2021 9th International Conference on Network and Computing Technologies (ICNCT 2021), will be held on February 25-27, 2021 in Shanghai, China. Topics of interest for submission include the main topics from Communication Networks Architectures, Algorithms, Measurement and Performance Evaluation;Data Centers and Big Data Computing;Green Networking and Sustainable Computing;Grid, Cloud, Internet and Middleware Computing;Internet of Things;Multimedia and Real-Time Networking;Security, Privacy, Trust and Incentives;Sensor/Embedded Networks and Pervasive Computing;Social Networks and Computing;Software Defined Networks and Network Virtualization Technologies, but are not limited to:
● AI/ML-based smart networking
● Applications of green networking technologies and principles
● Architectures, algorithms, and protocols
● Big data analytics for social networks
● Big Data and Future Internet
● Big data and machine learning solutions for social networks
● Big data processing for energy-efficient mobile computing
● Business perspective of applying Data Centric Approaches in Real-World Environment
● Cellular networks
● Cloud-based social networks
● Cognitive networks for energy efficiency
● Cognitive radio networks
● Communication Interference control
● Community detection and community-based collaborative computing
● Cooperative and opportunistic networking
● Cross-layer design and optimization
● Crowdsensing, Crowdsourcing
● Crowdsourcing applications for social networks
● Cyber-physical systems for sustainable computing
● Data center networking
● Device to Device communication
● Dynamic spectrum access wireless networks
● Economy and pricing for green communication and services
● Efficient data management for sustainable mobile computing and communications
● Energy cost models for network operators
● Energy efficient scheduling and resource allocation
● Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling
● Energy minimization in core, metro, access and local area networks
● Energy-efficient networking for smart environments
● Energy-efficient optimization for communications and computing
● Energy-efficient protocol design
● Energy-efficient routers and switches
● Experimental testbeds for green communications and computing
● Fog and Edge computing/networking
● Future Internet and Smart Cities
● Green communication in 5G systems
● Green network monitoring and measurements
● Green networking in IoTs
● Green optical communications, switching and networking
● Green traffic shaping and policy implementation
● Information-Centric Networking
● Intelligent Transportation Systems and Networking
● Internet of Things
● Lessons learned from long-term deployment experiences of wireless technologies
● Mobile Ad Hoc networks
● Mobile and socially-aware networks
● Mobile and wireless networking
● Mobility management and modeling
● Modeling the environmental footprint of communications
● Multimedia Applications and Feasibility with Future Internet architectures
● Multimedia networking
● Nanonetworks
● Network security and privacy
● Networking processor and hardware designs
● Non-energy based green issues and approaches
● Novel applications in networking
● Novel architectures for social networks
● Performance measurement
● Radio access technologies and evolution
● RFID technologies
● Robotic networks
● Seamless heterogeneous wireless networks
● Security in green networking and sustainable computing
● Security, privacy and trust and issues in social networks
● Security, trust, and privacy in sustainable mobile computing and communications
● Sensing as part of social networks
● Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks
● Social Internet of Things
● Social Internet of Vehicles
● Social networking
● Social-based energy harvesting in social networks
● Social-based resource identification, discovery, and profiling
● Social-based routing protocols and architectures
● Software Defined Networks and Virtualization
● Standards and regulations for energy efficiency in networking
● Sustainable integration of networking and computing into the grid
● Sustainable storage and cloud computing
● Tactile Internet
● Theory, modeling, and performance analysis
● Transport layer issues in Future Internet Architectures
● Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or Unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) Networks
● Virtualization techniques for energy efficiency
● Wearable and human-centric networking
● Wireless data offloading
● Wireless infrastructure planning and deployment
● Wireless MAC, routing and transport layer protocols
● Wireless mesh networks
● Wireless network coding
● Wireless programming paradigms and middleware technologies
● Wireless sensor networks
