<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:8pt">*** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ***<br><br><br>===============================================================================================<br>CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness<br>18-19 August 18--19, 2014<br>The Greek Island of Rhodes, Greece<br><br>http://qshine.org/2014/show/home<br>===============================================================================================<br>SCOPE<br><br>Computer networking has been embracing increased heterogeneity since its inception, in terms of the range of the applications it has to support, the various communication technologies it can run on, and the hierarchical, hybrid and heterogeneous techniques it has to rely on to
meet the challenges from both the diverse application requirements and communication technologies.<br><br>The only conference focusing on heterogeneous networking, QShine has been established as the primary venue for researchers and practitioners to disseminate, exchange and discuss all recent advances related to heterogeneous networking, particularly for quality, experience, reliability, security and robustness.<br><br>As a conference series held in three major continents so far, QShine-2014 comes to the Greek Island of Rhodes.<br><br>Original submissions, not under any concurrent reviews, are solicited in all areas related to heterogeneous wired, wireless and hybrid networks varying from sensor, vehicle, cellular, ad hoc, enterprise, datacenter, to service-provider and overlay networks, ranging from in/on-body, personal/local/metropolitan/wide-area, to intra/inter-planetary scales.<br><br>HIGHLIGHTS<br><br>* The event is endorsed by the European
Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT.<br>* Qshine 2014 will be collocated with the International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, AdHocNets.<br>* All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries.<br>* Selected papers, particularly those nominated for the Best Paper competition, will be automatically considered for publication in the special issues of Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal (SCIE-indexed) and will be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications.<br><br><br>CONFERENCE TOPICS<br>Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:<br><br>* Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning: architectures, protocols, mechanisms.<br>* Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning:
architectures, protocols, mechanisms.<br>* Quality of Experience (QoE): user-perceived quality, cost-sensitive experience.<br>* Reliability and Scalability: performance, adaptation, cognition, extensibility.<br>* Security and Privacy: system/network security, user privacy/accountability.<br>* Robustness: fault/disruption/disaster-tolerance, resilience, survivability.<br>* Cross-Layer Design, Optimization and Implementation: spectrum/energy efficiency.<br>* Social and Economic Perspectives: incentive, pricing, billing, governance.<br>* New Applications and Communication Technologies: cloud, smart grid, SDN.<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES <br><br>* Full Paper Due 4 April 2014<br>* Acceptance
Notification 16 June 2014<br>* Camera-ready Due 14 July 2014<br><br>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br> <br>General co-chairs <br>Victor Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada<br>Thanos Stouraitis, University of Patras, Greece<br><br>TPC co-chairs<br>Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada<br>Edith Ngai, Uppsala University, Sweden<br>Jianping Pan, University of Victoria, Canada<br><br>Publicity chair<br>Scott Fowler, Linköping University, Sweden<br><br>Industry chair <br>Panos Nasiopoulos, The University of British Columbia, Canada<br><br>Publication chair<br>Xiaofei Wang, Seoul
National University, South Korea<br><br>Web chair <br>Wei Cai, The University of British Columbia, Canada<br><br><br>PAPER SUBMISSION<br>Conference language is in English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in Springer proceedings format, which are limited up to 14 single-spaced single-column pages (including all figures and references) in a 10-point font. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures.<br><br>Papers will be judged on originality, correctness, clarity and relevance. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal.<br>Submission of the paper implies agreement of the author(s) to attend the conference and present the paper if accepted. For additional information see the registration information page.<br><br>PUBLICATION<br>Accepted papers
will be published in the Qshine Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). The proceedings will be available both in book form and via the SpringerLink digital library, which is one of the largest digital libraries online and covers a variety of scientific disciplines. LNICST volumes are submitted for inclusion to leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library, ISI Proceedings, EI Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus and Zentralblatt Math, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).<br><br>Selected papers, particularly those nominated for the Best Paper competition, will be automatically considered for publication in the special issues of Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) and Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA) journals (SCIE-indexed) and will be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and
Applications.<br><br><br><br><br>About EAI - The European Alliance for Innovation is a dynamic eco-system for fostering ICT enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to benefit society.<br>Find out more at http://www.eai.eu.<br><br>Workshop proposals<br>=================<br>Overview<br>The QShine 2014 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference, in Rhodes, Greece, August 2014. <br>Proposals for workshops should be at most four pages in length and must be submitted to Dr. Adlen Ksentini, University of Rennes 1/INRIA Rennes (adlen.ksentini@irisa.fr). Please find more details here.<br>Important Dates<br>• Deadline for proposal submission: 04 April 2014<br>• Notification of proposal acceptance: 01 May 2014<br><br>Paper Submission<br>Conference language is in English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full
paper in Springer proceedings format, which are limited up to 14 single-spaced single-column pages (including all figures and references) in a 10-point font. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures.<br>Papers will be judged on originality, correctness, clarity and relevance. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal.<br>Submission of the paper implies agreement of the author(s) to attend the conference and present the paper if accepted. For additional information see the registration information page.<br><br>Publication<br>Accepted papers will be published in the Qshine Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). The proceedings will be available both in book form and via the SpringerLink digital library, which is one of the largest digital libraries
online and covers a variety of scientific disciplines. LNICST volumes are submitted for inclusion to leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library, ISI Proceedings, EI Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus and Zentralblatt Math, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).<br>Selected papers, particularly those nominated for the Best Paper competition, will be automatically considered for publication in the special issues of Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) and Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA) journals (SCIE-indexed) and will be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications.<br><br><div></div></div></body></html>