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Welcome to

BROADNETS 2010

The 7th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications,
Networks, and Systems
(Technically Co-Sponsored by CreateNet)

October 25-27, 2010 Athens, Greece

BROADNETS 2010 is an international conference focusing on broadband communications, networks, and systems and covers the entire gamut of next generation networks, communications systems, applications and services. The conference welcomes papers in three tracks, covering topics (including, but not limited to): 

WIRELESS Track

• MIMO and OFDM techniques
• Modulation and coding schemes
• MAC protocols
• Mobility management
• Radio resource management
• Packet scheduling algorithms
• Routing protocols
• Network architecture and topology design
• Hybrid networks
• Wireless traffic management
• Cross-layer design and optimization
• Wireless QoS
• Multihop and relay networks
• Mobile ad hoc networks
• Wireless sensor networks
• Cognitive radio
• Cognitive wireless networks
• Self-Organizing Networks (SON)
• Dynamic and flexible spectrum management (DSM/FSM)
• Software Defined Radio
• Reconfigurable radio systems
• Cellular networks

INTERNET Track

• Routing
• Scheduling
• Congestion control
• Traffic engineering
• Network modeling
• Network management
• Autonomics in the Future Internet
• Cognitive technologies
• QoS in the Internet
• Security, Trust
• Overlay networks
• Virtualization
• Content distribution networks
• Web technologies
• Semantic technologies
• Peer-to-peer networks
• Media technologies (VoIP, IPTV, video streaming)
• Electronic services (health, government, learning, etc.)
• Social networks
• Future Internet applications,
• Prosumer applications
• Machine-to-machine applications
• "Clean-slate" Internet architectures, algorithms, protocols, and services

OPTICAL Track

• Optical access networks
• Converged optical/wireless access networks
• Radio over fiber based networks
• WDM transmission technologies and systems
• Optical switch architectures
• Optical packet, burst, and label switching networks
• Optical grids in access and core
• SAN extensions
• Multilayer optical networks
• Cross-layer design (incl. application layer dependence)
• Reliable optical networking
• Optical networking for green information and communications technology
• Routing, wavelength assignment, and traffic grooming
• Modeling and design of optical networks and systems
• Network control and management
• Techno-economic aspects of optical networks
• Demonstrations and field-trials.