Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Network Architectures
• Core, metro and access networks
• Optical networks
• Ad hoc, sensor, wireless mesh, and disruptive networks
• Energy efficient architectures
• PLC, DSL, cellular, WiMAX, LTE, 4G, WLAN, WSN

Network Operation
• Nomadic, ubiquitous, and cloud computing
• Managing energy efficiency: smart grid communications
• Data fusion and data mining
• Network coding

Protocols
• Protocol engineering
• Scheduling mechanisms
• Energy efficient protocols
• New protocol stacks: SOA, functional blocks
• Protocols for security, trust, and privacy
• Routing, multicast, and peer - to - peer networking

Modelling
• Traffic source modeling
• Mobility models
• QoS and QoE
• Queuing systems, Markov models, discrete simulation techniques
• Game theory

Tests, Experiments and Optimization
• Network planning, optimization, and migration
• Resilience
• Techno - economics
• Testbeds, evaluation and case studies