CYBERSECURITY

• Safety and security systems
• Anonymity, anonymous communications
• Authorization and access control
• Availability and survivability of secure services and systems
• Cloud and distributed applications security
• Computer and network forensics
• Cryptography (Cryptographic implementations for networking)
• Firewall technologies; intrusion detection, localization, and prevention
• Mobile and wireless networks security
• Operating systems and applications security and analysis tools
• Trust models and certificate handling
• Virtual private networks and group security
• Vulnerabilities, exploitation tools and virus analysis
• Web, e-commerce, and m-commerce security

IoT AND SMART CITIES

• Future Internet Research Experimentation for Internet of Things
• Machine to Machine (M2M) and cellular-based protocols for Internet of Things
• Cloud computing, Edge Computing / Fog Computing integration with Internet of Things
• Software Defined Networks for Internet of Things
• Personal Area Networks for IoT
• Smart healthcare and e-health systems
• Smart buildings and smart homes
• Smart education
• Smart environment
• Smart city for special needs
• QoS and QoE of smart city systems, applications, and services
• Sensing, Actuating and IoT for smart cities
• Industry 4.0

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING

• Cellular systems, 4G, 5G and beyond
• Wireless body area networks
• Femtocell networks and traffic offloading
• Wireless mesh networks
• Flow and congestion control
• Mobility, handoff, and location management
• Advanced equalization, channel estimation, and synchronization
• Modulation, coding, and diversity techniques
• Antennas, smart antennas, and space-time processing
• MIMO, multi-user MIMO, and massive MIMO
• Cross-layer design and physical-layer based network issues
• Radio resource allocation and interference management

NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS

• Converged networks and applications
• Optical communications and networking
• Future Internet and next-generation networking architectures
• Network and services virtualization
• Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) Software Defined Networking (SDN)
• Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
• Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Cognitive Radio networks
• Traffic measurement, analysis, modeling, visualization, and engineering
• Cloud, edge, fog and mist computing and networking
• Green computing, networking and energy efficiency

BIG DATA AND ANALYTICS

• Big data models, theories, algorithms, approaches, solutions
• Machine learning, data mining, web mining, and graph mining
• Big data for communications and networking
• Big data integration and visualization
• Big data architecture, infrastructure and platforms
• Big data storage and management
• Privacy protection, trust in Big Data
• Big data for smart cities and smart homes
• Image and signal processing
• Artificial intelligence

COMPUTER AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

• Agile Methodologies
• Methods and software process
• Quality and assessment of products and processes
• Software Testing
• Software Product Line
• Ontologies applied to software engineering
• Software architectures
• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Bio-inspired computing and Evolutionary algorithms
• Applications of Artificial Intelligence
• Information Retrieval
• Global Software Development
• Model-driven software engineering
• Information security
• Knowledge management in software engineering
• Requirements engineering

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

• Performance evaluation and modeling
• Cluster computing
• GPGPUs and FPGAs acceleration
• Simulation
• Computer architecture
• Applications (e.g. Bioinformatics, neuroscience, astrophysics)

VEHICULAR NETWORKS

• Smart mobility and transportation
• Intelligent vehicle-to-infrastructure integration
• Smart traffic system operations
• Smart mobility for Pedestrian and bicyclist safety
• 5G technologies for connected vehicles
• Congestion and awareness control in vehicular networks
• Security, privacy, liability, and dependability in vehicular networks