<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">*** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ***</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br><span style="background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">=========================================================</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">******************************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC 2024), July 1-3, 2024, Kanazawa, Japan</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">******************************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission Link: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qcnc2024" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qcnc2024</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Paper Submission Due: 22 March 2024<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Author Notification:  8 May 2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Camera-Ready Due: 1 June 2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference Dates: 1-3 July 2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">QCNC 2024 provides a forum for academic researchers and industry practitioners to present research progresses, exchange new ideas, and identify future directions in the field of Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing.  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Scope and Objectives: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In recent decades, quantum researchers have made remarkable progress,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">propelling quantum technology into the spotlight for its potential to revolutionize classical communications, networking, and computing. The inherent advantages of quantum technology, particularly in terms of security, privacy, efficiency and scalability, have opened new frontiers in information technology</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Quantum technology has demonstrated its ability to introduce applications with no equivalent in the classical realm, marking a breakthrough towards an unimaginable future.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The establishment of connections between</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>the quantum source node and destination node using quantum hardware and devices facilitates qubit transmissions, which in turn enables advancements in quantum computing, artificial intelligence and cryptography and further services and applications.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Envisioned as a transformative force,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>quantum services are anticipated to span the globe, leveraging quantum terrestrial components, satellites, airplanes, ships, and other vehicles.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The quantum future holds the promise of</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>nearly unconditional security, super-computing power, large capacity, even at high velocity, and heightened privacy.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Our conference welcomes</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>submissions across diverse research areas related to quantum hardware, communications, networking, computing, cryptography, artificial intelligence, and their associated systems and applications. The topics of interests are covered by the following tracks:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">Track 1: Quantum Hardware and Devices</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024/track1.php">https://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024/track1.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chairs: Junyu Liu, University of Chicago/qBraid/SeQure, USA<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kenny Heitritter, qBraid Co., USA<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 2: Quantum Information Networks</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024/track2.php">https://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024/track2.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chairs:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">David Elkouss Coronas, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kaiping Xue, University of Science and Technology of China, China<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Marcello Caleffi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 3:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Quantum Computing</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024/track3.php">https://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024/track3.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chairs:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Jing Zhang, Shanxi University, China<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Ahmed Farouk, South Valley University, Egypt<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Hui Khoon Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 4: Security in the Quantum Age</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024/track4.php">https://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024/track4.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chairs: Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dung Duong, University of Wollongong, Australia </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chi Cheng, China University of Geosciences, China <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 5:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum Cryptography</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024/track5.php">https://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024/track5.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chairs: Martin, Vicente, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Momtchil Peev, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 6: Quantum Services and Applications<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024/track6.php">https://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024/track6.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chairs:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Qun Li, William and Mary, USA<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 7:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Quantum<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Theories and Experiments</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024/track7.php">https://www.ieee-qcnc.org/2024/track7.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chairs: Yingkai Ouyang. University of Sheffield, U. K.   <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kaumudibikash Goswami, University of Hongkong, China   </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best Paper Award and Journal Special Issues<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Three accepted papers will be selected for best paper awards. Selected papers will be recommended to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IF: 16.4) and Digital Communications and Networks (IF: 7.9) for potential fast-track publications.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Regular Paper Submission Guidelines:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">QCNC 2024 invites submission of manuscripts with original research results that have not been previously published or posted on public websites, or are not currently under review by another conference or journal.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Manuscripts must adhere to the</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format (double column, 10pt font, letter paper) and be submitted in the PDF format. Submitted manuscripts for review should not exceed 8 pages.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Upon acceptance, the camera-ready paper may extend up to 10 pages, subject to an additional fee per extra page</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The reviewing process will be<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>double-blind</b>, and submissions shall not reveal authors' names, affiliations, and avoid obvious self-references.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Manuscripts should be submitted to one of the research tracks. Submissions<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">that do not comply with</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the QCNC 2024 Conference Proceedings and be included in IEEE Xplore.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">General Chairs:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Masahiro Mambo</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, Kanazawa<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">University, Japan<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chonggang Wang, Interdigital, USA <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">TPC Chairs:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, University of Naples Federico II, Italy <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ruidong Li, Kanazawa Universit</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">y, Japan  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Robert Malaney, University of New South Wales, Australia</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prineha Narang, University of California, Los Angeles, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Keynote Chair:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Guilu Long, Tsinghua University, China <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop Chairs:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Trung Q. Duong, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"> </span></em></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mu Zhou, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Poster Chairs:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hyundong Shin, Kyung Hee University, Korea  <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ruozhou Yu, NC State University, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">  <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publicity Chairs:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Zhengxin Yu, Lancaster University, UK <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Melchior Aelmans, Juniper, The Netherlands  <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Xiaoqi Qin, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publication Chair:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Yuan Wu,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">University of <em>Macau, China  <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></span><em><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><em><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"> </span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Web Chair:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Haihan Nan Kanazawa University, Japan<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Financial Chair:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Peiying Colleen Ruan NVIDIA, Japan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Local Organization Chairs:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Yuto Lim, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Koichi Yamagata, Kanazawa University, Japan</span></p></div>