<div dir="ltr"><div title="Page 1"><div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">In order to accommodate a large number of situations, we are offering the option for either physical presence or
virtual participation. We would be delighted if all authors manage to attend in person, but are aware that special
circumstances are best handled by having flexible options.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">Submission:<br>
1. Inform the Chairs: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">with the Title of your Contribution<br>
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">2. Submission URL:
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold";color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=ICSNC+2020+Special" target="_blank">https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=ICSNC+2020+Special</a>
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">Please select Track Preference as </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">AI-5GaaS
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">Special track
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">AI-5GaaS:
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">Chairs and Coordinators
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">Assist. Prof. Dr. Muge Erel-Ozcevik, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="mailto:erelmu@itu.edu.tr" target="_blank">erelmu@itu.edu.tr</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="mailto:muge.ozcevik@cbu.edu.tr" target="_blank">muge.ozcevik@cbu.edu.tr</a>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">Assist. Prof. Dr. Gokhan Secinti, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="mailto:secinti@itu.edu.tr" target="_blank">secinti@itu.edu.tr</a>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">along with
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">ICSNC 2020</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">, The Fifteenth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications
October 18, 2020 to October 22, 2020 - Porto, Portugal
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="https://www.iaria.org/conferences2020/ICSNC20.html" target="_blank">https://www.iaria.org/conferences2020/ICSNC20.html</a>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">Unprecedented expansion of cloud services offering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service
(PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) paves the way for the virtualization of entire 5G-capable hardware and
software stacks; thus, leading the emergence of 5G as a service (5GaaS). It enables on-demand service
deployment, while mitigating the risks of physical installation, lowering operational and capital expenditures
(OPEX/CAPEX), aggregating the service providers and customers' requirements on the same platform.
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">On the other hand, Content Delivery Networks (CDN) play a key role in the management of 5GaaS
subscribers and their contents, where the applications define unique 5G requirements raised by novel trafic
types, such as: enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra-Reliable Low Latency (URLLC), and massive
Machine Transmission Communication (mMTC). Various bandwidth and latency requirements of these service
types force CDN to benefit from the technologies such as Edge/Fog computation in order to sustain ever-
complicating network management, revolutionizing the heterogeneous orchestration of the entire infrastructure
spanning from server deployment, to network access. Under this expanding heterogeneity, the most feasible
way to meet 5G requirements is to design an intelligent network management on 5G physical infrastructure.
According to service providers, dynamic configuration and intelligent self-management for CDN can be only
handled by Software Defined Networks (SDN). They believe that SDN proposes inexpensive network feature
insertion thanks to a global view on the network and programming the network devices dynamically without
any intervention on the physical plane. It enables flexible, scalable, and self-manageable virtual network slices
to the customers according to Service Level Agreements (SLA).
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">Both global management and network programmability features of SDN enable us to design and integrate
novel techniques on 5G networks such as Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the recent years, AI is one of the most
rapidly growing fields, finding new application domains with new and unique challenges everyday. This
drastically changes the way the researchers/engineers used to approach to optimization processes. AI is broadly
categorized into three main subsets such as Machine Learning (ML), Meta-Heuristics, and Fuzzy Inference
Systems. Utilizing these tools, the following candidate applications for 5GaaS may only describe the tip of the
iceberg. A technique executing ML uses the statistics collected from 5G physical plane periodically and
performs supervised and/or unsupervised learning such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Support Vector
Machines (SVM), Decision Trees (DT), K-means clustering, Hidden Markov Model (HMM), etc. A technique
executing Meta-Heuristics algorithms solves hard optimization problems that cannot be executed within a
reasonable time such as Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic
Algorithm (GA), Simulated Annealing (SA), etc. A technique depending on Fuzzy logic has an advantage in
representing customer experience and their explanation abilities.
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">To this end, AI-5GaaS aims to improve the experience of customers and their service providers in 5G
networks by serving AI-based techniques as a service to handle reduced OPEX/CAPEX. Therefore, this special
issue aims to bring together talented researchers in the field and state-of-art designs and techniques to shape the
future of 5G.
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
</span></p>
<ul style="list-style-type:none">
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:SymbolOOEnc"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">Meta-heuristics for AI based 5G networks;
</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:SymbolOOEnc"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">Fuzzy inference systems for AI based 5G networks;
</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:SymbolOOEnc"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">Cloud-Fog-Edge computing mechanisms;
</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:SymbolOOEnc"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">AI based mobility management;
</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:SymbolOOEnc"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">SDN/NFV for autonomous network management;
</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:SymbolOOEnc"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">CDN solutions for next generation networks;
</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:SymbolOOEnc"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">Application areas for 5GaaS;
</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:SymbolOOEnc"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">Security and Privacy issues for 5GaaS;
</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:SymbolOOEnc"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">Testbeds, applications, case studies for 5GaaS;
</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:SymbolOOEnc"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">APIS, new protocols and programming languages for 5GaaS
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">Important Datelines
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Italic"">Inform the Chairs (see Contacts below): as soon as you decide to contribute
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman"><b>Submission: August 24 </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">Contribution Types
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">- Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]<br>
- Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
- Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]<br>
- Posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on <a href="http://www.iaria.org" target="_blank">www.iaria.org</a>]<br>
- Presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on <a href="http://www.iaria.org" target="_blank">www.iaria.org</a>]<br>
- Demos: two pages [posted on <a href="http://www.iaria.org" target="_blank">www.iaria.org</a>]
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">Paper Format
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">- See: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="http://www.iaria.org/format.html" target="_blank">http://www.iaria.org/format.html</a>
</span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman"><b>Notification: September 13 </b></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman"><b>Registration: September 23 </b></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman"><b>Camera-ready: September 23
</b></span></p></li>
</ul>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">- Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html" target="_blank">http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html</a>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">Publications
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="http://www.iariajournals.org" target="_blank">http://www.iariajournals.org</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">- Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html" target="_blank">http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">- Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="http://www.thinkmind.org" target="_blank">http://www.thinkmind.org</a>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">Paper Submission
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold";color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=ICSNC+2020+Special" target="_blank">https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=ICSNC+2020+Special</a>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">Please select Track Preference as </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">AI-5GaaS
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">Registration
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">- Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in
the proceedings.<br>
- Registration fees are available at </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="http://www.iaria.org/registration.html" target="_blank">http://www.iaria.org/registration.html</a>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman,Bold"">Contacts
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">Chairs<br>
Muge Erel-Ozcevik: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="mailto:erelmu@itu.edu.tr" target="_blank">erelmu@itu.edu.tr</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="mailto:muge.ozcevik@cbu.edu.tr" target="_blank">muge.ozcevik@cbu.edu.tr</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">Gokhan Secinti: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="mailto:secinti@itu.edu.tr" target="_blank">secinti@itu.edu.tr</a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman">ICSNC Logistics: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRoman;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="mailto:steve@iaria.org" target="_blank">steve@iaria.org</a> </span></p></div></div></div></div>