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

• Device-to-device communications

• 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

• Internet of Things

• Interoperability in IoT

• Security and privacy issues in IoT

• Industrial IoT

• 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

• User experience and usability studies in ICT

• 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