Topics of Interest
The NTMS’2008 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of News technologies, mobility, security and data communication networks. The research sessions will include presentations of latest research projects, papers, posters, tutorials, panels, demos, industrial track and exhibitions around the following topics:
Design and analysis of Mobile/Wireless Networks and Systems :
- Mobile 3G, 4G, LTE (Long Term Evolution), convergence (IMS, …)
- Wireless Personal Area Networks and Wireless Local Area Networks (Wi-Fi, ...)
- Ad Hoc networking, Sensor networks, Self-organizing mesh networks and autonomic systems • Wireless Mesh Networks, Metropolitan Area Networks & regional area networks (WiMAX/802.16, 802.16e, WiMAXphase 2, WiBro, WiRAN)
- Optical networks and switching (new generation SDH, OTN)
- Satellite Systems
- Vehicular Communication Technologies and Systems
- Mobility management and Handover
- Medium Access Control & Scheduling Techniques for Wireless Systems
- Quality of Service provisioning
- Resource allocation management
- Performance evaluation
- Cross-layer network design and optimization
- Security
- Cognitive radio and smart antenna
- Testbed experiments, Mobile/Wireless Applications and Services
Security :
- Network security, vulnerability, authentication and access control
- Network fault-tolerance & reliability, debugging & troubleshooting
- Confidentiality, Data and system integrity
- Intrusion Detection, Prediction, and Countermeasures
- Identity management and Trust management
- Privacy, contract agreements, and payment systems
- Key Distribution and management, Public key infrastructure implementation
- Mobile code security
- Security and mobility management
- Web, e-mail , m-commerce, e-business and e-commerce security
- Testbeds, performance evaluation and formal specification methods
- Virtualization for security and reliability
New Technologies & services :
- Analysis and design of new generation systems (network architectures, protocols, network management, traffic engineering, resource management, quality of service, signalling & scheduling, …)
- New generation internet, Post IP and IPv6, Carrier Grade networks, xDSL and FTTx, Power Line Communication
- Peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution networks
- Pervasive, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
- Agents and Middlewares, Agent Computing and Agent Applications
- Grid and cluster computing & Context aware computing
- Adaptation software development
- Component based software engineering &Software verification & analysis
- Web Commerce & Services, Data models, Web searching & querying
- Data Mining , XML, Query Processing & Optimization, Storage Structures & Indexing
- Web Mining & Web Semantics
- Web service based Grid computing and P2P computing Web services
- Quantum Cryptography systems
- Biometric systems
- Virtualization of systems, networks and protocols
- Virtualization technologies for grid and parallel computing

