ICUMT 2010
October 18-20, 2010
Moscow
http://icumt.org/

The conference proceedings (including workshops) will be published in IEEE Xplore (approved) and indexed in relevant databases (such as EI-index).

Conference on Telecommunications ICUMT-T
http://icumt.org/index.php/cfp-conference-on-telecommunications

Conference on Control Systems, Automation and Robotics ICUMT-CS
http://icumt.org/index.php/cfp-conference-on-control

ICUMT is an annual international congress providing an open forum for researchers, engineers, network planners and service providers in telecommunications and control systems targeted on newly emerging algorithms, 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 and control systems. The congress will consist of plenary sessions, open call sessions and workshops.

The ICUMT 2010 is supported by IEEE and the Popov Society and regarded as very important part of scientific life of Russia.

The congress has strong industrial support from worldwide leading vendors as well as national companies and SMEs.

The conference proceedings (including workshops) will be published in IEEE Xplore (approved) and indexed in relevant databases (such as EI-index).

Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue.

Conference on Telecommunications ICUMT-T: Call for Papers

About the Conference

ICUMT-T is an annual international conference 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-T is positioned as a premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental research and engineering results. The aim of ICUMT-T is to bring together Russian and international players in telecommunications. The conference will consist of plenary sessions, open call sessions and workshops.

The ICUMT Congress 2010 is supported by the Russian scientific funding agencies as well as by Popov Society (IEEE Sister) and regarded as very important part of scientific life of Russia.

The congress has strong industrial support from worldwide leading vendors as well as national companies and SMEs.

The conference proceedings (including workshops) will be published in IEEE Xplore (approved) and indexed in relevant databases (such as EI-index).

Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to

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

Paper submission

The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking and data communications. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published in IEEE Xplore (pending). Papers must be submitted electronically in the EDAS in double column IEEE format. The maximum size of paper should be 8 pages including tables and figures. The first page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue.

Conference on Control Systems ICUMT-CS: Call for Papers

About the Conference

ICUMT-Control Systems is an annual international conference providing an open forum for researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in control, automation and robotics targeted on newly emerging algorithms, systems, standards and applications.

ICUMT-Control Systems is positioned as a premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental research and engineering results. The aim of ICUMT is to bring together Russian and international players in control systems, optimization, robotics and automation. The conference will consist of plenary sessions, open call sessions and workshops.

The ICUMT Congress 2010 is supported by the Russian scientific funding agencies as well as by Popov Society (IEEE Sister) and regarded as very important part of scientific life of Russia.

The congress has strong industrial support from worldwide leading vendors as well as national companies and SMEs.

The conference proceedings (including workshops) will be published in IEEE Xplore (approved) and indexed in relevant databases (such as EI-index).

Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to

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

Paper submission
The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking and data communications. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published in IEEE Xplore (pending). Papers must be submitted electronically in the EDAS in double column IEEE format. The maximum size of paper should be 8 pages including tables and figures. The first page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue.