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Call for Papers
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IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Software Defined and Context Aware Cognitive Networks 2015 (IEEE SCAN 2015)
in Conjunction with IEEE ICC 2015, 8-12 June 2015, London, UK.

URL: https://sites.google.com/site/ieeescan2015
Paper submission: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18677&track=66293


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Overview:
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Future generation wireless systems will require a paradigm shift in how they are networked, organized, configured, optimized, and recovered automatically based on their operating situation. With the emergence of Software Defined Networks (SDN), context awareness and dynamic adaptive services and application are gaining much attention since they allow automatic configuration of devices and their parameters, systems, services, and applications to user's context change. In addition, context awareness, with the help of software defined and cognitive systems, allows customization of operating parameters of devices, users, applications, and networks based on the current context.

The IEEE SCAN-2015 will serve as a forum for researchers from academia, government and industries to exchange ideas, present new results and provide future visions on these topics. Original technical papers on the advances in Software Defined and Context Aware Cognitive Networks as well as those that describe practical deployment and implementation experiences are solicited for presentation and publication.

Topics of interest include but not limited to:

- Fundamental limits for autonomic and opportunistic communications
- Co-existence of opportunistic communication networks
- Network virtualization and software defined networks
- Cognitive and context aware cyber physical systems
- Cognitive radio wireless sensor networks
- Cognitive radio vehicular ad hoc networks
- Reliability, efficiency and routing issues of context-aware systems
- Opportunistic spectrum access in mobile and vehicular networks
- Data dissemination techniques in context-aware systems
- Context aware mechanisms and algorithms
- Cognition-driven information processing and decision making
- Trust, security, privacy, and reputation
- Socioeconomic models for autonomic and opportunistic communications
- Cognitive communication and networking
- Context based content delivery and adaptive schemes
- Self-organization, Self-configuration, Self-optimization and Self recovery
- Software defined systems scalability and optimization
- Software defined systems challenges and opportunities
- Biological-inspired networking
- Parameter estimation for adaptation of wireless communication systems
- Network economics and game theory
- Interference mitigation and awareness
- OpenFlow Networks


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Important Dates
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- Paper submission deadline: 8 January 2015
- Paper acceptance notification: 14 February 2015
- Camera ready:28 February, 2015



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Submission Instructions
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The manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and should not exceed 6 page limit. Authors should submit their papers online using http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18677&track=66293. Each paper will receive at least three independent reviews.

All workshops accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings
will be submitted to
IEEE Xplore Digital Library.


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General Chairs
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- Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
- Danda B. Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA.