Important Dates

 Full paper submission: 3/06/2018
 Notification of acceptance: 3/25/2018
 Final paper submission: 4/02/2018

Submission Website and Guidelines

All submission shall follow IEEE Templates, which are available at
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Please submit your original papers at EDAS
http://edas.info/24391

There are four symposia (tracks) of WOCC2018:

  • Wireless communications and Networking Symposium
  • Emerging networks and future internet Symposium
  • Optical communications and photonics Symposium
  • Big data analytics and machine learning Symposium

Please pick one of them to submit your manuscripts

Both (1) 2-page Extended Abstracts, or (2) 3-5 page Full Papers are welcome. A Best Paper will be awarded to a full paper in each symposium.
For the submission of Extended Abstracts, please mark “(Extended Abstract)” as the paper subtitle. All accepted Extended Abstracts will be presented in posters or in dedicated sessions.

Important Reminder

At least one author of an accepted paper must register at the "Regular" or "IEEE Members" rates, even if the author is a student. A registration of "Student" category is not valid for covering the accepted paper. One "Regular" or "IEEE Members" registration can cover at most 2 accepted paper.

All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of five (5) printed pages (10-point font) including figures and tables. The submitted manuscripts should be in pdf format. All manuscripts are recommended to follow the IEEE templates.

IEEE Templates are available at
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Please submit your original papers at EDAS
http://edas.info/24391

Guidelines for the submission of the final version of accepted papers
Camera-ready Submission Deadline:
April. 2, 2018

To fit the IEEEXPLORE requirements your final manuscript needs to pass the verification of IEEE PDFeXpress Plus and IEEE Crosscheck Portal. You need to perform IEEE PDFeXpress Plus on your side. Please follow the instructions below! You will need to setup an account at IEEE PDFeXpress Plus and download the certificated pdf from your IEEE PDFeXpress Plus account. As for IEEE Crosscheck, you don’t need to worry about that we will perform the check for you afterwards.

Before Creating a PDF
1. Please remove subtitle such as (invited paper) or “extended abstract” for review purpose, as IEEEXPLORE does not capture subtitle.
2. The IEEE e-Copyright Form must be completed on EDAS.
3. Add the copyright notice to the bottom of the first page of your paper.
  • For papers in which all authors are employed by the US government, the copyright notice is: U.S. Government work not protected by U.S. copyright
  • For papers in which all authors are employed by a Crown government (UK, Canada, and Australia), the copyright notice is: 978-1-5386-4959-6/18/$31.00 Ⓒ2018 Crown
  • For papers in which all authors are employed by the European Union, the copyright notice is: 978-1-5386-4959-6/18/$31.00 Ⓒ2018 European Union
  • For all other papers the copyright notice is: 978-1-5386-4959-6/18/$31.00 Ⓒ2018 IEEE
Proofread your paper thoroughly to confirm that it will require no revision.

Creating your PDF eXpress plus Account
Instructions for generating camera-ready manuscript by using IEEE template and PDF eXpress:
  • Please use "A4 size," otherwise your manuscript will be excluded from conference proceeding and IEEEXplore.
  • IEEE template can be found below:
    http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
    http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/author_templates.html
  • Access the IEEE PDF eXpress site: http://www.pdf-express.org/plus/
    • First-time users
      a. Click 'New Users - Click Here'.
      b. Enter '43964XP' for the Conference ID, your email address, and choose a new password. Continue to enter information as prompted.
      c. You will receive online and email confirmation of successful account setup.
    • Previous users, but using it the first time for a new conference
      Enter 43964XP for the Conference ID, your email address, and enter the password you used for your old account.
      a. When you click 'Login', you’ll receive an error saying you need to set up an account. Simply click 'Continue'. By entering your previously used email address and password combination, you will enable your old account for access to this new conference.
      b. Check that the contact information is still valid, and click 'Submit'.
      c. You will receive online and email confirmation of successful account setup.
    • Returning users
      Enter 43964XP for the Conference ID, email address and password.
  • For each conference paper, click 'Create New Title
  • Enter identifying text for the paper (title is recommended but not required)
  • Click 'Submit PDF for Checking' or 'Submit Source Files for Conversion'
  • Indicate platform, source file type (if applicable), click Browse and navigate to file, and click "Upload File". You will receive online and email confirmation of successful upload.
  • You will receive an email with your Checked PDF or IEEE PDF eXpress Plus-converted PDF attached. If you submitted a PDF for Checking, the email will show if your file passed or failed
  • Submit your paper to EDAS
IEEE PDF eXpress converts the following file types to PDF
  • Rich Text Format
  • Freelance
  • (La)TeX (DVI and all support files required)
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