Workshop on Flexible Networks (FlexNets)
(IEEE ICC-2017)
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC 2017)
21-25 May 2017
Paris, FRANCE

Scope

There has been a tremendous evolution from voice systems to sophisticated communication platforms in mobile communications. Today's mobile communication systems provide various services and applications to millions of people. Future systems such as 5G are also expected to serve trillions of devices. It will neither today nor in the future be possible to predict the requirements of all use cases and applications. New business models will impose diverse set of requirements on future networks. A flexible radio network is required to deal with uncertainties and unknowns, and also to enable backward and forward compatibility.

Topics of Interest:

In this workshop, the following topics will be considered:
* flexible reconfigurable end-to-end mobile network architectures,
* flexible function allocation and placement,
* mobile edge, cloudlet, cloud computing for assisting radio access networks (RAN) in 5G mobile networks,
* virtualization of network functions and elements,
* virtual radio access technologies (RAT),
* flexible management, self-organized networks, CORD, mobile CORD,
* multi-context awareness, multi-service and multi-tenancy and network slicing,
* adaptation to the underlying networking and computing infrastructure,
* dynamic and energy-efficient RAN and elasticity in RAN,
* security and privacy in flexible networks,
* programmable RAN and software-defined architectures,
* flexible backhauling,
* control-data plane split,
* runtime flexibility in verticals,
* flexible public radio interfaces,
* flexibility in/for machine-type communication and IoT,
* flexibility in services/applications using SDN and NFV,
* fog computing for IoT.

Submission Guidelines:

The workshop accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a standard IEEE conference style paper to this workshop through the EDAS submission system. All papers selected for publication and presented at the workshop will be included in the IEEE ICC proceedings and IEEE digital library.

All papers should be submitted via EDAS through:

Important Dates:

• Paper Submission: 2 December 2016
  
• Notification Date: 27 January 2017
  
• Final Paper: 24 February 2017

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