The 26th International Conference on Networks (ICN 2027)

Key Topics

• New Internet technologies
  • 4G/5G and advanced mobile Internet
  • SDN, SDX, NFV
  • Internet, Virtualization and Cloud
  • Internet of X (everything, things, people, etc.)
  • Sensing and sensor networks
  • Internet and Big Data
  • Content-oriented networking
  • Energy-aware networks
  • Future routing mechanisms
  • Cellular cognitive networks
• Communication
  • Communications switching and routing
  • Communication theory
  • Communications security
  • Communications modeling
  • Distributed communications
  • Computer communications
  • Multimedia and multicast communications
  • Signal processing in communications
  • Vehicular communications
  • Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, sensor networks)
• Computation and networking
  • Fog computing
  • Cloud computing
  • Mobile computing
  • Internet computing
  • Real-time computing
  • Ubiquitous computing
  • Services computing and opportunistic computing
  • Big data-based computing
  • Fast data processing
  • High Performance Computing (HPC)
  • Parallelization of algorithms and applications
  • Fast switching and routing protocols
  • Energy-efficient High Performance Computing
• Networking
  • Storage area networks [SAN]
  • Next generation networks [NGN] principles
  • High-speed networks
  • Access and home networks
  • Peer-to-peer and overlay networking
  • Optical networks
  • MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks
  • Mobile networking and systems
  • GRID networks, Cloud and Visualization
  • Vehicular Networks
  • Small cell networks
  • Broadband networks
  • Sensing and sensor networks
• Next generation networks (NGN) and network management
  • NGN Device Instrumentation
  • NGN protocol design and evaluation NGN Standard Activities [ITU, TMF, 3/4/5GPP, IETF, etc.]
  • NGN policy-based control
  • Network Management, scheduling and policy
  • Management of autonomic networks and systems
  • Networks policy-based management
  • Mobility management
  • Delay tolerant networks
• Networking metrics
  • Reliability, availability, serviceabiliy [RAS]
  • Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA]
  • Voice over IP services
  • Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring
  • Network, control and service architectures
  • Performance evaluation, tools, simulation
  • Network middleware
  • Network signalling, pricing and billing
  • On-demand networks, utility computing architectures
  • Telecommunication networks architectures
  • Applications and case studies
• Cognitive radio
  • Cognitive radio and emerging technologies
  • Fundamentals
  • Mechanisms and protocols
  • Energy-aware, smart sensing and capacity-aware in advanced technologies
  • Measurement and management
  • Processing and devices
  • Applications