Workshop on Recent Advances in Cellular Technologies and 5G for IoT Environments (RACT-5G-IoT 2018)

is organized in conjunction with

The 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies

May 8-11, 2018, Porto, Portugal

The 1st International Workshop on Recent Advances in Cellular Technologies and 5G for IoT Environments (RACT-5G-IoT 2018) provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research on cellular technologies and 5G for IoT environments. RACT-5G-IoT will be held on May 8-11, 2018 in Porto, Portugal in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT-2018).

Scope

RACT-5G-IoT 2018 international workshop invites researchers and practitioners to submit papers that deal with novel ideas, research results, practical implementations and early deployments addressing the numerous scientific and technological challenges in cellular technologies and 5G for IoT environments. Addressing such challenges in essential for making a wide range of applications a reality, including smart cities and nations, smart health and wearable wireless networks, public safety, emergency response, humanitarian technologies, industrial IoT, etc.

Submission Guidelines

All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT 2018 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given on the ANT 2018 website. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages.

The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, LaTeX, Template Generic, Elsevier. Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format.

The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking the "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. In case of any problem with submission, please contact the workshop chair for assistance.

List of Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,

• Resource allocation and interference management in IoT
• Energy efficient solutions for IoT networks
• MAC protocols for future IoT networks
• Green communication for IoT networks
• D2D communication within IoT networks
• Machine learning and analytics for IoT networks
• Mixed licensed, unlicensed, and shared spectrum systems for IoT networks
• Self-aware and self-adaptive network system and design for IoT networks
• Algorithms, architectures and implementation for smart sensing (data sensing) and edge computing in IoT
• Prototyping and deployment experience

Committees

Program Committee

• Alar Kuusik, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Benoit MIRAMOND, Université de Nice, France
• Bhawani S. Chaudhary, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan
• Dhafer Ben Arbia, Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, Qatar
• Francois Verdier, Université de Nice, France
• Hassan Malik, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Jean-Philippe Diguet, Université Bretagne Sud, France
• Luca Reggiani, Politechnico di Milano, Italy
• Maurizio Magarini, Politechnico di Milano, Italy
• Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Glasgow, UK
• Muhidul Islam Khan, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Olivier Berder, Université Rennes I, France
• Peter Koch, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Rizwan Ahmed, National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan
• Sander Ulp, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Sébastien Bilavarn, Université de Nice, France
• Tariq Meeran, Tallinn University, Estonia
• Toomas Ruuben, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Waqas Ahmed, Pakistan Itute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Pakistan

Organizing committee

• Muhammad Mahtab Alam, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Yannick Le Moullec, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Muhidul Islam Khan, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Hassan Malik, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Publication

• Submission deadline: December 15, 2017
• Notification: February 5, 2018
• Final date for camera-ready copy: March 5, 2018
• Workshop: May 8-10, 2018

ANT 2018 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to muhammad.alam@ttu.ee or yannick.lemoullec@ttu.ee