The 10th IPTComm conference is a continuation of a series of successful events devoted to academic and industrial research in IP-enabled communications and services. The goal of IPTComm is to bring together researchers working in emerging communications fields in order to discuss challenges and share results, and ultimately provide a solid foundation to support the progress of new services and communication paradigms. Promoting and addressing the ever changing technological landscape, the conference addresses timely topics related to Mobility, 5G Technologies, Heterogeneous Networking, HOLO Computing, Networking Protocols for Blockchain-enabled  applications, Smart Contracts, Software Defined Networking, Big Data, Information Centric Networks, new web-enabled technologies like WebRTC, Cloud-based real-time media processing, Internet of Things (IoT) and M2M systems. Part of IPTComm's unique focus is the inclusion of novel work addressing the applicability of these technologies to emergency services, and other social services, and to the reliability, security and performance of real-time telecommunications and data services.

IPTComm is hosted by the IIT Real-Time Communications (RTC) Conference, Expo and Hackathon at the Chicago campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). The RTC Conference brings together researchers and educators, standards developers, and technical professionals and executives from the data and telecommunications industry, standards bodies, policy and regulatory institutions in challenging and engaging discussions. The goal of the conference is promoting an open exchange of ideas to lead future development in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications. In addition to hosting the IPTComm Research track, the RTC Conference will have tracks related to Web and Emerging Technologies (WebRTC), Mobility, Cloud, Next Generation Emergency Services, and the Internet of Things (IoT). The demonstrations and presentations in these tracks will complement the material to be presented in the IPTComm track and serve as a source of new ideas and research partners in industry. Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Paper Types and Topics

We invite paper submissions addressing theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative systems, prototyping efforts, case studies and technological advancements. 

The list of topics for IPTComm includes but is not limited to:

New services and applications for the Telecommunication market

    Cloud-based IP communication services
    Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1)
    Browser-integrated IP Communications (WebRTC)
    M2M and Internet of Things
    Programmable networks
    The 5G Network: early proof of concepts, research issues and standardization thrusts
    Mobility and mobile communications
    Heterogeneous Networking
    The use of Blockchains in IP communications networks
    Smart Contracts

Note: Early-stage work on emerging networking protocols for Blockchain-enabled applications, Smart Contracts and other areas of initial research are solicited as work-in-progress papers that show substantive experimental and analytical results and point the way to promising research in new directions. 
Management and Resilience

    Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
    Service Function Chaining (SFC)
    Telecommunications utilizing Information Centric Networks (ICN)
    Quality of Experience (QoE)
    Software Defined Networking (SDN) for IP communications networks
    Scalability, monitoring and management of large-scale IP communication systems.
    Traffic and Quality of Service (QoS) measurement of VoIP traffic.
    Energy consumption and energy management in IP communication systems.
    Benchmarking of large-scale IP communication systems.
    Effects of virtualization on quality of IP communication systems

Security

    Identity management, anonymity and privacy in IP communications
    Security and privacy in IP communications over mobile
    Challenges in end-to-end security in the presence of middleboxes in managed networks
    Identity management, anonymity and privacy in IP communications
    Forensics and diagnostics in IP communication systems
    Overload control and denial of service detection and prevention
    Middleboxes for trust and privacy in Internet communications
    Surveillance and Lawful Interception of IP communications networks

The “Big Data” of IP communications networks

    Making sense of unstructured data in IP communication systems (Slack chats, voice transcripts, tickets generated as a result of support calls etc)
    Big data platforms for understanding communication network patterns (graph, spark etc)
    Machine learning and analytics related to “Big Data” in IP communications networks
    Scalable architectures in analytics for IP communication networks.
    Deep learning and active learning in IP communications networks.

Miscellaneous

    Open source development in IP communications.
    Research issues in vertical IP communication markets (e.g., privacy in the medical field, location in logistical field, etc.)
    Regulatory issues in IP communications.