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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 29th International Telecommunication Networks and Application Conference (ITNAC 2019) November 27-29, 2019, Auckland, New Zealand.
Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE

http://itnac.org.au/

CONTEXT/SCOPE
With the increasing number of emerging robust networks, the challenges to design new networking protocols, techniques, and applications are never ending. ITNAC has been a leading forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss topics related to advanced telecommunication network technologies, services, and applications. ITNAC 2019 seeks to address and capture highly innovative and state-of-the-art research from academia, communications industry and standardization bodies that covers distributed, mobile, cognitive and cloud computing, modelling and simulation, computer and data communications, local and metropolitan networks, optical, wired and wireless telecommunication networks and applications.

Contributions are welcome on all advanced research topics, particularly (but not limited to) the following:

Mobile & Wireless Networks
· Modelling and Simulation
· Wireless access and routing protocols
· Cross-layer design optimization
· Green, energy efficient and sustainable networking
· Nature and bio-inspired approaches to networking
· Network-based mobile positioning and tracking
· Cognitive and cooperative networking
· Mobile social and ambient networks
· Delay tolerant networks
· Mobile and wireless broadband access networks
· 4G/5G/6G networks
· Wireless sensor networks
· Vehicular Ad-hoc networks
· Cognitive networks
· Mission critical communications

Network Management, Privacy and Security
· Next generation network regulation
· Broadband network management
· Intrusion detection and prevention
· Key distribution and management
· Large-scale attacks and defense
· Security and privacy in wireless networks
· Network security policy, theory and tools
· Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code
· Trusted computing and management
· Security and privacy
· Network resiliency and network security
· Cyber-security and cyber-crime

Internet Technologies and Applications
· Network modeling and simulation
· Software defined networking
· Smart Cities and Smart Grids
· Traffic engineering, congestion and admission control
· Content delivery networking
· Datacenter networks and Cloud Computing
· Sustainable networking
· Peer-to-peer networks and overlays
· Novel network-enabled applications and services
· Future Internet routing schemes or transport concepts
· IPv6 and future network addressing
· High performance network virtualization
· Networking standards and regulations
· QoS/QoE provisioning and resource management
· IoT and Cyber physical systems

Optical Networking and Applications
· Modelling and Simulation
· Optical switching and routing
· Optical Network on Chips
· Visible light communication
· Optical Ethernet, EPON/GPON, 100Gb/s Ethernet
· WDM Access Networks, WDM-PON
· Wired/wireless convergence, Telecom/broadcast convergence, IPTV
· Optical-wireless access networks, Radio-over-fiber
· Large capacity optical transmission, WDM, OTDM
· OFDM and advanced modulation in photonics
· Energy efficient optical networks

Paper Submission GUIDELINES

Submitted manuscripts should be written in English conforming to the standard IEEE format. We invite the following two types of submissions:

Full Papers (6 pages complementary, and up to 8 pages with over length charge) and

Short Papers (3 pages complementary and up to 4 pages with over length charge).

All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work.

All manuscripts will be reviewed on correctness, originality, technical strength, relevance, quality of results and presentation.

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE.


AWARDS AND SPECIAL ISSUES
Best Paper Awards: ITNAC 2019 papers will be eligible for conference and session best paper awards.

Student Travel Grant: ITNAC 2019 is pleased to announce there will be 10 NZ$600 travel assistance grants.

Special Issue: Selected papers will be invited for submission to the Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy.

For paper submission guidelines, please refer to the Conference website.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs
Nurul I Sarkar and Adnan Al-Anbuky, AUT, Auckland, New Zealand
Mark Gregory, RMIT University, Australia

Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs
Peter Chong, AUT, Auckland, New Zealand
Edmund Lai, AUT, Auckland, New Zealand

Publication Chairs
Saeed Rehman, AUT, New Zealand
Leith Campbell, Melbourne University, Australia

Finance Chair
Harsha Sirisena, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Publicity Co-Chairs
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh
Xiang Gui, Massey Universty, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Salim Zabir, National Institute of Technology, Tsuruoka, Japan
Haitao Zhao, National University of Defense Technology, China
R Venkatesha Prasad, TUDelft,The Netherlands
Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia
Frank Jiang,Deakin University, Australia

Local Organising Committee Chair
William Liu, AUT, Auckland, New Zealand

Steering Committee
Ron Addie, University of Southern Queensland, AU
Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland University of Technology, NZ
Franco Davoli, University of Genova, Italy
Mark Gregory, RMIT University, Melbourne, AU
Richard Harris, Massey University, NZ
Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany

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