Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research or innovative practical applications in areas including, but not limited to: 

Telecommunications Systems and Networks

• Cooperative communications and Cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access

• 2G/2.5G/3G/4G and beyond WiMAX, LTE, WMAN

• All aspects for 5G networks

• Wireless multimedia networks

• Software Defined Networks, Wireless Body Area Network and Wireless Healthcare

• Overlay and Programmable Networks Internet of Things and Smart Cities Services and Support for Smart Cities

• Software Defined Smart Objects Connected Vehicles Green communications and energy efficiency Next Generation Networks Infrastructures

• Security, Cryptography and Privacy Network Design

Industrial networks and applications

• New architectures, protocols and applications for industrial networks, including control network, communication network, sensor network, body area network, social network, opportunistic network, and cloud-based network

• Analysis of industrial networks, including network lifetime, scalability and stability, transmission reliability, quality of service, etc.

Intelligent systems and applications

• Computational intelligence in automation, including neural, fuzzy and evolutionary approaches, ant colonies optimization, swarm intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics, expert systems, multi‐agent systems, game and decision theories, etc.

• Industrial applications of intelligent systems

Information processing and data analysis

• Audio/image/video processing

• Data mining, pattern recognition, estimation and identification

• Information fusion, compressive sensing, signal transforming and filtering

• Fault detection and diagnosis

• Optimization techniques

• Big data analysis and processing

Signal Processing

• Decoding and encoding techniques

• Modulation, coding, and diversity techniques

• Signal detection and parameter estimation

• Signal, image and video processing

• Image Processing and Visualization Audio, acoustic signal, speech and language processing

• Sensor array, multichannel and communications signal processing

• Radar and sonar array signal processing

• Estimation theory and applications

• Signal processing for education

• Bio-inspired modelling and signal processing

• Signal processing applications

Hardware and software design and development

• Analogue/Digital system design and structures

• Design and analysis of embedded industrial systems, including real-time computing, operating systems, communications, etc.

• Modelling and analysis tools for industrial networks and intelligent systems

• Simulation and testbed of current industrial networks and intelligent systems

Security & Privacy

• Incident response

• Encryption, Authentication, Availability Assurance

• Hardware Forensics

• Intrusion Detection

• Network security and protocols