Organizing Committee


General Chair

Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Honggang Wang, Univ. Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA


TPC Chair

Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USAy

Andrea Zanella, University of Padova, Italy


TPC Co-Chair

Tomaso de Cola, German Aerospace Center, Germany

Sanjeev Mehrotra, Microsoft Research, USA

Mugen Peng, BUPT, China


Industrial Program Chair

Haris Gacanin, Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium


Executive Chair

Tomohiko Taniguchi, Fujitsu, Japan

Jian Ren, Michigan State University, USA


Tutorial Chair

Periklis Chatzimisions, Univ. of Thessalonniki, Greece

Burak Kantarci Wallace, University of Ottawa, Canada

Qing Yang Montana State University, USA


Workshop Chair

Lei Chen, Georgia Southern University, USA

Tao Han, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA


Panel Chair

5G Network Evolution, Klaus Doppler, Nokia Bell Labs, USA

IoT Eco-system in 5G, Jeffrey Foerster, Intel Research, USA

Network slicing, Anthony Soong, Huawei Research, USA


Invited Paper Chair

Danda Rawat, Howard University, USA

Shucheng Yu, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA


Cloud Computing and Big Data Symposium Chair

Toktam Mahmoodi, King's College of London, UK

Hua Fang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA


Communications and Information Security Symposium Chair

Mauro Conti, University of Padova, Italy

Lei Chen, Georgia Southern University, USA

Xiaoyan Sun, California State University, USA


Communications QoS and System Modeling Symposium Chair

Liangping Ma, InterDigital, USA

Miaowen Wen, South China University of Technology, China


Green Computing, Networking, and Communications Symposium Chair

Rongrong Zhang, University of Ottawa, Canada

Shaoen Wu, Ball State University, USA

Houbing Song, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA


Internet Services and Applications Symposium Chair

Qing Yang, University of North Texas, USA

Chenfei Gao, AT&T, USA

Jianli Pan, University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA


Machine Learning for Networking Symposium Chair

Danijela Cabric, UCLA, USA

Wei Yu, Townson University, USA


Mobile Computing and Vehicle Communications Symposium Chair

Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Takamasa Higuchi, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan


Multimedia Computing and Communications Symposium Chair

Shervin Shirmohammadi, Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada

Carsten Griwodz, University of Oslo, Norway

Pradeep K Atrey, State University of New York, USA


Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluation Symposium Chair

Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA

JaeSeung Song, Sejong University, South Korea

Chen Chen, Peking University, China


Optical and Grid Computing Symposium Chair

Julian Cheng, University of British Columbia, Canada

Yi Zhu, Hawaii Pacific University, USA


Signal Processing for Communications Symposium Chair

Alex Dytso, Princeton University, USA

Kewei Sha, University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA

Feng Ye, University of Dayton, USA


Social Computing and Semantic Data Mining Symposium Chair

Payam Barnaghi, University of Surrey, UK

Xiang Sun, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA


Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium Chair

Nicola Marchetti, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Jihong Yu, Simon Fraser University, Canada


Wireless Communications Symposium Chair

Marco Mezzavilla, NYU, NY

Chetna Singhal, IIT Kharagpur, India

Hongxiang Li, University of Louisville, USA


Wireless Networks Symposium Chair

Xiaojiang Du, Temple University, USA

Igor Bisio, University of Genoa, Italy

Bin Song, Xidian University, China


Publicity Chair

Igor Bisio, University of Genova, Italy

Qiang Duan, Penn State University, USA

Xueqing Huang, New York Institute of Technology, USA


Local/Event Arrangement Chair

Michelle Park, TIA, USA


Registration Chair

Jianfei Shao, Maxim, USA

Zehan Wang, Twitter, UK


Conference Operation Chair

Senad Busovaca, CSU, USA

EK Park, KSU, USA


International Chair

Irene Cheng, Univ. Alberta, Canada

Dacheng Tao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Tingkai Wang, London Metropolitan University, UK

Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA

Hai Lin, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

Guan Gui, NUPT, China


Steering Committee

Mario Gerla, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA

Peter Muller, IBM, Switzerland

EK Park, KSU, USA

Mukesh Singhal,  University of California, Merced, USA

Tomohiko Taniguchi, Fujitsu, Japan

Vahid Tarokh, Harvard University, USA

Haohong Wang, TCL Research America, USA

Guoliang Xue, Arizona State University, USA