## Welcome Message from the Steering Committee Chair and the General Chair of WiMob'2020

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 16th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob'2020). I would have liked to have host you as initially planned in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, of the geographic region of Macedonia. But, unfortunately, with the Covid-19 outbreak, IEEE ComSoc and WiMob 2020 Organizing Committee decided to have it as you know virtually. So, I hope it will be for next time! Since the 1st WiMob in 2005, the IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications has been the key forum for the exchange of knowledge and experience among researchers, developers and practitioners of wireless and mobile technology. For fifteen years, the International IEEE WiMob conference has provided unique opportunities for researchers and developers to interact, share new results, show live demonstrations, and discuss emerging directions in Wireless Communications, Mobile Networking and Ubiquitous Computing. Putting together WiMob 2020 has been a team effort. First of all, we would like to thank the authors of all submitted papers. Furthermore, we would like to express our gratitude to the program committee and to all external reviewers, who worked very hard on reviewing papers and providing suggestions for their improvements. The technical program of the main conference consists of 36 full-papers constituting 35% of acceptance ratio and 6 short papers and 4 invited papers. Moreover, we are proud and thankful of having 2 renowned keynote speakers at the 2020 edition of WiMob: - Professor Elisa Bertino from Purdue University, USA and - Professor Xuemin (Sherman) Shen from University of Waterloo, Canada. We would also like to thank the organizers of all workshops organized jointly with WiMob 2020:

- 7th International Workshop on Cooperative Wireless Networks (CWN'20): Cristina López Bravo and Pablo Fondo Ferreiro (Universidade de Vigo, Spain), David Candal Ventureira, Universidade de Vigo, Spain) and Antonio Javier García Sánchez (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain)
- 7th International Workshop on ICT Systems for Public Protection and Risk Reduction (ICT4PPRR'20): Maurizio Casoni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy), Carlo Augusto Grazia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy ) and Martin Klapez (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
- 13th International Workshop on Selected Topics in Wireless and Mobile computing (STWiMob 2020): Anna Maria Vegni (Roma Tre University, Italy), Damianos Gavalas (University of Aegean, Greece) and Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon, France) We would like to thank our honorary General chair Fabrice Labeau (McGill University, Canada) for his support. Also, we would like to thank as well as our Executive chair Anna Maria Vegni (Roma Tre University, Italy) for the strong help in the management of the entire conference. Our thanks also go to the Symposium chairs: Damianos Gavalas (University of Aegean, Greece), Rongxing Lu (University of New Brunswick, Canada), Abdallah Shami (Western University, Canada), Guan Gui (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China), Valeria Loscri (INRIA, France) and Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky, USA). Without the help of the publicity co-chairs WiMob will not have had such a success; so, many thanks to Adel Sharar Aldalbahi (King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia), Abio D'Andreagiovanni (UTC - Sorbonne University, France), Chandan Giri (Indian Institute of Engineering Science & Technology, India), Hongzhi Guo (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China), Fatima Hussain (Royal Bank of Canada Toronto, Canada), Khalil Ibrahimi (University Ibn Tofail, Morocco), Lotfi Mhamdi (University of Leeds, UK). Also, we would like to thank Laura Galluccio (University of Catania, Italy) and Kurz Marc (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria) for handling all aspects of the workshops start-up. Finally, we would like to thank our technical sponsors IEEE and IEEE Communications Society for endorsing the conference. We hope that you will find this program interesting and thought-provoking and that it will provide you with a valuable opportunity to share ideas with other researchers and practitioners from institutions around the world.

Abderrahim Benslimane WiMob 2020 Steering Committee Chair University of Avignon, France & Samuel Pierre General Chair Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada