IEEE LANMAN has an established tradition as a forum for presenting and discussing the latest technical advances in local and metropolitan area networking. Cutting-edge papers spanning both theory and experimentation are solicited in all areas of networking. In keeping with the heritage of the symposium, there will be a central theme, and in 2023 the theme is “Programmable Network Edge.”

The Internet is lately experiencing an unprecedented growth in size and use. Now, more than ever there is a need for building networks that allow for low-latency and high throughput communications, in order to support emerging applications such as Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and autonomous driving, to name a few. This trend poses new challenges in the operations of networks. Here, recent advances in edge computing (e.g., the ability to run services closer to the users) and programmable network devices (e.g., P4, Network Function Virtualization) provide new opportunities for designing innovative solutions that allow new applications with ever-increasing constraints in terms of end-to-end response time and available bandwidth to run smoothly.

The intimate single-track format of the symposium encourages stimulating exchanges between researchers. The event is expected to be a forum for discussion of new and interdisciplinary ideas on network access protocols, network management and control, services and applications. Speculative and potentially transformative ideas are particularly encouraged, as are studies reporting measurements from real-life networks and testbeds. Papers are solicited on any topic in networking, including, but not limited to:

AI and machine learning for local and metropolitan area networking
AI and machine learning for network measurement and traffic analysis
Self-learning network architectures
Networking designs for AI and machine learning
Networking for online education and entertainment
Networking protocols and architectures for the IoTs
Machine-to-machine communication
Cloud, edge and fog computing integration
Co-existence and heterogeneity support at the edge (HetNets)
Energy efficiency for local and metropolitan area networking
5G and 6G cellular data networking
Information security for local and metropolitan area networking
Intelligent routing, forwarding, and scheduling
Network and transport mechanisms for latency reduction
Network virtualization in local and metropolitan areas
Performance and reliability of local and metropolitan area networks
Software-defined networking in local and metropolitan areas
Information-centric networking in local and metropolitan areas

IEEE LANMAN 2023 solicits paper submissions of papers up to 6 pages. Some regular paper submissions may be accepted as short papers (2 pages) by the TPC. The page limits include all figures, tables, and references. All papers must be electronically submitted in PDF according to the guidelines in the symposium website http://www.ieee-lanman.org. The proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore and will include both short and regular papers presented at the symposium. A best paper award will be awarded.