The 27th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2020), technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), is seeking highly-innovative and state-of-the-art research outputs from academia, the telecommunication industry as well as recent advances in standardization. It aims to provide a forum for researchers and technologists to present new advances and contributions in the form of keynotes, tutorials, regular and special sessions.

Call for Papers
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Potential topics include, but not limited to:
• Fifth-generation (5G) mobile communications
• Heterogeneous networks and small cells
• Big data networking, AI/machine learning for IoT communications
• Software radio
• Protocols, architectures, and applications for the Internet of things
• Network functions virtualization and software-defined networking
• Green communications and energy efficiency
• Self-organizing/self-deploying networks
• Cognitive radio and networks
• Wireless sensor and actuator networks
• D2D and M2M communications
• Ad-hoc communications
• Cooperative communications
• Multi-antenna and beamforming systems
• Antenna and RF design and development
• Game theory for communications
• Signal processing for communications
• Wireless communication testbeds, measurements, and modeling
• Optical networks and converged optical-wireless networks
• Millimeter-wave techniques
• Terahertz communications
• ICT for smart cities
• Smart grid communications
• Powerline communications
• Vehicular networking
• Pervasive and mobile computing
• Cloud computing
• Satellite and space communications
• Emerging WLANs, WPANs, and WMANs
• Optical communications and technologies
• Wireless optical communications and VLC
• Information theory, channel coding, and joint source-channel coding
• Network coding techniques
• Image processing, video compression, and coding
• QoS provision and management
• Metrics and models for QoE
• Multimedia and virtual reality
• Cryptography and network security standards for communications and networking
• Machine learning for wireless communications

Call for Tutorials
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Proposals are solicited for half-day Tutorials from leading researchers. Tutorials provide clear and focused teaching material covering new and emerging topics within the scope of telecommunications.

Call for Special Sessions
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Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track. Special sessions topic (regularly updated):
• Optical Networks and Systems
• Machine Learning for Wireless Networks
• Telemetry and Signal Processing for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
• RFID and Sensing Technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT)
• Compressive Sampling and Super Resolution

Important Dates
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Regular Submission Deadline: 3 February 2020 (extended)
Tutorial Proposal Deadline: 3 February 2020 (extended)
Special Sessions Submission Deadline: 3 February 2020 (extended)
Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2020
Camera-ready deadline: 30 March 2020
Registration deadline: 30 March 2020
Conference date: 20-22 April 2020

The proceedings of ICT 2020 will be published and will be made available on IEEE Xplore.


Keynote Speakers
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1. Johnny Gerard Plate, Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Republic of Indonesia
2. Vish Nandlall, VP Emerging Technology, and Ecosystem Development at Dell EMC, USA
3. Anush Gopalan, Founder, and Chairman of Heterogeneous Communication Technologies, India
4. Mallik Tatipamula, CTO of Ericsson Silicon Valley, USA
5. Charlie Isaacs, CTO for Customer Connection, Salesforce

Regards,
ICT2020 Committees:
Executive Co-Chairs:
Achmad Munir, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Indra Hartarto Tambunan, Institut Teknologi Del, Indonesia

TPC Co-Chairs:
Tutun Juhana, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Oliver Holland, AWTG Limited, UK
Fu-Chun Zheng, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

ICT Co-Founders:
Hamid Aghvami, King's College London, UK
Farokh Marvasti, Sharif University of Technology, Iran