IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications
2-5 May 2022 // Virtual Conference

Paper Submission Instructions [Main Conference]

Paper Submission Instructions [Main Conference]

 

IEEE INFOCOM 2022 solicits research papers describing significant and innovative research contributions to the field of computer and data communications networks. We invite submissions on a wide range of research topics, spanning both theoretical and systems research. Topics include but are not limited to:

  • 5G and beyond networks
  • Age of Information
  • Big data and machine learning for networks
  • Cellular networks
  • Cloud computing/mobile cloud computing
  • Challenged environments (underwater, underground)
  • Connected unmanned aerial/terrestrial/underwater systems
  • Cross-layer optimization and control
  • Crowdsourcing
  • CubeSats
  • Cyber-physical systems
  • Datacenter networking
  • Dynamic spectrum sharing
  • Energy efficiency in networks
  • Edge and fog computing/networking
  • Fault tolerance, reliability and survivability
  • Information security and privacy
  • Information-centric networking
  • Interference management and mitigation
  • Internet architecture
  • Internet of Things
  • Localization and location-based services
  • Medium access control
  • MIMO-based networking
  • mmWave, THz, VLC, full duplex communication networks
  • Mobile sensing and applications
  • Mobility management and models
  • Multimedia networking
  • Network economics and pricing
  • Network management
  • Network measurement and analysis
  • Network security and privacy
  • Network virtualization
  • Optical networks
  • Overlay and peer-to-peer networks
  • Quality-of-service and resource management
  • Quantum networking
  • Router and switch design
  • Routing and multicast
  • Scaling laws and fundamental limits
  • Smart grid applications
  • Social computing and networks
  • Software-defined networking
  • Studies on testbeds and large-scale experimental platforms
  • Vehicular networks
  • Web applications and content distribution
  • WLAN, WPAN, RFID, and NFC

 

IEEE INFOCOM incorporates a rigorous double-blind review process, empowered by a fully automated review assignment system that analyzes the submitted manuscripts and the representative publications of TPC members, and matches the submissions to TPC members’ expertise and interests. The automated review assignment system, termed Erie, is described in the following paper.

 

B. Li and Y.T. Hou. “The new automated INFOCOM review assignment system,” IEEE Network, vol.30, no.5, pp.18-24, Sept./Oct. 2016. (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7579022/)

 

Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE INFOCOM 2022 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®. Full details of submission procedures and requirements for authors of accepted papers are available at http://infocom2022.ieee-infocom.org

 

To encourage authors to submit their best work to the conference and to reduce unnecessary burden on the reviewers, we limit each individual to submit as author or co-author on no more than 8 papers. In the event that an individual submits more than 8 papers, the first 8 valid submissions (based on the order of paper registration) from that author will be accepted into the review process and the remainder will be rejected without review.

 

Paper submission link on EDAS is: https://edas.info/N28178

 

Originality

Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere will be considered. Technical Papers must be submitted via the EDAS Paper Processing System (https://edas.info/N28178). 

 

Double-blind Submissions

All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Common sense and careful writing will go a long way towards preserving anonymity. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review.

 

Minimally, please take the following steps when preparing your submission:

  • Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page.
  • Remove acknowledgments of identifying names and funding sources.
  • Remove project titles or names that can be used to trace back to the authors via a web search engine.
  • Use care in naming your files. Source file names (e.g., "Alice-n-Bob.dvi") are often embedded in the final output as readily accessible comments.
  • Use care in referring to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer incapable of grasping the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author. For example, instead of "In prior work [3], we presented a routing protocol that ...," sentences in the spirit of "In prior work, Smith and Clark [3] presented a routing protocol that ..." should be used. With this method, the full citation to Smith and Clark can still be given, such as "[3] J. Smith, A. Clark, "Analysis of...", and it is not acceptable to say "[3] Reference deleted for double-blind review."
  • The submitted manuscript (PDF file) should be text-searchable. Any submission that does not meet this requirement may be returned without review.
  • Many of the editing tools automatically add metadata to the generated PDF file containing information that may violate the double-blind policy. Please remove any possible metadata that can link your manuscript to you. This includes removing names, affiliation, license numbers etc. from the Metadata as well as from the paper. Failing to meet this requirement may also lead to a rejection without review.
  • Remove any embedded author/affiliation information in the PDF metadata. Go to Acrobat menu File/Properties… and remove any author information there.

 

Preprints Policy

The submitted manuscript or its title/abstract should not be posted on a public website, such as arXiv.org, or transmitted via public mailing lists. Authors will need to provide consent that their submissions may be subject to an early rejection if it is found to have more than 30% overlap with a single paper available to the public over the Internet (e.g., arXiv, webpages, etc.).

 

Anonymous Extended Report Policy

Note that the submitted papers are not allowed to refer to an extended/technical report, even if it is anonymous. Please include what you deem to be the most important technical content within the page limitations of the submission.

 

Conflict of Interests (COI)

A COI occurs when a person’s objective judgment is — or is perceived by a reasonable observer to be — compromised by an existing relationship, affiliation, or connection to a person whose work they must evaluate.

 

The following are considered to be specific exemplars of relationships that produce COIs. Individuals in such relationships should not be involved in peer review of, or making editorial decisions about, materials provided by the related parties.

  • Notable personal or professional rivalry/animosity (publicly known or not)
  • The lifelong relationship between Ph.D. student and Ph.D. supervisor
  • Personal or family relationships that would reasonably cause others to doubt impartiality
  • Within the last 24 months or reasonably expected within the next year:
    • Working closely together (e.g., at the same institution, company or organization; or within the same organizational team)
    • Recipients of joint funding or significant professional collaboration
    • Joint authorship of an archival publication

 

Length and Formatting Requirements

Submitted papers must be written in the English language, with a maximum length limit of 10 printed pages. Main text (including figures, tables, appendices, and any material other than references) must be no more than 9 pages. Papers that do not comply with the length limit will not be reviewed. Use the standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at: 

https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

If the paper is typeset in LaTeX, please use an unmodified version of the LaTeX template IEEEtran.cls version 1.8, and use the preamble:

 

\documentclass[10pt, conference, letterpaper]{IEEEtran}

 

Do not use additional LaTeX commands or packages to override and change the default typesetting choices in the template, including line spacing, font sizes, margins, space between the columns, and font types. This implies that the manuscript must use 10-point Times font, two-column formatting, as well as all default margins and line spacing requirements as dictated by the original version of IEEEtran.cls version 1.8.

 

If you are using Microsoft Word to format your paper, you should use an unmodified version of the Microsoft Word IEEE Transactions template (US letter size). Regardless of the source of your paper formatting, you must submit your paper in the Adobe PDF format.

 

The paper must print clearly and legibly, including all the figures, on standard black-and-white printers. Reviewers are not required to read your paper in color.

 

The submitted manuscript should be self-contained within 10 pages. Inclusion of additional material (e.g., a technical report containing the detailed math proof through an anonymous Dropbox or OneDrive link) is not allowed.

 

Paper Submission Process

All papers must be submitted in the Portable Document Format (PDF) electronically using EDAS. If the submitting author does not have an account, a personal account on EDAS needs to be created. When submitting the paper, a title, all the co-authors, and a concise abstract of up to 200 words should be provided to EDAS as the metadata of the paper. The metadata should be provided before the paper registration deadline. The list of authors should not be included in the paper manuscript PDF (PDF title page, main body, and PDF metadata), in accordance with the double-blind submission policy. Changes to the paper metadata on EDAS are permitted before the paper submission deadline, which will be Saturday, July 31, 2021 (11:59pm EDT).

 

Consistency between EDAS Metadata and the Camera-ready Manuscript

The authors are required to make sure that the complete list of authors is provided as part of the metadata to EDAS, even though they are not to be included in the paper PDF document in accordance with the double-blind submission policy. Should a paper be accepted, the complete list of authors, including the ordering of authors, must remain identical as the EDAS metadata in the final camera-ready manuscript.

 

IEEE, IEEE Communications Society and IEEE INFOCOM Policies

To ensure appropriate consideration of conflicts of interest during the review process, the ComSoc prohibits changes to the list of authors once a paper has been submitted for review during review, revision, or (if accepted) final publication. The author list may be changed only prior to the submission deadline. Paper submission instructions, including the double-blind policy, can be found on the conference website https://infocom2022.ieee-infocom.org To be published in the IEEE INFOCOM 2022 conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference unless the TPC co-chairs grant permission for a substitute presenter before the conference. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE INFOCOM 2022 conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®.

 

Submission Instructions

Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere will be considered. Technical papers must be submitted via the EDAS Paper Processing System. Submitted papers should be written in the English language, with a maximum length limit of 10 printed pages. Main text (including figures, tables, appendices, and any material other than references) should be no more than 9 pages.  All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors are required to make sure that the complete list of authors are provided as part of the metadata to EDAS, however, the list of authors should not be included in the paper PDF document in accordance with the double-blind submission policy.

 

 

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