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ABOUT THE CONGRESS

ICUMT is an IEEE technically co-sponsored annual international congress providing an open forum for researchers, engineers, network planners and service providers in telecommunications targeted on newly emerging systems, standards, services, and applications. ICUMT is positioned as a premier international annual congress for the presentation of original and fundamental research and engineering results. The aim of ICUMT is to bring together Russian and international players in telecommunications, robotics and control. The congress will consist of open call sessions, workshops and industrial panels.

TRACKS

ICUMT 2014 will consist of two tracks, Telecommunications Track (ICUMT-T), and Control Systems, Automation and Robotics Track (ICUMT-CS). ICUMT-T is an annual international congress providing an open forum for researchers, engineers, network planners and service providers in telecommunications targeted on newly emerging algorithms, systems, standards, services, and applications. ICUMT-CS is an annual international congress providing an open forum for researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in control, automation and robotics targeted on newly emerging algorithms, systems, standards and applications.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Telecommunications track (ICUMT-T)

Next Generation Wireless Systems and Services

3GPP Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA)
802.16 and WiMAX
Femto Cells
IMS and IMS-based services
Mobility, handoff protocols and management
Wireless Access Technologies and related systems and protocols

Next generation 802.11 and 802.15 including mesh, PAN, BAN, etc.
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) and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs)

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 (e.g. 802.11p)
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
e-Commerce, Mobile Commerce, e-Government, e-Learning and e-Health

Bio-inspired/Bio-oriented Networks
Body-area networks
Wireless telemedicine and E-health services
General IP-based wired and wireless networking issues (including routing, e2e QoS, performance evaluation, transport layer optimization etc.)

Location techniques and location-based services LBS

Broadband Satellite and HAPS (High Altitude Platform Station) Technologies

Information Security Technologies

Web Technologies

Multimedia & Internet Systems, Services and Standards

Mobile Internet, Internet Telephony (VoIP, MoIP) and IPTV

Network Management, Operation and Maintenance

Optical Networking Technologies and Applications

Open Programmable Networks and Active Networks

Communication Network Topology and Planning

Systems & Software Engineering Aspects

GRID, Distributed Computing Technologies and Services

IT Services Technologies

Control Systems, Automation and Robotics track (ICUMT-CS)

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