The 3rd International Workshop on Smart City Communication and Networking

(SmartCityCom 2021)

Athens, Greece, July 22, 2021

Co-located with The 30th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2021)

CFP

Scope

Cities worldwide are entering an era, where residents and environments are tightly connected through intelligent technologies for the greater prosperity. In this paradigm, connectivity is the platform and foundation. Current communication and networking solutions cannot support the scalable, heterogamous, interoperable, energy-efficient, error-free, high-speed, and intelligent connectivity for smart cities. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners to propose visions, insights and solutions to smart cities from the communication and networking perspectives. We welcome recent advances in next generation communications and networking systems, algorithms, theories, protocols, applications, experiments, and testbeds. With the success delivery of the 1st and 2nd SmartCityCom workshops, we introduce this third time opportunity for the community.

Topics

• Wireless LAN, ad hoc, mesh Networks
• Sensor networks and pervasive Computing
• Security, privacy in communication
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Social network computing
• City-wide smart communication system
• Software defined network (SDN)
• Vehicle to infrastructure communication (V2I)
• Network function virtualization
• Machine to machine communication (M2M)
• Vehicle to vehicle communication (V2V)
• Interference management
• Scalable wireless solutions
• Mobility handling
• Energy cost control
• AI enabled smart communication
• Modern networking schemes based on emerging communication technologies, WiFi 6, 5G, 6LowPAN, Green Communication, visible light communication, Thread, Sigfox, Neul, et al

Important Dates:

• Submission deadline: March 5th, 2021
• Acceptance notification: April 23th, 2021
• Camera-ready: April 30th, 2021

Registration

• Please note that at least one author of each accepted paper needs to register and present the paper at the workshop.
  
• Please register: TBA

Conference Venue and Travel Information

• Please refer to ICCCN 2021 for hotel and travel information.

Instructions for Authors

Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via Easychair as PDF files (formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper). The manuscripts should be no longer than 6 pages. Two additional pages are permitted if the authors are willing to pay an over-length charge at the time of publication (manuscripts should not exceed 8 pages). Submitted papers cannot have been previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another journal or conference. The workshop Program Committee reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s), and affiliation(s) with postal and e-mail address(es).

Review and Publication of Manuscripts

Submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop Program Committee and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the ICCCN 2021 venue by one of the authors registered at the full registration rate. Each workshop registration covers up to two workshop papers by an author. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the ICCCN proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference, including IEEE Xplore® Digital Library if the paper is not presented by the author at the conference.

Submission Terms and Conditions

• Authors declare that the submission is original and has not been submitted to other venues or under consideration by other venues.

• Paper titles and/or author names cannot be changed and/or added to the papers once papers are submitted to ICCCN 2021 for review and in the final camera-ready manuscript.

• If the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors must register at full rate and present it in person at the conference. Accepted and paid paper(s) but not presented onsite by the registered author(s) (for any reason, including visa issues, travel problems, etc.) will be published in the conference proceedings only. We strongly encourage that all authors of accepted papers apply for an entry visa to Hawaii in case one author cannot get the entry visa.

• Submission link: HERE

Workshop Organizers

• Program Chairs:
  • Shuhui Yang, Purdue University Northwest, USA
  • Besma Smida, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

• TPC Members (Tentative)
  • Bo Luo, The University of Kansas, USA
  • Mina Guirguis, Texas State University, USA
  • Wei Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Tae-Hoon Kim, Purdue University Northwest, USA
  • Xuefeng Xi, Suzhou Uni. of Science and Tech, China
  • Yu Chen, Binghamton University, USA
  • Lin Cai, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
  • Hamza Soury, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
  • Alexander Schwing, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Please contact Dr. Shuhui Yang at shuhuiyang@pnw.edu if there are any questions.