Special Session Co-Chairs
Ari Pouttu
University of Oulu, Finland
ari.pouttu@oulu.fi
Thomas L Marzetta
New York University, USA
tom.marzetta@nyu.edu
Choongil Yeh
ETRI, South Korea
ciyeh@etri.re.kr
Goal
A special session focuses on a timely topic of increasing importance and interest. It aims at bringing together speakers from multiple institutions including preferably industry and academia to present their recent research results. The presenters are invited by the special session organizer(s).
Proposal
The proposal for a special session should follow the template, available at the conference website. A special session can have one or two organizers. The proposal should be submitted via link by 15th of February, 2021
Read the Data Privacy Notice of the University of Oulu IEEE PIMRC 2021 Proposal Submission
Structure
Special sessions will be held during the main conference, which is planned to be a virtual event. All the presenters are required to submit a paper, and all the contributions are based on invitations.
A special session consists of five papers out of which one may be by the session organizers.
Papers
Special session papers should be full papers (5 pages) and should be reviewed by at least three competent independent reviewers being done via EDAS. The special session organizer(s) will allocate the papers to the reviewers, except their own papers, the review of which is handled by the Special Session Chairs. The full paper submission deadline is the same as for the regular papers of the main conference.
The papers will be part of the Conference Proceedings and they will appear in IEEE Xplore.
Schedule
The presentations are pre-recorded can be viewed on demand during the conference week. The virtual session will have live discussion.
Duration
A special session will last one session times-slot, each time slot being about 1h30. Therefore, a special session is expected to accommodate five papers.
Public information
The following information will be made public:
- Organizers’ names, affiliations, e-mail, and biographies
- Session title
- Structure
Evaluation
The following criteria will be taken into consideration for the evaluation and ranking of special session proposals:
- Relevance
- Timeliness
- Technical content
- Novelty
- Overall recommendation
Special Session Co-Chairs will conduct the evaluation.