Special Section on Future Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Applications
Website: http://www.ieee.org/ucm/groups/public/@ieee/@web/@org/@pubs/documents/file/42560490.pdf

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In the scope of this Special Section in IEEE Access, we collectively term them as “Future Networks”, that aims to bring together researchers, academics, and individuals working on the selected areas of Future Networks and share their new ideas, latest findings, and results on the following topics, but are not limited to:

• Future Networks and Wireless Ad hoc Networks
• Future Networks in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
• 5G and Internet of Things (IoT)
• Future Internet applications in IoT
• Steps towards the Future of Smart Grid Communications
• Routing in Machine to Machine (M2M) and Future Networks
• Fusion of Future Networking Technologies and Big Data / Fog Computing
• Future Internet and 5G architectural designs
• 5G advancements in VANETs
• Information Centric/Content Centric/Named Data Networking (ICN/CCN/NDN)
• Mobile edge computing
• Security and Privacy in future Networks
• Networking Protocols for Future Networks
• Data Forwarding in Future Networks
• New Applications for Future Networks
• Transport Layer advancements in Future Networks
• Cloud based IoT architectures and use cases

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Important Dates:
Paper Submission Firm Due Date: January 31, 2017

Associate Editor: Safdar Hussain Bouk, Kyungpook National University, KOREA.

Guest Editors:
Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA.
Waleed Ejaz, Ryerson University, Ontario, CANADA
Syed Hassan Ahmed, Kyungpook National University, KOREA
Danda B. Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA.

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-access

Best Regards,
Syed Hassan Ahmed
Kyungpook National University, Korea.
https://sites.google.com/site/shahmedknu/