Scope

Both the mobile data traffic and the number of devices connected to the Internet are expected to increase rapidly in the next few years. Meanwhile, new applications and services with significantly higher expectations from the mobile communication are introduced to the users: busy hour mobile data traffic is expected to grow more rapidly than average traffic; Machine Type Communication (MTC) services result in spatially and temporally varying demand etc. Therefore, a future wireless network will not only must support a fast growing overall mobile data volume and a significantly increased number of connected devices, but also adapt to dynamically fluctuating traffic demands and a great deal of new requirements of future service portfolios. To satisfy the above trends, mobile stakeholders are already preparing the technology roadmap for “5G”, which promises to meet all sorts of diverse and extreme requirements. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers and developers as well as regulators and policy makers to present their latest views on 5G: New Networking, New wireless communications, Resource control & management, Future Access Techniques, New Emerging Applications, and of course, latest findings in key research activities on 5G.

Topics

The conference tracks include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Track 1 – New Networking for 5G&Beyond

Small cell architecture for 5G & beyond
Super density networking
Network slicing
Cloud based 5G architectures
Cloud-RAN
Mobile cloud computing/Mobile edge computing
Fog computing
Network function vitalization (NFV)
Software defined networking (SDN)
Programmable and software-defined radio, and network
Self-organizing network and topology
Device-to-Device Communications and networking

Track 2 – New wireless communications for 5G

Millimeter wave communications
Massive MIMO
Novel waveform design
Multi-Radio Networks and Interworking
Duplexing and simultaneous transmit and receive
Interference management
Modulation & coding
Green Communications
MAC and duplexing
Adaptive TRX schemes

Track 3 – Resource control & management for 5G

Spectrum utilization and sharing
Dynamic beam forming techniques
Novel mobility management
Multi-connectivity
Relay, cloud-computing related management
QoE/QoS management over 5G
Dynamic QOS framework
Ultra-reliability and low-latency communications

Track 4 – Future Access Techniques

Non-orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA)
Cross-layer design and optimization
Cooperative networking/transmission
Content distribution networks & caching
Coexistence of NOMA and OFDMA
Sparse code multiple access
Multi-user shared access
Lattice partition multiple access
Interleave division multiple access
Cognitive spectrum access

Track 5- New Emerging Applications

Tactile Internet
Massive MTC applications
Crowd-sensing, human centric sensing
Multi-modal data compression
Massive internet-of-things (IoT)
Vehicle-to-X (V2X) and satellite networks
Big data and 5G Data Analytics
Social-aware 5G networks
Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and 5G
Design principles and practices for 5G applications
Testbeds for 5G&Beyond

Publication

All registered papers will be submitted for publication by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Selected best papers will be considered to be published in the special issue of “Advanced Networking & Wireless Communication Techniques for 5G&Beyond” in:

Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (IF: 3.259)