Call for Papers

IEEE ICC 2017 will be held at Palais des Congrès – Porte Maillot, Paris, France, 21-25 May 2017. Located in the heart of the City of Lights, IEEE ICC 2017 will exhibit an exciting technical program in all major areas of communications. The IEEE ICC 2017 Workshop on Flexible Networks (FlexNets) will be a full-day event on the 21st of May, 2017.

Scope

There has been a tremendous evolution from voice systems to sophisticated communication platforms in mobile communications. Today’s mobile communication systems provide various services and applications to millions of people. Future systems such as 5G are also expected to serve trillions of devices. It will neither today nor in the future be possible to predict the requirements of all use cases and applications. New business models will impose diverse set of requirements on future networks. A flexible radio network is required to deal with uncertainties and unknowns, and also to enable backward and forward compatibility.

Topics of Interest

In this workshop, the following topics will be considered:

  • flexible reconfigurable end-to-end mobile network architectures,
  • flexible function allocation and placement,
  • mobile edge, cloudlet, cloud computing for assisting radio access networks (RAN) in 5G mobile networks,
  • virtualization of network functions and elements,
  • virtual radio access technologies (RAT),
  • flexible management, self-organized networks, CORD, mobile CORD,
  • multi-context awareness, multi-service and multi-tenancy and network slicing,
  • adaptation to the underlying networking and computing infrastructure,
  • dynamic and energy-efficient RAN and elasticity in RAN,
  • security and privacy in flexible networks,
  • programmable RAN and software-defined architectures,
  • flexible backhauling,
  • control-data plane split,
  • runtime flexibility in verticals,
  • flexible public radio interfaces,
  • flexibility in/for machine-type communication and IoT,
  • flexibility in services/applications using SDN and NFV
  • fog computing for IoT.

All in all, future networks must be flexible and elastic to easily introduce new services, applications and business models. Any other topic related to this concept is welcome.

All papers should be submitted via EDAS. Click this link to submit your paper.

Important Dates

Paper Submission: 16 December 2016 (extended)

Paper Acceptance Notification: 27 January 2017

Camera-Ready Papers Due: 24 February 2017

Download Call for Papers.