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                CALL FOR PAPERS
  Workshop on Communications for Networked Smart Cities
in Conjunction with 13th IEEE International Symposium for Wireless
Communications (ISWCS), September 20-23, 2016
                  Poznan, Poland
           http://iswcs2016.org
---- Paper Submission Deadline --- June 17th, 2016 ----

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Overview:
By 2050, urban population internationally will have increased by 2.8
billion people. Moreover, at the current rate of carbon emissions, global
temperatures will have risen by 2o C from pre-industrial levels. Therefore,
there is an urgent need to plan the cities of the future for
sustainability. As a major agent for promoting a quality of life compatible
with a resource efficient economy, the smart city
phenomenon has recently
captured the imagination of the academia and the industry alike. Since the
Internet of things (IoT) is expected to be a primary driving force for
future cities, advanced communication techniques will play a pivotal role
in facilitating real-time data acquisition and utilization from distributed
sensors. However, future cities will also have to operate within the
constraints of the national economy and available power resources.
Consequently, the challenges in the realization of smart cities are many
and varied, such as low energy consumption requirement, constrained
bandwidth and budgetary limitations. In order to overcome these hurdles, it
is essential that new concepts and theories for optimizing the network in
energy, spectral and monetary terms are presented to achieve a robust
environment monitoring and sustainable transportation network, among other
provisions. This workshop is aimed at
furthering this effort by forging
collaborations through the presentation of state-of-the-art research
endeavors by scholars from across the globe. The participants will have the
opportunity to share their findings with the academic community at large as
well as to form collaborations to jointly investigate new aspects of smart
cities. The topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to,


   - Enabling smart city verticals via 5G
   - IoT and autonomous systems
   - Smart network densification
   - Big data and cloud computing in smart cities
   - CR inspired radio solution for smart cities
   - Energy harvesting technologies
   - Communication and control for smart grid
   - Novel network architecture design
   - Cooperative communications
   - Energy-efficiency and spectral-efficiency
   - Machine-to-machine communications
   - Safety, security, and privacy
   - Green
communications and computing
   - Resource-efficient cross-layer optimization
   - mmWave and Massive MIMO Design
   - Antennas design and channel modeling
   - Interference management in smart networks
   - Smart transportation systems and infrastructure
   - Applications, deployments, test-beds and experimental experience for
   communications in smart cities


Important Dates:

Submission: June 17, 2016
Acceptance notification: July 8, 2016
Camera-ready paper submissions: August 1, 2016

Submission Guidelines:
Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers up to 5
pages of length, using the EDAS link
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=22607&track=80986  . All submitted papers
have to follow the IEEE conference paper template that can be downloaded
from (
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
)

Symposium Chairs:
Syed Ali Hassan, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
Nalin Jayakody, University of Tartu, Estonia
Syed Ali Raza Zaidi, University of Leeds, UK
Ali Sadri, Intel Corp., USA



Thanks,

-- 
Syed Ali Hassan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
National University of Sciences and Technology
Islamabad, 44000.

Phone: +92 51 9085 2125
Lab URL: http://ipt.seecs.nust.edu.pk


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