User-CentricN 2016 - First IEEE International Workshop on User-Centric Networking for 5G and Beyond

The First IEEE International Workshop on User-Centric Networking
for 5G and Beyond
In conjunction with IEEE VTC Spring 2016
The 5G Mobile Systems and Networks, planned to be launched in 2020, have drawn the major attention from academia, industry, and governments all over the world. Recent research and development efforts mainly concentrate on diverse air-interface techniques for cellular networks, such as massive MIMO, high-frequency band communications, filter-bank based OFDM and the variants, non-orthogonal multiple access, etc. However, the networking perspective issues towards 5G systems and beyond, which face the explosive growth of applications over mobile Internet, have not received sufficient research efforts despite their vital importance. In the meantime, it is critical to understand that user-centricity would be one of the core features of 5G networks. Particularly, towards 5G and future networks, the concept of user-centric networking has evolved for years and has gained multi-fold characteristics. First, with the rapid development of smart phones, in 5G networks the mobile users would not just function as consumers, but also as contributors to facilitate the network infrastructure in service provisioning. Second, the satisfaction of mobile users' quality-of-experience (QoE) would have become a much more crucial task for operators than ever. More importantly, given the great flexibility of air-interfaces, growing networking capability, and drastically increasing network scale, the network controller does not necessarily manage everything for mobile users. Mixed centralized control and autonomous networking would be the major networking style beyond 2020, which completely differs from current cellular systems and networks. Unfortunately, although the concept of user-centricity is evolving, the user-centric networking solution has been neither well developed nor thoroughly studied.
This workshop is dedicated to solicit recent research efforts and results on user -centric networking towards 5G and beyond. The topics of this workshop include, but not limited to, the followings:
User-centric protocol stack design in 5G networks and beyond.
Cross-layer design for user-centric networking in 5G networks and beyond.
User-centric QoE/QoS provisioning in 5G networks and beyond.
Mixed centralized and autonomous networking for 5G and beyond
User-centric D2D networking for 5G and beyond
Game-theoretical approach for user-centric design in 5G networks and beyond
User-centric design for security assurance in 5G networks and beyond
User-centric network selection and interference management for 5G and beyond
User-centric design for Machine Type Communications
Joint optimization of SE-EE over user-centric networks
Simulations, evaluation and testing for user-centric networking technologies
This workshop accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a 6-page IEEE conference style paper (including all text, figures, tables, and references) through TrackChair system (https://vtc2016spring.trackchair.com). The timetable is as follows:
Workshop paper submission deadline: January 18, 2015
Acceptance notification: Feb. 4, 2016
Workshop Date: May 15, 2016
General Co-Chairs
Pinyi Ren, Xi'an Jiaotong Unviersity
Bijan Jabbari, George Mason University, USA
Technical Program Co-Chairs
John Thompson, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Yichen Wang, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China