All submissions should be in English. All submissions must be prepared in the IEEE camera-ready format and submitted through the submission system below. Only submissions in PDF format are accepted. Research paper submissions are limited to 8 pages. A paper submitted to IEEE DSC 2021 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the entire period that it is considered for IEEE DSC 2021, and must be substantially different from any previously published work. Submissions are reviewed in a single-blind manner

Please note that all submissions must strictly adhere to the IEEE templates as provided below. The templates also act as a guideline regarding formatting. In particular, all submissions must use either the LATEXtemplate or the MS-Word template. Please follow exactly the instructions below to ensure that your submission can ultimately be included in the proceedings.

Authors must not reuse their past papers as a template. Authors must download a fresh copy of the IEEE DSC 2021 template, either for MS-Word or LATEX, by specifically using the links below. Both provided templates use the US-LETTER page size, which is the only size allowed for submissions. The LATEXtemplate package contains four different starter files, the correct one to use as a starting point for your paper is ‘bare conf.tex’.

Authors must read the format instructions in the PDF version of the template before using it to write their paper. Authors need to make sure that the bibliography is in the required format. For LATEX, this is handled through the special downloadable file.

Authors must proofread their paper PDF file before submission.

   Using these templates is strongly advised to all authors submitting a paper for reviewing and mandatory for those uploading the camera-ready version of their papers. Failure to produce correctly formatted camera-ready submissions may result in the paper’s exclusion from the Proceedings.

   If the URLs of the templates are invalid, please find the substitutes on http://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/create-your-ieee-article/use-authoring-tools-and-ieee-article-templates/ieee-article-templates/templates-for-transactions/.