The 5th IEEE Colombian Communications Conference 2012 (COLCOM2012) will be held at the Icesi University in Santiago de Cali, Colombia. The COLCOM 2012 is a technical conference that will allow the academic and industrial community to show their advances in research and development in the communications field, in Colombia and the Latin American Region; it will also open a space for discussion about the impact of communications in our community.

The main issue of this conference will be “Disaster Relief Communications”, and how telecommunications and related areas support this concept. The organizing committee invites submissions of unpublished technical papers in English or Spanish. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, and will be presented in oral or poster sessions.

The symposium program will include a broad range of topics, from physical layer to emerging application technologies.


TOPICS:
The following is a non-exhaustive list of the conference topics:

NETWORKING AND COMMUNICATIONS

- Ad-hoc and sensor communications networks
- Cognitive Networks
- Routing protocols
- High-Speed Networking
- Optical Networking
- Next Generation Networks (NGN)
- Network operations and Management
- Power Line Communications
- Satellite and Space Communications
- Signal Processing and Communications Electronics
- Transmission Access and Optical Systems
- Software Defined Networks (SDN)
- Ubiquitous and Cloud Computing

SMART VEHICULAR NETWORKS

- V2X Networks
- V2X Communications protocols
- Mobility and network models for V2X

HEALTH CARE NETWORKS

- Wireless health care networks
- Wireless health care applications
- Biomedical applications

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

- Cognitive Radio
- Wireless channel simulation
- Mobile applications
- Wireless resources optimization
- Multimedia Communications
- 4G Networks
- Spectrum Management
- Modeling and simulation of mobile wireless channels in the THz band (above 74 GHz)
- Local, personal and body area networks
- Game theory applied to wireless network optimization
- New services and applications of Near Field Communications (NFC)
- Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) in NGN
- Statistical methods to model and simulate QoS/QoE in NGN

DIGITAL TELEVISION

- Interactive digital television (iDTV)
- Interactive applications for iDTV
- Middleware for interactive applications: MHP and HbbTV
- Digital Television in IP Networks (IPTV)
- Modeling and simulation of the physical layer for DVB-T2 and DVB-S2

SECURITY AND LOCALIZATION

- Information and Infrastructure Security

DISASTER RELIEF COMMUNICATIONS

- Emergency Alert Systems
- Accessibility of Emergency Information
- Community based Communication Systems for disaster mitigation


IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2012
- Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2012
- Final manuscript due: April 15, 2012