Workshops
Workshops with the latest research. Results on a specific topic are also welcome.
The proposals should be first submitted to the corresponding chairs for review.
Workshop 1: Smart Industrial Networking in B5G/6G (WSIN-B5G 2022)
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will play a core role in the future Industry 4.0. It calls for
increased density of interconnections, enhanced support to mobility, and decentralized
decision-making mechanisms. To fulfill these requirements, industrial wireless network (IWN)
has been widely considered as the most promising solution. Latest advances in IWN
applications are raising new requirements, such as extremely high reliability with low latency,
accurate positioning, higher-than-ever connection density, pervasive connectivity over wide
areas, and well-protected data privacy. Such requirements are challenging the capabilities of
mainstream wireless networking solutions, and calling for smart networking solutions based on
B5G/6G technologies.
The Workshop on Smart Industrial Networking in B5G/6G will be held at the International
Teletraffic Congress 34 (ITC 34). This workshop is to provide a forum where researchers can
meet and find synergy, leading to discovering best practices for a future smart IWN. Due to the
global COVID-19 pandemic and the current situation in China, the workshop will be held in a
hybrid mode, allowing attendance in either physical presence or online.
We seek to assemble cross-cutting and high-quality original research papers on topics
including, but not limited to:
- Wireless industrial communications
- Industrial IoT and IoE
- B5G/6G industrial campus networks
- AI, machine/deep learning, and federated learning for IWN
- Localization and positioning in IWN
- Communication-computation-control codesign in IWN
- Cyber-physical systems and digital twins in IWN
- Communication and networking for industrial UAV and AGV
- xURLLC and mMTC for B5G/6G IWN
- Transmission protocols and network management for IWN
- Security and privacy issues for IWN
Workshop Chairs
- Bin Han (Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
- Wei Jiang (German Research Center of Artificial Intelligence, Germany)
- Elena Lopez-Aguilera (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
- Anke Schmeink (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
- Guolin Sun (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Paper Submission
All papers should follow the ITC 34 submission guidelines and be submitted through EDAS.
There will be a regular review process with at least 3 independent reviewers for each paper.
Accepted papers can be downloaded from the open ITC digital library. In addition, ITC makes
the effort to index accepted papers in public A&I databases. By getting sponsorship of technical
communities like IEEE and ACM, as well as sticking to corresponding rules with respect to
technical quality, papers of previous ITC editions were included in the corresponding databases
IEEE Xplore and ACM DL.
Important Dates
- Paper Submission Deadline: 20. July 2022
- Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 10 August 2022
- Camera Ready Workshop Papers Due: 20 August 2022
- Workshop Date: 14. September 2022 (half-day)
Workshop 2: The International Workshop of Satellite Based IoT Networks for Emerging Applications
The existing terrestrial communication systems cannot meet the communication requirements of vertical industries. For example, the large-scale distributed access demand from smart grid cannot be fully satisfied by existing terrestrial communication systems, especially in remote areas. The terrestrial communication systems are vulnerable in cases of natural disasters, without the ability of providing a reliable emergency communication service.
Satellite communication makes up for the shortcomings of terrestrial systems with its wide coverage, support for broadcasting and resilience. Satellite communication can provide the reliable communication service in remote areas without the ground communication coverage and is cost-effective compared with 5G.
There are still many challenges for the satellite-based IoT networks, including the heterogonous user requirements and the technical compatibility between satellite and terrestrial communication systems. As one of the key enablers of 5G, network slicing is proposed as the potential solution for these challenges, which is an effective way to provide virtual private networks by using shared physical network resources to provide logically isolated network transmission tunnels to ensure end-to-end QoS requirements, bandwidth, and delay.
This workshop discusses the research with the aim to meet various communication demands from vertical industries and invites the papers with latest progresses and results in satellite-based IoT networks for emerging applications, in both theories and applications.
Selected papers would be further recommended to a special issue of the following journals:
- Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220, SCIE-indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Satellite_IOT
Topics of Interests are:
- Key Technologies in Satellite Based IoT Networks
- Integration of Satellite and Terrestrial Networks, e.g., 4G and 5G
- Network Virtualization and Orchestration
- Network Slicing and Optimization
- Satellite/Terrestrial Network Resource Allocation
- Satellite Tracking, Telemetry, and Command System
- Multi-path Routing and Scheduling
- Queueing Theory-based Network Modeling
- Artificial Intelligence-driven Network Management and Reconfiguration
- Applications of Satellite Based IoT Networks for Emerging Applications
- Communication Infrastructure for Smart Grid, Smart Mines, Smart Ports and Other Vertical Domains
- Mobile Traffic Data Analysis, Classification, and Prediction
- Network Security Techniques
- Network Simulation Frameworks and Tools
Organizer
Weiwei Jiang received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. He is an Assistant Professor with the School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. His current research interests include network slicing and satellite-terrestrial integrated networks for smart grid communication. Email: jww@bupt.edu.cn
Yafeng Zhan received the B.S.E.E. and Ph.D.E.E. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He is a Professor with the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. His research interests include communication signal processing, deep-space communications and satellite TT&C. He serves as an Editor of CHINESE SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. Email: zhanyf@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Zhiyong Feng received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. She is currently a Professor with BUPT and the Director of the Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications, Ministry of Education, China. Her main research interests include the wireless network virtualization in fifth generation mobile networks (5G), spectrum sensing and dynamic spectrum management in cognitive wireless networks, universal signal detection and identification, network information theory, and so on. Email: fengzy@bupt.edu.cn
