Paper submission requirements

Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Also, Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are available in Overleaf. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking and data communications. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series.

Topics of interest

Fundamentals and PHY

    Channel capacity estimation and equalization
    Channel measurement and modeling
    Cognitive and green radio
    Cooperative communications
    Interference mitigation
    Multi-antenna signal processing
    Physical layer design
    Power efficient communications
    Advanced modulation schemes
    Antennas and beamforming
    Single and multi-user MIMO
    Source and channel coding
    Vehicular communications

Services and Applications

    Emerging Internet applications
    Authentication, authorization and accounting
    Context and location-awareness in pervasive systems
    Cyber-physical systems and applications
    Emerging wireless and mobile applications
    P2P services for multimedia
    Secure network and service access
    Self-adaptation on the service layer
    Service discovery and portability
    Service oriented architectures and cloud computing
    User interfaces, user-machine interactions
    Project management in communications industry 

MAC design and Cross-Layering

    Adaptive and cognitive MACs
    Cross-layer designs involving MAC
    Implementation of testbeds and prototypes
    Information-theoretical approaches to MAC designs
    Radio resource management, allocation, and scheduling
    Reconfigurable MACs
    Routing and QoS scheduling
    Scheduling algorithms for various systems
    Security issues in MAC designs

Nano Communications

    Nano-Electromagnetic communications
    Graphene-based nano-antennas
    Terahertz Band communication
    Nanomaterials for applications in communications
    Molecular communications
    Protocols and architectures for nano communications
    Information theoretical approaches to nanoscale communications
    Internet of Nano Things (IoNT)
    Privacy, Security and Trust in nanonetworks
    Future emerging applications of nano/molecular communications

Fixed, Mobile and Wireless Networks

    Beyond 5G
    Next-Generation access networking
    Ad hoc networks
    Body area networks
    Cognitive radio networks
    Congestion, load and admission control
    Future wireless Internet
    Internet of things
    Mobile computing
    Multi-hop and relay networks

    Future Internet and Next-Generation Networking Architectures
    Satellite communications
    Smart cities and smart grids
    Vehicular networks
    Wireless sensor networks
    Network virtualization, virtual private networks (VPN), and services
    Network management methodologies and control plane design for Future Internet
    Next generation network provisioning, monitoring, and management of IP services: traffic engineering, and mobility support