1st International Workshop on

Smart Computing for Smart Cities (SC2)

1st International Workshop on

Smart Computing for Smart Cities (SC2)

in conjunction with

21st IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks

(IEEE WoWMoM 2020)

June 15 - 18 Aug. 31 - Sept 03, 2020,

Cork, Ireland (Virtual)

http://www.cs.ucc.ie/wowmom2020/

Smart computing has a big role to play in the development of the smart cities. The advanced networking paradigms such as programmable and virtual networks, growth in communication technologies like 5G, and use of advanced computing infrastructure such as fog/edge/cloud computing can all contribute in the applications related to smart cities. With the penetration of Internet of things (IoT) devices in smart city applications, smart computing has become all the more relevant in terms of managing and processing the data. The applications in smart cities can be computing-intensive, network-intensive, disk-intensive, data-intensive etc. which requires different solution sets in order to effectively solve the issues pertaining to these applications. The computing and communication aspects in smart computing are of great relevance in the wider domain of smart cities which consists of smart metering, smart homes, smart building, smart industries, connected vehicles, and tackles various problems ranging from data reporting to providing smart services.


Hence, the aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in the broad area of smart cities using smart computing. The focus of the workshop will be on theoratical and experimental components of communication, networking and system-oriented techniques that tackle challenges in smart cities using smart computing. Therefore, in this workshop, the researchers working on emerging problems on different sectors of the smart cities can share their latest results, gather new problems from communication, networking and data analytics perspectives.

The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 21st International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM) - Core Rank A - during 31 Aug - 03 Sept, 2020 in Cork, Ireland. All accepted workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (IEEE Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM.

Topics of Interest

Previously unpublished contributions in smart computing methodologies derived by experimental and theoretical communication, networking and data analytics techniques for the Smart Cities are solicited including (but not limited to):


  • Data analytics in smart cities
  • Resource management using smart computing for smart cities
  • Network management in smart cities
  • Novel communication architectures for smart city applications
  • Increasing resilience and scalability in smart city-based computing paradigms
  • Analytical applications for improving security in smart cities
  • Improving quality of service in smart cities using smart computing
  • Self-healing and optimization techniques for the communication infrastructure for ensuring sustainability in smart cities
  • Prototypes and testbeds implementing smart computing to test various solutions in smart cities
  • Smart fog/edge/cloud-based service solutions for Internet of things in smart cities
  • Network load management in smart cities
  • Machine learning for smart computing
  • Analysis of computation requirements for smart city-based applications
  • Trust management between various devices in smart computing
  • Data processing in smart computing for automation of applications in smart cities

Organizing Committee

Workshop Chairs:

  1. Dr. Anish Jindal, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), University of Essex, UK. (Email: anishjindal90@gmail.com, a.jindal@essex.ac.uk)
  2. Dr. Angelos K. Marnerides, School of Computing & Communications, Lancaster University, UK. (Email: angelos.marnerides@lancaster.ac.uk)
  3. Dr. Petros Spachos, School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Canada. (Email: petros@uoguelph.ca)
  4. Dr. Amit Dvir, Ariel Cyber Innovation Center, Ariel University, Israel. (Email: amitdv@g.ariel.ac.il)

Publicity Chair:

Steering Committee

  1. Prof. David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK.
  2. Prof. Andreas Mauthe, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
  3. Prof. Michael Segal, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Paper Submission

Submission link: https://edas.info/N27032. (closed now)

All submissions are required to comply with IEEE WoWMoM guidelines. Initial submissions for review are limited to seven (7) pages formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 10 point or greater. Camera-ready papers should not exceed six (6) pages including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with over length page charge). Each accepted paper must be presented at the workshop by one of the co-authors.

For further submission guideline: see WoWMoM webpage at http://www.cs.ucc.ie/wowmom2020/

Extended papers accepted in the workshop could be published in Computers (MDPI) free of charge.

Important Dates

      • Papers Submission Deadline: March 15, 2020 March 29, 2020 April 30, 2020 (extended deadline)
      • Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2020
      • Deadline for Author Registration: April 30, 2020
      • Deadline for Camera-ready Papers: April 30, 2020
      • Workshop date: June 15, 2020 August 31, 2020


Technical Program

IEEE WoWMoM SC2 - Monday 31st August 2020

09:30 - 10:30 am* Session - 1:

Session Chair: Dr. Anish Jindal (University of Essex, UK)

Welcome by the workshop chairs

Paper 1: Topology Awareness for Smart 5G eMBB Network Slicing VNF Placement, Authors: Ignacio Sanchez-Navarro; Jose Maria Alcaraz Calero; Qi Wang, Presenter: Ignacio Sanchez-Navarro (University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom)

Paper 2: A Node Probability-based Reinforcement Learning Framework for Virtual Network Embedding, Authors: Peiying Zhang; Chao Wang; Gagangeet Singh Aujla; Xue Pang, Presenter: Chao Wang (China University of Petroleum (East China))

10:30 - 11:00 am Virtual Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 pm Session - 2:

Session Chair: TBA

Paper 3: Towards the Mobility Issues of 5G-NOMA Through User Dissociation and Re-association Control, Authors: Muhammad Kamran Naeem; Raouf Abozariba; Md Asaduzzaman; Mohammad N Patwary, Presenter: Muhammad Kamran Naeem (Solent University, United Kingdom)

Paper 4: A Novel and Secure Service Function Chains Embedding Framework for NFV-Enabled Networks, Authors: Haotong Cao; Yue Hu; Shengchen Wu; Longxiang Yang, Presenter: Haotong Cao (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Concluding remarks


*All times are local to the conference location.

Announcements

Presentation instructions: Pre-recorded presentations must be uploaded to the IEEE Computer Society FTP server NOT later than 28th August 2020, 1:00 PM (GMT+1). More information can be found on http://www.cs.ucc.ie/wowmom2020/authors_instructions/.

Congratulations to the authors of accepted papers. The registration should be done by June 30th and CRC should be uploaded through IEEE PDF Express by June 26th by following the instruction given here: http://www.cs.ucc.ie/wowmom2020/authors_instructions/

Due to Covid-19, the deadline for paper submission are further postponed. The conference will now take place between Aug. 31 to Sept. 03 and worrkshop paper submission deadline is April 30, 2020. For further updates, please check the main conference website http://www.cs.ucc.ie/wowmom2020/

Collaboration with "Computers" journal (MDPI): The extended workshops papers can be submitted to a special issue in the journal "Computers" from MDPI which is an open access journal (indexed by Scopus (Elsevier, 2018 CiteScore: 1.59), ESCI(Web of Science), INSPEC and DBLP). All the accepted papers will be published "free of charge" (no article processing charges required).

Non-workshop papers are also welcome for this special issue!!