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CALL FOR PAPERS

IFIP WWIC 2016
14th International Conference on
Wired/Wireless Internet Communications

http://www.wwic.info

May 25-27, 2016
Thessaloniki, Greece
Electra Palace, Thessaloniki, Greece

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***** NEW PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 5, 2016 *****
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Internet is being extended beyond its traditional boundaries through gradually incorporating a wide-range of challenging networks and autonomous devices. From traditional wireless networks to opportunistic networks of mobile devices in urban environments and deep-space communications, the new approaches require an efficient merging with the traditional wired infrastructure. The need for more efficient protocols, clean-slate or evolutionary architectures, merging and assembling of different network technologies, unified operation and management of the heterogeneous components and the support for new cloud services are only few examples of the wide range of technologies building-up this new global network. IFIP WWIC addresses research topics such as the design and evaluation of protocols, the dynamics of the integration, the performance tradeoffs, the need for new performance metrics, and cross-layer interactions. This year, we further solicit submissions on mobile clouds and mobile edge computing (MEC), and applications of NFV and SDN to wireless and mobile networks.

The conference will constitute a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest results in the field of wired/wireless networks and will aim at providing research directions and fostering collaborations among the participants. In this context, the program committee will accept a limited number of papers that meet the criteria of originality, presentation quality and topic relevance. IFIP WWIC is a single-track conference which has reached, over the last 13 years, a high quality level, which is reflected by the paper acceptance rate as well as the level of attendance. Following the conference tradition, there will be a best paper award. Selected presentations will be broadcasted live in the Internet.

All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. The proceedings will be published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- AAA in mobile environments
- Ad-hoc networks
- Blended network configurations
- Community networks
- Cross layer design and optimization
- Delay/disruptive tolerant and opportunistic networking
- Economic issues of challenging networks
- End-to-end Quality of Service support
- Handover techniques
- Heterogeneous wireless access networks
- Hybrid wired / wireless environments
- Information centric networking
- Interactions between wireless and optical networks
- Integration of wired and wireless networks
- Modeling of heterogeneity aspects
- Mobile clouds and mobile edge computing (MEC)
- Mobile service level agreements / specifications
- Network design and network planning
- Network mobility and mobility management
- Network coding in mobile networks
- Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
- Network security in mobile environments
- Pricing, charging, and accounting
- QoS signalling in mobile environments
- Resource management and admission control
- Routing in mobile and opportunistic networks
- Service composition and management
- Simulation of next generation mobile networks
- Software-defined wireless networks
- Space internetworking
- Technologies beyond 3G networks
- Traffic characterization and modeling
- Traffic engineering
- Transport protocols and congestion control
- Unified management of integrated challenging networks
- User-centric networking
- Vehicular networks
- Virtual and overlay networks
- WiFi hotspot sharing
- Wireless mesh networks
- Wireless multimedia systems
- Wireless network monitoring
- Wireless sensor networks

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Scott Burleigh, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), USA
George Pavlou, University College London (UCL), UK
Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

SPONSORS
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Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Greece
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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The maximum size of papers should be 12 pages including tables and figures. The cover page must contain an abstract of at least 70 and at most 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. In your submission, please adhere to the formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of Springer International Publishing. There you will find templates for preparing the submission using either LaTeX (recommended) or Microsoft Word. Notice that in the submission phase we only accept a PDF document produced from the properly formatted original editable document.

Papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS.

You can find detailed submission instructions at:
http://www.wwic.info/paper-submission

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Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the conference and present the paper.
Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Manuscript submission deadline: February 5, 2016
- Manuscript acceptance notification: February 29, 2016
- Camera-ready paper submission: March 11, 2016

CONTACT
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For further information, please visit the conference website at:
http://www.wwic.info or contact the conference organizers at:
organizers@wwic.info


IFIP WWIC 2016 ORGANIZERS
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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:
- Lefteris Mamatas, University of Macedonia, Greece
- Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA

TPC CO-CHAIRS:
- Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
- Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE CHAIR:
- Sofia Petridou, University of Macedonia, Greece

PUBLICITY CHAIR:
- Giorgos Papastergiou, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR:
- Ageliki Tsioliaridou, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece

WEBMASTER:
- Antony Tsioukas, LiveEvents, Greece

STEERING COMMITTEE:
- Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Georg Carle, TU München, Germany
- Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- Peter Langendörfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany
- Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA
- Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
- Mari Carmen Aguayo-Torres, University of Malaga, Spain
- Sami Akin, Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany
- Francisco Barcelo-Arroyo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
- Nikolaos Bezirgiannidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
- Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Zdravko Bozakov, EMC Research Europe, Ireland
- Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Scott Burleigh, NASA JPL/California Institute of Technology, USA
- Maria Calderon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- Zhen Cao, Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany
- Georg Carle, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany
- Ana Cavalli, Telecom SudParis, France
- Eduardo Cerqueira, Federal University of Para / UCLA, Brazil
- Marinos Charalambides, University College London, United Kingdom
- Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Arsenia Chorti, University of Essex, United Kingdom
- Stuart Clayman, University College London, United Kingdom
- Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus, Greece
- Paul Gendron, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
- Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Eindhoven Technical University, The Netherlands
- Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Andreas J. Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden
- Ioannis Komnios, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
- Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey
- Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- Peter Langendoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany
- Sotirios-Angelos Lenas, Democritus University Of Thrace, Greece
- Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
- Chung-Horng Lung, Carleton University, Canada
- Christian Maihofer, Daimler AG, Germany
- Lefteris Mamatas, University of Macedonia, Greece
- Xavier Masip-Bruin, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA
- Paulo Mendes, COPELABS/University Lusofona, Portugal
- Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy
- Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Hassnaa Moustafa, Intel, USA
- Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada
- Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany
- Giorgos Papastergiou, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
- Sofia Petridou, University of Macedonia, Greece
- Ioannis Psaras, University College London, United Kingdom
- Kan Qiao, Google, USA
- Amr Rizk, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
- Stefan Schmid, T-Labs/TU Berlin, Germany
- Dimitrios Serpanos, University of Patras, Greece
- Vasilios Siris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
- Harry Skianis, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Dirk Staehle, HTWG Konstanz, Germany
- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Alicia Trivino, University of Malaga, Spain
- Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
- Angeliki Tsioliaridou, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece