The conference committee invites submissions of applied or theoretical research as well as of application-oriented papers on all the topics of IEEE HotICN 2020. The HotICN aims to gather experts and scholars from home and abroad in this field to discuss the architecture, key technologies, innovative ideas, future development trends and industry prospects of information centric networks and its related fields such as space-ground integrated network, network intelligence and testbed, blockchain, etc.

Topics include, but are not limited to the following:

▼Track One: Information Centric Networking(ICN)

  ICN architecture and fundamentals

  ICN mobility

  Security and privacy issues in ICN

  ICN in IPv6

  ICN in IoT

  ICN in Cloud/Fog

  ICN in 5G Mobile Internet

  ICN in Vehicle Network

  ICN Performance and Evaluation

  ICN-Inspired Applications and System

  ICN Analysis and Theory

▼Track Two: Space-Ground Integrated Information-Centric Network (SGI-ICN)

  Heterogeneous wireless network architectures   and infrastructure for supporting SGI-ICN

  Resource allocation and energy efficiency for SGI-ICN

  Security, privacy and trust issues in SGI-ICN

  Delay tolerant networking for SGI-ICN

▼Track Three: Network Intelligence and Testbed for ICN

   Data mining, statistical modeling, and machine learning for network management

   Resource allocation for information centric networks using machine learning

   Deep learning and reinforcement learning in network control & management

   Predictive and self-aware networking maintenance

   Instrumentation and measurement of ICN

   Testbed design, implementation and deployment

   Large-scale testbed for future network

   Tools and services for testbed users and operators

   Experiments on federated testbeds

▼Track Four: BlockChain

   Blockchain technologies and system

   Security, privacy and trust schemes for blockchain

   Smart contracts and distributed ledger applications

   Networking technologies in Blockchain

   Blockchain-inspired applications and system

▼Publications:

All accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings by IEEE, which will be submitted for EI, Scopus, CNKI index. Excellent papers may be selected and published on SCI or EI journals.

The proceedings of HotICN 2019 have been indexed by EI compendex and Scopus.

▼General Chairs:

Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK;

Feng Wu, University of Science and Technology of China, China.

▼Conference co-chair:

Jian Yang, University of Science and Technology of China, China

▼Steering Committee:

Lixia Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles(UCLA), USA;

Xiaoming Fu, University of Goettingen, Germany;

Yanyong Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, China;

Lan Wang, University of Memphis, USA;

Haiyong Xie, University of Science and Technology of China, China;

Kai Lei, Peking University, China.

▼Technical Program Chairs:

Mingwei Xu, Tsinghua University, China;

Hongbin Luo, Beihang University, China;

Tao Huang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China;

Jiangtao Luo, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China;

Xiaobin Tan, University of Science and Technology of China, China.

▼Submission Process:

Online submission system: 【https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hoticn2020】

▼Contact:

Email: Hoticn@academic.net

Tel:+86-13541382102

working time: 09:30-18:00 (Monday-Friday)