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_*Call for Papers
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*Future Generation Computer Systems*_*(IF=4.639)*_*- Special Issue on 
“Information-Centric Network enabler Communication for of Things”*

_*Link:*_ 
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-for-papers/information-centric-network-enabler-communication

_*Important Dates:*_

• Submission deadline: October 01, 2019
• First round notification: December 15, 2019
• Second round due: February 15, 2020
• Final notification: March 15, 2020
• Final Manuscript: April 15, 2020

_*Scope:*_

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has been proposed as an alternative 
paradigm for future Internet and promising to replace the current 
host-centric model. The communication in ICN is mainly based on the 
content name instead of using host addresses. Hence, the content is 
decoupled from its original location and may be cached in the network 
infrastructure. Also, the use of content-based security makes ICN a 
strong candidate for the future Internet, to fulfill user requirements, 
improve the content distribution, and the overall network performance. 
Under the concept of ICN, various architectures have been implemented 
such as Content-Centric Networking (CCN) and Named Data Networking 
(NDN). On the other hand, the Internet of Things (IoT) technology is 
being widely applied to diverse domain-applications including smart 
cities, smart homes, smart healthcare, smart grids, and smart 
transportation. Things in the IoT ecosystem can collect data, 
interconnect between each other and the Internet, processing and taking 
decisions without human interaction. IoT communications and applications 
are, in nature, information-based and follow content-oriented paradigm. 
Hence, ICN may show promising performance on IoT, and help to overcome 
different IoT challenges and application requirement including 
addressing, heterogeneity, mobility, security, and scalability.

Potential topics include but not limited to the following:

• Advances architecture and application design for ICN-IoT.
• Standardized and unified content naming schemes.
• Energy and resource efficiency forwarding scheme.
• Distributed in-network caching placement strategies.
• Efficient cache replacement policies.
• Forwarding/caching in resource-constrained IoT devices.
• Secure pub-sub communication among IoT applications.
• Novel QoS provisioning for CCN/NDN architecture.
• Privacy, security, and trust for IoT applications.
• Resource constraints access control policies for IoT.
• Enable ICN communication for 5G-IoT networks.
• Lightweight cryptography algorithms for ICN-IoT networks.
• Experimental prototypes and test-bed for CCN/NDN in IoT.
• Analysis and evaluation of running CCN/NDN in large scale IoT networks.
• Business models of applying ICN in real IoT environment.

_*Submission Guidelines:*_

All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted 
through Elsevier Editorial System (EVISE), available 
https://www.evise.com/evise/jrnl/FGCS.
The authors must select "VSI" when they reach the "Article Type" step in 
the submission process.
Please submit your manuscript before October 01, 2019.

_*Guest Editors:*_

• Boubakr Nour: Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
• Hassine Moungla: University of Paris Descartes, Paris, France
• Ammar Rayes: Cisco Systems, CA, USA
Dr. Hassine Moungla,
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