The IEEE LATINCOM is an international conference organized by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Latin America Region. IEEE LATINCOM is the most important conference on communications in Latin America; it is held annually and attracts submissions and participants from all around the world. This event will be an excellent opportunity to join together professors, researchers, industry and students.

This year, the 12th Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM 2020) will be held online due to the outbreak of COVID-19. We are planning for an engaging and high level program, as well as experiment with new virtual reality technologies to enable networking and interaction among the participants. Moreover, authors of selected papers from Latincom will be invited to submit an extended version for possible publication to special issues in international journals.

The LATINCOM 2020 Organizing Committee is inviting the submission of original, unpublished, high-quality research papers focused on (but not limited to) the following topics of interest:

A. Mobile and Wireless Networking
– Cellular systems, 4G/5G/B5G
– Cognitive radio networks
– Device-to-device/machine-to-machine communications
– Green wireless networks
– Opportunistic wireless networks
– Pervasive and wearable computing and networking
– Reconfigurable wireless networks
– Software defined wireless networks
– Underwater wireless networks
– Vehicular networks
– Wireless network virtualization
– Wireless multimedia networks
– WLAN, WPAN, and other home/personal networking technologies
– Wireless networking techniques based on AI

B. Communication Services, Software and Multimedia Applications
– Cooperative networking for streaming media content
– E-health, E-governance, E-agriculture, etc.
– High quality service provisioning for multimedia applications
– Location-based services
– ML techniques for video delivery and service
– ML techniques for multimedia content analysis
– Multimedia cloud, streaming, multicast and broadcast services
– Multimedia edge computing and fog communication
– QoE and QoS
– Quality-oriented routing algorithms
– Real time communication services
– Service orchestration and management
– Service security and privacy
– Triple and quadruple play services

C. Communication QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling
– Networks and communication systems modelling
– Networks and communications performance evaluation
– Reliability of systems and networks
– Traffic measurement, modelling, visualization, and engineering
– Security and trust in network design
– Integration aspects in IoT and Big Data systems
– Design of cloud, grid and distributed computing networks
– QoS and network efficiency

D. Optical Networks
– AI and ML for optical systems and networks
– Big data driven optical networking
– Data analytics for optical networks
– Elastic, flexible rate and flexi-grid optical networks
– Free space optical networks
– Optical network control and management
– Optical network survivability and availability
– Optical vehicular networks
– Optical and wireless convergence
– Routing and spectrum assignment for optical networks
– Software defined optical networks
– Ultraviolet communications and networks
– Underwater optical communications
– Virtualization and slicing in optical networks
– Visible light communications

E. Communications Systems & Signal Processing
– Communication theory of ad-hoc and sensor networks
– Communication theory of distributed and edge computing
– Communication theory of networks and cross-layer design
– Multi-antenna, multi-user and multi-node systems
– Radio communications
– Satellite & space communications
– Signal processing techniques in 5G/B5G
– Signal processing for QoS and QoE based applications
– Signal processing for smart grid and green communications
– Signal processing for sensor networks and IoT
– Signal processing for software defined and cognitive radio
– Signal processing for power line communications
– Signal processing for millimeter and tera-Hz communication
– Theoretical aspects of blockchain and ML in networks

F. Next-generation Networking and Internet
– 5G architecture
– Blockchain in next generation communications and networks
– Content-centric networking
– Centralized-RAN and Cloud-RAN architectures
– Future Internet and next-generation networking architectures
– High speed architectures for next generation routers/switches
– Management of service-oriented control plane in 5G/B5G
– Network functions virtualization
– Next-generation access networks
– Next-generation anomaly-intrusion-attack detection/prevention
– Next-generation flow management
– Next-generation IP multimedia subsystem
– Next-generation network management and control
– Parallel architectures for next generation routers/switches
– Software-defined networking

G. AI, Big Data and ML for Networking
– AI and ML for 5G/B5G and network slicing
– AI and ML for virtualized and softwarized networks
– AI, neural networks, and deep learning for network management
– Big data for smart cities and smart homes
– Big data in, with, and for cloud computing and networking
– Big data in, with, and for communications and networking
– Big data with and for smart grids
– Big data with IoT and cyber-physical systems
– Cloud and network data analytics, modelling and visualization
– Cooperative learning for softwarized and virtualized networks
– Data analytics to QoS and traffic classification
– Data analytics to faults and root-cause analysis
– Data-driven management of virtualized infrastructure
– Data-driven management of IoT and cyber-physical systems
– Data-driven management of SDN and data centers
– ML based distributed training and learning over-the-air
– Operational analytics and intelligence
– Predictive analytics and real-time analytics

H. Selected Areas in Communications
– Blockchain in communications and networks
– Cloud, edge and fog computing
– Internet-of-Things
– Smart cities and urban computing
– Smart grid communications
– Social networks, crowdsourcing, and crowdsensing
– Tactile Internet

We look forward to meeting you online at IEEE LATINCOM 2020!
https://latincom2020.ieee-latincom.org