Technical Symposiums
1. Wireless Communications Symposium
1) Antennas, Propagation and Channel Modeling
2) Cognitive Radio and Software Defined Radio
3) Cooperative Communications
4) Cross-Layer Design and Optimization
5) Mobile-to-mobile (inter-vehicle) communications
6) Modulation, Coding and Information Theory
7) Multiple Access Techniques (CDMA, TDMA, FDMA, …)
8) Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) and Multi-antenna Systems
9) OFDM and Multi-Carrier Systems
10) Satellite Communications
11) Ultra-Wideband Communications
12) Signal Processing for Communications
13) Other topics
2. Wireless Networking Symposium
1) Ad Hoc, body-area and sensor Networks
2) Cellular systems (2G/2.5G/3G/4G and beyond)
3) WLAN, WPAN, WMAN, and wireless wide area networks
4) Wireless networks for vehicle, underwater, UAVs communications
5) Wireless mesh networks
6) Inter-networking of wireless heterogeneous and multi-tier networks
7) Protocols (Routing/Switching, flow and congestion control, multicasting, …)
8) Resource management, mobility management, and admission control
9) Network planning, capacity analysis, and topology control
10) Testbeds and deployment
11) Multimedia communications
12) Other topics
3. Optical Communications and Networking Symposium
1) Architectures and technologies for metropolitan, core and local networks
2) Control and management for optical networks
3) Next-generation SONET/SDH
4) Optical access networks (PON, EPON, WDM-PON, …)
5) Optical (WDM/OCDM/OTDM) network and switch architectures
6) Optical network test beds, field trials and experiments
7) Optical networking for grid, storage and multimedia services
8) Optical packet, burst and label switching
9) Planning and optimization of optical networks
10) Other topics
4. Mobile Computing and Internet Symposium
1) Embedded systems
2) Grid, cluster and P2P computing
3) IP advances, applications and services
4) Multicast and anycast
5) Multimedia protocols
6) Performance Modeling and Analysis
7) Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence
8) Protocols (Routing, Transport layer, …)
9) Quality of Service (QoS)
10) Scheduling and Switching
11) Traffic Engineering
12) Web services and Internet computing
13) Other topics
5. Computer and Network Security Symposium
1) Biometric security: technologies, risks, vulnerabilities, bio-cryptography, mobile template protection
2) Cryptography: Conventional public-key crypto, symmetric-key crypto, advanced crypto, and quantum crypto
3) Information systems security
4) Intrusion detection, localization, and countermeasures
5) Mobile and Wireless networks security
6) Operating systems security and log analysis tools
7) Optical network security
8) Security modeling and protocol design
9) Vulnerability, exploitation tools and virus analysis
10) Web, eBusiness, eCommerce, eGovernment security
11) Other topics
