<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">*** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for participation***</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Quality of Service has long been the focus of communications researchers worldwide. Since 1993, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS) </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">has established itself as a highly reputable forum to present novel ideas on all QoS-related subjects.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2021 this year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, IWQoS 2021 will be held virtually during June 25 - June 28, 2021.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><a href="https://iwqos2021.ieee-iwqos.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://iwqos2021.ieee-iwqos.org/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The registration and program information is provided as follows.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Register at</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><a href="https://iwqos2021.ieee-iwqos.org/registration/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://iwqos2021.ieee-iwqos.org/registration/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">[The fee is only USD 5.]</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Non-author Registration  $5</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Program At Glance:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <a href="https://iwqos2021.ieee-iwqos.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/286/2021/05/IWQoS2021-ProgramAtGlance.pdf" target="_blank">https://iwqos2021.ieee-iwqos.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/286/2021/05/IWQoS2021-ProgramAtGlance.pdf</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Program: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://iwqos2021.ieee-iwqos.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/286/2021/05/IWQoS2021-Program.pdf" target="_blank">https://iwqos2021.ieee-iwqos.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/286/2021/05/IWQoS2021-Program.pdf</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Online Program: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://iwqos.info/" target="_blank">https://iwqos.info/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The program of IWQoS 2021 have <b>4 keynote talks, 1 industrial talk, 16 sessions, 6 short paper sessions, and 1 poster session</b>. Topics include video streaming, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">transport, traffic analytics, NFV, mobile and wireless networks, federated learning, reinforcement learning, blockchain, security/privacy/trust, IoT, storage/memory, data center, and cloud/edge computing.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The keynote information of IWQoS 2021 is provided as follows.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Keynote 1:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Challenges in Developing B5G/6G Communication Systems Speaker:<b> </b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dr. Hideyuki Tokuda</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> (President, National Institute of Information and Technology (NICT), Japan)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Keynote 2: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Enhancing Scalability and Liquidation in QoS Lightning Networks Speaker:<b>Prof. Jie Wu</b> (AAAS Fellow and IEEE Fellow, Temple University, USA)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Keynote 3: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Edge Computing Meets Mission-critical Industrial Applications </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Speaker: </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Prof. Albert Y. Zomaya </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">(IEEE Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Keynote 4: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Brain-inspired Networking and QoE Control</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Speaker: <b>Prof. Masayuki Murata </b>(Osaka University, Japan)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background:rgb(250,252,252);vertical-align:baseline;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(42,42,42)">Looking forward to seeing you at the IWQoS 2021!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background:rgb(250,252,252);vertical-align:baseline;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(42,42,42)"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0mm;background:rgb(250,252,252);vertical-align:baseline;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(42,42,42)">IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2021 Organizing Committee</span></p></div>