[Announcements] CALL FOR PAPERS - ICIN 2018

[Ricardo T. Macedo]

(Apologies if you received duplicate copies of this call for papers)

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CALL FOR PAPERS - ICIN 2018

21st Innovations in Cloud, Internet and Networks
February 20 - 22, 2018
Paris, France

www.icin-conference.org

Technically co-sponsored by IEEE & IEEE Communications Society
All accepted and presented papers will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital
Library
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****** Paper submission deadline: September 20, 2017 *******


ICIN 2018 will be held 20-22 February 2018 at Orange Gardens premises near
Paris, France. The ICIN conference, established in 1989 and praised for the
richness of its social networking, is also recognized for its continuous
adaptation to emerging technical trends.
2018 will be the year of coordinated 5G deployment across all EU Member
states, targeting early network introduction, and moving towards commercial
large scale introduction by the end of 2020 at the latest.
As the main theme for ICIN 2018, “5G Network Architecture and Solutions:
are we ready?” will explore the maturity and gaps remaining for end-to-end
and large scale 5G technologies deployment. The conference will foster
presentation of novel approaches and technical solutions, as well as
experimental validation and proof of concepts. In addition to this edition
theme, ICIN 2018 will keep a wide range of topics of interest within the
fields of Cloud, Internet, and Networks as listed below.

*** Topics of interests ***
- 5G Control and Management Architecture
- XaaS Architectures and Models,
- Network solutions for IoT and Vertical Industries,
- CDN and ICN Control and Architecture,
- Autonomic, Cognitive and Intent-based Networking and Management,
- Network Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Reasoning,
- Software-Defined Networking,
- Network Function Virtualization,
- Fog, Edge and Multi-Access Computing,
- Multi-domain, Federated and Hierarchical Orchestration,
- 5G Functional Decomposition and Infrastructure Slicing,
- Service Function Chaining,
- Virtual Network Embedding and Function Placement,
- Traffic Engineering and Performance Management for ultra-low latency,
- Advanced real-time communications,
- Performance, QoS/QoE and Scalability Analysis,
- Resource Dimensioning and Optimization,
- Security, Trust and Privacy,
- Big and Fast Data Management,
- Measurement, Monitoring and Telemetry,
- Protocols for Programmable Networks and Software-Defined Infrastructure,
- Open source and Open standards.


***Submission Instructions***
Submissions should be original, unpublished work, not currently under
review by other conferences or journals. Papers submitted to ICIN 2018 will
be assessed based on originality, technical soundness, clarity and interest
to a wide audience.
Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions
must be done electronically through EDAS: http://edas.info/N23491
All submissions must be written in English, with minimum of 10-point font
and must use standard IEEE two-column conference templates that can be
downloaded from: http://tinyurl.com/3wax5q
Papers can be of two types: Full papers or Short papers, up to 8 pages and
5 pages respectively, including tables, figures and references. Full papers
accepted as short papers will be required to be reduced to 5-pages length.
Demo papers of maximum length of 3 pages are also solicited.
A set of best papers will be selected for fast-track publication as
extended version in Journal Annals of Telecommunications.
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.

The technical program of ICIN 2018 will be complemented with Tutorials and
Workshops.

***Important  Dates***
- Paper submission deadline: 20 September 2017
- Acceptance notification: 15 November 2017
- Camera ready papers: 1 December 2017
- Authors registration: 1 December 2017

***Organizing Committee***

General Chair
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Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France
Bruce Maggs, Duke University & Akamai, USA

TPC Co-Chairs
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Laurent Ciavaglia, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Rahim Tafazolli, University of Surrey, UK

Keynotes Chairs
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Bruno Chatras, Orange Labs, France
Alex Galis, UCL, UK

Panel Chair
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Antonio Manzalini, TIM, Italy
Rogier Noldus, Ericsson, The Netherlands

Workshops Chairs
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Jérémie Leguay, Huawei, France
Mohamed Faten Zhani, ETS, Canada

Tutorials Chairs
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Stefano Secci, UPMC, France
Michele Nogueira, UFPR, Brazil

Demos Chairs
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Nadjib Ait-Saadi, ESIEE, France
Emmanuel Bertin, Orange Labs, France

Publications Chair
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Riadh Dhaou, INPT, France

Publicity Chairs
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Ilhem Fajjari, Orange Labs, France
Tobias Hossfeld, UDE, Germany
Shingo Ata, Osaka University, Japan
Deep Medhi, UMKC, USA
Ricardo Macedo, UFSM, Brazil

Patrons Chair
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Bernard Villain, Airbus, France

Finance Chair
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Guy Pujolle, UPMC, France

Local Arrangements chair
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Linda Chong, Orange Labs, France

Overall Arrangements Chair
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Aziza Lounis, DNAC, France

International Steering Committee Chair
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Noel Crespi, IMT, France


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For further information, see www.icin-conference.org
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We welcome your contributions and look forward to your participation at
ICIN 2018.


Best regards,
Ricardo
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