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Special Issue on Selected Papers from ICUFN 2021

The 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN 2021) will be held on Jeju Island, Korea during 17-20 August 2021, and be hosted online simultaneously. The ICUFN 2021 aims at addressing advances in research on ubiquitous and future networks, covering topics ranging from technology issues to emerging applications and test-bed developments. The following topics are included, but not limited to:

●  Mobile Communication

•           Wireless and Communication Network

•           Cognitive Radio Network

•           6G, 5G, PS-LTE, LTE-R, LTE-Advanced,

•           WLAN, WPAN

•           Wireless Ad-hoc and Mesh Network

•           Small Cell Networks

•           Heterogeneous Networks

•           Interference Management

•           Radio Resource Management

•           Cooperative and Collaborative Communications

•           Cross-Layer Design and Optimization

●  ​ Open Networking

•           QoE, QoS, SLA, and GoS

•           Future Internet and Network

•           SDN and Network Virtualization

•           Web-services and SOA

•           Security and Network Management

•           Open Platform, Software and Services

•           Network Theory and Network Science

•           Information Networks

•           Social Network

•           Network Coding

●  ​ Big Data and Cloud

•           Cloud Computing and Networks

•           Datacenter Networking

•           CCN/CDN/ICN/Delay-tolerant networks

•           Big Data Networks

•           Fog Computing and Networking

•           Storage Networking Protocols

•           Distributed and Parallel Systems

•           Embedded Systems

•           Smartphone Applications

•           Applied Computing

•           Energy/Power Management

●  ​ Internet of Things (IoT)

•           Ubiquitous Computing and Sensor Networks

•           Wireless Sensor Networks, RFID and QR Code

•           Cyber-physical system (CPS)

•           Optical Wireless Communications (OWC), VLC and IR Communication

•           Underwater Sensor Networks

•           Internet of things (IoTs) and Internet of Lights (IoL)

•           Body Area Network

•           D2D and M2M

•           Nano Communication Networks

●  ​ Autonomous System

•           Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks and Autonomous Vehicles

•           Energy Internet, Smart Grid and Green Internets

•           LBS, Localization, Positioning and Navigation

•           Location and mobility management

•           e-Health

•           AR, VR, MR, Multi Screen and Digital Signage

•           Computer Vision Applications

•           Safety Critical System

•           Reliability, Availability and Scalability

•           Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence

This special issue of ICT Express (ISSN: 2405-9595), published by Elsevier, will be devoted to the selected high-quality papers from the ICUFN 2021. The selected papers have been recommended by chairs and should contain at least 30% of new material different from the original work presented at the ICUFN 2021. The selected papers will be reviewed for potential publication. Papers published in the ICT Express are indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Science Direct, and SCIE (Science Citation Index Expanded).

Authors need to submit their papers along with a separate document addressing the difference from the original paper presented at the conference. The tentative schedule is as follows.

IMPORTANT DATES:

September 10, 2021: Paper submission deadline

October 20, 2021: Reviews returned to authors

November 1, 2021: Final revised manuscript due

November 1, 2021: Final decision due

December 31, 2021: Publication date

GUEST EDITORS:

Sang-Woon Jeon, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea, sangwoonjeon@hanyang.ac.kr

Sihai Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, China, shzhang@ustc.edu.cn

Hu Jin, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea, hjin@hanyang.ac.kr

Taesoo Kwon, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea,

tskwon@seoultech.ac.kr

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Submissions should follow the author instruction available at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ict-express. ICT Express is a high-quality quarterly archival journal published by KICS and hosted by Elsevier. ICT Express invites short length (up to 4 pages in double columns) high-quality, original articles. For any questions, please contact the lead guest editor Prof. Sang-Woon Jeon.