The 39th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2014)
The 39th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2014)
8-11 September, 2014
Chateau Lacombe Hotel, Edmonton, Canada
http://www.ieeelcn.org/prior/LCN39/index.html
Call for Papers
The IEEE LCN conference is the premier conference on the leading edge of theoretical and practical aspects of computer networking. LCN is a highly interactive conference that enables an effective interchange of results and ideas among researchers, users, and product developers. For the past 38 years, major developments from high-speed networks to the global Internet to specialized sensor networks have been reported at this conference.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Personal and wearable networks
- Wireless ad hoc, sensor & RFID networks
- Information-centric networking
- Embedded networks
- Opportunistic networking
- Delay-tolerant networks
- Cognitive radio networks
- Vehicular networks
- Underwater sensor networks
- Cyber-physical systems
- Social networks
- Mobile and ubiquitous networking
- Green networking
- Overlay and peer-to-peer networks
- Local-area and metropolitan-area networks
- Storage-area networks
- Routing and transport protocols
- Software Defined Networking
- Internet of Things
- Link technologies
- Adaptive networking applications
- Authentication, authorization, accounting
- Security and privacy
- Cross-layer optimization
- Mobility and Location-dependent services
- Multimedia and real-time communication
- Machine-to-machine communications for smart environments
- Smart cities
- Network traffic characterization and measurements
- Network management, reliability and QoS
- Performance evaluation of networks
- Testbeds for network experiments
- Network coding
- Optical and high-speed access networks
Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or a journal. Full papers (up to 8 camera-ready pages, 10 pt font in IEEE format) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the conference. Short papers are an opportunity to present preliminary or interim results and are limited to 4 camera-ready pages. Short papers will be presented in a poster session. Both full and short papers are published in the proceedings and IEEE Xplore. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page. IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference.
Paper submission
Papers must be registered on EDAS and submitted in PDF format. Detailed submission instructions are available at the conference website. Direct your questions to Program Chairs: Nils Aschenbruck aschenbruck@uni-osnabrueck.de and Salil Kanhere salilk@cse.unsw.edu.au
Important Dates
Paper Registration | March 1, 2014 |
Paper Submission | March 7, 2014 |
Notification | May 30, 2014 |
Final Paper | June 30, 2014 |
Demo proposals | June 11, 2014 |
Organizing Committee
General Chair
- Damla Turgut University of Central Florida, USA
Program Chair
- Nils Aschenbruck University of Osnabrück, Germany
Program Co-Chair
- Salil Kanhere University of New South Wales, Australia
Local Arrangements Chair
- Ehab Elmallah University of Alberta, Canada
Local Arrangements Co-Chair
- Janelle Harms University of Alberta, Canada
Finance Chair
- Frank Huebner AT&T, USA
Registration Chair
- Fadi Al-Turjman University of Guelph
Corporate Relations Chair
- Soumaya Cherkaoui Université Sherbrooke, Canada
Publications Chair
- Kemal Akkaya Southern Illinois University, USA
Workshops Chair
- Jens Tölle Fraunhofer-FKIE, Germany
Demonstrations Chair
- Karl Andersson Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Publicity Co-Chair USA
- Bogdan Carbunar Florida International University, USA
Publicity Co-Chair Europe
- Matthias Hollick Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Publicity Co-Chair Asia-Pacific
- Olivier Mehani, NICTA, Australia
Editorial Liaison
- Matthias Wählisch Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Student Grants Chair
- Katrin Reitsma Motorola Solutions, USA
Webmaster
- Gary Kessler Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., USA
Steering Committee
- Joe Bumblis, University of Wisconsin-Stout
- Chun Tung Chou, Univ. New South Wales
- Ken Christensen, University of South Florida
- Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta
- Matthias Frank, University of Bonn
- Hossam Hassanein, Queen’s University
- Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State University
- Gary Kessler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ.
- Tom Pfeifer, Technical University of Berlin
- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich + ETH
- Tim Strayer, BBN
- Mohamed Younis, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County