Selected Areas of Wireless Communications and Networking
The technical track on Wireless Communications and Networking (WCN) of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2025) will be held in Sicily, Italy, March 31 - April 4, 2025.
Scope
In the past few decades, wireless communications and networking (WCN) have become indispensable in modern society. These technologies have revolutionized connectivity, enabling global communication and interaction. Innovations such as 5G and the anticipated 6G networks, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), ad-hoc networks, WiMAX, and metaverse networking have driven this evolution. The continuous expansion of WCN applications has introduced groundbreaking technologies and shaped new research and development paradigms. Addressing the demand for innovative applications involves overcoming complex technical challenges with cutting-edge solutions. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into networking solutions has further advanced the field by enabling autonomous and intelligent decision-making, thereby enhancing system performance. Another significant area of development is Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), which merges communication and sensing functionalities, leading to more efficient and intelligent networks. Alongside WCN research, there is a significant focus on novel ideas and performance improvements for next-generation networking paradigms, including Future Internet architectures, software-defined networks (SDNs), and network virtualization. This special track aims to gather researchers, academics, and professionals working on emerging areas of wireless communications and networking to share their latest ideas, findings, and results.
Topics of Interest
Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)
- Metaverse Networking
- Advances in 5G and Beyond (including 6G)
- Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications (V2V communications)
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Machine to Machine Communications (M2M)
- Peer-to-Peer Networks
- Cell-free Wireless Networks
- Ubiquitous Networks
- Cognitive Wireless Networks
- Network design, control, and performance
- Congestion control and Traffic management
- Energy efficiency and power control
- Artificial Intelligence in Networking
- Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)
- MAC, Routing and Transport Protocols
- Data-Centric Communications and Protocols
- Blockchain for Wireless Networking
- Edge and Fog Computing for Wireless Networks
Paper submission/publication
Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers of research and applications for this track. Full papers are limited to 8 pages with the option for up to 2 additional pages at extra charge ($80 per page). The author name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate double-blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author information. Papers must be formatted according to the ACM SAC template. Contributions must contain original unpublished work. Papers that have been concurrently submitted to other conferences or journals (double submissions) will be automatically rejected. For full submission guidelines, please follow the instructions on the ACM SAC 2025 website. Please submit your contributions via SAC 2025 Webpage.Prospective papers should be submitted using the provided automated submission system for Regular Papers and SRC Papers.
Important Note: Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library.
Important Dates
Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts: October 13, 2024
Notification of paper and SRC acceptance/rejection: November 20, 2024
Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC: November 29, 2024
Author registration due date: December 6, 2024
Track Chairs
School of Computer Science and Engineering,
Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
Prof. Dongkyun Kim received the B.S. degree from Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South
Korea; and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. He was a
Visiting Researcher with Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1999. He also
performed a post doctorate program with the Department of Computer Engineering, University of
California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, in 2002. From 2015 to 2016, he was a visiting faculty at CSC
Research Group, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. Currently, Prof. Kim is with the
School
of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University. His current research interests
include connected cars, vehicular ad hoc networks, the Internet of Things (machine-to-
machine/device-to-device), Wi-Fi networks (including Wi-Fi Direct), wireless mesh networks,
wireless
sensor networks, and future Internet. Prof. Kim has been with the Organizing Committee or the
Technical Program Committee for many conferences of the IEEE and the Association for Computing
Machinery. He has been doing many editorial duties for several well-reputed international
journals.
Detailed research publication list can be found at
https://monet.knu.ac.kr/pub_list
Department of Computer Science,
San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA
Dr. Wei Wang is an Associate Professor of
Computer Science at San Diego State University
(SDSU). He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at South Dakota State University
from January 2010 to May 2014. He received his Ph.D. degree from
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, NE, USA, in
December 2009. He worked as a Software Engineer with Nokia Siemens Networks Ltd (former
Siemens Communications Ltd) in 2005. His research interests include wireless networks, wireless
multimedia communications, QoE-QoS issues, network economics and IoTs. He serves as the
publication co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2020, the area chair of IEEE ICME 2020-2019, the symposium
co-chair of IEEE GLOBECOM-NGNI 2019, the track-chair of ACM SAC 2019, the web co-chair of IEEE
INFOCOM 2018-16, the symposium co-chair of IEEE ICC-NGNI 2018, the symposium co-chair of ICNC-
MCC 2018, the program co-chair of ACM RACS 2017-14, workshop co-chair of ICST BodyNets 2013,
the chair of IEEE CIT-MMC track 2012, the vice-chair of IEEE ICCT-NGN track 2011, and the program
chair of the ICST-IWMMN 2010, a Guest Editor of several journals and special issues such as IEEE
ACCESS, Springer MONET, IJDSN, etc, a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for many
international conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM, GLOBECOM, and ICC, the Co-Director of IEEE
MMTC Review Board 2020-2017, and the Co-Director of the IEEE MMTC Publicity Board 2016-2014.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Detailed research publication list can be found at https://wwang.sdsu.edu/Publication.htm
Prospective Publicity Co-Chairs:
Syed Hassan Ahmed, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA.
Muhammad Azfar Yaqub, Free University of Bolzano, Italy.
Prospective Technical Program Committee :
- Juan-Carlos Cano, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.
- Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA.
- Floriano De Rango, University of Calabira, Italy.
- Mahasweta Sarkar, San Diego State University, USA.
- Limei Peng, Kyungpook National University, Korea.
- Nafaa Jabeur, German University of Technology, Oman.
- Muhammad Ali Jamshed, University of Glasgow, UK.
- Gautam Srivastava, Brandon, Canada.
- Kun Hua, Lawrence Technical University, USA.
- Houbing Song, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA.
- Syed Mehdi Abbas Rizvi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
- Zeeshan Qamar, University of Oklahoma, USA.
- Sagar Sidana, Principal Software Engineer McKinsey & Company, Dallas, USA
- Attaullah Buriro, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy