ISSN: 2308-4413
ISBN: 978-1-61208-625-5

• Registered: with the Library of Congress of the United States of America (ISSN)
• Free Access: in ThinkMind Digital Library

ICN 2018 is colocated with the following events as part of NexComm 2018 Congress:

• ICDT 2018, The Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Telecommunications
• SPACOMM 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Advances in Satellite and Space Communications
• ICN 2018, The Seventeenth International Conference on Networks
• SOFTNETWORKING 2018, The International Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization
• ICONS 2018, The Thirteenth International Conference on Systems
• MMEDIA 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Advances in Multimedia
• PESARO 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Performance, Safety and Robustness in Complex Systems and Applications
• CTRQ 2018, The Eleventh International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service
• COCORA 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Advances in Cognitive Radio
• ALLDATA 2018, The Fourth International Conference on Big Data, Small Data, Linked Data and Open Data
• KESA 2018, The International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Semantic Annotation
• SOFTENG 2018, The Fourth International Conference on Advances and Trends in Software Engineering

ICN 2018 conference tracks:

Communication
Communication theory; Communications switching and routing; Communications modeling; Communications security; Computer communications; Distributed communications; Signal processing in communications; Multimedia and multicast communications; Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, sensor networks); Vehicular communications

New Internet technologies
SDN, SDX, NFV; 4G/5G and advanced mobile Internet;  Internet of X (everything, things, people, etc.); Internet, Virtualization and Cloud; Internet and Big Data;  Sensing and sensor networks;  Energy-aware networks; Content-oriented networking; Cellular cognitive networks; Future routing mechanisms

Networking
Next generation networks [NGN] principles; Storage area networks [SAN]; Access and home networks; High-speed networks; Optical networks;  Peer-to-peer and overlay networking; Mobile networking and systems; MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks; Vehicular Networks; GRID networks, Cloud and Visualization;  Broadband networks; Small cell networks; Sensing and sensor networks

Computation and networking
Cloud computing; Fog computing; Internet computing; Mobile computing; Ubiquitous computing; Real-time computing; Big data-based computing;  Services computing and opportunistic computing; High Performance Computing (HPC); Fast data processing;  Fast switching and routing protocols; Parallelization of algorithms and applications; Energy-efficient High Performance Computing

Networking metrics
Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA]; Reliability, availability, serviceabiliy [RAS]; Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring; Voice over IP services; Performance evaluation, tools, simulation; Network, control and service architectures; Network signalling, pricing and billing; Network middleware; Telecommunication networks architectures; On-demand networks, utility computing architectures; Applications and case studies

Next generation networks (NGN) and network management
NGN protocol design and evaluation NGN Standard Activities [ITU, TMF, 3/4/5GPP, IETF, etc.]; NGN Device Instrumentation; Network Management, scheduling and policy; NGN policy-based control; Networks policy-based management; Management of autonomic networks and systems; Delay tolerant networks; Mobility management

Deadlines:

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).