Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Telecommunications track (ICUMT-T) Next Generation Wireless Systems and Services 3GPP Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) 802.16 and WiMAX Femto Cells IMS and IMS-based services Mobility, handoff protocols and management Wireless Access Technologies and related systems and protocols Next generation 802.11 and 802.15 including mesh, PAN, BAN, etc. Ultra-wideband communications (UWB) Underwater communications Green Communications Energy-efficient networking Energy-efficient circuits, devices and transmission technologies Energy efficiency of data centers and intelligent cloud computing Cross-layer optimizations to minimize energy consumption on a network scale Cognitive, cooperative and reconfigurable networks Protocols and protocol extensions for energy efficient networks Network load balance and smart information storage Remote power management for wireless terminals and access networks Hierarchical and distributed techniques for energy management Harvesting distributed energy generation Smart Grid Information theory on energy efficiency Energy evaluation and comparison of different network technologies Novel network concepts and architectures lowering the overall footprint of ICT Estimation and evaluation of the worldwide footprint of ICT Regulation and standardization Deployment, trial experience, business models and applications Low-layer Wireless technologies Cognitive Radio Networks and Systems Spectrum sensing and spectrum management Dynamic spectrum access Cooperation and Game-Theoretical Protocols for Cognitive Radios Software defined radio Cross-Layer Protocol Design Regulations and standards Cooperative communications and networking Multi-Carrier Systems & Solutions MIMO and multi-antenna communications Multi-carrier access schemes such as OFDMA, MC-CDMA, DFTS-OFDM, IFDMA, OFDM-IDMA Information and coding theory Cryptography Coding for noisy channels and erasure channels Source coding and data compression Joint source-channel coding Network coding and coding for multi-terminal systems Cooperation, competition and cognition in wireless networks Digital Broadcasting Technologies and Services System architectures Security in broadcast and multicast communications Internet broadcasting Mobile broadcasting and mobile TV Emerging standards, e.g., DVB-S2, DVB-RCS, DVB-H, DVB-T, MediaFLO services and applications Pervasive computing and smart environment RFID and Sensor Network Technologies Architecture and platforms Distributed and pervasive services Personal and body networks, wearable computing Semantic analysis Business models Digital Home Network Technologies Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) Vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-roadside communications Intra-vehicle communications Vehicle-to-Internet communications Mobility and vehicular traffic models Information collection and dissemination Analytical and simulation techniques Experimental systems and field operational testing Safety and non-safety related applications Recent standardization efforts and problems (e.g. 802.11p) Overview of the activities and status of the ongoing projects Deployment strategies and predictions P2P technologies Advances in theoretical foundations of P2P Security, trust and reputation in P2P Performance analysis of P2P systems, applications and services Quality of experience in P2P systems Mobile P2P P2P for sensors Economic, business models and charging mechanisms in P2P Legal and regulatory issues Social Networks Computational Aspects of Social Network Applications Network evolution and growth mechanisms Network geography Search in network Security, data protection inside communities Evaluation and benchmarking e-Commerce, Mobile Commerce, e-Government, e-Learning and e-Health Bio-inspired/Bio-oriented Networks Body-area networks Wireless telemedicine and E-health services General IP-based wired and wireless networking issues (including routing, e2e QoS, performance evaluation, transport layer optimization etc.) Location techniques and location-based services LBS Broadband Satellite and HAPS (High Altitude Platform Station) Technologies Information Security Technologies Web Technologies Multimedia & Internet Systems, Services and Standards Mobile Internet, Internet Telephony (VoIP, MoIP) and IPTV Network Management, Operation and Maintenance Optical Networking Technologies and Applications Open Programmable Networks and Active Networks Communication Network Topology and Planning Systems & Software Engineering Aspects GRID, Distributed Computing Technologies and Services IT Services Technologies Control Systems, Automation and Robotics track (ICUMT-CS) Control Systems: Adaptive control Robust control Process control Complex systems Mechatronic systems Co-operative control Identification and estimation Nonlinear systems Intelligent systems Hybrid systems Networked control systems Neural networks Fuzzy systems Genetic algorithms Evolutionary computation and control Precision motion control Control applications Control engineering education Robotics and Automation Robot design, development and control Human-robots interfaces Mobile robots and autonomous systems Human augmentation and shared control Space and underwater robot Telerobotics and Teleoperation Industrial networks and automation Intelligent warehouses Modeling, simulation and architectures Vision, recognition and reconstruction Virtual Reality Control and supervision systems Instrumentation systems Biomedical instrumentation and applications Web-based control Autonomous agents Petri nets