IEEE VTC'18 Spring - Workshop on 5G for a Variety of Services

Call for Papers

Workshop on 5G for a Variety of Services

Date: 3 June, 2018

Porto: To be determined, Porto, Portugal

Scope and Motivation

5G wireless is fundamentally transforming radio network from pure wireless connectivity to a network for services. Mobile wireless access technologies have gone through several generations of evolutions and access spectral efficiency is approaching Shannon capacity. However, there are enormous opportunities on support of various services. 5G wireless will enable new services and applications, in particular, enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine-type communications (mMTC) and ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC). Network slicing and machine learning are going to be part of radio network architecture as well. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from industry and academia, cellular service providers, and industrial partners to explore various ways for 5G to more efficiently support a variety of services. The focus of the workshop will be on the evolution of cellular network to efficiently support varieties of services, related to end-to-end network architecture and requirements, cloud technology including end-to-end network slicing, use cases, field experiments, and performance results. The workshop will offer keynote speeches by prominent figures from industry and research sides, as well as technical presentations on the latest research and development in 5G for services, including deployment related results using real-world examples and scenarios. .

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest cover 5G for services emerging trends, architecture and requirements, use cases, enabling technologies, and performance results. The workshop solicits technical papers on the following (but not limited to) topics:

5G service architecture and requirements, emerging trends, applications and use cases
Enabling technologies for 5G cloud including network slicing and differentiations
Capacity, coverage and performance improvement for 5G services
5G field performance and experimental results associated with varieties of services
5G deployment scenarios and interworking with existing 2G/3G/4G cellular networks
5G network deployment research and analysis
Recent advances in 3GPP standardization on 5G New Radio (NR) and evolved LTE
eMBB and multicast/broadcast in 5G NR and evolved LTE
mMTC/IoT communications in 5G NR and evolved LTE
URLLC Communications in 5G NR and evolved LTE
Voice support over 5G NR and Evolved LTE
Video and Video Telephony support over 5G NR and Evolved LTE
V2V and V2X communications
Energy harvesting and green communications for 5G services
Physical layer improvement on 5G for varieties of services
MAC layer improvement on 5G for varieties of services
Traffic models for various 5G innovative services
Radio access technologies and protocols to support 5G services
Automation, Management and Orchestration for 5G Services
Machine Learning to improve network efficiency and automation

Workshop organizers

Dr. Jin Yang, Fellow, Verizon Communications, jin.yang@verizon.com
Dr. Amitava Ghosh, IEEE Fellow, Fellow at Nokia Bell Labs, amitava.ghosh@nokia-bell-labs.com
Dr. Tong Wen, IEEE Fellow, Fellow at Huawei, tongwen@huawei.com
Prof. Rose Qingyang Hu, Professor, Utah State University, rose.hu@usu.edu

Submission guidance and schedule

The workshop will take place on Sunday, June 03, 2018 at Porto, Portugal. The maximum full paper length for a Workshop paper is 5 pages; an author can purchase up to two additional pages for a maximum allowed length of 7 pages. Technical papers/posters will comprise of peer-reviewed and a few invited papers. Submitted papers and posters will be peer reviewed by at least 3 reviewers, with acceptance rate in line with guidance from VTC2018-Spring technical committee.

Paper submission: January 28, 2018

Acceptance notification: February 12, 2018

Final paper due: February 28, 2018

Submission

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