Third International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking
Skopje, North Macedonia, June 10-12, 2019
Third International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking
Skopje, North Macedonia, June 10-12, 2019
5G and Beyond
Softwarization in Communication Systems
Organizer and Chair:
Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University, USA
Scope of the Papers
Software plays an increasingly larger role in communication systems and, with the latest deployment trends of software based solutions, has a potential to transform the whole telecommunication industry chain. The emergence of software-defined radio (SDR), software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) has led to a new class of distributed, cloud-based communication systems that are entirely based on software. The dynamism of resulting multi-layer communication systems architectures introduces new challenges in maintaining performance and quality of service, and requires novel ideas for performance evaluation and network management. his special session aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from software-defined ecosystems to identify and discuss practical and theoretical challenges. We solicit the submission of position papers criticizing and/or describing existing or proposed solutions, experimentation and deployment experience papers (including lessons learned), preliminary work papers including new ideas and early results (i.e. work-in-progress), and demo and poster papers.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Submission Guidelines
Full Papers: Full paper submissions of original work (not previously published, or under review at another conference or journal) must not be longer than five pages and will be published in the conference proceedings. Best papers will be fast tracked to Computer Networks (Elsevier) and Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journals.
Short Papers and Extended Abstracts: Submissions must not be longer than two pages. They should convince the reader that the author(s) would give an exciting presentation and stimulate lively discussion (will be published in the conference proceedings). Note that it is fully expected that extended abstract papers accepted for the session will eventually be extended as full papers suitable for formal academic publication and presentation at other conferences/publications.
Poster and/or Demo Abstracts: One page summary describing the poster/demonstration including the list of necessary equipment (for demos) that will be published in the conference proceedings.
At least one author of each accepted paper/poster/demo must register for the conference and present the paper. Authors are encouraged to use the IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings format for either Latex or Microsoft Word. All full paper submissions will undergo a full TPC review process while all extended abstract and poster/demo submissions will undergo a light review process that will give a greater weight to papers that lend themselves to interactive discussions among workshop attendees.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: April 28, 2019
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2019
Camera-ready papers due: May 22, 2019
Technical Program Committee Members
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Danijela Cabric | UCLA, USA |
| Daniel Denkovski | UKIM, North Macedonia |
| Carolina Fortuna | Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia |
| Haris Gacanin | Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium |
| Ada Gavrilovska Habl | Georgia Tech, USA |
| Maicon Kist | Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
| Alberto Leon Garcia | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Milos Manic | Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
| Ingrid Moerman | University of Ghent/imec, Belgium |
| Valentin Rakovic | UKIM, North Macedonia |
| Ivan Seskar | Rutgers University, USA |
| Jordi Perez-Romero | UPC, Spain |
| Milorad Tosic | University of Nis, Serbia |
| Dejan Vukobratovic | University of Novi Sad, Serbia |
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