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| CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS
| | IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM) 2021
| | https://latincom2021.ieee-latincom.org/
| | 17 - 19 November 2021
| | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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Paper/Tutorial Proposal submission:

- Deadline: August 16, 2021 - Submission link:
https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/latincom2021



COVID-19 Update / Hybrid Conference Format:

Due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting travel
restrictions, the conference will be in the form of a hybrid conference
with some authors and participants attending the conference in person,
and others attending remotely. The technical program will include
physical sessions with on-site presentations and virtual (on-line)
sessions for remote participants.


Publication Information:

Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE LATINCOM
2021 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore?? as well as
other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Authors of selected papers from LATINCOM 2021 will be invited to submit
an extended version for possible publication in special issues of the
following journals:

- International Journal of Network Management

- Journal of Communication and Information Systems


Scope:

The LATINCOM 2021 Organizing Committee is inviting submissions of
original, unpublished, high-quality research papers focused on (but not
limited to) the following topics of interest:

Mobile and Wireless Networking - Cellular systems, 4G/5G/B5G/6G -
Cognitive radio networks - Device-to-device/machine-to-machine
communications - Green wireless networks - Large-scale LEO satellite
networking - Opportunistic wireless networks - Pervasive and wearable
computing and networking - Reconfigurable wireless networks -
Software-defined wireless networks - Underwater wireless networks -
Vehicular networks - UAV - Wireless network virtualization - Wireless
multimedia networks - WLAN, WPAN, and other home/personal networking
technologies - Wireless networking techniques based on AI

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 fog/edge computing and 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

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, edge and other distributed computing networks
- QoS and network efficiency

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

Communications Theory & 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/6G - 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

Next-generation Networking and Internet - 5G/B5G/6G 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

AI, Big Data and ML for Networking - AI and ML for 5G/B5G/6G and network
slicing - AI and ML for virtualized and software-defined networks - AI,
neural networks, and deep learning for network management - Big data for
smart cities and smart homes - Big data for cloud computing and
networking - Big data for communications and networking - Big data for
smart grids - Big data with IoT and cyber-physical systems - Cloud and
network data analytics, modelling and visualization - Cooperative
learning for software-defined and virtualized networks - Data analytics
for QoS and traffic classification - Data analytics for 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

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


Submission Format:

Papers must be written in English, unpublished and not being considered
in other conferences or journals. Full papers must be formatted as the
standard IEEE double-column conference template and submitted in PDF on
JEMS (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/latincom2021).

Maximum 6 pages are allowed for each paper, including all illustrations
and references.



Call for Tutorials:

The LATINCOM 2021 Organizing Committee is also inviting submissions of
tutorials in the areas mentioned above. A tutorial proposal must be
submitted in PDF format, containing the following information:

- Title of the tutorial - Abstract, objectives and motivation -
Timeliness and intended audience - Name, affiliation, and a short
biography of each tutorial speaker - A description of the technical
issues that the tutorial will address, emphasizing its timeliness - An
outline of the tutorial content, including its tentative schedule.
Please take under consideration the virtual manner of the conference
when laying out the schedule - If appropriate, a description of the
past/relevant experience of the speaker on the topic of the tutorial. -
A description of previous tutorial experience of the speaker(s), and
past versions of the tutorial

Tutorial proposals must also be submitted online via JEMS on the
following link: https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/latincom2021.

Important Dates:

- Paper submission deadline: August 16, 2021 - Submission of tutorial
proposals: August 16, 2021 - Notification of acceptance: September 14,
2021 - Camera-ready papers: September 27, 2021 - Conference dates:
November 17-19, 2021



Organizing Committee:

General Co-Chairs: - Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italia -
Manuel Mendoza, Instituto Tecnol??gico de Santo Domingo (INTEC),
Dominican Republic


Technical Program Chairs: - Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of
Oklahoma, United States of America - Keije Lu, University of Puerto Rico
at Mayag??ez, Puerto Rico

Publications Chair: - Ramiro Velazquez, Panamericana University, M??xico


Keynote and Tutorials Chair: - Marco To De Leon, Universidad Galileo,
Guatemala - Oscar Caicedo, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia


Steering Committee - Stefano Bregni (chair) - Carlos A. Gutierrez -
Carlos Lozano Garzon - Fabrizio Granelli - Jose-David Cely - Marco To De
Leon - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville - Nelson Fonseca - Nury Gabriela
Ramirez Celi - Pedro Aguilera