TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:

* Networking in Education and Research:

European NRENs Status and Evolution,

Collaborative and Groupware Applications,

Web Content Delivery Applications,

High Performance Computing,

e-learning.

* Network Security:

Intrusion Detection,

Vulnerabilities and Attack Taxonomies,

Policies in Educational Networks,

Security Engineering,

Authentication, Access Control and Audit.

* Technologies for Future Internet:

Networking Infrastructures Technologies,

QoS,

Traffic Engineering,

VoIP and Video Conference,

Multimedia Streaming,

Network Protocols,

Broadband Access Technologies,

Green Computing.

* Cloud Computing and Network Virtualisation:

Cloud,

Virtualisation,

Software-defined Networking,

Programmable Networking.

* Network Management:

Network Operation Centres,

Network Services Management,

Fault Tolerance,

Network Monitoring,

Policy-Based Management,

Remote Network Management.

* Sensor Networking:

Sensor Networks Architectures and Applications,

Sensor Networks Monitoring and Management,

Wireless Information Networks,

Signal Processing,

Ad Hoc Networks.

* Wireless and Mobile Networks:

Mobile Internet Applications,

Cellular Networks, Femtocell Networks.

* Pervasive Systems and Computing:

System Architectures and Platforms,

Hardware Support Pervasive Computing and Communication,

Software Infrastructures for Pervasive System,

Middleware Services and Agent Technologies,

Integration of Wired and Wireless Networks,

Security and Privacy for Pervasive Systems,

Ubiquitous Computing.

*Security & Resilience in Cyber-Physical Systems:

Industrial Internet of Things

Networked Industrial Control Systems 
SCADA Systems 
Additive Manufacturing 
Critical Infrastructures

* Open Source and GNU in education and research:

GNU and GPL in Education,

Operating Systems,

Application for Education and Research,

Software Solutions for Network Management.

* Open Distance Learning:

Web-Education Systems,

The Future of Learning,

Quality of ODL .

* Social Networking and Services:

Impact of the Internet in Social Society,

Computer Aided Education,

Cloud as Services,

e-commerce, e-banking, e-economy,

e-services for community.

* Social Aspects of Networking Environment Today:

Impact of the Internet in Social Society,

Computer Aided Education.

* Cisco Networking Academy Program