Virtual Conference: After evaluating the current COVID-19 situation and associated travel restrictions, the conference will be held virtually on 20-22 December 2021 as the safety and well-being of all conference participants are of the highest priority. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore Digital Library after they are presented at the virtual conference.

CIT-2021 is the 20th edition of the highly successful International Conference on Computer and Information Technology. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of computer and information technology. CIT has become a major platform for researchers and industry practitioners from different fields of computer and information technology. Each year, CIT attendees appreciate and benefit from multidisciplinary exchanges in computer and information technology. In previous years, CIT has attracted many high quality research papers spanning over the various aspects of information technology, computing science and computer engineering. These papers highlight foundational work that strives to push beyond limits of existing computer technologies, including experimental efforts, innovative systems, and investigations that identify weaknesses in existing IT services.

CIT-2021 is planned to be hosted in London, UK. However, if the COVID-19 situation and associated travel restrictions remain, the conference will be held virtually. All accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and will be submitted for indexing by Engineering Index (EI). The authors of selected best papers will be invited post conference to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious journals to be planned in conjunction with the conference.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Track 1: Computer Science

• Computer System Architecture
• Computer Hardware
• System Software and Software Engineering
• Operating Systems
• Memory and Storage
• Programming Languages
• High Performance Computing
• Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Cloud Computing and Virtualization
• Edge Computing
• Computational Science
• Database and Data Management
• Pattern Recognition
• Machine Learning

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cyberphysical Systems
• Big Data
• Data Science and Systems
• Data and Informatics
• Information Technology for Biomedicine and Smart Health
• Biometrics
• Complex systems
• Virtual / Augmented Reality
• Signal Processing
• Microwave and Radar
• Social Computing and Social Networks
• Web Technologies
• Multimedia and Image Processing

• Future Internets
• Internet-of-Things
• 5G wireless networks
• Sensor Networks
• Software defined networking
• Network security and also cryptography
• Network Function Virtualization
• Ultra dense wireless networks
• Wireless Local Area Networks
• Network Access Control
• Traffic engineering
• Device-to-Device communication
• Information Centric Networking (ICN)
• Wireless Communications
• Mobile Communications
• Satellite Communications

• Blockchain
• Cybersecurity
• Identity and access management
• Digital certificates
• DDoS attack mitigation
• Network device security
• Secure remote accesss
• Security certifications
• Privacy and data security
• Trust and Reliability
• Biometrics security
• Applications and mobile platform security

All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website ( https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/cit2021-submission/) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts).

Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Once accepted, the paper will be included into the conference proceedings published by Conference Publishing Services (submitted for indexing by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference.