ICIN 2016 – Call for Papers

• Conference Scope
• Important Dates
• Topics of Interest
• Paper Submission Instructions
• General Instructions

Conference Scope

Since 1989 the ICIN conferences have been bringing together leading internet and telecom experts from industry, universities and government worldwide. ICIN operates on a rigorous peer review process and has an enviable track record of identifying key technology and service trends – and analysing their impact on business models – before they become widely recognised.

ICIN 2016 seeks original and unpublished contributions describing original research and innovation in the following areas:

Full paper sessions:

• Network IT-isation and 5G;
• Big data insights for networking;
• Real-time communication platforms and services;
• Internet of Things.

• Research agenda for 2020-2025;
• Demo track.

Accepted papers will be published in the IFIP Digital Library. The best papers will be considered for publication in a Special issue of the JCR-indexed international journal Annals of Telecommunications.

Important Dates

Topics of Interest

Requirements to operate and monetise a network are increasingly challenging; computing applications, content services or latency-critical applications continue to stress networks to their limits, possibly requiring new control and routing paradigms. In response, many industry initiatives aimed at making networks more agile, more open and more cost-efficient are being launched, each focussing on different tools such as autonomic network management to overcome network complexity, network functions virtualisation to benefit from the economies of scale of the IT industry and to reduce time-to-market to deploy new network services, software-driven networking to make networks programmable, and exposure of APIs towards 3rd parties to promote comprehensive ecosystems.

Simultaneously, voice, video and real-time communications are undergoing a major transformation as a conjunction of new technologies and usage. Systems based on Web technologies are increasingly gaining momentum, as browsers become a universal code execution platform. In addition, machine-to-machine communications and Internet of Things present unique traffic patterns and pose new challenges to service providers, including for instance routing, QoS guarantee, seamless integration of diverse access technologies and low power design.

The following topics will be particularly investigated:

Conference Chair: Emmanuel Bertin (Orange, France)

Paper Submission Instructions

Submissions should be original, previously unpublished work not currently under review by other conferences or publications. Papers submitted to ICIN are assessed on the basis of originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of expression and interest to a wide audience. Commercial presentations will be automatically rejected.

Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done electronically through EDAS at http://edas.info/N20187. A short (50-word) abstract is requested on registration of the submission. All submissions must be written in English and must use standard IEEE two-column conference templates that can be downloaded from http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html.

Full Paper – maximum length of 8 pages (10-point font) including tables, figures and references.
Short Paper – maximum length of 3 pages (10-point font) including tables, figures and references.

General Instructions

Acceptance of papers can be conditional subject to revisions required as a result of reviewers' comments. Accepted authors will be invited to submit a final paper taking account of feedback provided. Session chairmen may recommend rejection of final papers that do not take account of reviewers' requirements and expectations in an acceptable manner. The TPC reserves the right to remove such papers from the programme.

Accepted papers should be presented at the conference by one of the authors. An author of an accepted paper is required to complete paid registration at full (member or non-member) rate for the conference prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. There is no refund for cancellation but substitutions may be made at any time prior to the event. Speakers must register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate even if they are a student. Each speaker can present only one paper in the programme.

Failure to complete paid speaker registration before the deadline will result in withdrawal of the paper from the conference programme and the proceedings. Any paper not presented at the conference will be excluded from the conference proceedings.

Papers accepted for the special session and demo track will be published as short papers in the proceedings.