Call for Papers



               2nd Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Trends
                            in Engineering Low-Power Networks
                            (NewNets - co-located with WoWMoM)



                                  June 15-18, 2020  -  Cork, Ireland

https://newnets2020.github.io/




AIMS AND SCOPE

A founding pillar of the IoT concept is the availability of low-cost
low-power devices with wireless technologies providing sensing,
communication, and actuation. In the past decade, the research community
have produced proven solutions to build low-power mesh networks.
Traditionally, the focus has been on short-range radio communication (e.g.,
ZigBee, Bluetooth, and ZWave.). An appealing alternative that have gained
momentum in the IoT landscape, is to equip the nodes with long-range low
power radio modules. As a result, long-range radio communication
technologies (e.g., SigFox, LoRa, NB-IoT, and 802.15.4g) are considered as
candidate technologies for many low-power wide area network (LPWAN)
applications, especially those that require extended coverage such as
citywide sensing,  environmental monitoring, or remote infrastructure
monitoring.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners
working in the field of IoT from both academia and industry, to discuss and
explore short- and long-range solutions, the tradeoffs between these two
paradigms, as well as how they can be used in synergy. In order to push the
state of the art, several points need to be addressed: new features for the
long-range technologies (i.e., over-the-air updates, roaming), radio
resource management, regulations and policies on spectrum usage and
sharing, business case analysis that are more well suited for certain
vertical markets.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- protocol design

- hardware platform design

- modeling and analysis of low-power short or/and long-range communication

- reliability, adaptability, and dependability of short and long-range
communication solutions

- new features for the long-range technologies (i.e., over-the-air updates,
roaming)

- wake-up radios for short- or/and long-range technologies

- radio resource management

- applications domains (e.g., smart cities, smart health, smart buildings,
smart transportation)

- deployment experiences, case studies, and lessons learned

- evaluation and testbeds

- regulations and policies on spectrum usage and sharing

- business case analysis that are more well suited for certain vertical
markets.


SUBMISSION AND FORMATTING

Submitted papers must contain between 4 and 6 single spaced U.S. letter
pages, including all figures, tables, and references. All submissions must
be written in English.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: March 15, 2020

Author notification: April 17, 2020

Camera ready deadline: April 30, 2020


ORGANIZERS

TPC Co-chairs

Oana Iova, INSA Lyon, France

Ramona Marfievici, Digital Catapult, UK

Usman Raza, Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK

TPC MEMBERS

Dominique Barthel, Orange Labs, France

Victor Cionca, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland

Alexandre Guitton, Université Clermont Auvergne, France

Timofei Istomin, University of Trento, Italy

Konstantin Mikhaylov, University of Oulu, Finland

Rajeev Pyiare, Amber Agriculture, USA

Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA

Ambuj Varshney, Uppsala University, Sweden

Matteo Zella, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Dimitrios Zorbas, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland
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