This special session is intended to provide a complete coverage in the area of Networks & Communications Systems and to bring together the researchers and industry practitioners to share ideas, challenges, and solutions related to: (i) wired, wireless and mobile technologies, (ii) convergence and next generation networks, (iii) recent advances in the real-time multimedia applications, (iv) traffic analysis and (v) network security; in theoretical and practical aspects.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Wire, Wireless and Mobile Networks
· Wireless Mesh Networks
· Sensor Networks
· Convergent Networks
· Next Generation Networks
· IP Multimedia Subsystem
· Internet Technologies
· Multimedia Communication Systems
· IP-based Applications (Web, VoIP, Multimedia Streaming)
· Cloud computing
· Simulation and Network Measurements
· QoS and QoE
· Traffic Engineering
· IP Traffic Modeling
· Network Performance Evaluation
· Signal and Image Processing
· Cryptography
· Network Security
· Network Anomaly Detection
· Network Traffic Profiling