CALL FOR PAPERS

11th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness

QSHINE 2015

19-20 August, 2015

Taipei, Taiwan

Scope

Computer networking has been embracing increased heterogeneity since its inception, in terms of the range of the applications it has to support, the various communication technologies it can run on, and the hierarchical, hybrid and heterogeneous techniques it has to rely on to meet the challenges from both the diverse application requirements and communication technologies.

The only conference focusing on heterogeneous networking, QShine has been established as the primary venue for researchers and practitioners to disseminate, exchange and discuss all recent advances related to heterogeneous networking, particularly for quality, experience, reliability, security and robustness. The 2015 edition of Qshine will focus on Innovative and Intelligent Infrastructure Networks.

As a conference series held in three major continents so far, QShine-2015 comes to the The City of Azaleas, Taipei.

Highlights

The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT.

Qshine 2015 will take place at Howard International House.

Selected papers, particularly those nominated for the Best Paper competition, will be automatically considered for publication will be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications and in the special issues of:

• Springer Mobile Networks and Applications Journal (MONET), SCIE-indexed
• Journal of Internet Technology (JIT), SCIE-indexed
• Journal of Computers (JoC) EI-indexed

Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:

• Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning: architectures, protocols, mechanisms, etc
• Quality of Experience (QoE): user-perceived quality, cost-sensitive experience, etc
• Reliability and Scalability: performance, adaptation, cognition, extensibility, etc
• Security and Privacy: system/network security, user privacy/accountability, etc
• Robustness: fault/disruption/disaster-tolerance, resilience, survivability, etc
• Cross-Layer Design, Optimization and Implementation: spectrum/energy efficiency
• Social and Economic Perspectives: incentive, pricing, billing, governance, etc
• New Applications and Communication Technologies: cloud, smart grid, SDN, etc

Publication

Papers will be judged on originality, correctness, clarity and relevance. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal.

All presented papers in the conference will be published in the proceedings of the conference. We reserve the right to exclude papers accepted but not presented from the conference proceedings submitted for archiving and indexing.

Workshop proposals

The QShine 2015 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference, in Taipei, Taiwan, September 2015.

The aim of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related to algorithms, architectures, protocols, models for computer networks. We solicit proposals from researchers and practitioners from all areas related to heterogeneous wired, wireless and hybrid networks varying from sensor, vehicle, cellular, ad hoc, enterprise, datacenter, to service‐provider networks, ranging from in/on‐body, personal/local/metropolitan/wide‐area, to intra/inter‐planetary scales.

Name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address of the proposer(s) Proposals for workshops should be at most four pages in length and must be submitted to Dr. Chia-Han Lee and Dr. Matthieu Bloch.

A workshop proposal should contain:

• Title of the workshop
• A brief description of the specific technical issues that the workshop will address
• The reasons why the workshop is interesting and timely
• A draft call for papers, including the workshop submission deadlines
• Tentative composition of the organizing and program committees

Important dates

Full Paper Due::                                              15 February, 2015

Acceptance Notification:                                      27 June, 2015

Camera-ready Due:                                                  14 July, 2015

Please visit the conference website for detailed submission instructions.

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Kwang-Cheng Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Organizing Committee

Honorary Chairs

Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao Tung University

Yen-Kuang Kuo, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan

General Co-Chairs

Der-Jiunn Deng, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan

Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China

TPC co-chairs

Chih-Cheng Tseng, National Ilan University,Taiwan

Chun-Cheng Lin, National Chiao Tung University

Workshops Co-Chairs

Tony Quek, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Chia-Han Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Publicity Chair

Jong-Hyouk Lee, Sangmyung University, Korea

Alexey Vinel, Halmstad University, Sweden

Local Arrangement Chair

Shih-Ming Cheng, Nation Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Publication Chair

Rung-Shiang Cheng, Kun Shan University, Taiwan

Web Chair

Chien-Liang Chen, Aletheia University, Taiwan

Steering Committee

Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net and University of Trento, Italy

Sherman Xuemin Shen, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada

Xi Zhang, Electrical and Computer Engineering,Texas A&M University, USA