Welcome to ICUMT 2013 - 5th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems. It is our great pleasure to invite you to ICUMT 2013 which will be held this time in Almaty, Kazakhstan on September 10-13, 2013. The event will be organized by KazakhTelecom.

ICUMT is an annual international congress providing an open forum for researchers, engineers, network planners and service providers targeted on newly emerging algorithms, systems, standards, services, and applications, bringing together leading international players in telecommunications, control systems, automation and robotics. The event is positioned as a major international annual congress for the presentation of original and fundamental research and engineering results.

Following the success of the previous events that took place in St. Petersburg (2009, 2012), Moscow (2010), and Budapest (2011), each time attracting 200-300 participants from both academia and industry, ICUMT 2013 is planned as a four-days event offering a number of plenary sessions, technical sessions, and specialized workshops.

Paper submission will be done via EDAS system. Congress proceedings, including all papers accepted to ICUMT 2013 as well as all related workshops, are planned to be published in IEEE Xplore. ICUMT 2013 will consist of two tracks: Telecommunications Track (ICUMT-T) and Control Systems, Automation and Robotics Track (ICUMT-CS).

ICUMT 2013 topics include but are not limited to:

Next Generation Wireless Systems, Services and Protocols
- 3GPP Long-Term Evolution (LTE)
- Femto cells
- IMS and IMS-based services
- Mobility, handoff protocols and management
- Next generation WLANs, mesh, PAN, BAN
- Ultra-wideband communications (UWB)
- Underwater communications

Green Communications
- Energy-efficient networking
- Energy-efficient circuits, devices and transmission technologies
- Energy efficiency of data centers and intelligent cloud computing
- Cross-layer optimizations to minimize energy consumption on a network scale
- Cognitive, cooperative and reconfigurable networks
- Protocols and protocol extensions for energy efficient networks
- Network load balance and smart information storage
- Remote power management for wireless terminals and access networks
- Hierarchical and distributed techniques for energy management
- Harvesting distributed energy generation
- Smart Grid
- Information theory on energy efficiency
- Energy evaluation and comparison of different network technologies
- Novel network concepts and architectures lowering the overall footprint of ICT
- Estimation and evaluation of the worldwide footprint of ICT
- Regulation and standardization
- Deployment, trial experience, business models and applications

Low-layer Wireless technologies
- Cognitive Radio Networks and Systems
- Spectrum sensing and spectrum management
- Dynamic spectrum access
- Cooperation and Game-Theoretical Protocols for Cognitive Radios
- Software defined radio
- Cross-Layer Protocol Design
- Regulations and standards
- Cooperative communications and networking
- Multi-Carrier Systems & Solutions
- MIMO and multi-antenna communications
- Multi-carrier access schemes such as OFDMA, MC-CDMA, DFTS-OFDM, IFDMA, OFDM-IDMA

Information and coding theory
- Cryptography
- Coding for noisy channels and erasure channels
- Source coding and data compression
- Joint source-channel coding
- Network coding and coding for multi-terminal systems
- Cooperation, competition and cognition in wireless networks

Digital Broadcasting Technologies and Services
- System architectures
- Security in broadcast and multicast communications
- Internet broadcasting
- Mobile broadcasting and mobile TV
- Emerging standards, e.g., DVB-S2, DVB-RCS, DVB-H, DVB-T, MediaFLO services and applications

Pervasive computing and smart environment
- RFID and Sensor Network Technologies
- Architecture and platforms
- Distributed and pervasive services
- Personal and body networks, wearable computing
- Semantic analysis
- Business models
- Digital Home Network Technologies

Intelligent Transportation Systems
- ITS infrastructure;
- Vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-roadside communications
- Intra-vehicle communications
- Vehicle-to-Internet communications
- Mobility and vehicular traffic models
- Information collection and dissemination
- Analytical and simulation techniques
- Experimental systems and field operational testing
- Safety and non-safety related applications
- Recent standardization efforts and problems
- Overview of the activities and status of the ongoing projects
- Deployment strategies and predictions

P2P Technologies
- Advances in theoretical foundations of P2P
- Security, trust and reputation in P2P
- Performance analysis of P2P systems, applications and services
- Quality of experience in P2P systems
- Mobile P2P
- P2P for sensors
- Economic, business models and charging mechanisms in P2P
- Legal and regulatory issues

Social Networks
- Computational Aspects of Social Network
- Applications
- Network evolution and growth mechanisms
- Network geography
- Search in network
- Security, data protection inside communities
- Evaluation and benchmarking

Control Systems
- Adaptive control
- Robust control
- Process control
- Complex systems
- Mechatronic systems
- Co-operative control
- Identification and estimation
- Nonlinear systems
- Intelligent systems
- Hybrid systems
- Networked control systems
- Neural networks
- Fuzzy systems
- Genetic algorithms - Evolutionary computation and control
- Precision motion control
- Control applications
- Control engineering education

Robotics and Automation
- Robot design, development and control
- Human-robots interfaces
- Mobile robots and autonomous systems
- Human augmentation and shared control
- Space and underwater robot
- Telerobotics and Teleoperation
- Industrial networks and automation
- Intelligent warehouses
- Modeling, simulation and architectures
- Vision, recognition and reconstruction
- Virtual Reality
- Control and supervision systems
- Instrumentation systems
- Biomedical instrumentation and applications
- Web-based control
- Autonomous agents
- Petri nets