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ICUMT 2012 will consist of two tracks: Telecommunications Track (ICUMT-T) and Control Systems, Automation and Robotics Track (ICUMT-CS).

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Next Generation Wireless Systems, Services and Protocols

- 3GPP Long-Term Evolution (LTE)
- Femto cells
- IMS and IMS-based services
- Mobility, handoff protocols and management
- Next generation WLANs, mesh, PAN, BAN
- 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 infrastructure;
- 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
- 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

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