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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">The </span><strong><span style="color:#1ABC9C">Next Generation Systems Conference (NGS)</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#00B050">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">presents the best of current and future systems research and practice, emphasizing innovation and quantified experience. NGS has emerged as the foremost world-wide gathering of academic
researchers, Ph.D. and graduate students, top research think tanks and industry technology developers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">*********************************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1ABC9C">Important Dates</span></u><span style="color:#1ABC9C">:</span></strong><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Paper Submission Due:
<b>December 15, 2020</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Acceptance Notification: December 30, 2020 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Final Manuscript Due: January 27, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1ABC9C">Scope:</span></u></strong><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">NGS aims to provide a forum for practitioners, researchers, and professionals from both academia and the industry to share their latest research findings and results. The technical areas include but are not limited
to the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Wireless system architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Network protocols<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Network services<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Communication theory and systems<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Social network<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">QoS and multimedia networking<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Network applications<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Security, authentication, and cryptography<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Algorithmic aspects of communication networks<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Signal processing techniques and tools<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Network operation and management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Internet of things<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Network design and performance evaluation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Online social networks<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Complex network models<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Localization for wireless networks<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Network estimation and processing techniques<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mesh, relay, sensor and ad hoc networks<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mobility, location, and handoff management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mobile and wireless IP<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wireless multicasting, routing<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Robust routing<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Multimedia QoS and traffic management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wireless broadcast, multicast, and streaming<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Congestion and admission control<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Proxies and middleware for wireless networks<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wireless network security and privacy<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Performance of E2E protocols over wireless networks<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<strong><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1ABC9C">Paper Format:</span></u><span style="color:#1ABC9C"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The submitted paper must be formatted according to the <a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/procedia-computer-science/">guidelines of Procedia Computer Science</a>, <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/EDI40-20/templates/EDI40_PROCS_Template.docx">MS
Word Template</a>, Elsevier.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1ABC9C">Paper Length:</span></u><span style="color:#1ABC9C"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Submitted technical papers must be no longer than <strong>6 pages</strong> for full papers, including all figures, tables and references.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1ABC9C">Paper Submission:</span></u></strong><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aatcare2020">online conference management system</a> in PDF format before the deadline.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The submission processes will be managed by <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aatcare2020">easychair.org</a>. 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1ABC9C">Publication:</span></u><span style="color:#1ABC9C"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">All NGS 2021 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier
on <a href="http://www.Elsevier.com">www.Elsevier.com</a> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com">www.sciencedirect.com</a>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus
(<a href="http://www.scopus.com">www.scopus.com</a>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (<a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/">http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/</a>).
All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com">www.scopus.com</a>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (<a href="http://www.engineeringvillage.com">www.engineeringvillage.com</a>). This includes EI Compendex (<a href="http://www.ei.org/compendex">www.ei.org/compendex</a>).
Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (<a href="http://dblp.uni-trier.de/">http://dblp.uni-trier.de/</a>). 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1ABC9C">Organizing Committee:</span><span style="color:#1ABC9C"> <o:p></o:p></span></u></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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