Welcome from General Chairs

Welcome to the Annual International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2024)
February 19-22, 2024, Big Island, Hawaii, USA.

Jun Zheng

On behalf of the International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2024) Executive Committee, we are pleased to welcome you to ICNC 2024-Big Island. It has been a real honor and privilege to serve as the General Chair of this conference. It has been rather challenging for the past several years due to global pandemic, lockdowns and travel restrictions. The outbreak happened right after the ICNC’20 conference. Things have been much changed since then, and we are really happy to see that we are on the way back to our normal lives.

Continuing the successful trend since ICNC 2018-2020, ICNC 2024 has brought together a tremendous and rich diversity of authors and speakers from academia, government, and industry around the globe to share ideas and new perspectives on a wide range of computing, communications, and networking research. The popularity of ICNC as a major forum for computing, communications, and networking research is now well established.

This year's conference program consists of technical sessions that include contributed papers, invited papers, and workshops. ICNC 2024 features four keynote lectures by world leaders. Everyday, the conference program starts with the keynote lecture. The three keynote lectures are

• "Learning to Communicate", by Robert Calderbank (NAS/NAE member, IEEE/AAAS Fellow, AT&T Fellow), Charles S. Sydnor Professor, Duke University, USA.
• "On Label Efficient Learning", by Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (IEEE Fellow), Joseph Cummings Professor Department of ECE, Northwestern University, USA.
• "Integrated Sensing and Communications: Tradeoffs and Designs", by H. Vincent Poor (NAS/NAE, IEEE/AAAS Fellow), Michael Henry Strater University Professor, Princeton University, USA.
• "Entanglement Management over Quantum Internet", by Yuanyuan Yang (IEEE/NAI Fellow), SUNY Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University, USA.

The conference also features six plenary lectures by world distinguished researchers. They are

• "Computing In-X for Supporting Big Data Applications", by David Hung-Chang Du (IEEE/MSI Fellow), Qwest Chair Professor, University of Minnesota, USA.
• "Leveraging Machine Learning for Traffic Engineering in Large-scale Networks", by Yusheng Ji (IEEE Fellow), National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan.
• "AIGC for RF Sensing", by Shiwen Mao (IEEE Fellow), Professor and Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar, Auburn University, USA.
• "Heterogeneous Integration and Packaging of RF electronics and components for 5G+ Wireless Communication Systems Using Additive Manufacturing Techniques", by John Papapolymerou (IEEE Fellow), MSU Foundation Professor, Michigan State University, USA.
• "ACA Bayes with Wi-PHY Apps - Asymptotically Correct Approximate Bayes with Wireless PHY Applications", by Dirk Slock (IEEE/EURASIP Fellow), Professor, EURECOM, France.
• "Towards Ubiquitous Computing-Power as A Utility", by Victor Leung (IEEE/RSC/EIC/CAE Fellow), Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada

ICNC 2024 also features four Distinguished Lectures and twenty-six Invited Talks. We are pleased to have the following Distinguished Lecturers:

• "Decentralized Storage Networking", by Xiuzhen Cheng (IEEE Fellow) Professor, Shandong University (NTU), China.
• "Topology ID and Learning over Graphs: Nonlinearities and Dynamics", by Georgios Giannakis (IEEE Fellow), Endowed Chair Professor, University of Minnesota, USA.
• "Federated Learning for eHealth Applications", by Honggang Wang (IEEE Fellow) Founding Chair and Professor, Yeshiva University, USA.
• "Realizing 6G: Objectives, Technical Challenges and Enabling Technologies of Future Networks", by Xianbin Wang (IEEE Fellow) Western University, Canada.

It's also our great honor to have the following Distinguished Invited Speakers (alphabetical order):

• Ender Ayanoglu (IEEE Fellow), Professor, University of California, Irvine, USA.
• Zhipeng Cai (IEEE Fellow), Professor, Georgia State University, USA.
• Yu Cheng (IEEE Fellow), Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA.
• Song Ci (IEEE Fellow) Professor, Tsinghua University, China.
• Yingfei Dong, Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), USA.
• Xinwen Fu, Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.
• Sergei Gorlatch, Professor, University of Muenster, Germany.
• Rose Qingyang Hu (IEEE Fellow), Professor, Utah State University, USA.
• Chin-Tser Huang, Professor, University of South Carolina, USA.
• Marwan Krunz (IEEE Fellow), Kenneth VonBehren Endowed Professor, University of Arizona, USA.
• David W. Matolak (IEEE Fellow), Professor, University of South Carolina, USA.
• Jelena Misic (IEEE Fellow), Professor, Ryerson University, Canada.
• Panos Nasiopoulos (IEEE/CAE Fellow), Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada.
• Eiji Oki (IEEE/IEICE Fellow), Professor, Kyoto University, Japan
• Shervin Shirmohammadi (IEEE Fellow), Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Manos Tentzeris (IEEE Fellow), Ken Byers Professor, Georgia Tech, USA.
• Jie Wang Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.
• Wei Wang Professor, San Diego State University, USA
• Yu Wang (IEEE Fellow) Professor, Temple University, USA
• Cedric Westphal Principal Research Architect, Huawei, USA
• Naoaki Yamanaka (IEEE/IEICE Fellow) Professor, Keio University, Japan
• Shucheng Yu (IEEE Fellow) Associate Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
• Michele Zorzi (IEEE Fellow) Professor, University of Padova, Italy

ICNC 2024 would not be possible without the hard work of many volunteers. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the executive committee members

• TPC Chairs: Falko Dressler, TU Berlin, Germany; Ruidong Li, Kanazawa University, Japan
• TPC Co-Chairs: Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA; Hongyi Wu, University of Arizona, USA; Chunsheng Xin, Old Dominion University, USA
• Executive Chairs: Jian Ren, Michigan State University; Tomohiko Taniguchi, Fujitsu, Japan, USA
• Invited Paper Chairs: Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA; Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pica, Italy
• Tutorial Chairs: Rose Hu, Utah State University, USA; Periklis Chatzimisios, International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Workshop Chairs: Danda B. Rawat, Howard University, USA; Xiaoming Fu, University of Gottingen, Germany
• Publicity Chairs: Zhengxin Yu, Lancaster University, UK; Junji Takemasa, Osaka University, Japan; Yuchao Zhang, BUPT, China; Mai Abdelhakim, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Industrial Program Chairs: Haris Gacanin, RWTH Aachen University, Belgium; Swetha Muniraju, Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium; Jin Yang, Futurewei, USA; Irena Atov, Microsoft, USA
• Local/Event Arrangement Chair: Michelle Park, TIA, USA.
• Registration Chairs: Jianfei Shao, Maxim, USA; Zehan Wang, Twitter, UK.
• Conference Operation Chairs: Senad Busovaca, California State University, USA; EK Park, North Carolina Central University, USA

Symposium Chairs:

• AI and Machine Learning for Communications and Networking (AMCN): Tao Han, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA; Karl Andersson, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden; Rui Ning, Old Dominion University, USA
• Communications and Information Security (CIS): Kaiping Xue, University of Science and Technology of China, China; Hichem Sedjelmaci, Ericsson, France
• Edge Computing, Cloud Computing and Big Data (ECB): Gianluca Rizzo, HES-SO, Switzerland; Cong Wang, Zhejiang University, China
• Mobile and Wireless Networking (MWN): Claudio Casetti, Politechnico di Torino, Italy; Xiang Sun, University of New Mexico, USA; Lotfi Mhamdi, University of Leeds, U.K.
• Multimedia Computing and Communications (MCC): Asbderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France; Wei Wang, San Diego State University, USA
• Next Generation Networks and Internet Applications (NGNI): Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy; Yulei Wu, University of Bristol, U.K.
• Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluations (NAPE): Roberto Rojas-Cessa, New Jersey institute of Technology, USA; Zehui Xiong, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore
• Optical and Grid Networking (OGN): Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Zuqing Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China, China
• Signal Processing for Communications (SPC): Jingxian Wu, University of Arkansas, USA; Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Keio University, Japan; Ana Garcia Armada, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Social Computing and Data Mining (SCDM): Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada; Bin Cao, University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
• Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (WASN): Chin-Tser Huang, University of South Carolina, USA; Jiajia Liu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
• Wireless Communications (WC): Yue Gao, Fudan University, China; Sharief Oteafy, DePaul University Chicago, USA; Qiang Ye, Dalhousie University, Canada

It was our great honor and pleasure to accept the responsibilities and challenges of Conference General Co-chairs. We hope that the conference will provide a stimulating, informative, enjoyable and fulfilling experience to all who attend it.

General Chairs:
Jun Zheng, Southeast University, China