---------------------------------------

Call For Papers: The 23rd Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium
- Data-driven Intelligent Management in the Era of beyond 5G -


Sponsored by IEICE ICM, KICS KNOM
http://www.apnoms.org/2022/
September 28-30, 2022, Takamatsu, Japan

===============================

Important Dates:
Paper submission: May 30, 2022
Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2022 Camera-ready papers due: August 8, 2022

===============================

The Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS) is the premier conference on network operations and management
in the Asia-Pacific region. APNOMS meets every year, typically during September or October, and boasts a rich history of successes.
It includes a full three-day program of keynotes, tutorials, technical sessions, panel discussions, poster sessions, and exhibits
focusing on managing networks that span the computing and telecommunications areas. APNOMS 2022 will encourage open discussions on
technology alternatives that focus on the management and operation of current and future networks and services. APNOMS welcomes
submissions based on implementation and experimentation, as well as simulation and analytical approaches. The topics of interest
include, but are not limited to, the following items:

-------------------------
1) Network Management
Management of 5G Network
Management of Software Defined Network (SDN)
Management of the Future Internet(s)
Management of IP and Optical Networks
Management of Ad-hoc and Mesh Networks
Management of Wireless and Cellular Networks
Management of Sensor Networks
Management of Heterogeneous Networks
Management of Converged Networks
Management of Large Data Centers and Clouds
Management of Vehicular Networks
Management of Peer-to-Peer and Overlay Networks
Cognitive Network Management

2) Architectures, Methods & Technologies
New Network Architectures and Models
Next Generation BSS/OSS Platforms
New Network Protocols
Network Security
Automatic Management
Software Defined Network (SDN)
Network functions Virtualization(NFV)
Cloud Computing
Edge/Fog Computing
Control Theoretic Management Approaches
Web/Java Based Management
Mobile Agent-based Management
Policy-based Management
Converged Networking Issues
SLA/QoS Management & Traffic Engineering
Network Monitoring and Measurements
Configuration and Fault Management
SNMP, Telemetry, NETCONF, Web Services, XML

3) Service Management
Internet of Things (IoT) Management
Cyber Physical System (CPS) Management
Big Data Management
Ubiquitous Service Management
Management of Personalized Services
Services Science, Management & Engineering
Security Management Accounting and Billing
Applications and Service Provisioning
Seamless Service with Roaming and Handover
Signaling for Application Sessions and Networking
Management of Bandwidth on Demand
Regulatory Issues

4) Business Management
Economic Aspects of NGNs and Future Internet(s)
Next Generation BSS Platforms
SLA/SLO/SLS Management
eTOM and ITIL
ISP/ASP/CSP Management
Business Process Engineering
Customer Care and Self Operations
e-Business Management

5) Experiences
Trial Results, Migration and Case Studies
Interoperability Issues
R&D Networks
Advances in and Federation of Testbeds

----------------------------



Technical Session:

Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers in English, which are not under review in any other conferences or
journals. Submission should be in form of a PDF file of a minimum of 3 pages and a maximum of 6 pages, prepared in accordance with
IEEE author guidelines. All accepted and presented papers in the conference are expected to be included in the proceedings of the
conference as well as IEEE Xplore Digital Library (pending), IEICE archive system (pending) and KICS Proceedings Series (pending),
and will be indexed by EI and other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. The copyright of accepted papers will be transferred
to IEICE. A submitted paper may be accepted as a short paper (presented in a poster session). NOTE: To be published in the
proceedings, for each accepted paper, at least one author is required to register for the conference at the full (member or
non-member) rate and the paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. Online presentation will be permitted if
the authors cannot attend on-site due to COVID-19 or other unavoidable reasons such as natural disaster.



Innovation Session:

APNOMS 2022 will include innovation sessions to present and discuss ongoing research, work-in-progress ideas, practical solutions,
and experimental studies. Authors are requested to submit PDF documents in a special format (should have a visual in the upper half
of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half, and must not exceed 20 annotated visuals including title and references). The
sample file can be obtained at APNOMS website: http://www.apnoms.org/2022/manuscript.html. Innovation papers will be included in
conference proceedings but will NOT be indexed by any scholarly research database. The copyright of accepted papers will belong to
the author(s). The author(s) may transfer the copyright to a journal publisher if the same content or its extended version is
submitted separately to a journal.



Send your questions to TPC Co-Chairs:

Hiroki Nakayama (BOSCO Technologies inc., Japan) nakayama@bosco-tech.com You-Chiun Wang (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
ycwang@mail.cse.nsysu.edu.tw Kyungbaek Kim (Chonnam National University, Korea) kyungbaekkim@jnu.ac.kr

-------------------------------------------