Call for Papers

The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2024 Conference (IFIP NETWORKING 2024) will be held in Aristotle University, in the beautiful city of Thessaloniki, Greece, June 3-6, 2024. This is the 23rd event of the series, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6). High quality papers will be recommended for fast-track publications in selected journals.

The main objective of IFIP NETWORKING 2024 is to bring together members of the networking community, from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances in the broad and quickly-evolving fields of computer and communication networks, to highlight key issues, identify trends, and develop a vision for future Internet technology, operation, and use.

The technical sessions will be structured around, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order):

5G/6G networks and beyond
Anomaly and malware detection
Applications of privacy-preserving computation in networks
Blockchain, ledger technologies, and their network-related applications
Complex and dynamic networks
Data center networking
Data-driven network design
Delay/disruption tolerant networks
Device-to-device communications
Digital Continuum
Drone networking and unmanned technology-based services and applications
Emerging value-added services and applications
Evolution of IP network architectures and protocols
Fog and edge computing
Green networking
Heterogeneous and integrated networks
In-network computing
Information Centric Networking
Internet of Things (IoT), and crowdsensing/crowdsourcing
Localization in indoor environments
Long-range communications
Machine learning (ML) and networking, artificial intelligence (AI)
(Multi-tenant) network slicing
mmWave, and THz communications
Network architectures, applications, and services
Network attack/intrusion detection and mitigation
Network automation and management
Network economics and Game Theory
Network forensics
Network function virtualization (NFV)
Network modelling, analysis, and measurement
Network performance and optimization
Network security, authentication, measurement, trust and privacy
Network testbeds
Network traffic analysis
Non-terrestrial networks
Opportunistic networks
Optical networking
Overlay and P2P networks
Participatory networks
Performance measurements
Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Protective and collaborative networking
Public Safety Networks
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Resilient networks
Quality of service (QoS), quality of experience (QoE)
Quantum networking, quantum communications
Resource management
Self-organizing networks
Social networking
Socio-economic aspects of networks, pricing, and billing
Software-defined networking (SDN)
Traffic engineering
Topology characterization
Traffic monitoring and analysis
Trustworthy and multi-metric routing
User behavior modelling, user profiling and tracking
Vehicular networks and communications
Web technologies
Wireless and mobile networks
Wireless power transfer networks
Wireless sensor networks

The Conference Program will include plenary sessions, break-out sessions, keynote talks, a panel, a poster/demo session and a workshop day.

Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IFIP Digital Library as well as will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

Submission Guidelines

The technical program committee welcomes paper submissions on all topics related to computer and communication networks. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance through double-blind peer review, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers and the identities of reviewers are withheld from the authors. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing reviewers to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review.

Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for review elsewhere will be considered. Submitted papers should be written in English by following the IEEE conference format, with a maximum length limit of 9 printed pages, including all the figures, references, and appendices. Papers longer than 9 pages will not be reviewed. Each paper can be accompanied by an appendix of at most 2 pages. However, the reviewers are not obliged to read the appendix. The appendix is included in the 9 page limit.

All papers must be submitted in the Portable Document Format (PDF) electronically using EDAS:
https://edas.info/N31469

When submitting a paper, its title, all co-authors, and a concise abstract of up to 200 words should be provided to EDAS as the metadata of the paper. The program committee may ask some authors to shorten their paper to a short paper of 3 pages to be presented in a poster session, instead of a plenary session.

At least one author of each 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 correctly formatted, publication-ready version of the paper.

To ensure appropriate consideration of conflicts of interest during the review process, changes to the list of authors are prohibited once a paper has been submitted for review. Should a paper be accepted, the complete list of authors, including the order of authors, must remain identical as the EDAS metadata in the final camera-ready manuscript.

Instruction on preparing a paper for double-blind review

Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page.
Remove acknowledgments.
Remove project titles or names that could be used to trace back to the authors via web search.
Carefully name your files to anonymize author information.
Carefully refer 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 [1], we presented a scheme that...," sentences in the spirit of "In prior work, Clark et al. [1] presented a scheme that..." should be used. With this method, the full citation of the referred paper can still be given, such as "[1] A. Clark ...., "Analysis of...", and it is not acceptable to say "[1] 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.

Best Paper Award

The IFIP TC6 will sponsor one Best Paper Award (€ 500) which will be conferred to the authors based on the quality of the paper and its presentation. The award is given out at the closing ceremony of the conference.

IFIP Student Travel Grants

The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) will provide support for graduate students to attend the IFIP NETWORKING 2024 conference. Two grants will be awarded, each one up to a maximum of € 750.

NSF Student Travel Grants

The National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide support for US-based graduate students to attend the IFIP NETWORKING 2024 conference. Three grants will be awarded, each one up to a maximum of $2500.