Call for Papers

Scope

The annual International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets) focuses on ad hoc networking technologies and their applications. An ad hoc network is a wireless system, in which mobile or static nodes are connected using wireless links and cooperate to self-organize into a network without the requirement for any infrastructure such as access points or base stations. In recent years, ad hoc networks have been attracting increased attention from the research and engineering communities.

The distributed and multi-hop nature of ad hoc networking as well as the highly dynamic topology of an ad hoc network due to node mobility has introduced many formidable challenges such as scalability, quality of service, reliability and security, and energy-constrained operations for the network. Ad hoc networking covers a variety of network paradigms including mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless sensor networks (WSNs), vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), airborne networks, underwater networks, underground networks, personal area networks, and home networks, etc. It promises a wide range of applications in civilian, commercial, and military areas.

The aim of the annual AdHocNets conference is to provide a forum that brings together researchers and engineers from academia, government laboratories as well as industry to meet, network, exchange ideas and present their recent research work, and discuss future directions on all aspects of ad hoc networks. Following the success of ADHOCNETS’09-19, the 12th edition of the event, ADHOCNETS 2020, will be held in virtually from Paris Saclay. The conference will consist of keynote speeches, invited talks, and technical sessions.

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Topics

The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Papers should address technical challenges in any type of ad-hoc networks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET)
  • Vehicle ad hoc networks (VANET)
  • Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks
  • Wireless sensor networks
  • Airborne networks
  • Underwater networks
  • Underground networks
  • Personal area networks
  • Body area networks
  • Home networks
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Network architectural and protocol design
  • MAC, routing, and transport protocols
  • Resource allocation and management
  • Network control and management
  • Power control and management
  • Topology control and management
  • Quality of service (QoS) provisioning
  • Service discovery
  • Ranging and node localization
  • Time synchronization
  • Data aggregation
  • Network scalability and capacity
  • Reliability and fault tolerance
  • Security and privacy
  • Low-power wide-area IoT networking
  • Massive machine connections for IoT
  • Middleware for ad hoc networks
  • Cross-layer design for ad hoc networks
  • Software-defined networking for ad hoc networks
  • Network function virtualization for ad hoc networks
  • Edge/fog/cloud computing for ad hoc networks
  • Machine learning (or AI) for ad hoc networks
  • Performance modeling and analysis for ad hoc networks
  • Tools to design, implement, and evaluate ad hoc network protocols

Publication

All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

ADHOCNETS proceedings are indexed in leading indexing services, including Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

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All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:

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Paper submission

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).

Important dates

Full Paper Submission deadline
28 July 2020
Notification deadline
28 August 2020
Camera-ready deadline
28 September 2020
Conference Date:
17 November 2020