ICFCNA 2014 : The IET International Conference on Frontiers of Communications, Networks and Applications
Nov 3-5, 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

http://www.icfcna.org/
The ICFCNA 2014 is the conference on the theoretical and practical aspects of most aspects of communications, networks and applications. The technical programme will feature paper presentations, an industry forum and three special tracks.

Conference Partners: EV Dynamic, IET, Malaysia TRIZ, MSc Malaysia, Sunway

Keywords: communications, networking, applications, wireless, smart home, smart office, smart city

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CONFERENCE TOPICS
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Accepted paper will be published in IET conference proceeding (ISBN: 978-1-84919-832-5) which will be included in IET Digital Library, IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL), IEEE Xplore®, Inspec and will be submitted for EI Compendex and ISI indexing. Some best paper awards will also be awarded. Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers for oral presentations on the following topics (but not limited to):

PHY, MAC and Cross Layer Design
• PHY/MAC cognitive and SDR techniques
• Interference channel modelling and characterization
• Modulation, coding and diversity
• MIMO and AAS
• Signal processing for wireless communications
• Information theory for wireless communications
• Cross layer architecture and protocol design
• Multiple access techniques
• Radio resource management, power control, energy conservation techniques
• PHY/MAC cooperative and collaborative techniques

Networks
• Wired networks
• Optical networks
• Wireless networks (e.g. mesh, relay, ad-hoc and sensor networks, B3G/4G WAN/WLAN/WPAN/WBAN)
• Heterogeneous, cooperative and coexistence
• Network architecture and protocol design
• Mobility, location and handover management
• Broadcast, multicast and streaming
• QoS and traffic management
• Routing
• Capacity, coverage, network planning
• Networks for rural areas
• Green architecture, systems and protocols

Services and Applications
• Emerging wired/wireless/mobile applications
• Context and location aware services and applications
• Content distribution in wide area and home area networks
• Telemedicine and e-health services and applications
• Network security and privacy
• Intelligent transportation systems
• Service oriented architectures, middleware
• P2P services and applications
• SIP, multimedia, QoS supports
• Dynamic and autonomous services, artificial intelligence
• Regulations, standards and spectrum
• Testbed, prototypes implementations
• Personalization, service discovery, profiling
• Techno-economic and market analysis for wired/wireless/mobile ad hoc networks

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SPECIAL TRACKS
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Special Track 1: Information Security
Special Track 2: Cognitive Radio and Software Defined Radio: Technical, Application, Environmental, and Regulatory Aspects
Special Track 3: Communications, Networks and Applications for Smart City

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INDUSTRY FORUM
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Theme: Digital Planet?The Global Revolution Driven by Telecommunications
The aim of the event is to provide a forum that brings together successful and prominent industrial experts and key players to meet and exchange experiences and insights on key areas of telecommunications industry which helps to bridge the gap between industry’s future direction and research focus. The forum will cover selected hot topics in this fast-growing field such as: (1) telecommunications businesses and markets; (2) regulation and standardization of wireless technologies and networks; (3) the current form and future prospect of ICT R&D; (4) 4G, 5G and beyond; (5) mobile hardware: are hardware manufacturers keeping up the pace of our thirst in seeking faster broadband? All participants are invited to attend and meet with the experts.

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INNOVATION TALKS
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Innovation Talk 1: “The D.U.M.B.S Approach to Invention” by Robest Yong
Innovation Talk 2: “TRIZ & Innovation in Industries” by Dr. Yeoh Teong San

For further details, please refer to http://www.icfcna.org/