QSHINE 2014 - 10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness

10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness
Scope
Computer networking has been embracing increased heterogeneity since its inception, in terms of the range of the applications it has to support, the various communication technologies it can run on, and the hierarchical, hybrid and heterogeneous techniques it has to rely on to meet the challenges from both the diverse application requirements and communication technologies.
The only conference focusing on heterogeneous networking, QShine has been established as the primary venue for researchers and practitioners to disseminate, exchange and discuss all recent advances related to heterogeneous networking, particularly for quality, experience, reliability, security and robustness.
As a conference series held in three major continents so far, QShine-2014 comes to the Greek Island of Rhodes.
Highlights
The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT.
Qshine 2014 will be collocated with the International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, AdHocNets.
All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries.
Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by DBLP, IEEE, ACM, Google Scholar, ASTP, ISI, EI Compendex,Scopus and many others.
Selected papers, particularly those nominated for the Best Paper competition, will be automatically considered for publication in the special issues of Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal (SCIE-indexed) and will be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications.
Papers
Original submissions, not under any concurrent reviews, are solicited in all areas related to heterogeneous wired, wireless and hybrid networks varying from sensor, vehicle, cellular, ad hoc, enterprise, datacenter, to service-provider networks, ranging from in/on-body, personal/local/metropolitan/wide-area, to intra/inter-planetary scales. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:
. Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning: architectures, protocols, mechanisms, etc
. Quality of Experience (QoE): user-perceived quality, cost-sensitive experience, etc
. Reliability and Scalability: performance, adaptation, cognition, extensibility, etc
. Security and Privacy: system/network security, user privacy/accountability, etc
. Robustness: fault/disruption/disaster-tolerance, resilience, survivability, etc
. Cross-Layer Design, Optimization and Implementation: spectrum/energy efficiency
. Social and Economic Perspectives: incentive, pricing, billing, governance, etc
. New Applications and Communication Technologies: cloud, smart grid, SDN, etc