Overview

The 2020 marks the starting year for the fifth-generation (5G) network deployment. However, the way is still long to have a fully operational network that meets the predefined KPIs for sliced services and multigigabits downloading speeds. Also, the mechanisms for efficient selection of service-based architectures have not evolved yet to adopt the new concepts of logic networking and dynamic network slicing. There is also a need to continue developing spectrum extensions techniques for new radio (NR), multi-connectivity schemes, orchestrated operations driven by network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN), etc.

Digital manufacturing and cyber-physical systems are considered key elements of the definition and implementation of Industry 4.0. Technological advancements in the ability to collect, transfer and analyze vast amounts of data very rapidly are at the core of this trend. Closely related, smart factory is a concept that aims at integrating these new technologies to rapidly adapt and respond to changes in the markets'demands for high-quality products. In practice, smart factories lie at the core of both, Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing. The digitalisation is affecting production and is expected to enable efficient lot size one and customer tailored production and/or support the servitization of the business, while minimising environmental footprints and overall costs.

Fog and Edge Computing paradigm is regarded as capable of satisfying the resource requirements for the emerging mobile applications such as virtual and augmented reality, vehicular networks, and IoT applications. Such implementations will exploit further the capabilities of Mobile Edge Comping (MEC), wireless virtualization, and Software Defined Systems or Networks (SDNs) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) among others. Due to the non-linearity of the Quality-of-Experience (QoE) model, the resource manipulation with the solution provided within the context of SDN for MEC devices should be solved concurrently so that the associated performance can be assessed and evaluated. The inclusion of MEC, SDN, and NFV and its possible support for 5G systems are emerging as one of the highly active research areas with a large room for improvements. In addition, one important aspect of great importance is the continuously increasing processing, caching and storage capabilities required by emerging applications such as IoT and virtual reality. The purpose of this special issue is to provide the academic and industrial communities an excellent venue covering all aspects of current work on Fog Computing, Edge Computing and with the long-term architecture that will encompass the differently supported middleware(s).

 

Topics

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

+ Content and service distribution models for 5G-enabled Smart Factory

+ Caching, replication and relaying models for 5G-enabled Smart Factory

+ Energy-aware load balancing and scheduling on servers for 5G-enabled Smart Factory

+ Orchestration across computation, storage and communication resources for 5G-enabled Smart Factory

+ Theoretical and experimental evaluation of information-centric networks for 5G-enabled Smart Factory

+ Fog and MEC security and related considerations

+ Real-time communication interfaces and protocols

+ Fog-enabled data services

+ Middleware for Fog/Edge infrastructures

+ Monitoring/metering of Fog/Edge infrastructures (i.e., for storage, etc.)

+ Smart Factory Test-beds and Best Practices

 

Important Dates

+ April 20, 2020: Deadline for paper submission

+ May 25, 2020:  Notification of Acceptance

+ June 15, 2020: Submission deadline for the final version of the papers

+ August 9-12, 2020: 5GFACTORY 2020 Workshop (with MobiSPC 2020)

 

Submission

The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Latex, Template Generic, Elsevier. Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 6 pages including all figures, tables and references.

Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online conference management system in PDF format before the deadline (see Important Dates). The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date.

 

All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work.

 

Publication

All MobiSPC 2020 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of:

 

- International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.901), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)

- International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.524), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index)

- International Journal of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 4.371), by Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice/)

 

MobiSPC 2020 will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-20/).