IEEE Future Networks World Forum: Symposium on Security for 5G and Future Networks

12-14 October 2022, Montreal, Canada

IEEE FNWF 2022  website: https://fnwf.ieee.org

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submission: 15 May 2022
Date for notification: 30 July 2022
Camera Ready Submissions: 31 August 2022

SCOPE AND MOTIVATION

The 5G long term vision is to “turn the network into an energy-efficient distributed computer system that enables agile and dynamic creation, move and suppression of processes and services in response to changing customer demands and information flows, and that supports interaction with humans through new communication modes, such as gestures, facial expressions, sound, and haptics. To make this vision a reality, a shift towards a full automation of network and service management and operation is a necessity. However, a major challenge facing full automation is the protection of the network and system assets (i.e., services, data and network infrastructure) against potential cybersecurity risks introduced by the unprecedented evolving 5G threat landscape. Indeed, the risk of full automation is the ability to replicate a small isolated error or attack broadly and rapidly, putting the entire critical ecosystem (multi-party/tenant/technologies) into peril.

5G is expected to support supremely high data rates and extremely low latency to enable a variety of applications, e.g., remote control of smart vehicles and virtual/augmented reality. Due to diversified and stringent requirements in different applications, 5G also needs  intelligent mechanisms for managing various resources including computing, networking and storage resources.

Although 5G and beyond-5G offer a multitude of benefits to the emerging applications, they are susceptible to the malicious or inadvertent introductions of vulnerabilities, such as malicious software or hardware, counterfeit components, and poor designs. Even worse, these new technologies are facing a series of inherent security and privacy threats, which intensify the vulnerabilities of the 5G networks. In addition, vastly increased numbers of devices and an elevated use of virtualization result in more 5G security threats and a broader, multifaceted attack surface. To realize strong and healthy communication networks, exploring the approaches to address the security and privacy threats are vital for both industry and academia. To address the aforementioned challenges in beyond 5G or 6G telecommunication infrastructure and services, the inherent support of full automation operations in network and service management is a necessity. One of the most critical areas of application for zero touch automation is the protection of the network and system assets against potential cybersecurity risks introduced by the unprecedented evolution of the 5G threat landscape.

Our aim is to promote the development of 5G security by design

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We invite submissions on a wide range of research topics, spanning both theoretical and systems research, including results from industry and academic/industrial collaborations, related but not restricted to the following topics:

·        5G and Beyond architecture with security and privacy considerations

·        Security for new service delivery models

·        AI and Machine Learning for 5G and Beyond security

·        Verticals and business (non-technical) 5G and Beyond security requirements and solutions

·        Big data analytics tools and techniques in 5G and Beyond Security

·        Advances in lightweight cryptography and IoT security

·        Wireless virtualization and slicing security

·        Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) for 5G and Beyond security

·        Diameter security in 5G and Beyond

·        Tera-Hertz communication and security for 5G and Beyond

·        Millimeter wave and security for 5G and Beyond

·        Quantum Safe Cryptography for 5G and Beyond

·        Secure Integration of IoT and Cloud Computing

·        Secure Device-to-Device communications in 5G and Beyond

·        Secure integration of IoT and other networks

·        Intrusion Detection/Prevention Techniques and System Integrity

·        Secure data storage, communications and computing

·        Energy efficient security in IoT

·        Heterogeneous system modeling for 5G and Beyond security

·        Secure sensing and computing techniques in 5G and Beyond

·        Big data analytics for 5G and Beyond security

·        Secure, privacy-aware and trustworthy IoT communications

·        Trust models and trust handling/propagation for 5G and Beyond security

·        Physical layer security for 5G and Beyond

·        5G and Beyond security standardization

·        Privacy-preserving Machine Learning or Deep Learning in 5G and Beyond

·        Adversarial Machine Learning or Deep Learning in 5G and Beyond

·        Trustworthiness and Fairness in Artificial Intelligence for 5G and Beyond

·        Security and Privacy for Blockchain Technology in 5G and Beyond

·        Security and Privacy for Data-centric Networks in 5G and Beyond

·        Security and Privacy for Fog Computing in 5G and Beyond

·        Security and Privacy for Software-Defined Networks

·        Security and Privacy for Network Function Virtualization

·        Security and Privacy for Drone Communications in 5G and Beyond

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

All papers for technical symposia should be submitted via EDAS. https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=29311&track=110535

Full instructions on how to submit papers are provided on the IEEE FNWF 2022  website: https://fnwf.ieee.org

SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS

·       Dr Antonio Skarmeta, Universidad de Murcia, Spain,  skarmeta@um.es

·       Dr. Pascal Bisson. Thales, France,  pascal.bisson@thalesgroup.com

·       Dr. Ved P. Kafle, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, kafle@nict.go.jp

·       Dr.  Chamseddine Talhi, École de Technologie Supérieure, Chamseddine.Talhi@etsmtl.ca

This premier world wireless event, IEEE Wireless Communications, and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC) 2022, will be hosted in Austin from 10th thru13th April 2022. The venue for this hybrid-format conference is the Hilton Austin, located in the heart of downtown. It is famous for its vibrant culture and 6th Street as the entertainment district and called Live Music Capital of the World.

The theme of the conference is ‘Boosting Verticals into Wireless Orbit.’ 5G is driving mobile data traffic growth this decade with exciting new applications that vertical industries will increasingly adopt. At the same time, the 6G vision is starting to emerge, and it will become the new wireless platform for 2030 and beyond.

The conference offers comprehensive Technical and Industry Programs that provide rich and unique value to attendees. The content covers all the most exciting topics in wireless communications and networking, including 11 workshops, 12 tutorials, 361 technical papers and presentations, Eight dynamic keynote

speakers, Two Executive Forum sessions., Dialogue with Industry Leaders, Eleven Industry panel, Ten Industry presentations, Wireless Startup session – a pitch competition, Sponsors & Exhibitors

The conference received 742 paper submissions, among which 361 papers were accepted after a careful review process. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, the meeting will be hybrid, with 23 in-person sessions at the conference venue and 48 virtual sessions. All papers will have a recorded video associated with them to watch at your leisure.

For this WCNC, we have reorganized the technical tracks into four new tracks that we believe better fit the current trends in wireless research. These are:
1. Physical layer and communication theory
2. Networking and MAC
3. Machine learning and optimization for wireless systems
4. Emerging technologies, standards, and applications
The Industry program is enhanced and expanded with more keynote speakers, several panels (mixed participation between industry practitioners and technical research), new dialogue with industry leaders, and executive

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forums. These talks represent over 1200 hours of content, led by over 70 distinguished speakers and experts representing over 50 companies and institutions from around the world.

Most of the Industry Program will be onsite and live-streamed for remote attendees, while a small part will be virtual-only. All presentations and panels discussion will be available on-demand on the virtual platform on the conference dates.

Some of the main conference topics:
• Industry Leaders on Boosting Verticals into Wireless Orbit
• 5G and Beyond Applications for Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0
• 3 Drivers of Network Transformation: Delivering on the 5G and 6G Vision
• Scaling in public and private networks with ORAN • AI for Network and Network for AI
• 6G Cloud-native and AI-native Networks
• Non-terrestrial Networks in 5G and 6G
• 6G Use Cases, Requirements, and Key Capabilities • How to Secure Future Communication Networks

• From Theory to Practice: Emerging Antenna Array Technologies for 5G-Advanced
• Is XR a technology waiting for service or service waiting for technology?

Other topics include:Advancing 5G Technology Innovations into the 6G Era, Perspectives on 6G, 6G Radio Access Gearbox PHY Idea, Sub-THz Innovations for 6G Wireless, What Will a 6G Time-Sensitive Network Look Like?, Bringing 6G to life through testbeds

This 4-day conference is your opportunity to network with your peers again for onsite attendees. In addition, at the special welcoming reception, you will connect with attendees, sponsors, and speakers. The closing banquet will celebrate achievements. Thank the support and help from all the volunteers.

Please don’t miss this outstanding opportunity and be part of the conference.

https://wcnc2022.ieee­wcnc.org/registration

We are happy to share that a IEEE Member of a ComSoc Latinamerica chapter has been promoted to Senior Member for his outstanding track record. The Communcations Society congratulates his successful career.

Daniel A. R. Chaves (S’11, M’13) was born in Recife, Brazil. He received the B.Sc (2006), M.Sc (2008) and Ph.D (2012) degrees in electrical engineering from Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.

He joined the department of Computer Engineering at University of Pernambuco (Recife, PE, Brazil) as an assistant professor in 2010. He is currently an associate professor in the same department. His research has been related to optical networking, optical communications and artificial intelligence in themes such as routing and spectrum assignment algorithms, network resilience, design of all-optical and translucent networks, optical amplifier operational point adjustments and applications of artificial and computational intelligence in network optimization. He is co-author of about 100

papers in peer reviewed scientific journals and conferences.

Dr. Chaves is a member of the Brazilian Society
of Microwaves and Opto-electronics and
National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq) Fellow Researcher since 2022. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/ citations?user=fM6l2AMAAAAJ&hl=en, ResearcherID: F-7915-2011, orcid: 0000-0001- 5274-6646.

The Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) Committee is looking for volunteers with the necessary leadership skills to share your talents, passion, and make an impact in the ComSoc society.

Serving as a Chair of this standing committee, I would like to work with committed, enthusiastic, and creative volunteers that provide support for a period of two years, 2022 and 2023.

In ComSoc, women form a community of more than 3,300 professionals and students around the world that see in ComSoc, THE society for sharing and creating information on communication and networking technologies. The WICE committee is responsible for encouraging the participation and membership of more women communications engineers in the Society and provides a venue for their growth and leadership in ComSoc.

If you find value in being part of ComSoc, have been volunteering or plan to volunteer in any activity from your chapter or region, I encourage you to nominate yourself or a colleague before January 21 by submitting below:
1. a short biography (up to 300 words)
2. a statement of plan for the duties of the desired position to serve during 2022 and 2023.

Based on this, the new WICE Board members will be communicated by January 28, then we can have our meeting by February 4th.

More detailed information about each of these roles that are voting members of the WICE committee is available here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KJ89PmsgqDKedcpLwafa-tZ-0q604Y4J/view?usp=sharing:
– Secretary
– Publicity chair
– Student representative

There are other positions that can be part of the WICE committee as non-voting members:
– Industry Relation liaison
– Young professional liaison

Volunteer today!

Sincerely,

Nury Ramirez Cely
WICE Chair
2022- 2023
nuryramirez@ieee.org

ComSoc Panama was awarded by the IEEE Panama section as the “Outstanding Chapter” of the year 2021 for their outstanding performance during last year. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic they actively promoted the presentation and exchange of information among its members and the technical community in the country and the region during 2021. ComSoc Panama had a dynamic promotion using the social networks and their website. In addition, during 2021 ComSoC Panama proposed several initiatives that allowed them to win different grants. All this dynamic is reflected in its membership.

ComSoc Panama, led by its chapter chair (2021- 2022) Yessica Saez, has achieved to consolidate a dynamic board of directors, balanced between the industry and the academia, with strong female presence. Nowadays, ComSoc Panama is a reference in Panama as a technical society in the communications field for academia, the industry, and the public sector. For this reason, Mrs. Saez was also awarded the “Manuel López Spla Award for Outstanding Volunteer 2021”.

ComSoc Panama had a dynamic promotion using the social networks and their website.

Congratulations to ComSoc Panama board of directors and all ComSoc Panama volunteers.

Scientists around the world are focused on fighting the coronavirus. The challenges are innumerable, especially since it is a disease that stills little known and whose information is not solid yet. Given this scenario, professors and researchers from different areas of knowledge at the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Brazil, led by Prof. Joel Rodrigues (Fellow, IEEE), created a research and innovation project that involves the administration of a field hospital in the State of Piauí, installed at the capital, Teresina, an unprecedented fact in Brazil.

The “Research and Innovation Project in Public Health Management: Strategies for Facing the Covid-19 Pandemic”, led by Joel Rodrigues, that works in the area of Computer Engineering, Communications, Internet of Things and eHealth Technologies, and includes the areas of Medicine, Law, Pharmacy, Electrical Engineering, Administration, Mathematics, and Computer Science.

The Project is a response to the needs of the Piauí State Government, which, anticipating the cases increasing of Covid-19, decided to install a field hospital to reinforce the number of hospital beds available to the population and for being able to receive patients from all over the state. Thus, an agreement between the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI), Brazil; the Cultural and Research Promotion, Teaching, Extension, and Innovation Foundation (FADEX); and the Piauí State Health Secretary (SESAPI). FADEX is a support foundation that provides technical and administrative provision for the project execution and it is funded by SESAPI.

Unlike other Brazilian states, which hired outside companies to manage field hospitals, in Piauí, an innovative project that, in addition for taking care of the management part, also meets other needs, such as conducting research for better understand the virus and monitoring cases for scientific purposes. The State Field Hospital opened last May 2020 and it is expected to last 4 months, according to the evolution forecasts of COVID-19 in the State.

The fact of having researchers from various scientific areas adds a lot to society. Medical researchers, for example, directly address COVID-19’s clinical treatment protocols. In mathematics, intelligent models are used to perform predictions about the evolution of the disease in population, which is of great value for public managers, who need to make decisions regarding the use of resources and containment measures. Such data were of fundamental importance to prevent the collapse in the health system in Piauí.

In the technology area, the construction of pulmonary ventilators and the use of artificial intelligence to carry out diagnostic studies based on imaging exams and clinical data of patients are performed. The development of transparent masks to facilitate communication, through the observation of lip movement, especially concerning hearing impaired and facilitating the interpersonal communication.

The research team is also working in the legal and governance area, which encompasses law and hospital administration and management.

The inclusion of the State Field Hospital in the Project turns research more efficient because it is a storehouse of the disease data. In the other hand, it ensures a more transparent and optimized administration for society. It is worth mentioning that the hospital has a website daily updated, with information about hospitalizations, discharges, and deaths. In addition to information on the procedures adopted, graphics about the patients evolution, human resources, and details of financial execution are presented. The hospital’s website, the only one in a field hospital unit with these characteristics, can be assessed here (in Portuguese): http://www.hcepiaui.org.

Thanks to the work of UFPI university researchers, it was possible to materialize such a complete system to combat the pandemic and saving lives. The hospital has 103 beds, including clinical and stabilization beds, and the proof that all the effort is obtaining good results comes from the fact that, for a pandemic disease, more than 90% of the admitted patients have already left the hospital and the deaths are about 1.5%. This is a real example of engineers and other scientists working hard, along with more 230 professionals, during this pandemic period for saving lives against COVID-19

The RCCC for Latin American Region, in its 2019 version, took place in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil from November 14th-15th 2019. Representatives of the Latin America chapters and ComSoc executives attended this meeting to elaborate the program to be developed during the next year by ComSoc in Latin America region.

During the RCCC several presentations were performed: welcome presentation, Latin America director’s report, young professional global overview, membership development report, distinguished lecturer tour updates, social networks challenges and progress, global communication newsletter report and chapter reports.

Annually, two awards are given to ComSoc members from the LA region to recognize their valuable work: the Latin America Region Young Professional Award and the Latin America Region Distinguished Service.

2019 winners will be invited to the Awards Ceremony to be organized in the Regional Chapter Chair Congresses (RCCC), November 14 and 15, 2019 in Salvador, Brazil.

I) Latin America Region Young Professional Award

Winner: Nury Gabriela Ramirez Cely

Nury Gabriela Ramirez currently works at Continental Automotive as a Technical Project Leader for the Body and Security unit of the Interior Division. She is in charge of a global team for the development of door control units. She worked at Cisco Systems as an Advanced Services Program Manager leading the effective delivery of routers and switches solutions to support the main internet service provider from Mexico, Megacable to optimize their network. She had 9 years of experience at Intel working for Intel Xeon based projects from being a Hardware Design Engineer up to an Engineering Program Manager. }

She is a Senior Member of IEEE with leadership role managing women’s technical outreach and professional awareness projects.

II) Latin America Region Distinguished Service Award

Winner: Ricardo A. Veiga

Ricardo A. Veiga is an Associate Professor at University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Faculty of Engineering. He was responsible for Postgraduate Studies and he is currently responsible for Planning and Management Control at the Faculty of Engineering, UBA. He was also Member of the Board of Directors of the Faculty of Engineering, UBA.
He graduated from UBA as an Electronics Engineer (six-year degree program), and pursued postgraduate studies in Japan, and UADE University.
He has also been working in Communications industry for 25 years, participating in the start-up of several companies. He has experience in leadership positions in mobile communications companies and service providers. Throughout his professional career he accomplished many achievements, including the start up of the largest private satellite network in Argentina, the strategic plan for launching a cellular telephone company, and the design and construction of world class contact centers. He was also involved with the development of special wireless data communications systems for industry applications. He has deployed his own consulting company. And he is leading the start up of a company that use the cellular network for mobile banking. Also, he was responsible for many added value services, as well as customer service, loyalty and retention programs.
He is member of the ComSoc’s Board of Governors as Member-at-Large (2017–2019). He is also member of the ComSoc’s Finance Standing Committee and the Technical Committees Recertification Standing Committee.
He was member of the ComSoc’s Board of Governors as Regional Director (2004–2005), increasing the number of Chapters by 17% and Student Branch Chapters by 100% in the region (38% of the total worldwide. He has led the Training Committee within ComSoc’s Wireless Certification Program (WCET). He was GOLD Coordinator and member of the LA Region Advisory Committee. He also served as Chair, Vice-chair and Treasurer of the Communications Chapter (Argentina Section). As Chair of the local ComSoc Chapter, he received the Chapter Achievement Award.
He also received the IEEE RAB Achievement Award, IEEE Third Millennium Medal, IEEE Richard E. Merwin Scholarship, and Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Award, among others.
He has become Student Member of the IEEE in 1980; he is a volunteer since 1985, and Senior Member since 2001.

Other IEEE positions:
GLOBAL COMMITTEES/BOARDS: He was member of the MGA Member Benefits Portfolio Advisory Committee, the MGA Individual Benefits & Services Committee (IB&SC), and the GOLD Committee.
REGIONAL: He was the Region 9 IEEE GOLD Coordinator.
SECTIONS/CHAPTERS: He served as Chair, Secretary, Treasurer and Membership Development Coordinator of the IEEE Argentina Section. He founded three local Chapters and one Joint Chapter in Argentina Section.
STUDENT BRANCHES: He was Chair and Vice-chair of the University of Buenos Aires Student Branch, and also founder & Chair of one of its Chapters.

Congratulations for Nury and Ricardo for this important achievement.

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