International Workshop on Quality, Reliability, and Security in Information-Centric Networking (Q-ICN)

20 August 2014 Rhodes island, Greece
Held in conjunction with 10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security, and Robustness – QShine 2014
26 July 2014: You can find the workshop program  here.

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) seeks to evolve the Internet from today's host-based packet delivery towards retrieving information objects by names in a secure, reliable, scalable, and efficient way. Rapid and significant progress has been made in recent years, in terms of architectures and technologies for scalable content-based routing and retrieval, caching, content-based security, experience and lessons from prototype development and experimentation.

The Q-ICN workshop focuses on architectures, models, algorithms, and protocols for supporting quality, reliability, and security in Information-Centric Networking. Its program includes 8 full paper presentations and 5 work-in-progress presentations. The program includes diverse work related to measuring the quality of ICN architectures, the application of ICN to wireless/mobile networks and the Internet of Things, naming and information exposure, content replication and caching, and content adaptation and accounting. The workshop program includes an exciting keynote talk by Dirk Trossen, who is with InterDigital Europe, Ltd.

Original Call for Papers

This workshop invites original contributions on architectures, models, algorithms, and protocols for supporting quality, reliability, and security in Information-Centric Networking. Papers containing early stage work and position papers highlighting research challenges and directions are encouraged.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Content naming for quality, reliability, and security
QoS/QoE in ICN with heterogeneous network technologies
ICN for supporting quality and reliability over heterogeneous mobile and wireless access
Architectural issues for supporting quality, security, privacy, and reliability
Routing and multipath/multi-source transport to enhance reliability
Resource management mechanisms for supporting quality and efficiency
Access control mechanisms
Security and privacy mechanisms
Quality and reliability support in mobile scenarios
Quality, reliability, and security evaluation methodology
Limits and limitations of ICN for supporting quality, reliability, and security
Quality, reliability, security and privacy-awareness in ICN economic and business models
Experience from testbed development and experimentation
Applications exploiting quality, reliability, and security in ICN

Deadlines
Paper submission: 18 June 2014 25 June 2014 (extended deadline)
Acceptance notification: 7 July 2014
Camera ready submission: 14 July 2014 21 July 2014 (extended deadline)

Paper submission
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit full papers that have not been published or are under submission elsewhere. Submissions are expected to be up to 4 pages, but papers up to a maximum of 6 pages will be accepted, following the 2-column IEEE conference paper format in 10-point Times New Roman fonts. Prospective authors can also submit 2-page short papers describing work-in-progress or emerging concepts and research directions.

Author kit: QShine 2014 author kit
Online submission: Confy website

Publication
All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the QShine conference and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Program
The program of the workshop is available here.

Workshop Co-Organizers
George C. Polyzos, AUEB, Greece, Email: polyzos@aueb.gr
Vasilios A. Siris, AUEB, Greece, Email: vsiris@aueb.gr

Workshop Logistics
Ioannis Marias, AUEB, Greece

Workshop Publicity
George Xylomenos, AUEB, Greece

Program Committee Chair
Vasilios A. Siris, AUEB, Greece

Program Committee
Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
Konstantinos Katsaros, UCL, UK
Giannis F. Marias, AUEB, Greece
Paulo Mendes, Lusofona University, Portugal
Fragoudis Pantelis, INRIA, France
Christos Papadopoulos, Colorado State University, USA
George Parisis, University of Sussex, UK
George Pavlou, UCL, UK
Konstantinos Pentikousis, EICT, Germany
Sergios Soursos, Intracom, Greece
Dirk Trossen, InterDigital, UK
Christoforos Ververidis, AIT, Greece
George Xylomenos, AUEB, Greece

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Important Dates
Paper submission: 25 June (extended deadline)
Acceptance notification:  7 July
Camera ready submission: 21 July

Program
The program of the workshop is available here.

Sponsored by:
European Union (European Social Fund-ESF)
Greek national funds through the Operational Program "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF)-Research Funding Program: Aristeia II/I-CAN
Co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund-ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF)-Research Funding Program: Aristeia II/I-CAN.