2018 2nd International Conference on Telematics and Future Generation Networks (TAFGEN)

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers on all aspects related to telematics and future generation networks including, but not limited to, the following technical areas: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