ICIN 2015 - 2015 18th International Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks

Since 1989 the ICIN conferences have been bringing together leading internet and telecom experts from industry, universities and government worldwide. Major service providers and manufacturers from the most active markets worldwide have consistently contributed and provided insight on the technical and strategic directions that the industry is taking. ICIN operates on a rigorous peer review process and has an enviable track record of identifying key technology and service trends ? and analysing their impact on business models ? before they become widely recognised.
ICIN 2015 will focus on new technology trends and the new business opportunities they create for network and service providers.
ICIN 2015 seeks original and unpublished contributions describing original research and innovation in the following areas:
Service Webification;
Social Networks and Customer Relationships;
Network IT-isation;
Internet of Things.
IMPORTANT DATES
30 September 2014 Paper submission deadline
25 November 2014 Acceptance notification
13 January 2015 Speaker Registration
13 January 2015 Full Conference Paper
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Requirements to operate and monetise a network are increasingly diverse. On one side cloud computing applications and content services such as live and on-demand video or latency-critical applications will continue to impose a huge throughput demand, stressing networks to their limits, transforming communications networks into information delivery networks, possibly requiring new control and routing paradigms. On the other side, these networks will have to be resilient enough to support mission critical services. In response to these challenges, many industry initiatives aimed at making networks more agile, more open and more cost-efficient are being launched, each focussing on different tools such as autonomic network management to overcome network complexity, network functions virtualisation to benefit from the economies of scale of the IT industry and to reduce time-to-market to deploy new network services, software-defined networking to make networks programmable, and exposure of APIs towards 3rd parties to monetise network assets. All these initiatives contribute to the so-called IT-isation of telecommunication networks.
Simultaneously, voice, video and real-time communications are undergoing a major transformation as a conjunction of new technologies and usage, towards service webification (e.g. enabling voice/video to be integrated in web applications, rapid consumer adoption of new communication means, and evolution of voice from a synonym for telephony into a component of multimodal communications). In addition, online social networks, and machine-to-machine communications present unique traffic patterns and pose new challenges to service providers, including for instance social IoT, data mining and big data, distributed storage, security, trust and privacy, identity management, collaborative applications and systems.
The following topics will be particularly investigated:
Track A: Service Webification
Chair: Roch Glitho (Concordia University, Canada)
New paradigms for post-IMS communication architectures
WebRTC and http-based signalling
Voice over content-centric networks (VoCCN)
Context-based communications
Business aspects, e.g. multiple actors providing different parts of the value chain
Management of new communication services
Security and privacy implications, future of emergency communications
Migration paths from today’s legacy architectures to future ones
Aspects of combining RCSe and WebRTC
Innovative services and applications, impact on business customers
Technical and business challenges, e.g. different service categories over the same infrastructure
User interface design innovations, human computer interface (HCI), usability
Track B: Social Networks and Customer Relationships
Chair: Raouf Boutaba (Waterloo University, Canada)
Social properties in systems design
Modelling social networks and customer behaviour
Formation and evolution of communities, in the web and for enterprises
Infrastructure support for social networks and systems
Trust and reputations in social systems
Multi-actor networks
Management of social network data and web mining
Security issues, protecting privacy and identity theft protection for users
Business models and psychological understanding of social networks
Applications of social network mining
Challenges for enterprise social networks, organisational and technical impacts on information systems and enterprise IT
Marketing tools-based recommendation engines, network marketing
Track C: Network IT-isation
Chair: Bruce Maggs (Duke University, Akamai, USA)
Telcos' requirements for network functions virtualisation (NFV) and cloud technologies
Service chaining
Virtual network functions as a service and other XaaS variants
Virtual CDN
Impact on OSS/BSS, towards real-time OSS
Impact of IPv6
Security and resilience
Energy efficiency and management
Migration of legacy applications in cloud/NFV
Performance and availability aspects of NFV
Test-beds, field trial experiences
Software Defined Networking (SDN)
SDN and NFV cross-fertilisation
Control and forwarding plane separation
Relation to policy-based management
Cloud-based applications
Cross-layer solutions to minimise latency in existing and future networks
Flexible and autonomic network management
Evolution of business models (inc. between operators and telecoms equipment vendors)
Track D: Internet of Things
Chair: Jiangtao Wen (Tsinghua University, China)
IoTPS (Internet of Things, People and Services)
Impact of IPv6
Social IoT
Software architectures and middleware
Semantic technologies, collective intelligence, reasoning about things and smart objects
Data mining and big data, distributed storage, data fusion, distributed sensing and control, sensors data management
Business models, involving multiple actors
Delivery models
Localisation and management aspects, mobility
Security, trust and privacy, identity management
Internet applications naming and identifiers
Collaborative applications and systems, context awareness
Test-beds, field trial experiences in the domain of smart cities, building automation systems, e-Health, intelligent transport systems, energy management, personal medical monitoring, vehicular systems, residential appliances and systems, structural monitoring of infrastructure