IEEE Global Communications Conference
9-13 December 2018 // Abu Dhabi, UAE
Gateway to a Connected World

Call for Papers

This workshop aims at bringing together leading researchers from both academia and industry, at providing an opportunity for them to share their vision on 5G, new cloudfied architectures, and solutions enabled by such architectures as well as at presenting new performance evaluation methods and prototyping.

Topics of interest

Original papers are welcome on (but not limited to):

  • Novel architectures for next-generation wireless networks
  • Software-defined networking
  • Network function virtualization
  • Network slicing
  • Traffic- and infrastructure-aware functional split on cloud architectures
  • Tactile Internet support on cloud environments
  • Ultra-reliable low-latency communications in cloud architectures
  • Cloudified solutions for the IoTs
  • Challenges and limitations for Massive MTC usage
  • Advanced V2X communications over mobile cloud architectures
  • New radio support in Cloud RANs
  • Cooperative transmission and reception in Cloud RANs
  • Dense networks and interference mitigation in Cloud RANs
  • Cloud-enabled massive MIMO
  • Traffic classification in cloud architectures
  • Novel applications and services
  • Cross-layer design and optimization in cloud architectures
  • Interaction between applications and networking equipment
  • QoS and resource management in cloud architectures
  • Modeling and performance evaluation
  • Implementations and testbeds

Important Dates

  • Paper submission deadline: July 1, 2018 July 14, 2018
  • Paper acceptance notification: August 15, 2018
  • Camera-Ready: September 15, 2018

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