2018 International Conference on Network Infrastructure and Digital Content (IC-NIDC)

You are invited to submit papers in all areas of network infrastructure and digital content. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

 A. Artificial Intelligence & Computational Intelligence

•  Foundations of artificial intelligence
• Autonomous vehicles
• Computational intelligence on intelligent agents
• Artificial intelligence in healthcare and e-Health

B. Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

• Centralized vs distributed control of SDN/NFV-based systems
• SDN switch/router architectures/designs
• Network softwarization for 5G
• Mobility/security/safety support for SDN
• Resource managementand orchestration for SDN/NFV-based systems

C. Innovative Multimedia Systems

• Sensor array and multichannel signal processing
• Signal processing for communications and networking
• Image, video and multidimensional signal processing

D. Cloud Communications & Cybersecurity

• Cloud computing programming and application development
• Client-cloud computing challenges
• Performance and QoS in cloud computing
• Biological, molecular, and multi-scale communication and computing
• Traffic measurement, analysis and control

E. Data-Driven Discovery

• Processing, analysis, modeling, and management for multisource data
• Knowledge fusion from data across different domains
• Social behavior modeling, understanding, and patterns mining
• Data-driven applications such as healthcare, transportation, and economics 

F. Sensing, Smart Spaces, and Internet of Things (IoT)

• IoT paradigms, systems, components, architectures, applications
• M2M and D2D communications in smart spaces
• Sustainable design and technologies for smart spaces
• Testing and verification of sensors and IoT architectures
• Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) and unmanned air vehicles networks (UAVNET)

G. Recent Advances on 5G Communications

• Mm-wave, full-duplex, and energy harvesting communications
• Massive MIMO and cell-free massive MIMO
• Software defined radio and dynamic spectrum access in 5G networking
• Device-to-device communications and networking
• Principles, algorithms, applications, and test-bed for telecommunications networks

H. Digital Content

• AR/VRsystems
• Animation
• Computer graphics
• New socialmedia applications