Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers on all aspects related to telematics and future generation networks including, but not limited to, the following technical areas:

Telematics Applications

• Social telematics

• Human telematics

• Health telematics

• Telematics system and technology

• Emerging telecommunication and informatics applications

• Vehicle telematics

• Education telematics

• Banking and Insurance telematics

Future Generation Networks

• Future Internet, next-generation networks, optical networks

• Next generation passive and optical access networks

• Network virtualization, services, planning, optimisation, security

• Convergent network architectures

• Provisioning, monitoring, and management of IP services

• Routing issues and technologies

• Network coding and application

• Overlay networks and P2P networking

• Cloud computing

• Software-defined networks

Internet of Things

• IoT and M2M communication and networks

• Sustainable IoT and M2M technologies

• QoS, radio resource management, routing

• Dynamic spectrum management and access

• Test-beds and experimental evaluation

• Big data management and algorithms

• System design, architecture or protocols

Fundamental and Physical

• Information and coding theory

• PHY layer designs or security for wireless networks

• Radio propagation and channel modeling

• Advanced modulation schemes, signal processing, optimisation

• Space-time coding and MIMO, cooperative communications

• Interference characterization and mitigation

• Power-efficient communications, smart antennas, beamforming

• Ultra wideband and gigabit communication,

• Wireless localisation and tracking

Wireless and Mobile Networks

• Cross-layer design, scheduling and radio resource management

• QoS, traffic management and optimisation

• Mobility, location and handoff management

• Multi-cell cooperation and interference management

• Localization for wireless networks, cognitive radio networks

• Spectrum sharing and coexistence, wireless network security

• Green wireless networks, mobile Ad-hoc and wireless sensor

• Small cell and heterogeneous networks, energy efficiency

Optical Communication System

• Advanced optical modulation, detection, components, modules

• Optical fiber subsystems, sensor devices and access networks

• Hybrid wireless-optical networks

• Fibers and fiber devices/amplifiers/lasers/circuits

• Microwave photonics, silicon photonics

• Nano-photonics and micro/nano optics

• Quantum and nonlinear optics, visible light communication

• Dispersion compensation