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CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE WoWMoM 2018
19th International Symposium on a
World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks

http://it.murdoch.edu.au/wowmom2018/

sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society,
Missouri University of Science and Technology,
IEEE Computer Society TC on Computer Communications (TCCC)

June 12-15, 2018
Chania, Crete, Greece
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Abstract submission due: November 23, 2017
Full manuscript due: November 30, 2017
Acceptance notification: March 15, 2018
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SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
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IEEE WoWMoM 2018 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems. The evolution of wireless networking technologies and their key role in future Internet scenarios offer an increasing wealth of opportunities for distributing multimedia contents over wireless networks, enabling dissemination of professional contents to mobile users as well as sharing user-generated contents among them. Users will be able to retrieve, publish, and manage information, communicate with other users or devices, access and author services, and create and exploit context-awareness. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field-trials, or real deployments, are also welcome.

Papers are invited which address new and previously unpublished results in the areas:

– Ad-hoc, sensor, mesh and vehicular wireless networks
– Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks
– Context-awareness in wireless, mobile and multimedia networks
– Cognitive communications and networking
– Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks
– Energy-efficiency for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks
– Internet/Web of Things
– Localisation, tracking, and mobility management and services
– Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks
– Mobile applications and services over 5G networks
– Mobile big data networking and services
– Mobile cloud computing
– Mobile applications and services over 5G networks
– Mobile edge computing
– Mobile health networking
– Mobile network traffic characterization and measurements
– Mobile social networks
– Modelling, analysis, and performance evaluation
- Network virutalisation and software-defined wireless networks
– Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks
– Participatory, mobile and urban sensing
– Resource management for QoS/QoE provisioning
– RFID, NFC, and Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications
– Satellite and space networking
– Seamless inter-networking and self-organisation
– Security, trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks
– System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences
– Underwater wireless, mobile and multimedia networks
– Virtual mobile infrastructure
– Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN and WAN
– Wireless multimedia systems, services and applications
- Wearable Computing


PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal.

Papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS, using the link:https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23975

Authors can submit papers falling into two distinct paper categories (please select the appropriate one when submitting):

Regular Papers

Regular papers submissions may be up to 9 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 10 points or greater. For the camera ready, authors can buy one additional page up to 10 pages.

Work in Progress papers

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 to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting.
Work-in-progress papers submissions may be up to 3 pages in length (including figures and references), with the option of purchasing one extra page upon acceptance (up to 4 pages).

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For accepted papers, attendance and presentation by one of the authors is mandatory.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the conference and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2018 and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore. All conference proceedings must meet IEEEÆs quality standards, and IEEE reserves the right not to publish any proceedings that do not meet these standards. WoWMoM organizers reserve the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference.

Selected Papers will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC)
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IMPORTANT DATES
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* Abstract submission deadline: November 23, 2017

* Full manuscript due: November 30, 2017

* Acceptance notification: March 15, 2018

* Camera-Ready version due: April 22, 2018

* Conference Dates: June 12-15, 2017



WORKSHOPS AND AFFILIATED EVENTS
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WoWMoM 2018 will offer a four-day technical program including keynote speeches, hot-topic panel sessions, tutorials, demonstrations, and PhD forum. Several workshops will be held in conjunction with the symposium. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (IEEE Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. The conference also provides a high quality social events program, including a welcome reception, a gala dinner, and a guided tour of the historical part of Macau.

DEMOS
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Technical demonstrations in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems are solicited. Instructions for submitting a demo proposal will be posted in due time on the conference website.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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GENERAL CHAIRS
Polychronis Koutsakis, Murdoch University, Australia

TPC CHAIRS
Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Vasilios Siris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

STEERING COMMITTEE
Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy
Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

WORKSHOPS CHAIRS
Andreas Reinhardt, TU Clausthal, Germany
Petros Spachos, University of Guelph, Canada

PUBLICATION CHAIRS
Victoria Manfredi, Wesleyan University, USA
Rita Tse, Macao Polytechnic Institute, China

DEMONSTRATION CHAIRS
Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy
Stefanos Papadakis, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Ana Aguiar, University of Porto, Portugal
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University of Buffalo, USA
Corinna Schmitt, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Suranga Seneviratne, Data61 CSIRO, Australia

PANEL CHAIRS
Yue Gao, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Mario Papadopouli, University of Crete, Greece

PHD FORUM CHAIRS
Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Angelos Marnerides, Lancaster University, UK

FINANCE & REGISTRATION CHAIR
Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIRS
Spyros Psychis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Marios Kastrinakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece

WEB CHAIR
David Murray, Murdoch University, Australia

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (not yet complete)
Nils Aschenbruck, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy
Albert Banchs, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Maryland, USA
Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA
Luca Bedogni, University of Bologna, Italy
Boris Bellalta, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
Brahim Bensaou, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy
Manoj BS, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, India
Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea
Claudio Cicconetti, MBI, Italy
Debraj De, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA
Alessandra De Paola, University of Palermo, Italy
Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy
Mario Di Francesco, Aalto University, Finland
Roberto Di Pietro, Bell Labs, France
Ozgur Ercetin, Sabanci University, Turkey
Serge Fdida, UPMC, France
Marco Fiore, IEIIT-CNR, Italy
Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy
James Gross, KTH, Sweden
Raouf Hamzaoui, De Montfort University, UK
Mahbub Hassan, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Matthias Hollick, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Peizhao Hu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Wen Hu, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Pan Hui, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Raja Jurdak, Data61-CSIRO, Australia
Karl Holger, University of Paderborn, Germany
Andreas J. Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, USA
Kun-chan Lan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Adrian Loch, IMDEA Networks, Spain
Tony Luo, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Petri Mähönen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Angelos Marnerides, Lancaster University, UK
Constandinos Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy
Daniele Miorandi, Create-Net, Italy
Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
David Murray, Murdoch University, Australia
Matt Mutka, Michigan State University, USA
Vinayak Naik, IIIT Delhi, India
Elena Pagani, University of Milano, Italy
Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy
George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
James Pope, University of Bristol, UK
Ioannis Psaras, University College London, UK
Daniele Puccinelli, SUPSI, Switzerland
Damith Ranasighe, University of Adelaide, Australia
Andreas Reinhardt, TU Clausthal, Germany
Francesco Restuccia, Northeastern University, USA
Jorge Sa Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Anand Seetharam, California State University, USA
Shamik Sengupta, University of Nevada, USA
Pablo Serrano, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Bo Sheng, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Simone Silvestri, University of Kentucky, USA
Krishna Sivalingam, IIT Madras, India
Petros Spachos, University of Guelph, Canada
Ioannis Stavrakakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Thorsten Strufe, TU Dresden, Germany
Chen-Khong Tham, National University Singapore, Singapore
Kanchana Thilakarathna, Data61-CSIRO, Australia
Carlo Vallati, University of Pisa, Italy
Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Joerg Widmer, IMDEA Networks, Spain
Andreas Willig, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Hongyi Wu, Old Dominion University, USA
Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Osaka University, Japan
Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA
Wensheng Zhang, Iowa State University, USA
Zimu Zhou, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Cliff Zou, University of Central Florida, USA
Moshe Zukerman, City University of Hong Kong, China