All papers must be written in English and should describe original work. The length of the paper is limited to a maximum of 5 pages (in the standard IEEE conference double column format). Papers will be refereed through a blind process for technical merit and content. To be eligible for publication in the conference proceedings, an accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. Topics for submissions include but are not limited to the following:

T1: Next Generation Networks

    Artificial Intelligence-enabled communications
    Data center network architectures and performance
    Future Internet and next-generation networking architectures
    Energy-efficient green communications
    Heterogeneous multi-layer and multi-domain wireless-wireline internetworking
    High speed and parallel processing architectures for next generation routers and switches
    Intent-based network control and management
    Small cell networks
    Cognitive radio network
    Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
    Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)
    Mobile security: device, application, and data
    Networked flying vehicles such as UAVs and drones
    Next-generation access networks
    Next-generation anomaly, intrusion, and attack detection/prevention
    Next-generation flow management: resource sharing, congestion control
    Next-generation Internet applications and service
    Next-generation networking protocols
    Next-generation network management and control
    Open communities, open API, open source
    Operational and research issues with IPv6
    Overlay and peer-to-peer (P2P) networking
    Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) in next-generation networks
    Resource orchestration in next-generation networks
    Future network platforms, software and services
    Network theory and network science

T2: Next Generation Communications System

    Network Convergence Issue, Architecture, Applications and 4G Wireless Technologies
    Long Term Evaluation (LTE)
    Performance Evaluation of NGN Networks
    Experimental and Simulated Testbeds
    Mobility Across Networks
    Vehicular Communications
    P2P Architectures for NGN
    Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)

T3: Computing methodologies for machine intelligence

    New computing theories, architectures, and models
    New computing devices, hardware, and software
    New computing paradigms, such as quantum computing, photonic computing, bio-computing, bio- inspired computing, and brain-like computing
    New computing systems, such as intelligent supercomputing, heterogeneous computing clusters, domain-specific computing, and wide-area collaborative computing
    Computation-driven machine intelligence, cognitive computing, collaborative human-computer computing, and swarm intelligence

T4: Computational technology achieved through AI-based methodologies

    Collaboration and reconfiguration of computational hardware and software
    Intelligent understanding and decomposition of computing tasks
    Intelligent scheduling and adaptation of computing resources
    Trusted computing and privacy computing
    Ubiquitous computing and transparent

T5: Scientific findings achieved through machine intelligence, data, and computing methodologies

    Intelligent computational materials science
    Intelligent computational biology
    Intelligent computational astronomy
    Intelligent computational pharmacy
    Intelligent computational social science

T6: Computing Technologies for Signal Processing

    Theory and Methods for Signal Processing
    Novel Applications of Signal Processing
    Signal Processing for Communication and Networking
    Mixed Signal Processing
    Multidimensional signal processing
    Multimedia Signal Processing