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COVID-19 Update / Hybrid Conference Format:
Due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting travel restrictions, the conference will be in the form of a hybrid conference with some authors and participants attending the conference in person, and others attending remotely. The technical program will include physical sessions with on-site presentations and virtual (on-line) sessions for remote participants.

Conference Proceedings and Journal Special Issue

Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE LATINCOM 2021 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Authors of selected papers from LATINCOM 2021 will be invited to submit an extended version for possible publication in special issues of the following journals:

• International Journal of Network Management
• Journal of Communication and Information Systems

Call for Papers

The LATINCOM 2021 Organizing Committee is inviting submissions of original, unpublished, high-quality research papers focused on (but not limited to) the following topics of interest:

Mobile and Wireless Networking

• Cellular systems, 4G/5G/B5G/6G
• Cognitive radio networks
• Device-to-device/machine-to-machine communications
• Green wireless networks
• Large-scale LEO satellite networking
• Opportunistic wireless networks
• Pervasive and wearable computing and networking
• Reconfigurable wireless networks
• Software-defined wireless networks
• Underwater wireless networks
• Vehicular networks
• UAV
• Wireless network virtualization
• Wireless multimedia networks
• WLAN, WPAN, and other home/personal networking technologies
• Wireless networking techniques based on AI

Communication Services, Software and Multimedia Applications

• Cooperative networking for streaming media content
• E-health, E-governance, E-agriculture, etc.
• High quality service provisioning for multimedia applications
• Location-based services
• ML techniques for video delivery and service
• ML techniques for multimedia content analysis
• Multimedia cloud, streaming, multicast and broadcast services
• Multimedia fog/edge computing and communication
• QoE and QoS
• Quality-oriented routing algorithms
• Real time communication services
• Service orchestration and management
• Service security and privacy
• Triple and quadruple play services

Communication QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling

• Networks and communication systems modelling
• Networks and communications performance evaluation
• Reliability of systems and networks
• Traffic measurement, modelling, visualization, and engineering
• Security and trust in network design
• Integration aspects in IoT and Big Data systems
• Design of cloud, edge and other distributed computing networks
• QoS and network efficiency

Optical Networks

• AI and ML for optical systems and networks
• Big data driven optical networking
• Data analytics for optical networks
• Elastic, flexible rate and flexi-grid optical networks
• Free-space optical networks
• Optical network control and management
• Optical network survivability and availability
• Optical vehicular networks
• Optical and wireless convergence
• Routing and spectrum assignment for optical networks
• Software defined optical networks
• Ultraviolet communications and networks
• Underwater optical communications
• Virtualization and slicing in optical networks
• Visible light communications

Communications Theory & Signal Processing

• Communication theory of ad-hoc and sensor networks
• Communication theory of distributed and edge computing
• Communication theory of networks and cross-layer design
• Multi-antenna, multi-user and multi-node systems
• Radio communications
• Satellite & space communications
• Signal processing techniques in 5G/B5G/6G
• Signal processing for QoS and QoE based applications
• Signal processing for smart grid and green communications
• Signal processing for sensor networks and IoT
• Signal processing for software defined and cognitive radio
• Signal processing for power line communications
• Signal processing for millimeter and tera-Hz communication
• Theoretical aspects of blockchain and ML in networks

Next-generation Networking and Internet

• 5G/B5G/6G architecture
• Blockchain in next generation communications and networks
• Content-centric networking
• Centralized-RAN and Cloud-RAN architectures
• Future Internet and next-generation networking architectures
• High speed architectures for next generation routers/switches
• Management of service-oriented control plane in 5G/B5G
• Network functions virtualization
• Next-generation access networks
• Next-generation anomaly-intrusion-attack detection/prevention
• Next-generation flow management
• Next-generation IP multimedia subsystem
• Next-generation network management and control
• Parallel architectures for next generation routers/switches
• Software-defined networking

AI, Big Data and ML for Networking 

• AI and ML for 5G/B5G/6G and network slicing
• AI and ML for virtualized and software-defined networks
• AI, neural networks, and deep learning for network management
• Big data for smart cities and smart homes
• Big data for cloud computing and networking
• Big data for communications and networking
• Big data for smart grids
• Big data with IoT and cyber-physical systems
• Cloud and network data analytics, modelling and visualization
• Cooperative learning for software-defined and virtualized networks
• Data analytics for QoS and traffic classification
• Data analytics for faults and root-cause analysis
• Data-driven management of virtualized infrastructure
• Data-driven management of IoT and cyber-physical systems
• Data-driven management of SDN and data centers
• ML based distributed training and learning over-the-air
• Operational analytics and intelligence
• Predictive analytics and real-time analytics

Selected Areas in Communications

• Blockchain in communications and networks
• Cloud, fog and edge computing
• Internet-of-Things
• Smart cities and urban computing
• Smart grid communications
• Social networks, crowdsourcing, and crowdsensing
• Tactile Internet

Submission Format

Paper must be written in English, unpublished and not being considered in other conferences or journals. Full papers must be formatted as the standard IEEE double-column conference template and submitted in PDF on JEM (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/latincom2021). Maximum 6 pages are allowed for each paper, including all illustrations and references. 

Call for Tutorials

The LATINCOM 2021 Organizing Committee is also inviting submissions of tutorials in the areas mentioned above. A tutorial proposal must be submitted in PDF format, containing the following information:

• Title of the tutorial
• Abstract, objectives and motivation
• Timeliness and intended audience
• Name, affiliation, and a short biography of each tutorial speaker
• A description of the technical issues that the tutorial will address, emphasizing its timeliness
• An outline of the tutorial content, including its tentative schedule. Please take under consideration the virtual manner of the conference when laying out the schedule
• If appropriate, a description of the past/relevant experience of the speaker on the topic of the tutorial.
• A description of previous tutorial experience of the speaker(s), and past versions of the tutorial

Tutorial proposals must also be submitted online via JEMS on the following link: https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/latincom2021.

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: September 12, 2021
• Submission of tutorial proposals: September 12, 2021
• Notification of acceptance: October 18, 2021
• Camera-ready papers: October 30, 2021
• Conference dates: November 17-19, 2021

Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs

• Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italia
• Manuel Mendoza, Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), Dominican Republic

Technical Program Chairs

• Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, United States of America
• Keije Lu, University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico

Publications Chair

• Ramiro Velázquez, Panamericana University, México

Keynote and Tutorials Chair

• Marco To De León, Universidad Galileo, Guatemala
• Oscar Caicedo, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia

Publicity Chair

• Abigail C Teron, IEEE Puerto Rico and Caribbean Section

Finance Chair

• Luis Tatis, IEEE Puerto Rico and Caribbean Section

Web Chairs

• Abigail C Teron, IEEE Puerto Rico and Caribbean Section
• Hector Colón, IEEE Puerto Rico and Caribbean Section

Student Travel Grant Chair

• Hugo López, IEEE Dominican Republic Subsection

Steering Committee

• Stefano Bregni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Chair
• Nelson Fonseca, Univ. of Campinas, Brazil, Past Chair
• Carlos Lozano Garzon, Univ. de los Andes, Colombia
• Jose-David Cely, Univ. Distrital F. J. de Caldas, Colombia
• Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil
• Carlos A. Gutierrez, Univ. Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico
• Marco To De Leon, Univ. Galileo, Guatemala
• Nury Gabriela Ramirez Cely, Continental Automotive, Mexico
• Pedro Aguilera, Univ. of Chile, past MaL
• Fabrizio Granelli, Univ. of Trento, Italy, past MaL

IEEE Communications Society

• Tina Gaerlan, Senior Conference Planner
• Bruce Worthman, Treasurer