IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
15-18 April 2018 // Barcelona, Spain
Leading the Way to 5G and Beyond

Call For Papers

There has been a tremendous evolution from voice systems to sophisticated communication platforms in mobile communications. Today’s mobile communication systems provide a diverse set of services and applications to a large number of devices. Nevertheless, future systems such as 5G are expected to serve applications with varying requirements, be adaptive to dynamic topologies, and take autonomous decisions to reconfigure the networks for efficiency and resiliency purposes. Flexible and agile networking solutions are required to deal with uncertainties and unknowns, and also to enable backward and forward compatibility. In this workshop, the following topics will be considered:

  • Reconfigurable end-to-end mobile network architectures
  • Autonomous network function allocation and placement
  • Flexible network management, self-organized networks, CORD, mobile CORD
  • Mobile edge, cloudlet, cloud computing for assisting radio access networks (RAN) in 5G mobile networks
  • Virtualization of network functions and elements, microservices
  • Virtual radio access technologies
  • Heterogeneous traffic distribution in heterogeneous wireless networks
  • 3GPP and Non-3GPP interconnection
  • Multi-context awareness, multi-service and multi-tenancy and network slicing,
  • Adaptation to the underlying networking and computing infrastructure,
  • Energy-efficient RAN and elasticity in RAN, RANaaS,
  • Programmable RAN and software-defined networking (SDN) architectures,
  • User-in-the-loop, spatial and temporal demand shaping in wireless networks
  • Service-oriented network management, service orchestration
  • Flexible backhauling/fronthauling
  • Control-data plane split
  • Runtime flexibility in verticals
  • UAV (drone) assisted agile networks, Mobile BSs
  • Flexible public radio interfaces
  • Flexibility in/for machine-type communication and IoT

All in all, future networks must be flexible and elastic to easily introduce new services, applications and business models. Any topic related to this concept is welcome. In relation to the timeliness of this workshop proposal, please refer to several European Union H2020 5G-PPP phase 1 projects such as FANTASTIC-5G (Flexible Air Interface for Scalable service delivery within Wireless Communication networks of the 5th Generation) and Flex5Gware (Flexible and efficient hardware/software platforms for 5G network elements and devices) addressing these issues. Furthermore, the 5G-PPP phase 2 pre-structuring model includes some target actions (TA) related to flexibility in mobile networks, specifically TA5, Novel Radio System Architecture.Important DatesPaper Submission: November 12, 2017Paper Acceptance Notification: December 15, 2017Camera-Ready Papers Due: January 12, 2018SubmissionsPapers should be submitted through this link: http://edas.info/N24107   

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