<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">[Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies]</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">------------------------------</span><wbr style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">---</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Call For Papers [RAFNET Workshop]</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">------------------------------</span><wbr style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">---</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">2nd International Workshop on Research Advancements in Future Networking Technologies</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">URL: </span><a href="http://rafnetworkshop.wixsite.com/2017" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://rafnetworkshop.wixsite.<wbr>com/2017</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">To be held in conjunction with the IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2017-Spring, 4?</span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-aQJ">7 June 2017</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">, Sydney, Australia.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Main Conference website: </span><a href="http://ieeevtc.org/vtc2017spring/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://ieeevtc.org/<wbr>vtc2017spring/</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">---------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Accepted Papers will be included in IEEE VTC Main Conference Proceedings and published to IEEE Xplore. Also, good quality papers from RAFNET will be selected for the following special issues, where authors have to follow the extended version ethics to avoid copyright issues:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">​</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">1. "Special Issue on Role of Big Data Analytics in a Sustainable Smart City" Sustainable Cities and Society (Elsevier, IF: 1.0)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">2. "Special Issue on Towards Secure, Privacy-Preserving, and Reliable Smart Cities and Society" Sustainable Cities and Society (Elsevier, IF: 1.0)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">3. "Special Issue on Future Networking Research Plethora for Smart Cities" Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier, IF: 2.4)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">---------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Scope:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">RAFNET aims to bring together researchers, academics, individuals working on selected areas of future internet architectures along with 5G implications and share their new ideas, latest findings and results in the following topics but not limited to:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Future Internet in Wireless Sensor Networks</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Future Internet in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Future Internet in Internet of Things</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Future Internet in Smart Grid</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Future Internet in Machine to Machine</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Future Internet in Big Data</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Future Internet and 5G architectural designs</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- 5G advancements in VANETs</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Interest/Data Forwarding in Content Centric Networks</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Interest/Data Forwarding in Named Data Networks</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Analysis of Content-Centric Networking in current network paradigms</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Analysis of Named Data Networking in current network paradigms</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Transport layer issues in Future Internet architectures</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Real-time Test Beds and experimental Results</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Cellular Networking and its emergence with Future Internet</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Multimedia Applications and Feasibility with Future Internet architectures</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Smart and Wireless Cities and Future Internet cohesion</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Important Dates:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Paper Submission Due:  </span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-aQJ">February 05, 2017</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Notifications Due Date:  </span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-aQJ">March 01, 2017</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Camera-Ready Version:  </span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-aQJ">April 1, 2017</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">RAFNET Chairing Committee:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Syed Hassan Ahmed,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Kyungpook National University, Daegu,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Republic of Korea.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Waleed Ejaz,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Safdar Hussain Bouk,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Kyungpook National University, Daegu,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Republic of Korea.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Tanveer Zia,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Charles Sturt University,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Australia.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Danda B. Rawat,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Howard University,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Washington D.C., USA.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Submission Link: </span><a href="https://vtc2017s-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1582" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">https://vtc2017s-rr-wks.<wbr>trackchair.com/track/1582</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">For submission guidelines, please follow instructions on the IEEE VTC website.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">For any queries, please contact RAFNET chairs.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Best Regards,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Syed Hassan Ahmed</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Kyungpook National University, Korea.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/shahmedknu/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">https://sites.google.com/site/<wbr>shahmedknu/</a><br></div><br></div>