[agents] ComSense-2016: Call for papers

[Zahoor Khan]

CALL FOR PAPERS



The 4th International Workshop on Communications and Sensor Networks (ComSense-16) provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of Communications and Sensor Networks. ComSense-16 will be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on August 15-18, 2016 in conjunction with The 11th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC-2016).



Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/site/comsenselab/comsense-16



SCOPE

Scope of ComSense-2016 covers the fast growing domains in smart communications embedded in complex systems, for a wide variety of applications in the forthcoming generation of networks and smart grid technologies. The day by day increasing popularity and diffusion of innovative services and applications exploited the raising challenges. These issues demand to rebuild available technologies to meet the coming needs of ever growing user base. ComSense-2015 targets to address the current research results in Wireless Communications and Mobile Networking to present their methodologies, models, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences.

The selected topics of ComSense-2016 include but are not limited to the following:

* Future Internet

* Hybrid networks

* Optical networks

* Service level agreements

* Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology

* Localization and Tracking

* Smart grids

* Secure Multimedia Streaming and Transmission

* QoS and Admission Control

* Medium access control protocols

* Network management

* Network services and protocols

* Service Localization Cross-layer design for mobile and wireless networks

* Dynamic spectrum management

* Disruption tolerant networks

* Energy-efficient networks

* Network applications & services

* and Pervasiveness

* Personal area networks

* Performance-oriented design and evaluation focused on networks and mobile applications

* Quality of service provisioning

* Routing protocols

* Sensor networks

* 60 GHz networking

* Wireless networks

* Testbed design and implementation

* Traffic Engineering and measurements

* Fault tolerance and availability of mobile services

* Testing and monitoring of mobile applications

* Service level agreements

* Cellular and mobile communications

* Wireless Mesh Networks

* Communication protocols (IEEE 802.15.4, ZigBee, LowPAN)

* Autonomic Management and Operation

* Geographic routing

* Delay tolerant networks

* Bio-inspired and nature-inspired solutions in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks

* Broadband access technologies

* Cognitive radio

* Optimization for Effective Communications

* Peer-to-Peer Networks

* Opportunistic networks

* Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications

* Mobility modeling and management

* Mobility protocols

* Performance evaluation and analysis

* Under water networks





IMPORTANT DATES

*         Paper submission due date: 20 March 2016

*         Notification of acceptance:          14 May 2016

*         Camera-ready due date:              14 June 2016

*         Workshop:                                          15-18 August 2016



SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS

All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the FNC-2016 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in FNC-2016 website (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-16/). The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comsense16.



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 "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.



All ComSense-2015 workshop accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

*         William Phillips, Dalhousie University (Canada)

*         Shyamala Sivakumar, Saint Mary's University (Canada)

*         Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky (USA)

*         Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University (Belgium)

*         Saad Qaiser, NUST (Pakistan)

*         Farrukh A. Khan, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia)

*         Qingquan Sun, Oakland University, USA

*         Muhammad Imran, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia)

*         Umar Qasim, University of Alberta (Canada)

*         Hasan Mehmood, Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan)

*         Hai Wang, Saint Mary's University (Canada)

*         Kashif Saleem, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia)

*         Faisal Shaikh, MUET (Pakistan)

*         Amjad Gawanmeh, Concordia University (Canada)

*         Turki Alghamdi, Umm AlQura University (Saudi Arabia)



WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Zahoor Ali Khan<https://web.cs.dal.ca/%7Ezkhan/>
PhD (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Assistant Professor
Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates
Adjunct Professor
Dalhousie University, Canada
www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan<http://www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan>

Nadeem Javaid<http://www.njavaid.com>
PhD (University of Paris-Est, France)
Associate Professor,
COMSATS IIT
Islamabad, Pakistan
www.njavaid.com<http://www.njavaid.com>