The 7-th International Workshop on Advanced Communication Technologies and their Applications to Intelligent transportation systems, Cognitive radios and Sensor networks

(ACTICS-2018)

in conjunction with IMIS-2018, July 4th to July 6th, 2018, Kunibiki Messe, Matsue, Japan

Call for Papers

Advances in Communication Technologies and their applications to vehicular communications for intelligent transportation systems, cognitive radio network for dynamic and efficient spectrum sharing, and sensor networks for sensing and monitoring applications have generated interest from both industry and academia.

ACTICS-2018 will bring researchers and experts together to present and discuss the latest developments and technical solutions concerning various aspects of advances in communication technologies. ACTICS-2018 seeks original unpublished (both review/survey and technical) papers focusing on theoretical analysis, emerging applications, novel system architecture construction and design, experimental studies, and social impacts of communications technologies.

Topics of interest include but not limited to:

Network architectures and protocols
Mobility management and topology control
Performance modeling and analysis
Medium access control and routing protocols
Information aggregation and dissemination
Cognitive radio enhanced vehicular communications,
Security, trust and privacy issues
Applications, case studies, and real-world test beds
Power aware and energy efficient design
Remote sensing and monitoring (health care, space structure, environments, hazards etc.)
Complexity analysis, self-organization/configuration, distributed co-ordination etc.
Application of software defined radio in advanced communication systems
Cross-layer designs and architectures
Self-organizing networks and autonomic communications
Ultra-wideband technologies
Beam-forming and MIMO for interference avoidance in the CR context
Biological-inspired networking
Adaptive wireless communication systems
Spectrum sensing techniques, spectrum efficiency and soft spectrum usage
Parameter estimation for adaptation of wireless communication systems
Network economics and game theory
Interference mitigation and awareness
Spectrum-management regulation and policy making
Femto-cells
Standardizations such as IEEE 802.22, 802.19, 802.11n, 802.11p, etc
Sensor Networks, MANET, VANET and routing protocols

Submission

The authors are advised to submit their research paper following the Lecture Notes Style of Springer Proceedings (Please download it from HERE).
The papers should not exceed 10 pages. However, authors can add up to 2 extra pages with the appropriate fee payment. Papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The papers, in pdf format, should be submitted electronically through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=actics2018. If there is any problem during submission, please contact the workshop chairs. You can also send your paper directly to workshop organizers by email.

All accepted papers will be included in conference proccedings of Lecture Notes series published by Springer. Proceedings will be sent by Springer for indexing in EI and SCOPUS. Authors of accepted papers will be given instructions for submission of camera ready paper and copyright form. Presented papers at the main conference, IMIS-2018, will be considered for publication in some Special Issues in International Journals.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: March 30, 2018
Authors Notification: April 15, 2018
Author Registration: April 25, 2018
Final Manuscript: April 25, 2018
Conference Dates: July 4-6, 2018

Organizing Committee

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Bhed Bahadur Bista
Faculty of Software and Information Science
Iwate Prefectural University
020-0693, JAPAN
bbb[at]iwate-pu.ac.jp

Danda B. Rawat
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA
db.rawat[at]ieee.org

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Members:

   Shigetomo Kimura, University of Tsukuba, Japan
     Jiahong Wang, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Chotipat Pornavalai, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
    Gongjun Yan, University of Southern Indiana, USA
    Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University, USA
    Rajesh Kumar Sharma, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
    Samy El-Tawab, James Madison University, USA