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)