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Message from TPC Chairs, 2020 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2020

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 29thedition of the European Conference on Networks and Communications EuCNC 2020, which was supposed to take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia. However, due to the well-known unfortunate circumstances that have almost shut down the world, the event turned to virtual. So, unfortunately, at this time, we will not have a chance to show and demonstrate to you all good things that we have been carefully preparing throughout almost two years for you to see, feel and taste in our beautiful city, the jewel of the Mediterranean.Nevertheless, still we are delighted that we have lived up the motto "The Connectivity Revolution", preserving the wide recognition of EuCNCas the premier forum for presentation of research results, and being the best meeting point for technology visionaries and innovators from academia and industry to exchange their newest results and experience, paving the way to the overall success in this cutting-edge industry, aimed to revolutionize the mission of ICT in general. As 5G is on its way to maturity, vision on beyond-5G, as well as even 6G, is under way to provide much more than just an evolution to even wider bandwidth and lower latency, but become a key enabler of end-to-end solutions through solving ever growing challenges in research and development, manufacturing and exploitation of the exciting new technologies for connecting the world at a pace it has never seen before. The EuCNC heritage dates all the way back to 2G, and continues up to nowadays when state-of-the-art high-bandwidth and real-time5G systems have become a key enabler of many new and unexpected application areas, among them autonomous driving, vehicle-to-everything communications, (industrial) Internet-of-Things with massive machine-type communications, as well as ultra-reliable low latency communications among others. In this EuCNC edition, 134 submissions were received from 44countries, not only from Europe, but also as much as 24.9% from other regions, namely Asia/Pacific, USA, Middle East and Africa, Canada and Latin America. Each paper was reviewed by at least three qualified reviewers, with an overall acceptance rate of 50%. Both on Tuesday, June 16th, and Wednesday, June 17th, the conference program starts and ends with a highlight of the latest research trends provided by renowned keynote speakers from academy and industry, whereas the panels will be centered on open RAN, Cybersecurity and 5G for verticals. Accepted papers and posters are organized in 6 tracks and 16 sessions. We thank all authors for submitting their manuscripts, as well as the track co-chairs and reviewers for their devotion to selecting high quality contributions. Special thanks go to European Commission, the EuCNC 2020 sponsor and IEEE, as well as to Huawei Technologies, our Platinum Patron. Finally, we would like to emphasize the hard work of the Local Organising Committee consisting of our young colleagues, and we thank them for their enthusiasm even when we realized that this event could not be organized the way we all planned and gladly expected. We hope that you will enjoy the EuCNC 2020 program and consider contributing to EuCNC 2021 to be held in Porto, Portugal. Vlatko Lipovac, Technical Programme Committee Chair Filipe Cardoso, Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair

wireless ; networks ; communications ; 5G

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