Quality of Service (QoS) has long been the focus of communications and networking researchers worldwide. While traditional QoS research areas continue attracting much interest, recent exploration of Internet of things, data centers, virtualization, cloud and fog computing, green computing, and AI has motivated a new wave of research interest in service guarantees with QoS, and its related metrics of Quality of Experience (QoE), Quality of Protection (QoP), Software Quality, Data Quality, or, more broadly, Quality of Information Technology.

For more than two decades, IWQoS has established itself as a highly reputable forum to present novel ideas on all QoS-related subjects. The 29th International Symposium on Quality of Service (IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2021) sets the goal to continuing to be a premier symposium and an international forum for presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in the field. The scope of IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2021 covers both newest theoretical and experimental research papers.

Topics of interest include (but not limited to) the following areas:

    Artificial Intelligence for QoS
    Data analytics for QoS
    QoS for data analytics and machine learning
    QoS in Internet of Things (IoT), cyber-physical networks
    QoS in cloud computing, fog computing and edge computing
    Blockchain for QoS
    Security, privacy, system dependability, resilience and robustness
    QoS in software-defined networking
    QoS in information-centric networking
    QoS in mobile and next generation cellular networks
    System dependability, availability, resilience and robustness to faults and security attacks
    Robustness against security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructures
    QoS-aware scheduling, resource management, queue management, admission control
    Traffic engineering approaches and tools for QoS provisioning and evaluation
    QoS evaluation metrics and methodologies
    Quality of software
    QoE in multimedia networks
    Measurement, evaluation, adaptation, and verification
    Network operations, network economics, pricing and billing
    Architectures and protocols for QoS, QoP or QoE support
    Energy awareness in communication and computing systems
    Design for future networks and computing systems with integrated QoS