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CALL FOR PAPERS – IEEE COLCOM 2024

IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing

August 21 to 23, 2024
Barranquilla, Colombia

https://2024.ieee-colcom.org/
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Paper Submission Deadline: Jun 17th 2024
Notification: July 12th 2024
Camera-ready: July 26th 2024
Event date: August 21st to August 23rd 2024

Mode: Hybrid (Presential and Virtual)

IEEE Colombia has chosen Barranquilla as the venue for the 17th IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing – COLCOM 2024. This conference is the most important in Colombia that aims at showing the progress and development of the state-of-the-art in the different areas of telecommunications and computing from the view of academic, scientific and industry contexts. In this version, the main subject is «Beyond 6G and its enabling technologies in the modern society». In recent years, Barranquilla, declared as industrial and port special district in Colombia, has gained national and international recognition for its potential to become one of the most important cities in Latin America in terms of logistics, manufacturing and creative industry. We hope that the government academy and industry will take active participation in this edition of the conference.



Topics For Symposium
We encourage the submission of original, unpublished research focused on (but not limited to) the following topics of interest, but no limited to:

* Topics for Communication Symposium

Wireless Communications and Networking
- Cellular systems, 5G, 6G and beyond
- Wireless body area networks
- Femtocell networks and traffic offloading
- Connecting the Unconnected
- Flow and congestion control
- Modulation, coding, and diversity techniques
- Antennas, smart antennas, and space-time processing
- MIMO, multi-user MIMO, and massive MIMO
- Cross-layer design and physical-layer based network issues
- Radio resource allocation and interference management

IoT and Smart Cities
- Future Internet Research Experimentation for Internet of Things
- Machine to Machine (M2M) and cellular-based protocols for Internet of Things
- Cloud computing, Edge Computing / Fog Computing integration with Internet of Things
- Software Defined Networks or Network Functions Virtualization for Internet of Things
- Personal Area Networks for IoT
- Smart healthcare and e-health systems
- Smart buildings and smart homes
- Smart education Smart environment
- Smart city for special needs
- Smart Farming
- QoS and QoE of smart city systems, applications, and services
- Sensing, Actuating and IoT for smart cities
- Industry 4.0

Cybersecurity
- Safety and security systems
- Anonymity, anonymous communications
- Authorization and access control
- Availability and survivability of secure services and systems
- Cloud and distributed applications security
- Computer and network forensics
- Cryptography (Cryptographic implementations for networking)
- Firewall technologies; intrusion detection, localization, and prevention
- Mobile and wireless networks security
- Operating systems and applications security and analysis tools
- Trust models and certificate handling
- Virtual private networks and group security
- Vulnerabilities, exploitation tools and virus analysis
- Web, e-commerce, and m-commerce security

Industry 4.0
- Edge Computing in industry
- Wireless industrial Networks


* Topics for Vehicular Technology Symposium

Vehicular Communications, Networks and Telematics

- Intelligent vehicle-to-infrastructure integration
- Smart traffic system operations
- Smart mobility for Pedestrian and bicyclist safety
- 5G technologies for connected vehicles
- Congestion and awareness control in vehicular networks
- Security, privacy, liability, and dependability in vehicular networks
- Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET)
- Broadband Internet services
- Cellular/VANET interworking
- Channel models and mobility models for vehicular networks
- Cloud-mobility
- Connected vehicles
- Context aware service and applications
- Data traffic offloading
- DSRC
- Information distribution services
- Interaction between intra- and inter-vehicular communications
- In-vehicle communication & networking
- IP mobility
- Mobility estimation
- Multi-channel/multi-antenna/multi-transceiver systems for vehicular communication
- Multimedia applications and messaging
- Multimedia over VANETs, and infotainment
- Network design for V2X communications
- OBU and RSU communication systems
- Prototype, measurements, and field tests
- Quality-of-experience
- Ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability communications for road safety applications
- V2X communications, V2X for automated driving, applications, and security


Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics and Intelligent Transportation
- Heterogeneous network infrastructures for ITS
-Smart mobility and transportation
- Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
- Vehicle power systems
- Vehicle stability controls
- Vehicle traction power control/conversion
- Wireless charging
- Wireless/mobile system applications for transportation control and routing
- Wireless/mobile systems for multi-modal transportation
- Autonomous driving technologies
- Digital maps and location technologies
- Drive-by-wire controls
- Electromagnetic valve controls
- Emulation/simulation of ITS applications
- Autonomous vehicles
- Cooperative ITS
- Engine control modules
- Green ITS navigation for people and freight
- HCCI controls
- Human factors and human machine interface (HMI) for smart cars
- In-car electronics and embedded integration
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Mobile/wireless systems for transportation logistics
- Multimedia service provisioning and vehicle traffic management
- Pedestrian protection via VANET


Spectrum Sharing, Spectrum Management and Cognitive Radio

- Algorithms for TV whitespace usage
- Applications of cognitive radio networks (e.g., for 5G, heterogeneous networks)
- Characterization of cognitive wireless networks
- Cognitive highly time-variant networks
- Cognitive radio networks
- Cognitive radio protocols and algorithms
- Cognitive radio prototypes
- Cooperative sensing
- Co-existence of primary and secondary radio networks
- Dynamic spectrum access
- Economic aspects of spectrum sharing (e.g., pricing, auction) in cognitive radio networks
- Energy-efficient spectrum sensing
- Game theory for cognitive radio networks
- Interference management
- Light-licensing
- Machine learning techniques for cognitive radio systems
- MIMO/OFDM-based cognitive radio
- Radio environment modeling
- Spectrum aggregation
- Spectrum database (or geolocation database)
- Spectrum measurements and monitoring
- Spectrum mobility
- Spectrum policies
- Spectrum sensing
- Unlicensed and licensed shared access

* Topics for Computers Symposium

Big Data
- Big data models, theories, algorithms, approaches, solutions
- Machine learning, data mining, web mining, and graph mining
- Big data for communications and networking
- Big data integration and visualization
- Big data architecture, infrastructure and platforms
- Big data storage and management
- Privacy protection, trust in Big Data
- Big data for smart cities and smart homes
- Image and signal processing
- Artificial intelligence
- Data privacy
- Location based Information Systems

High Performance Computing
- Performance evaluation and modeling
- Cluster computing
- GPGPUs and FPGAs acceleration
- Simulation
- Computer architecture Applications (e.g. Bioinformatics, neuroscience, astrophysics)

Computer and Software Engineering
- Agile Methodologies
- Methods and software process
- Quality and assessment of products and processes
- Software Testing
- Software Product Line
- Ontologies applied to software engineering
- Software architectures
- Information Retrieval
- Global Software Development
- Model-driven software engineering
- Information security
- Knowledge management in software engineering
- Requirements engineering
- Simulation
- Governance and Organizational Aspects of Computing
- Social impact of Computing
- UX – UI
- Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality
- Educational Software
- Computer-Aided Software Development
- Neural Networks
- Information Technology for the business
- Video game design and development



Paper Submission
We invite authors to submit high-quality full papers reporting original and novel research results on all above topics. Papers should be written in English or Spanish, but at least the abstract MUST be written in english. Articles must be unpublished and must not submitted elsewhere. Full papers must be formatted as the standard IEEE double-column conference template and submitted exclusively using the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeec3. Maximum 6 pages are allowed for each paper, including all illustrations and references.


Technical Program Chair
Sergio Armando Gutiérrez (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia)

General Chair
Cesar Viloria (Universidad del Norte, Colombia)


Steering Committee
Jose David Cely (Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Colombia)
Andres Navarro (Universidad ICESI, Colombia)
Carlos Lozano (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)