NFV
- Multi-domain considerations in SDN and NFV
- SDN and NFV in multi-tenancy environment
- Experimentation experience in NFV and SDN
- Open Source efforts (e.g., ETSI NFV, OPNFV, OpenStack, OpenMANO)
** Track on Application and Services
- Standardization efforts for SoA
- Standards for constrained situations
- Communication and Networking standards for low resource situations
- Standardization under W3C
- Standard for future web interoperability
- Web standardization for interactivity
- Standardization of human interactions with web platforms
- IETF standardization for CPS
- Development of mobile service enabler specifications & Standards,
- Interoperability for end-to-end mobile services.
- Standard architectures for service enabler
- Open interfaces
** Track on 5G Fixed Carrier and Converged Networks
- Architectural approaches on fixed mobile convergence
- Analysis on common VNFs across fixed and mobile networks
- SDN solutions and control/data plane separation in converged fixed-mobile networks
- Network slicing for converged fixed-mobile networks
- Transporting 5G mobile services over optical access networks
- 5G architectures for Cloud-RAN and functional split options
- 5G architectures supporting fronthaul/backhaul integration
- End-to-end resource optimisation for 5G mobile services: from radio head to data centre
- Backhauk/fronthaul considerations for dynamic capacity and mobility management
- Delivering services over ICN in 5G
- Enhancing 5G backhauk/fronthaul with ICN
- Hybrid Access networks
** Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: 01 April 2017
- Acceptance Notification: 01 July 2017
- Camera Ready: 01 August 2017
** Organizing Committee:
- Steering Committee Chair Prof. Tarik Taleb (Aalto University, Finland)
- General Chair Prof. Matti Latva-aho (Univ. Of Oulu, Finland) and Prof. Raimo Kantola (Aalto Univ., Finland)
- TPC Co-Chairs: Dr. Konstantinos Samdanis (Huawei, Germany), Prof. Min Chen (HUST, China) and Dr. Athul Prasad (NOKIA Bell Labs, Finland)