COMMUNICATIONS / SIGNAL PROCESSING

• Data Storage
• Power Line Communications
• Wireless Communications
• Hybrid Wireless-Fiber Communications
• Transmission, Access & Optical Systems
• Communications at High-Frequencies (>75 GHz)
• Network Coding

VERTICAL ISSUES IN COMMUNICATIONS

• Communications Quality & Reliability
• Communications Systems Integration & Modeling
• Enterprise Networking
• Green Communications
• Multi-tier and Heterogeneous Networks
• Cross-layer Design, Cross-layer Security

NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

• Ad Hoc & Sensor Communications & Networks
• Cognitive Networks
• Communications Switching & Routing
• Software Defined Networking
• Network Function Virtualization
• High-Speed Networking
• Internet Technologies, Protocols and Standards
• Optical Networking

REGULATION AND COMPETITION POLICY OF ICT

• Business Models and Pricing for ICT Sector
• Standardization and Normalization of ICTs
• Software Regulation/Standardization and Equipment
• Spectrum Management Issues

CLUSTER, GRID, P2P AND CLOUD COMPUTING

• Grid and Cluster Computer
• Big Data Analysis and Visualization
• Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools
• Delivery Networks and Services at all layers
• Cloud Business and Legal Implications
• Parallel and Distributed Computing

SOFTWARE AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

• Intelligent and Bio-inspired Computing
• Database and Data Mining
• CSE Education
• Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
• Software Security, Privacy and Trust
• Service and Internet Computing
• Dependable, Reliable and Autonomic Computing
• Real Time Systems
• Software Architecture

COMPUTER  AND INFORMATION THEORY

• Computer Systems Architecture
• Artificial Intelligence
• High Performance Computing
• Coding Theory
• Pattern Recognition
• Quantum Computing
• Cryptography and Data Security

COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE & SERVICES

• Advanced Networking and Applications
• Communications & Information Security
• Information Infrastructure
• Mobile Computing
• Multimedia Communications
• Network Operations & Management

MULTIMEDIA PROCESSING

• Computer Vision
• Visual data Representation
• Geographic Information Systems
• 3D Imaging