In the last decade, the growth of Internet and other web technologies driven fast developments of various networking technologies that are becoming primary parts of our daily lives. The wealth of exiting algorithms and architectures for parallel and distributed computing combined with the proliferation of future wireless technologies and electronic devices, resulted is a fast growing adoption of future networks and highly decentralised systems. Future networks and distributed systems research is an interdisciplinary research filed involving academic researchers in computer science, communication engineering, physics and social and behaviour studies, as well as information technology industry consultants and practitioners to support multiservice, multimedia services convergence, service ubiquity and context awareness, mobility, fixed-mobile convergence, variable connectivity, quality of service , spontaneous and autonomic networking and other capabilities.

The 2019 International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed Systems (ICFNDS 2019) aims at addressing advances in research on distributed systems and future networks, covering topics ranging from enabling technologies to emerging applications and industrial experiences. ICFNDS aims to encourage both researchers and practitioners to exchange and share their experiences and recent studies in an interactive atmosphere. The 2018 ICFNDS meeting was held at The Middle East University, Amman, Jordan. To view ICFNDS 2018 click here. The 2017 ICFNDS meeting was held at The Møller Centre, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. To view ICFNDS 2017 click here.

Authors are solicited to contribute original, unpublished contributions in all aspects of future networking and distributed systems. Submitted articles must not be concurrently considered elsewhere for publication.

List of Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

    Future Networks
        Future Internet
        Future Generation Communication Networks
        Future Warehousing
        Multi-Cores, Virtualization
        Clusters and Grid Computing
        Web-services and SOA
        5G, 4G, LTE, LTE-Advanced, WLAN, WPAN
        Small cell Networks
        Cognitive Radio Network
        QoE, QoS, SLA, and GoS
        Heterogeneous Networks
        Optical Wireless, VLC and LED Communication
        CCN/CDN/ICN/Delay-tolerant networks
        Software Defined Networking (SDN)
        Network functions virtualization (NFV)
        Future Network Platforms, Software and Services
        Network Theory and Network Science
        Intelligent Internet Communication
        Mobile computing
        Peer to peer, ATM, Optical, IP/ATM and Interconnection networks
        Network routing and communication algorithms
        Security, reliability and fault-tolerance
        Network security

    Cloud, Distributed and Parallel systems
        Future Internet
        Parallel and distributed architectures
        Theory of parallel and distributed computing
        Parallel algorithms and their implementation
        Resource allocation and management
        Task mapping and job scheduling
        Distributed data and knowledge based systems
        Database applications and data mining
        Web technologies
        Performance evaluation and measurements
        Wireless networks and Protocols
        Optimization
        Language, Compliers and Operating systems
        Reusability and Scheduling
        Formal methods and programming languages
        Modelling and simulation
        Crowd Sourcing and Cloud Computing
        Big Data Networks and Data Center Architecture

    Internet of Things
        Future Internet
        Data collection, deep learning, reality mining, and prediction methods
        Real-time decision making and information extraction
        Methods for seamless human-to-object and object-to-object interactions
        Advanced manufacturing and logistics with IoT
        Evaluation of challenges of real world deployments of Industrial Internet and GS1
        Information architecture design on field device, edge device and servers in cloud
        Transitioning functional and processing allocation across system entities
        Advanced data capturing and networking technology
        Object identification and access
        Interoperability of IoT systems
        Service and device discovery
        Synchronization of distributed directory systems.
        Semantic data description frameworks
        Data sharing and acceptance of IoT Systems
        Data security, authentication and authorization
        Privacy protection, data sharing technologies, tampering protection and detection
        Wireless Sensor Networks
        Smart cities and services
        Case studies in deployment of IoT applications/services in the area of accessibility
        Wearable technology for independent living
        Pervasive platforms and applications for assisted living

    General Conference Track

    Future networks and distributed systems papers that do not fit to the above tracks can be submitted to the general conference track. Subjects of interest include, but not limited to:
        Traffic analysis
        Cyber security and darknet
        Smart infrastructure