[gaia] ITNAC2017 Melbourne - LAST DAY CALL- PAPER DUE ON TODAY (FIRM) - TEN STUDENT TRAVEL ASSISTANCE GRANTS -FOUR FEATURED KEYNOTES

[William Liu <[e-mail]>]

Dear GAIAers, my sincere apologize for this last 'SPAM'(if you feel the topic does not fit here): we (ITNACers) are warmly inviting you to contribute and support ITNAC which is a traditional NZ-AU communications and networking community driven international conference. In this year of 2017, our ITNACers are looking forward to welcoming and try best serving to those who are attending in Melbourne  ! :)

Especially I would like to invite your attention to our 4th Keynote: Dr Luca Chiaraviglio from University of Rome Tor Vergata. His topic is on Viability of 5G for Rural Communications*.

Cheers Will from Auckland

*Reference paper and News in Media:

*         Luca Chiaraviglio, Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, William Liu, Jairo A. Gutierrez, Jaap van de Beek, Robert Birke, Lydia Chen, Filip Idzikowski, Daniel Kilper, Paolo Monti, Antoine Bagula, Jinsong Wu, Bringing 5G in Rural and Low-Income Areas: Is it Feasible? IEEE Communications Standards Magazine 1(3):01 Sep 2017
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317427117_Bringing_5G_in_Rural_and_Low-Income_Areas_Is_it_Feasible


*         Associated Professor Jairo A. Gutierrez's Interview with Jesse Mulligan on Radio NZ: http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=201849174

*         Assistant Professor Luca Chiaraviglio's interview on L'Eco del Chisone (in Italian): https://sites.google.com/site/lucachiaraviglio/ECOC2617Pagina_007.pdf

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TEN STUDENT TRAVEL ASSISTANCE GRANTS
ITNAC 2017 is pleased to announce there will 10 AUD$600 student travel assistance grants. To apply for a travel assistance grant please send an application letter detailing how the travel assistance grant is to be used plus a letter of support from your supervisor to the ITNAC committee [e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>

FOUR FEATURED KEYNOTES:
Professor Ying-dar Lin, IEEE Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer, Topic on Network Cloudification: SDN-NFV and 5G-MEC with Edge and Fog Computing
Professor Rudolf Mathar, Pro-Rector for Research and Structure at RWTH Aachen University, Topic on Elementary Channels for Quantization, Neural Networks and Molecular Information Exchange
Professor Jean Armstrong, IEEE Fellow, Topic on Visible light communications: a solution to the spectrum crunch?
Dr Luca Chiaraviglio, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Topic on Viability of 5G for Rural Communications

More details can be found: http://itnac.org.au/2017/keynotes.html

TWO WORKSHOPS: http://www.itnac.org.au/2017/workshops.html
(1) Amateur Radio Communications
(2) Software Defined Networking Workshop
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: ITNAC 2017
Technically co-sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, TCSIM and Indexed by Ei COMPENDEX
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The 27th IEEE International Telecommunication Networks and Application Conference - ITNAC 2017
November 22-24, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia
http://www.itnac.org.au

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Full paper submission deadline (FIRM): August 31, 2017