[IEEE WoWMoM 2025]: Call for Papers

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IEEE WoWMoM 2025
Call for Papers
May 27-30, 2025, Fort Worth, Texas
https://wowmomconference.uta.edu
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IMPORTANT NOTE
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WoWMoM 2025 will adopt a double-blind review process. Refer to the details under Paper Submission for the requirements for double-blind submissions.

SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
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IEEE WoWMoM 2025 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems and applications. Wireless networking technologies are continuously evolving and have become a critical part of modern life for communication services, media distribution, or sensing and actuation services within the Internet of Things (IoT). Appropriate resource management, application design, and architectural networking paradigms are necessary to provide users with high-quality experience in multimedia communication and services. Edge computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are becoming essential tools to cope with the increasing diversity of connected devices and the plethora of new data-intensive and latency-sensitive applications. At the same time, the interoperability among IoT environments (including wearable computing and sensors), the network edge, and the cloud are evolving towards an IoT-edge-cloud continuum that is expected to support a wide range of application domains and services in a seamless and efficient manner. In this context, providing rich sets of measurements for characterizing and understanding the behavior of such complex systems is of paramount importance.

IEEE WoWMoM 2025 takes a broad view and seeks papers describing innovative research contributions to the field of mobile and wireless networking and applications. We solicit papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. We also welcome practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field trials, or real deployments.

SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST
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5G/ 6G networks for mobile and multimedia services
AI-assisted and data-driven networking in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
Authentication, authorization, accounting for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
Behavior-aware human-centric multimedia networks
Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
Context-awareness in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) enabled multimedia networks
Seamless inter-networking and self-organization
Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and slicing for wireless and mobile networks
IoT-edge-cloud continuum for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking and services
Communication technologies and services for M2M communications
Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
Energy characterisation, modeling, and efficiency for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
Localization, tracking, and mobility management and services
Trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
Modeling, analysis, and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
Network traffic characterization and measurements
System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences
Mobile social networks
Connected mobility, including vehicles, vulnerable road users, etc: networking issues and services
Participatory, opportunistic, mobile, and urban sensing
Wearable Computing
LLM for multimedia networks
Security for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
Digital twin for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. Authors must make a good-faith effort to anonymize their submissions. Specifically, the authors should not identify themselves in any content within the paper either directly or indirectly (e.g., through references). Where relevant, authors must refer to their previous work in the third person and write as if it was written by a third party. However, authors should ensure that any anonymization of their work is not destructive. For instance, the omission of references to papers just because they are the authors' previous work should be avoided, as this could prevent reviewers from finding a related paper for the purpose of the review. Submissions violating anonymization rules will not be considered for review.

Although submission is double-blind, non-anonymous preprints (on arXiv or other preprint servers) will not lead to the rejection of your paper. Reviewers will be instructed not to actively look for such preprints before completing a first read of your paper, but encountering them will not constitute a conflict of interest.

Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process, and all submissions must be made electronically through EDAS.

Authors can submit regular or work-in-progress papers (appropriate category to be selected upon submission).

REGULAR PAPERS
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Regular papers may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with a font size of 10 points or greater. See IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings.

WORK IN PROGRESS PAPERS
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WIP (Work-in-progress) papers provide a peer-reviewed forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research and obtain feedback from their peers in a poster session. Work-in-progress papers may be up to 4 pages in length (including figures and references) and must have the prefix "WIP:" in the paper's title.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Papers due: November 22, 2024
Acceptance notification: February 12, 2025

ACCEPTED PAPERS
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An author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate. The paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference. Exceptions can be granted if compelling reasons are sent to the TPC Co-Chairs with a written request indicating an adequate substitute presenter before the conference. Accepted papers (both regular and WIP) will be included in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2025 which will be published through the IEEE Xplore digital library.

All conference proceedings must meet IEEE's quality standards, and IEEE reserves the right not to publish any proceedings that do not meet these standards. Furthermore, IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference, for unjustified reasons.

BEST PAPER AWARD
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All accepted regular papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. A committee will select three best paper candidates based on the reviews received and also the quality of presentation. The winner will be announced during the conference. For any additional information, please contact the PC Co-chairs.

JOURNAL FAST TRACK
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Papers with special merit will be considered for fast track publication to Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier (Impact Factor 3.0 Clarivate Analytics, 2024).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Co-Chairs:
Yonghe Liu (University of Texas at Arlington, United States)
Mahbub Hassan (University of New South Wales - Sydney, Australia)

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Qi Han (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
Carlo Vallati (University of Pisa, Italy)

Steering Committee:
Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
Marco Conti (Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council, Italy)

Workshop Chair:
Jiong Jin (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

Poster/Demo Co-Chairs:
Habeeb Olufowobi (University of Texas at Arlington, United States)
Shantanu Pal (Deakin University, Australia)

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Suranga Seneviratne (University of Sydney, Australia)
Siwang Zhou (Hunan University, China)
Xia Yu (Hainan Normal University, China)
Satya Devu Sree Veera Pratapa (University of Texas at Arlington)

Web Chair:
Dianqi Han (University of Texas at Arlington, United States)

Local Organization Co-Chairs:
Debashri Roy (University of Texas at Arlington, United States)
Chenxi Wang (University of Texas at Arlington, United States)