Call for Papers

EAI MLICOM 2023 will be held as an on-site conference and if needed, Accepted Authors who are unable to attend the event in person will be given an option to present remotely.

Scope

African countries are striving for enhancing the Internet infrastructure internally and externally i.e., among African Union (AU) countries, and with other continents. Internet and ICT infrastructure are quite vital in order to improve e-government services and to close the digital dividend for suburban, rural, and deep rural regions. The total length of optical fiber throughout Africa is more than 4 850 km, while the wireless coverage for 4G is about 63%. For terrestrial satellites, thirteen African countries have launched about 48 satellites. All these infrastructures look amazing and Africa looks doing well, however, Internet penetration is still quite low compared with the other continental where it was +43% in 2021, which is below the global average of 67%. AFRICOMM 2023 aims to bring together researchers, academia, industry, and policymakers together in telecommunication to close the gap and unified the goals among them for enhancing African infrastructure and services. Internet aspects from physical up to application and services to be discussed, analyzed, and proposed solutions for certain neglected areas and services that are uniquely found in Africa and do not have interest among investors due to lack of expenditure and ROI factors.

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Topics

• 1.       Internet Infrastructure 
  • Terrestrial Satellite i.e., LEO, MEO, GEO, etc.
  • Optical Fiber and Packet Optical Networks and Services aspects
  • Wireless and Cellular networks
  • IoT, NB-IoT, MTC, etc,
  • Distributed Antenna Systems
  • ICT infrastructures for critical environmental conditions

  2.       Internet Services 

  • MEC, Cloud, Edge, Fog computing
  • Services based on AI, ML, RL, DL, etc.
  • Energy-aware ICT infrastructure
  • Open-Source simulations
  • Cybersecurity, Privacy, etc.
  • Web 3.0, Web3, Semantic, ontology, etc.
  • Adaptive processing technologies
  • Geodesy, Navigation, and Remote Sensing
  • ICT infrastructures and services based on alternative energies
  • Creative and digital economy
  • Smart cities, social networks
  • e-Government and e-services

Publication

All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, IO-Port, MatchSciNet, Inspec and Zentralblatt MATH.

Additional publication opportunities:

• EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
• EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series
  (titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus)

Paper submission

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).

• Regular papers should be up to 12-15+ pages in length.
• Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length.

All conference papers undergo a thorough peer review process prior to the final decision and publication. This process is facilitated by experts in the Technical Program Committee during a dedicated conference period. Standard peer review is enhanced by EAI Community Review which allows EAI members to bid to review specific papers. All review assignments are ultimately decided by the responsible Technical Program Committee Members while the Technical Program Committee Chair is responsible for the final acceptance selection. You can learn more about Community Review here.

Important dates

Late Track

Full Paper Submission deadline
20 August 2023
Notification deadline
20 September 2023
Camera-ready deadline
20 October 2023

Main Track