Scope of conference

Communications Systems and Theory

  • Modulation
  • Coding theory and techniques
  • Fading channels
  • Chip design for communications
  • Multiplexing
  • Adaptive modelling
  • Modelling and simulation techniques
  • Filtering techniques
  • Noise reduction
  • Transmission diversity
  • New techniques in RF-design and modelling
  • Demodulation
  • Communications for disaster management
  • Synchronization
  • Teletraffic models and traffic engineering
  • Queuing Theory
  • Microwave Communications
  • New techniques in RF-design and modelling
  • Satellite & space communications
  • Radio communications
  • Speech technology

DSP

  • DSP algorithms and applications
  • Adaptive signal processing
  • Implementation of signal processing and communications systems
  • Digital and multirate signal processing
  • Multidimensional signal processing
  • VLSI for communications and DSP
  • Signal processing for storage
  • Optical signal processing

Communications Protocols

  • Internet protocols
  • Transport control protocols
  • Routing protocols
  • IP over ATM
  • Communication standards
  • Internet communications
  • Smart Grid Communications

Networks & Network Management

  • ATM systems and networks
  • Routing issues
  • Signalling diagnosis
  • Wavelength assignment
  • Bandwidth management
  • Channel allocation
  • Traffic control
  • Reliability
  • Network modelling, simulation and evaluation
  • Security and privacy
  • Intelligent networks
  • Network capacity analysis
  • Digital integrated services
  • Network management and operation
  • Roaming and traffic engineering
  • Congestion controls
  • Packet scheduling
  • Regulatory issues
  • Buffering
  • Quality of service, reliability and performance modelling
  • Sensor Networks

Photonics

  • Optical fibre communications
  • Optical MEMS for lightwave networks
  • RF/Optical wireless communications
  • Free space optics
  • Photonic networks
  • Optical switching
  • Optical routing
  • Optical signal processing
  • Quality of service, reliability and performance modelling
  • Radio over fibre
  • High-speed devices for photonics
  • Optical buffering

Wireless Networks

  • Location-based Services and Positioning
  • Wireless ad-hoc networks
  • Wireless broadband mobile Access
  • Wireless LAN/PAN
  • MEMO and FORM based communications systems
  • Mobility management
  • Sensor network planning and deployment
  • Wireless/mobile networked applications
  • Interworking heterogeneous wireless/wireline networks
  • Disconnected and weakly connected operation
  • Mobile agents
  • Multimedia communications and broadband services
  • Multimedia QoS support & middleware
  • Proxies and middleware for wireless networks
  • Mobile computing for e-commerce
  • Performance of end-to-end protocols over wireless networks
  • Wireless multicasting
  • 3G/4G network evolution
  • Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks
  • Routing in multihop, ad hoc and sensor networks
  • Quality of service, reliability and performance modelling
  • Congestion and admission control
  • Wireless network security and privacy
  • System-level energy management for wireless devices

Special Topic

  • Communications for smart grid and distributed generation
  • Nano scale communications
  • Data on the power line
  • Smart Metering