WWIC 2018 - 16th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications

The Internet is being extended beyond its traditional boundaries through gradually incorporating a wide-range of challenging networks and autonomous devices. From traditional wireless networks to opportunistic networks of mobile devices in urban environments and deep-space communications, the new approaches require an efficient merging with the traditional wired infrastructure. The need for more efficient protocols, clean-slate or evolutionary architectures, merging and assembling of different network technologies, unified operations and management of the heterogeneous components and the support for new cloud services are only few examples of the wide range of technologies building-up this new global network. IFIP WWIC addresses research topics such as the design and evaluation of protocols, the dynamics of the integration, the performance tradeoffs, the need for new performance metrics, and cross-layer interactions. This year, we further solicit submissions on bio-inspired, machine-learning based and data-driven approaches for network architecture and protocol design, and for wired/wireless system planning and optimization.
The conference will constitute a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest results in the field of wired/wireless networks and will aim at providing research directions and fostering collaborations among the participants. In this context, the program committee will accept a limited number of papers that meet the criteria of originality, presentation quality and topic relevance. IFIP WWIC is a single-track conference which has reached, over the last 15 years, a high quality level, which is reflected by the paper acceptance rate as well as the level of attendance. Following the conference tradition, there will be a best paper award. Selected presentations will be broadcasted live on the Internet.
All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. The proceedings will be published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Ad-hoc networks, UAV and Robot networks
Bio-inspired network architecture and protocol design
Big-data analytics for network management, planning and optimization
Blended network configurations
Community networks
Cross layer design and optimization
Data-driven network architecture design
Deep learning based optimization and parameter tuning in wireless networks
Delay/disruptive tolerant and opportunistic networking
Economic issues of challenging networks
Emergency communication and public-safety networks
End-to-end Quality of Service support
Game-theory applications in distributed networked systems
Handover techniques
Heterogeneous wireless access networks
Hybrid wired / wireless environments
Information centric networking
Interactions between wireless and optical networks
Integration of wired and wireless networks
Machine-learning approaches in cognitive radio networks
Machine-learning applications for network control and management
Machine-learning applications for network planning and optimization
Modeling of heterogeneity aspects
Mobile clouds and mobile edge computing (MEC)
Mobile service level agreements / specifications
Network design and network planning
Network mobility and mobility management
Network coding in mobile networks
Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
Network security in mobile environments
Pricing, charging, and accounting
QoS signalling in mobile environments
Resource management and admission control
Routing in mobile and opportunistic networks
Service composition and management
Simulation of next generation mobile networks
Software-defined wireless networks
Space internetworking
The Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine communication
5G and beyond 5G networks
Traffic characterization and modeling
Traffic engineering
Transport protocols and congestion control
Unified management of integrated challenging networks
User-centric networking
Vehicular networks
Virtual and overlay networks
WiFi hotspot sharing
Wireless mesh networks
Wireless multimedia systems
Wireless network monitoring
Wireless sensor networks