IEEE International Conference on Communications
20-24 May 2018 // Kansas City, MO, USA
Communications for Connecting Humanity

Information-Centric Edge Computing and Caching for Future Networks

Information-Centric Edge Computing and Caching for Future Networks

Scope and topics
The Workshop on "Information-Centric Edge Computing and Caching for Future Networks" provides a forum for discussions of the up-to-date developments in information-centric networking, edge computing, edge caching for future networks, and brings together industry and academia, engineers and researchers. The workshop invites submissions of the unpublished works on the following topics (but not limited to):

  • Information-centric networking (ICN) and edge computing enabled future network architectures
  • Trends and challenges of integrating information-centric networking, edge computing, and caching
  • Information-centric networking/content-centric networking/cache-enabled networks
  • Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) /Mobile Edge Cloud /Fog Computing in future networks
  • ICN for IoT/M2M/MTC in future networks
  • Information-centric edge computing and caching for 5G systems
  • Information-centric edge computing and caching models
  • Content caching and optimization in future networks
  • Reliability and availability, mobility and connectivity in information-centric edge computing and caching
  • Performance/complexity/cost tradeoff
  • Integrating software-defined networking, information-centric networking, caching, and edge computing in future networks
  • Computation offloading in future networks
  • Protocols design and analysis for information-centric edge computing and caching
  • Designs and optimizations for information-centric edge computing and caching
  • Energy efficient hardware, software, networks and services in information-centric edge computing and caching
  • QoS provisioning and resource management in information-centric edge computing and caching
  • Security and privacy for information-centric edge computing and caching
  • Big data for information-centric edge computing and caching
  • Signal processing for information-centric edge computing and caching
  • Information theory for information-centric edge computing and caching
  • Interdisciplinary research for information-centric edge computing and caching
  • Standards, policies, and regulations for information-centric edge computing and caching

Committee

  • Chair:
  • Victor C. M. Leung
    The University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
    http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~vleung/
    vleung@ece.ubc.ca

  • TPC Co-Chairs:
  • F. Richard Yu
    Carleton University, ON, Canada
    http://www.csit.carleton.ca/~fyu/
    richard.yu@carleton.ca

    Tao Huang
    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R., China
    htao@bupt.edu.cn

    Workshop Format
    Technical papers will be presented in the full-day workshop. The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures.

    Submission Guideline: http://icc2018.ieee-icc.org/authors/call-workshop-papers
    Submission link: https://edas.info/N24148

    Deadlines
    Paper Submission Deadline: 10 January 2018
    Acceptance Notification: February 21, 2018
    Final Paper submission: March 5, 2018

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