The Conference on Future Internet Communications BCFIC Vilnius 2012 will address all the challenges of building the Future Internet, which will be based on mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications infrastructures. BCFIC Vilnius 2012 will become a stage for researchers, officials, decision makers, practitioners from the public sector and industry, people involved in other related initiatives and many others. The Conference will facilitate knowledge transfer to the community and practitioners by promoting results dissemination.

The Scientific Programme will incorporate all the components of Future Communication Networks including the topics Future Internet Technologies, Internet of Things, wireless networking for moving objects etc.

The Internet of the Future will incorporate a large number of autonomous wireless objects moving with diverse patterns and speeds while communicating via several radio interfaces. Examples of such objects may include humans, cars or unmanned aerial vehicles, with every object acting as a networking device generating, relaying and/or absorbing data. Achieving the Internet of the Future, will require global interoperability amongst objects/devices, not typically common place due to inherent features of today’s Internet. To overcome the current shortcomings, a number of research challenges have to be addressed in the area of networking, including protocol engineering, development of applications and services, as well as realistic use-cases. Applications, services, overlay networking will receive a special treatment within the Conference.

BCFIC Vilnius 2012 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE (approved) and IEEE Lithuania Section.

BCFIC Vilnius 2012 proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore and indexed in the correspondent databases (e.g. EI-index and others).

Core Thematic Topics of interest for the BCFIC Vilnius 2012 include, but are not limited to:


Future Internet Technologies

Ubiquitous computing and networking
Future Internet Architecture and Protocol Design
Scalable Architectures for the Real World Internet
Future Internet Self-Management Frameworks
QoS and QoE
Platforms and Middleware for Seamless Service and Content Delivery
Cloud Computing
Network Security
Green Communications
Energy-efficient networking
Privacy, security and reputation, Identity management
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
Metadata and Meta modeling
XML and Data Management
Knowledge Management
Web Security and Privacy
Cyber threats
Web Services and Web Engineering
Web Intelligence
Bio-inspired/Bio-oriented Networks
Wireless Networking for Moving Objects

End-to-end Quality of Service Support
Traffic Characterization and Modeling
Resource Management and Admission Control
Cross layer design, optimization and Interactions
Routing and Addressing
Network Security in Wired and Wireless
Network Management Applications
Services and Applications
Mobile Service Level Agreements and Specification
Mesh and Ad-hoc Networks
Wireless Multimedia
Home networking

Home Networks
ITU G.hn concept
Overlay Networks
Transport Protocols
Network Planning
Convergence of Broadcast and Communications Technologies
Solutions for Consumer Communications
Digital TV and Radio Broadcasting
Computing in Signal Processing
Intelligent Agent and Web Applications
Intelligent Control and Automation
Mobile and Wireless Networks

Cellular & broadband Wireless (3G/4G/5G)
Cognitive wireless networks
Cooperative communications
Ecological wireless networks
Multi-hop networks
Ad hoc networks
Sensor networks
Local dependent networks
Mobile computing
Analysis, simulation, measurement and performance evaluation
Congestion and admission control
Routing, Qos and scheduling
Satellite communications
Transport layer issues
Wireless multicast
Wireless IP
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
Social Networks

Computational Aspects of Social Network
Security, data protection inside communities
Evaluation and benchmarking
E-business

e-Business system design and development
e-Payment and e-Commerce
Social and Legal Issues
Digital Ecology
e-Health
e-Governance
e-Entertainment
e-Journalism
e-Learning and virtual classrooms