BlackSeaCom 2018 - IEEE 6th International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (IEEE BlackSeaCom 2018)

IEEE 6th International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (IEEE BlackSeaCom 2018)
4-7 June 2018, Batumi, Georgia || Fully sponsored by IEEE ComSoc
http://blackseacom2018.ieee-blackseacom.org/
The IEEE BlackSeaCom series of conferences are held in the countries surrounding the Black Sea. The goal of the IEEE BlackSeaCom is to bring together visionaries in academia, research labs and industry from all over the world to the shores of the Black Sea. Here they will address many of the outstanding grand challenges that exist in the areas of communications and networking while having an opportunity to explore this exciting and dynamic region that has a rich history.
The 2018 conference theme is “BlackSeaCom: back to the land of the Golden Fleece where mythology meets technology”.
We seek original and previously unpublished technical papers not currently under review by any other journal, magazine or conference in the following areas (but not limited to):
* Software Defined Networks and Network Virtualization
* Cloud Communications and Data-center Networks
* Internet of Things and Sensor Networks
* Smart Grid, M2M and Vehicular Networks
* Social Networking, eHealth, and Multimedia Applications
* Future Internet and Testbeds
* Network Management
* Modelling, Semantic Web and Ontologies for the Internet and its applications
* Parallel and Distributed Architectures and Systems over networks
* Big Data processing and analysis for telecommunications
* Communication and Information Theory
* Mobile and Wireless Communications and Networking
* 5G Mobile Communication Systems
* Optical Networks and Systems, Radio over Fiber
* Cognitive Radio and Networking
* Security, Privacy and Trust
* Green Communications and Networks
* Energy efficient computing and communication
* Molecular and Nanoscale Communications
* Image, Speech and Signal Processing for Communications
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Paper/Proposal Submission
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Technical papers can be submitted through EDAS. Please visit http://blackseacom2018.ieee-blackseacom.org/ for the submission details.
For submission to the Regular Track, technical papers should describe original work and have a length of 5 pages in the IEEE double-column proceedings format including tables, figures, and references. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore.
Besides the technical papers, the conference welcomes the submission of Tutorials and Demos. Please visit http://blackseacom2018.ieee-blackseacom.org/ for the tutorial and demo proposal submission details.
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Important Dates
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Technical Papers (Regular Track and Industry Track):
Submission deadline: January 22, 2018
Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2018 Camera-ready papers (and authors registered) : April 22, 2018
Tutorials:
Submission deadline: February 19, 2018
Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2018
Demos:
Submission deadline: February 19, 2018
Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2018
Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Tolga M. Duman (Bilkent University, Turkey), Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece)