ICT 2013 - 20th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2013)

20th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2013)
May 6-8, 2013 in Casablanca, Morocco
http://www.ict-2013.org
Organized by University Hassan II, Casablanca and GREENTIC Research Center Morocco
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ICT GREENING THE WORLD
In addition to high-traffic high-speed multimedia ubiquitous communications requirements, the Information Society is facing new challenges such as energy efficiency, self-deployment/self-organizing behavior, low electromagnetic radiation, scalability, and flexibility. Moreover, "Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Greening the World" is a also new direction promoting information and communication technologies as tools that enable the design of eco-friendly solutions and systems to encourage innovation and improve citizens lives. Information security over wireless, Small cells, Heterogeneous networks, Radio over Fiber, Software Defined Networks, Cloud Computing, Smart grids and Smart cities are new trends that open up new perspectives in the ICT R&D field and thus are within the scope of ICT 2013.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Wireless communications
- Ad-hoc and multi-sensor communications
- Self-organizing/self-deploying networks
- Multi-antenna systems, multi-carrier systems, multi-user systems
- Cognitive green radio
- Game Theory, large scale cooperative communications
- Peer-to-peer communications, cross layer design, heterogeneous networks
- Localization and navigation, satellite communications
- Optical communications and technologies
- Signal processing techniques for communications
- Image and signal processing
- Information theory, channel coding, joint source-channel coding
- Network coding, compressed sensing
- Bio-inspired signal processing techniques
- Video compression, distributed video coding
- Multimedia and virtual reality
- Network theory and technologies, routing techniques, wireless IP, voice and video over IP
- Cryptography and network security, computer and communication networks
- Cloud Computing for communication systems, radio access network, pervasive computing
- Cloud base station and distributed signal processing software and hardware
- Smart Grid and ICT for power management
- ICT for smart cities
- Reconfigurable flexible low power architectures design techniques
- Software defined networks
- Emulation-simulation tools
- Radio frequency antennas and circuit design
TUTORIALS: To be announced later
PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers written in English, limited to a maximum of 5 pages, including figures, tables and references in IEEE double-column format.
Submissions must present original work that has not been previously published, and is not under review elsewhere. All articles will be reviewed for scientific quality by the Technical Program Committee and external reviewers. Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, on-line via the EDAS system. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Conference place: Casablanca, Morocco
Conference dates: May 6-8, 2013
Paper submission deadline: December 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance: February 15th, 2013
Camera ready version: March 8th, 2013
Special sessions proposals deadline: October 15th, 2012
ICT 2013 Executive Committee:
Conference General Chairs:
- Aawatif Hayar, GREENTIC/ENSEM, Univ. Hassan II Casablanca Morocco
- Abderrahim Sekkaki, GREENTIC/FS, Univ. Hassan II Casablanca Morocco
Co-founders:
- Hamid Aghvami, King's College London, University of London, United Kingdom
- Farokh Marvasti, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Conference Technical Program Chair:
- Yves Lostanlen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada and Vice-President, Siradel, Canada
- Youssef Nasser, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Steering Committee:
- Joseph J. Boutros, Texas A&M, Qatar, Qatar
(Steering Committee Chair)
- Maria Gabriella Di Benedetto, UoR, Italy
- Raouf Boutaba, Univ. of Wateroloo, Canada
- Izzat Darwazeh, Univ College London, UK
- Francis Castanié TéSA ENSEEIHT France
- Merouane Debbah, Supelec, France
- Joumana Farah, USEK, Lebanon
- Takis Mathiopoulos, ISARS, Greece
- Costantinos Papadias, AIT, Greece
- Jacques Palicot, Supelec, France
- Hikmet Sari, Supelec, France
Technical Program Committee:
- E. Aboutanios, University of New South Wales, Australia
- A. Abou Elkalam, ENSA-Univ. Caddi Ayyad, Morocco
- S. J. Andaloussi, FS-UH2C, Morocco
- A. Errami, ENSEM-UH2C, Morocco
- A. M. Alimi, Univ. of Sfax, Tunisia
- H. Al-Raweshidy Univ. of Brunel, UK
- H. Anouar, TCS, France
- J. Baetens, Univ. of Ghent, Belgium
- J. Bastos, IT, Portugal
- O. Bazzi, Lebanese Univ., Lebanon
- M. Bennis, CWC Oulu, Finland
- R. Boutaba, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
- S. Chatzinotas, Univ. of Luxemburg, Luxemburg
- A. Candreva, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
- N. Cardona, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
- A. Damman, DLR, Germany
- M. des Noes, CEA-LETI, France
- C. Douillard, ENST, France
- P. Elia, EURECOM, France
- D. El Ouadghiri, FS Mèknes, Morocco
- M. Erradi, ENSIAS, Morocco
- M. A. El Yacoubi, Telecom Paris-Sud, France
- Y. Ghamri Doudane, ENSIIE, France
- A. Ghrayeb, Concordia University, Canada
- S. Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy
- J.M Gorce, INSA, France
- A. Haqiq, FST Settat, Morocco
- C. Hollanti, Aalto University, Finland
- J. Jomaah, ENSERG, France
- Y. Khraisat, Al-Balqa' Applied Univ, Jordan
- D. le Ruyet, CNAM, France
- H. Menouar, QUWIC, Qatar
- P. Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Lab., Switzerland
- D. Obeid, Katapalia, France
- M. Ouzzif ESTC-UH2C, Morocco
- Yi Qian Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln, USA
- A. Rahim, Create-Net, Italy
- T. Ramstad, NTNU, Norway
- R. Raulefs, DLR, Germany
- D. Roviras, CNAM, France
- M. Rifi, ESTC-UH2C, Morocco
- M. Sadik, ENSEM-UH2C, Morocco
- E. Sabir, ENSEM-UH2C, Morocco
- C. Skianis, University of the Aegean, Greece
- D. Slock, EURECOM, France
- S. Stavrou, Open Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus
- S. Tazi, CNRS LAAS, France
- C. Verikoukis, CTTC, Spain
- H. Wehbe, ENST, France
- C. Becker. Westphall, Federal Univ. of Santa Catarina, Brasil
- B. Zayen, EURECOM, France
- N. Zorba, University of Jordan, Jordan
We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
TPC Co-Chairs, Yves Lostanlen & Youssef Nasser
General Co-Chairs, Aawatif Hayar & Abderrahim Sekkaki.