The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for researchers and technologists to present new advances and contributions in the form of keynotes, tutorials, workshops as well as regular and special sessions with the objective to share ideas and progress in wireless communications, networking and signal processing employed to support the needs of the information society. This twenty fifth edition of the ICT event will bring together various wireless communication systems developers to discuss the current status, technical challenges, standards, fundamental issues, and future services and applications. ICT’2018 seeks to address and capture highly-innovative and state-of-the-art research from academia, wireless industry as well as recent advances in standardization. The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Fifth generation (5G) mobile communications
Heterogeneous networks and small cells
Big data networking
Software radio
Protocols, architectures and applications for the Internet of things
Network functions virtualization and software defined networking
Green communications and energy efficiency
Self – organizing/self – deploying networks
Cognitive radio and networks
Wireless sensor and actuator networks
D2D and M2M communications
Ad – hoc communications
Cooperative communications
Multi-antenna and beamforming systems
Game theory for communications
Signal processing for communications
Wireless communication testbeds, measurements and modelling
Optical networks and converged optical-wireless networks
ICT for smart cities
Smart grid communications
Powerline communications
Vehicular networking
Pervasive and mobile computing
Cloud computing
Satellite & space communications
Emerging WLANs, WPANs and WMANs
Optical communications and technologies
Wireless optical communications and VLC
Information theory, channel coding and joint source channel coding
Network coding techniques
Image processing, video compression and coding
QoS provision and management
Metrics and models for QoE
Multimedia and virtual reality
Cryptography and network security
Standards for communications and networking
Terahertz communications
Submission: Acceptance will be based on full paper (5 pages length +2 extra pages max.). All accepted and registered papers included in the final programme will appear in the IEEE Xplore database and other indexing databases. The regular paper submission has to be performed electronically via the EDAS paper management at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23880