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Call for papers

IEEE Transaction on Network Science and Engineering, Special Issue on
"Advanced Networking Technologies in the Battle Against the Outbreak of
Epidemic Diseases".

Deadline: 1 August 2020
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At present, COVID-19 is a major global public health challenge. Worse, this
epidemic could last for 2 years, according to US experts. To address it,
scientific research institutions attempt to actively leveraged networking
technologies to fight the epidemic disease, which have effectively improved
the efficiency of epidemic monitoring, virus tracking, prevention, control
and treatment, and resource allocation. For example, in order to make full
use of the resources of medical experts, the remote consultation system,
supporting live-streaming video and telemedicine by 5G, cloud computing,
blockchain and other networking-related technologies, has been quickly
implemented in many hospitals all over the word.

Although networking technologies have played an important role in the
epidemic prevention and control, new challenges arise when billions of
people around the world have been ordered to stay at home to help curb the
epidemic disease. As the virus spread, the networking demand for HD video
conferencing and online teaching has skyrocketed. Moreover, many streaming
services — like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and YouTube, have reduced the
quality of their streams to reduce strain on the Internet. Therefore, more
advanced networking technologies should be deeply investigated and
implemented to help us with fighting COVID-19.

This special issue aims to explore recent advances and disseminate
state-of-the-art research on advanced networking technologies for epidemic
monitoring, virus tracking, prevention, control and treatment, and resource
allocation. The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are
not limited to:

   - Advanced networking technologies in public health management
   - Advanced networking technologies for telemedicine, remote diagnosis
   and treatment
   - Cloud-based/Edge-based networking services for online working and
   learning
   - Stable heterogeneous networking access for medical information
   transmission
   - Edge/mobile computing for detecting and tracking infections
   - Mobility-aware networking services and applications for epidemic
   monitoring, prevention and control
   - Crowdsourcing-based approaches for virus testing and research
   - Soft caching, proactive caching and other approaches for
   content-orient networking services
   - Privacy and security of the medical information transmission

The papers for rigorous and well-coordinated peer-review process will be
collected through the Manuscript Central System
<https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnse-cs> for *IEEE Transactions on
Network Science and Engineering*.

*Submission Guidelines*

Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically,
adhering to the *IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering*
guidelines
<https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse/ieee-transactions-network-science-and-engineering-information>.
Note that the page limit is the same as that of regular papers. Please
submit your papers through the online system
<https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnse-cs> and be sure to select the
special issue or special section name. Manuscripts should not be published
or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full
papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the ScholarOne portal. If
requested, abstracts should be sent by e-mail to the Guest Editors directly.

*Important Dates*

*Manuscripts Due:* 1 August 2020
*Peer Reviews to Authors: *1 November 2020
*Revised Manuscripts Due: *1 January 2021
*Second-round Reviews to Authors: *1 March 2021
*Final Accepted Manuscript Due: *1 April 2021

*Guest Editors*

*Yin Zhang* (Lead)
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

*Ala Al-Fuqaha*
Western Michigan University, USA

*Giancarlo Fortino*
The University of Calabria, Italy

*Limei Peng*
Kyungpook National University, South Korea

*Iztok Humar*
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

*Hua Wang*
Victoria University, Australia
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