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          2019</span></a>***</span><span
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      <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545">The 5th IEEE
          Conference on Standards for Communications & Networking
          (IEEE CSCN’19)</span></p>
      <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545">28-30 October 2019
          // Granada, Spain</span></p>
      <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#E4AF0A"><a
            href="https://cscn2019.ieee-cscn.org/" id="LPlnk133214"
            moz-do-not-send="true">https://cscn2019.ieee-cscn.org/</a></span><span
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            Neue","serif";color:#454545"> </span></span><span
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          Neue","serif";color:#E4AF0A"></span></p>
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      <p><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif";color:#454545">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b></p>
      <span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
        Neue","serif";color:#454545">On behalf of the
        Organizing Committee, we have great pleasure in inviting you to
        submit your work to the 2019 IEEE Conference on Standards for
        Communications & Networking (IEEE CSCN’19). The fifth
        edition of this highly successful conference will be held in
        Granada, Spain, the city of the world-famous Alhambra, one of
        the ten most visited monuments around the world.</span><br>
      <span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
        Neue","serif";color:#454545">Standards play a key
        role in the success of the communications industry, as enablers
        of global systems inter-operability and economies of scale. The
        finalization of the 3GPP release 15 in June 2018 was a major
        milestone. With the first 5G specifications now complete, the
        industry has achieved critical progress on technology readiness,
        and operators around the world are starting the commercial
        rollout. This represents the culmination of years of concerted
        industry and academia efforts in scoping out and designing the
        next generation of mobile systems. Past editions of IEEE CSCN
        have played their own part in these efforts.<span
          class="xapple-converted-space"> </span></span><br>
      <span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
        Neue","serif";color:#454545">In 2019, IEEE CSCN
        will be divided into 4 tracks designed to cover the diverse
        space of technologies – not limited to cellular systems–. New,
        original and previously unpublished papers are invited that
        address the emerging connectivity solutions and the
        standardization approaches and strategies that these may take,
        as well as the relevant business models and use-cases.</span><br>
      <span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
        Neue","serif";color:#454545">Additionally, after
        the recent completion of 3GPP release 15, of special interest
        are papers that assess the wireless landscape in light of the
        recently completed release of NR standard. Not only the
        Non-Standalone version, but also the Standalone version which
        delivers the potential for 5G deployments independent of LTE.</span>
      <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545">We are pleased to
          invite you to submit an original an previously unpublished
          paper on (but not limited to) the topics of the following
          tracks.</span></p>
      <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545"> </span></p>
      <p style="margin-bottom:1.5pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif";color:#454545">Track on IoT,
            URLLC and V2X</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545"></span></p>
      <ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">IoT architecture design
            options and system optimizations.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">IoT security and privacy of
            IoT devices and services.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">System optimization to support
            ultra-low complexity devices.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Radio access optimizations for
            ultra-low power devices.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Standardized semantic data
            description framework and technologies.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">IoT communication procedure
            enhancements.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Experience and lessons learnt
            from IoT large-scale pilots.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">IoT standards platforms
            interworking.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">IoT interoperability
            methodologies.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">IoT standards gap analysis.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">5G networks, IoT and Tactile
            Internet.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Software Defined Network (SDN)
            and IoT.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Industrial Internet of Things.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Factory of things.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Edge computing, fog computing
            and IoT.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">IPv6-based IoT networks.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">IoT protocols such as IPv6,
            6LoWPAN, RPL, 6TiSCH, WoT.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">IoT security aspects for
            massive IoT deployments, e.g., embedded SIM management.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency
            Communications (URLLC).</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">URLLC for mission-critical
            IoT.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">V2X standards and
            architectures.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l2 level1
          lfo1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Private LTE/ 5G networks.</span></li>
      </ul>
      <p style="margin-bottom:1.5pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif";color:#454545">Track on 5G
            Radio and Wireless Communications</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545"></span></p>
      <ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Physical layer and MAC layer
            design for 5G-enabling wireless networks.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Dynamic scheduling, power
            control, interference management, and QoS management in 5G.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Techniques for latency
            reduction in 5G.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Resource management and
            control in 5G RAN.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Service-oriented user-plane
            design concepts.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Topology, deployment, and
            optimization of wireless networks.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Wireless technology for high
            speed.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">mmWave access, backhaul and
            self-backhauling.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Application of SDN, NFV, and
            cloud computing to 5G (and legacy) RAN and core network
            architectures and implementations, such as network slicing.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">3GPP phased work on NR.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Green and energy efficient
            wireless networks.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Solutions for
            battery-conserving, interference-mitigating terminal design.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Massive and FD-MIMO
            communications, hybrid and coordinated beamforming
            technology.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">New control signaling for
            heterogeneous networks.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Next-Generation Wi-Fi (IEEE
            802.11ax/ay).</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">5G-LTE interworking and 5G/LTE
            — Wi-Fi/Wi-Gig interworking technology.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">5G operation and coexistence
            in unlicensed and shared spectrum bands.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Next-generation non-RF
            communications systems.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">5G Radio Results from
            simulation, prototyping, and experiments.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l3 level1
          lfo2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Emerging candidate
            technologies and business use-cases for Beyond 5G.</span></li>
      </ul>
      <p style="margin-bottom:1.5pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif";color:#454545">Track on
            Softwarization, Slicing, Automation and Network Management</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545"></span></p>
      <ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Architectures and protocols
            for network automation and zero-touch management.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Intelligent-, intent-based and
            cognitive networking and network management.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Programmable architectures and
            systems for 5G services and verticals.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Analysis and considerations
            for common VNFs across fixed and mobile networks.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">5G service-based architecture
            evolution.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Network functions placement in
            distributed clouds.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">5G functional decomposition
            and deployment.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Secure operations in future
            virtualized networks.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Resource management and
            sharing for network slicing.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Scalability and reliability in
            5G networks and 5G network slicing.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Dedicated and shared network
            functions in network slices.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Cross-slice management for
            end-to-end QoS.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Progress on network slicing
            standardization (e.g. 3GPP, GSMA, etc.).</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Evaluation of network
            softwarization and fundamental trade-offs.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Test-bed experience in
            softwarization and network slicing.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">SDN architectures and
            interfaces.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">SDN programming languages and
            data models.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Progress and future challenges
            in standardization (e.g. ETSI NFV, IETF/IRTF, etc.).</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Orchestration and management
            in SDN and NFV.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Multi-domain and multi-tenancy
            considerations in SDN and NFV.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Open Source efforts in
            relation to SDN and NFV (e.g., ONAP, OPNFV, OpenStack, Open
            Source MANO).</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">QoS/QoE aspects related to SDN
            and NFV based network services.</span></li>
      </ul>
      <p style="margin-bottom:1.5pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif";color:#454545">Track on Access
            Network, Edge Computing and Transport for 5G</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545"></span></p>
      <ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Multi-Access Edge Computing,
            Edge-Fog Computing.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Routing protocols, segment
            routing and VPN extensions for 5G slicing.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Multi-tenancy, slicing, and
            control of multi-domain heterogeneous infrastructures.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">SDN and NFV in access, edge,
            and transport for 5G</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Transporting 5G mobile
            services over optical access networks.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">SDN solutions for mobile
            networks and fixed IP cross layer transport and routing.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">5G architectures supporting
            Cloud-RAN and functional split options.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">5G architectures supporting
            fronthaul/middlehaul/backhaul integration.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Network slicing issues with
            multi-RATs devices.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">End-to- end resource
            optimization for 5G mobile services: from radio head to data
            center.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Integrated
            backhaul/middlehaul/fronthaul</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Backhaul/middlehaul/fronthaul
            considerations for dynamic capacity and mobility management.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Delivering services over ICN
            in 5G within a framework enabling network slicing.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Enhancing 5G
            backhaul/middlehaul/fronthaul with ICN.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Mechanisms and protocol
            enhancements for Hybrid Access networks.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Introduction of ETSI MEC
            technology and applications on vertical market segments.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">New user applications at the
            edge of the communication network.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Vertical industry implications
            to transport, edge computing, and 5G access networks.</span></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#454545;mso-list:l0 level1
          lfo4"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif"">Insights on pilots,
            proof-of-concept, and prototypes on access, edge, and
            transport networks.</span></li>
      </ul>
      <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545">Authors of
          selected papers from IEEE CSCN 2019 will be invited to submit
          an extended and improved version to IEEE Standards Magazine
          special issue.</span></p>
      <p><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif";color:#454545">SUBMISSION</span></u><span
          style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545"></span></p>
      <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545">All submissions
          have to comply with IEEE’s guidelines. Initial submissions for
          review are limited to seven (7) pages. Camera-ready papers
          should not exceed six (6) pages for long papers, and (4) pages
          for short papers, including figures without incurring
          additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with over
          length page charge). <br>
        </span></p>
      <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545">The submission URL
          is: <a href="https://cscn2019.ieee-cscn.org/authors/"
            id="LPlnk604726" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
              style="color:#E4AF0A">https://cscn2019.ieee-cscn.org/authors/</span></a><span
            class="xapple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
          style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#E4AF0A"></span></p>
      <p><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif";color:#454545">IMPORTANT DATES</span></u><span
          style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545"></span></p>
      <p><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif";color:#454545">Submission
            Deadline:</span></b><span
          style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545"> 1 June 2019<br>
          <b>Acceptance Notification:</b> 1 September 2019<br>
          <b>Camera-Ready:</b> 1 October 2019</span></p>
      <p><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif";color:#454545">ORGANIZING
            COMMITTEE</span></u><span
          style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545"></span></p>
      <p style="margin-bottom:1.5pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif";color:#454545">General
            Co-Chairs</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545"></span></p>
      <p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545">Prof. Tarik Taleb
          (Aalto University, Finland)<br>
          Prof. Juan M. Lopez-Soler (University of Granada, Spain)</span></p>
      <p style="margin-bottom:1.5pt"><b><span
            style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica
            Neue","serif";color:#454545">TPC Co-Chairs</span></b><span
          style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue","serif";color:#454545"></span></p>
      <span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica
        Neue","serif";color:#454545">Prof. Arturo Azcorra
        (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)<br>
        Prof. Narcis Cardona (Universitat Politècnica de València,
        Spain)<br>
        Dr. Imen Grida Benyahia (Orange Labs, France)</span> </div>
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