During the last years promising advancements in nanotechnology have attracted tremendous attention in many fields such as biomedical, environmental or industrial, mainly because its potential applications. Nanotechnology is inherently a multidisciplinary field based on the knowledge of diverse scientific areas, and presents challenges in biology, chemistry and physics among others. In nanotechnology, nanomachines are envisioned as the most basic functional unit able to perform very simple tasks at a nano-scale. Nanonetworks are the inter-connections of nanomachines, and expand the capabilities of a single nanomachine. In this context, traditional communications paradigms do not apply, and novel ones are required to interconnect Nanonetworks. Recent work has revealed that biological systems naturally communicate at the nano-scale through various mechanisms. As such, biologically-inspired communications represent an exciting and challenging paradigm that can be effectively applied to Nanonetworks.

This special track aims to capture the state-of-the-art by soliciting original (unpublished and not currently under review) novel contributes in areas including, but not limited to, the following:

• Molecular communications including, but not limited to, sparse-molecule, short/mid/long range molecular communications, molecular motors, calcium/ion signaling and molecular entanglement.
• Architectures, topologies and algorithms for biologically-inspired nano-scale communication.
• Protocols for biologically-inspired communications.
• Modelling and simulation of biologically-inspired Nanonetworks.
• Physical characterization and modelling of biologically-inspired communications.
• Information theoretical approaches to bio-nano-scale communication.
• Applications for biological nano-scale communications (biosensors, in-body nanonetworks, bio-nano-networks with molecular cells and or nano-machines).
• Nano bio-sensor Networks systems.

Also, we encourage authors to submit empirical data/characterization or modelling of biological-based communication systems. Such contributions will foster both biological-based and biologically-inspired Nanonetworks.

Keynote Speaker:

• Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz (http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~ian/)

Paper Submission:

Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:

• Regular papers: Up to 15 pages
• Short papers: Up to 2 pages
• Work-in-progress papers: Up to 6 pages
• Demo papers: Up to 4 pages

Papers must follow the Springer LNICST format. Please visit http://www.bionetics.org/ submission.shtml for detailed submission instructions.

Important Dates:

• Regular paper submission due: July 30
• Short, work-in-progress and demo paper submission due: September 19
• Notification of acceptance for regular papers: September 12
• Notification of acceptance for short, work-in-progress and demo papers: September 30
• Camera ready due: October 10

Publication:

All accepted paper will be published by Springer. A selected number of best papers will be considered for publication in Elsevier Nano Communication Networks Journal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/nanocomnet).

Track Co-chairs

• Albert Cabellos-Aparicio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya/N3Cat, Spain)
• Eduard Alarcón (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya/N3Cat, Spain)
• Özgür B. Akan (Middle East Technical University/N3Cat, Turkey)

Program committee members

• Raviraj Adve (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Henry Hess (University of Florida, FL)
• Guevara Noubir (Northeastern University, MA)
• Michael Moore (University of California at Irvine, CA)
• Pablo Serrano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
• Satoshi Hiyama (NTT DOCOMO, Japan)
• Alhussein Abouzeid (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY)
• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)
• Falko Dressler (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany)
• Jian-Qin Liu (NICT Kobe Advanced ICT Research Center, Japan)
• Radu Marculescu (Carnegie Mellon University, PA)
• Yuki Moritani (NTT DOCOMO, Japan)
• Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan)
• Valeriu Beiu (United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates)
• Dmitri Botvich (Telecommunications Software & Systems Group, Ireland)
• Jiri Wiedermann (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic)