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CALL FOR PAPERS – WMNC ’21
13th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference
October 20 – 22, 2021
Montreal, Canada (Online)
https://wmnc2021.dnac.org/
****** Paper submission deadline: July 20, 2021 *******
Technically sponsored by IFIP
All accepted and presented papers will be submitted for publication in IFIP Digital Library
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WMNC 2021 will provide a discussion forum for researchers, practitioners, and
students interested in novel developments in mobile and wireless networks,
services, and applications and mobile computing.
WMNC 2021 combines PWC (Personal Wireless Communications conference), MWCN
(Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks conference), and WSAN (Wireless
Sensors and Actor Networks conference) into one event.
Accepted papers will be published in the IFIP Digital Library. Authors
of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a
fast-track review in a Special Issue of Annals of Telecommunications.
Authors are invited to submit full papers (up to 8 pages, double column)
according to the guidelines available on the conference website at Authors
Guidelines. WMNC 2021 includes three tacks focusing on (but not limited to) the
following topics:
Track 1
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* Wireless and Mobile Communications and Networks, Internet Wireless Access.
* Wireless and Mobile Communications and networks
* 5G / 6G Networks
* Wireless technologies design and evaluation
* Handoff management
* Location management
* Resource management
* Network and service management and control
* Energy management and efficiency of protocols and devices
* Cognitive radio networking
* Device-to-device communications
* Routing and scheduling in mobile and wireless networks
* Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks
* Network security solutions and protocols
* Subscriber privacy
* Authentication, Authorization, Accounting
* Traffic and network modeling
* Analysis and simulation in wireless/mobile networks
* Virtualized and cloud-based wireless environment
Track 2
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* Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks, Ad hoc and Opportunistic Networks,
Vehicular Networks, Internet of Things.
* Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks
* Ad hoc and Opportunistic Networks
* Low-Power Wide Area Networks
* Vehicular Networks Cyber-Physical
* Machine to Machine communications (M2M)
* Communication Technologies for the IoT
* Ad-Hoc networking
* Delay tolerant networking
* Cross layer design and optimization
* In-network processing and aggregation of information
* Energy efficient protocols and power management
* Localization and tracking
* Middleware for WSN and M2M
* Self-organization and reconfiguration
* Security for WSN and M2M
* Multimedia communications in WSN
* Vehicular networks
* Robots as actor networks
* Nano networks
* Fog Networking
Track 3
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* Applications and Services over Wireless and Mobile Networks.
* Applications and Services over Wireless and Mobile Networks
* Wireless multimedia networking
* Mobile cloud computing and applications
* Multicasting and broadcasting issues
* Multimedia session signalling in wireless/mobile environments
* Digital radio and TV broadcasting
* Mobile computing
* Protocols and platforms for convergence
* QoS and QoE in wireless/mobile networks
* Mobile and wireless applications: health, environmental protection, etc.
* Wireless Internet applications
* ITS (Intelligent transportation systems)
* Infotainment
* Pervasive systems
* RFID
* Location based services
* Mobile services
* Content management and distribution
* Context-aware wireless multimedia applications
* Context-aware services
* Information centric networking
* Social networking
*** Submission Instructions ***
Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under
review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously
published.
All submissions should be written in English with a maximum of eight (8) pages
(in Two-Column IEEE Conference Format), including text, figures and references.
Papers should be submitted through EDAS: https://wmnc2021.edas.info/
Best papers will be considered for fast-track publication in the Annals of
Telecommunications (Springer, ISI-indexed).
At least one author is required to register, at the full rate, to present
accepted papers at the conference and for the paper to appear in the
proceedings.
*** Important Dates ***
* Paper Submission Due: July 20
* Paper Notification: September 5, 2021
* Final Papers Due: September 15, 2021
*** General Chairs ***
* Leila Azouz Saidane, ENSI, Tunisia
* Mohamed Faten Zhani, ETS Montreal, Canada
*** TPC Co-Chairs ***
* Aris Leivadeas, ETS Montreal, Canada
* Weverton Cordeiro, UFRGS, Brazil
* Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, US
For more details please visit: https://wmnc2021.dnac.org/