Call for papers – IEEE ColCom 2019

IEEE has chosen Barranquilla as the venue for the 12th IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing COLCOM 2019. This conference is the most important in Colombia that aims to show the progress and development of the academic, scientific and industrial usage of the different areas of telecommunications and computing. In this version, the main subject is “Internet of Everything”.

During the past decade, the city has gained national and international recognition for its potential to become one of the most important cities in Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of logistics, manufacturing and creative industry. Barranquilla, main city of the Caribbean region of Colombia, known as a commercial, service and cultural hub, offers a vivid and dynamic environment for creation of innovative solutions, a wide variety of economic sectors, including both small and large companies as well as agricultural industry, a growing ICT ecosystem and high quality universities.

We hope that both local academy and industry will take active participation in IEEE COLCOM 2019. Papers will be reviewed by an international technical committee under the IEEE standard procedure. Accepted papers must be presented in oral sessions, this is mandatory to be published in the conference proceedings (IEEE Xplore database, including ISBN).

 

TOPICS FOR COMMUNICATIONS SYMPOSIUM

We encourage the submission of original, unpublished research focused on (but not limited to) the following topics of interest:

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING

Cellular systems, 4G, 5G and beyond
Wireless body area networks
Femtocell networks and traffic offloading
Wireless mesh networks
Flow and congestion control
Mobility, handoff, and location management
Advanced equalization, channel estimation, and synchronization
Modulation, coding, and diversity techniques
Antennas, smart antennas, and space-time processing
MIMO, multi-user MIMO, and massive MIMO
Cross-layer design and physical-layer based network issues
Radio resource allocation and interference management

IoT AND SMART CITIES

Future Internet Research Experimentation for Internet of Things
Machine to Machine (M2M) and cellular-based protocols for Internet of Things
Cloud computing, Edge Computing / Fog Computing integration with Internet of Things
Software Defined Networks for Internet of Things
Personal Area Networks for IoT
Smart healthcare and e-health systems
Smart buildings and smart homes
Smart education
Smart environment
Smart city for special needs
QoS and QoE of smart city systems, applications, and services
Sensing, Actuating and IoT for smart cities
Industry 4.0

CYBERSECURITY

Safety and security systems
Anonymity, anonymous communications
Authorization and access control
Availability and survivability of secure services and systems
Cloud and distributed applications security
Computer and network forensics
Cryptography (Cryptographic implementations for networking)
Firewall technologies; intrusion detection, localization, and prevention
Mobile and wireless networks security
Operating systems and applications security and analysis tools
Trust models and certificate handling
Virtual private networks and group security
Vulnerabilities, exploitation tools and virus analysis
Web, e-commerce, and m-commerce security

NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS

Converged networks and applications
Optical communications and networking
Future Internet and next-generation networking architectures
Network and services virtualization
Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Cognitive Radio networks
Traffic measurement, analysis, modeling, visualization, and engineering
Cloud, edge, fog and mist computing and networking
Green computing, networking and energy efficiency
Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling

 

TOPICS FOR VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM

VEHICULAR COMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKS, AND TELEMATICS

Intelligent vehicle-to-infrastructure integration
Smart traffic system operations
Smart mobility for Pedestrian and bicyclist safety
5G technologies for connected vehicles
Congestion and awareness control in vehicular networks
Security, privacy, liability, and dependability in vehicular networks
Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET);
Broadband Internet services;
Cellular/VANET interworking;
Channel models and mobility models for vehicular networks; Cloud-mobility;
Connected vehicles;
Context aware service and applications;
Data traffic offloading;
DSRC;
Information distribution services;
Interaction between intra- and inter-vehicular communications;
In-vehicle communication & networking;
IP mobility;
Mobility estimation;
Multi-channel/multi-antenna/multi-transceiver systems for vehicular communication;
Multimedia applications and messaging;
Multimedia over VANETs, and infotainment;
Network design for V2X communications;
OBU and RSU communication systems;
Prototype, measurements, and field tests;
Quality-of-experience;
Ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability communications for road safety applications;
V2X communications, V2X for automated driving, applications, and security.

ELECTRIC VEHICLES, VEHICULAR ELECTRONICS, AND INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION

Heterogeneous network infrastructures for ITS;
Smart mobility and transportation
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs);
Vehicle power systems;
Vehicle stability controls;
Vehicle traction power control/conversion;
Wireless charging;
Wireless/mobile system applications for transportation control and routing;
Wireless/mobile systems for multi-modal transportation. Autonomous driving technologies;
Digital maps and location technologies; Drive-by-wire controls; Electromagnetic valve controls; Emulation/simulation of ITS applications; Autonomous vehicles; Cooperative ITS; Engine control modules; Green ITS navigation for people and freight; HCCI controls; Human factors and human machine interface (HMI) for smart cars; In-car electronics and embedded integration; Intelligent transportation systems; Mobile/wireless systems for transportation logistics; Multimedia service provisioning and vehicle traffic management; Pedestrian protection via VANET;

SPECTRUM SHARING, SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT, AND COGNITIVE RADIO

Algorithms for TV whitespace usage;
Applications of cognitive radio networks (e.g., for 5G, heterogeneous networks);
Characterization of cognitive wireless networks;
Cognitive highly time-variant networks;
Cognitive radio networks;
Cognitive radio protocols and algorithms;
Cognitive radio prototypes;
Cooperative sensing;
Co-existence of primary and secondary radio networks; Dynamic spectrum access;
Economic aspects of spectrum sharing (e.g., pricing, auction) in cognitive radio networks;
Energy-efficient spectrum sensing;
Game theory for cognitive radio networks;
Interference management;
Light-licensing;
Machine learning techniques for cognitive radio systems; MIMO/OFDM-based cognitive radio;
Radio environment modeling;
Spectrum aggregation;
Spectrum database (or geolocation database);
Spectrum measurements and monitoring;
Spectrum mobility;
Spectrum policies; Spectrum sensing;
Unlicensed and licensed shared access.

TOPICS FOR COMPUTERS SYMPOSIUM

BIG DATA

Big data models, theories, algorithms, approaches, solutions
Machine learning, data mining, web mining, and graph mining
Big data for communications and networking
Big data integration and visualization
Big data architecture, infrastructure and platforms
Big data storage and management
Privacy protection, trust in Big Data
Big data for smart cities and smart homes
Image and signal processing
Artificial intelligence
Data privacy
Location based Information Systems

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

Performance evaluation and modeling
Cluster computing
GPGPUs and FPGAs acceleration
Simulation
Computer architecture
Applications (e.g. Bioinformatics, neuroscience, astrophysics)

COMPUTER AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Agile Methodologies
Methods and software process
Quality and assessment of products and processes
Software Testing
Software Product Line
Ontologies applied to software engineering
Software architectures
Information Retrieval
Global Software Development
Model-driven software engineering
Information security
Knowledge management in software engineering
Requirements engineering
Simulation
Governance and Organizational Aspects of Computing
Social impact of Computing
UX – UI
Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality
Educational Software
Computer-Aided Software Development

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission: February 3rd, 2019
Student papers: February 17th, 2019
Notification: April 7th, 2019
Camera-ready and author registration: May 3rd, 2019

PAPER SUBMISSION

We invite authors to submit high-quality full papers reporting original and novel research results on all above topics. Papers must be written in English, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. Full papers must be formatted as the standard IEEE double-column conference template and submitted exclusively using the link http://ieee‐colcom.org/authors.html. Maximum 6 pages are allowed for each paper, including all illustrations and references.

Submission link : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=colcom2019

CALL FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PAPERS

We encourage the submission of original, unpublished results of undergraduate projects focused on (but not limited to) the topics of the conference, using a short paper format (4 pages maximum). Accepted papers will be presented in Poster format during the Conference and papers will be published in Conference Proceedings but will not go to IEEEXplore. Best papers will be published in a national journal.

Undergraduate papers Timeline

Deadline for paper submission: February 17th, 2019
Acceptance / rejection announcement: April 7th, 2019
Camera Ready and Author registration: May 3rd, 2019