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.

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.

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