【IEEE HotICN 2020】2020 3rd IEEE International Conference on Hot Information-Centric Networking will be on December 12-14, 2020, in Institute of Advanced Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.

The conference committee invites submissions of applied or theoretical research as well as of application-oriented papers on all the topics of IEEE HotICN 2020. The HotICN aims to gather experts and scholars from home and abroad in this field to discuss the architecture, key technologies, innovative ideas, future development trends and industry prospects of information centric networks and its related fields such as space-ground integrated network, network intelligence and testbed, blockchain, etc.

Topics include, but are not limited to the following:
▼Track One: Information Centric Networking(ICN)
ICN architecture and fundamentals
ICN mobility
Security and privacy issues in ICN
ICN in IPv6
ICN in IoT
ICN in Cloud/Fog
ICN in 5G Mobile Internet
ICN in Vehicle Network
ICN Performance and Evaluation
ICN-Inspired Applications and System
ICN Analysis and Theory

▼Track Two: Space-Ground Integrated Information-Centric Network (SGI-ICN)
Heterogeneous wireless network architectures and infrastructure for supporting SGI-ICN
Resource allocation and energy efficiency for SGI-ICN
Security, privacy and trust issues in SGI-ICN
Delay tolerant networking for SGI-ICN

▼Track Three: Network Intelligence and Testbed for ICN
Data mining, statistical modeling, and machine learning for network management
Resource allocation for information centric networks using machine learning
Deep learning and reinforcement learning in network control & management
Predictive and self-aware networking maintenance
Instrumentation and measurement of ICN
Testbed design, implementation and deployment
Large-scale testbed for future network
Tools and services for testbed users and operators
Experiments on federated testbeds

▼Track Four: BlockChain
Blockchain technologies and system
Security, privacy and trust schemes for blockchain
Smart contracts and distributed ledger applications
Networking technologies in Blockchain
Blockchain-inspired applications and system

▼Publications
All accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings by IEEE, which will be submitted for EI, Scopus, CNKI index. Excellent papers may be selected and published on SCI or EI journals.

Excellent papers will be recommended to Journal of Communications and Information Networks (JCIN) or to Journal of Science and Technology of China (JUST). JCIN is the top-level Chinese Journal recommended by China Institute of Communications, which is currently included in IEEE xplore and CSCD.


▼General Chairs
Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
Feng Wu, University of Science and Technology of China, China

▼Conference co-chair
Jian Yang, University of Science and Technology of China, China

▼Steering Committee
Lixia Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles(UCLA), USA
Xiaoming Fu, University of Goettingen, Germany
Yanyong Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Lan Wang, University of Memphis, USA
Haiyong Xie, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Kai Lei, Peking University, China

▼Technical Program Chairs
Mingwei Xu, Tsinghua University, China
Hongbin Luo, Beihang University, China
Tao Huang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Jiangtao Luo, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Xiaobin Tan, University of Science and Technology of China, China

▼Submission Process
Online submission system: 【https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hoticn2020】



▼Contact
Email: Hoticn@academic.net
Tel:+86-13541382102
working time: 09:30-18:00 (Monday-Friday)