Telecommunications Forum TELFOR

MAIN TOPICS, POLICY, REGULATORY ASPECTS AND SERVICES OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND IT

– Importance of telecommunications in economy and society

– Status of domestic and international telecommunications,

– Trends of future telecommunications development, –

– Deregulation, liberalizationand reorganization,

– Models of telecommunications reforms,

– Privatization within telecommunications sector,

– Services, marketing and management,

– Development policy and financing possibilities.

TECHNIQUES IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND IT

– Telecommunications Networks,

– Switching, – Transmission Systems,

– Protocols and Signalization,

– Computer Communications,

– Radio Communications,

– Mobile Communications, – Satellite Communications,

– Optical Communications,

– Picture and Tone Broadcasting,

– Cable and Satellite Television, – Data Transmission,

– Internet & Global Networks, – Information Technology, – Multimedia Technology,

– Telecommunications Equipment,

– Radio & Microwave Engineering,

– Applied Electromagnetics & Electronics,

– Antennas & Propagation, – Signal Processing; – Circuits and Systems,

– Video and Audio Engineering,

– Communications Software,

– Telecommunications services,

– Teleinformatics,

– Power Supply in Communications,

– Measurements in Communications.

The above listed topics do not exclude a submission and presentation of papers from other specific fields of telecommunications and IT, i.e.fields close to or related to telecommunications and IT.

FORUM ORGANIZATION

The activities of TELFOR will be organized within plenary sessions with invited papers or lectures, thematic debates, through the authors regular and students sections, through panel discussions, round tables and seminars on current issues, tutorials, exhibitions, technical and commercial presentations, professional meetings, etc. The program schedule is determined by the Technical Program Committee.

PARTICIPATION

All companies, institutions, individual authors and visitors from broad ICT fields are invited and welcome to participate in all TELFOR activities, under conditions posted at www.telfor.rs

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Papers to be submitted for TELFOR could include both expert and scientific articles containing original applicable or theoretical results of research, of interest for a broad group of experts engaged in the field the article deals with. The authors are welcome to submit the articles comprising the applications of theoretical methods in solving specific engineering problems, presentations of new equipment and systems, results of experimental research, new realizations of familiar solutions, etc. The authors are requested to submit only those papers whose contents have not been notified, published or in any other way presented at any time prior to the Forum. The papers should contain original scientific,expert or applied results of the authors themselves. The results included should in no way violate the rights of other authors or organizations. Although all papers will be reviewed, the authors themselves are responsible for the publishing rights, originality and quality of their papers. The presentation of results of other authors or institutions, without a personal contribution or participation, as well as survey papers or tutorials, may be offered by participants for acceptance or can be invited by the Program Committee. In such a case it is obligatory for the authors to obtain all the necessary permissions and to clearly state all the sources used.

There is a special Student session (being possibly the part of the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest). Only the students-authors at the non-doctoral studies could register and present their papers in this section, with arbitrary notification of a teacher-mentor. Papers submitted and accepted in Student session are published in TELFOR CD Proceedings.Papers should be written and presented in English or Serbian languages. As the author/co-author of an original paper, either as author or as co-author, each participant can be represented three times at most.

The papers will be exclusively accepted for reviewing (a) those received on time, (b) those that are strictly prepared in accordance with the instructions for authors posted atwww.telfor.rs. The registration and ”on line” Internet uploading of the FINAL ELECTRONIC VERSION of the paper should be realized in accordance with instructions posted at

www.telfor.rs.

By submitting the paper, the authors are accepting all the rules listed in this invitation.

FORUM REGISTRATION FEES, REVIEWS, PROCEEDINGS

Authors / co-authors of the accepted regular papers should pay registration fees.

AT LEAST ONE REGISTRATION FEE PER EACH ACCEPTED REGULAR PAPER IS REQUIRED.

Please see theregistration fees and bank instructions atwww.telfor.rs.Visitors` admittance and their participation in either the authors’ sections or in special presentations are free of charge. The activities of the companies, special tutorials and seminars are to be paid separately. The authors’ papers sent for TELFOR will be subject to reviewing. The anonymous reviewers are appointed by the Technical Program Committee. After reviewing the authors will be informed whether their papers are accepted orrejected. The reviewers’ decision is final. Papers with favorable reviews will be accepted and published in the CD Proceedings of accepted papers.

Anaccepted paper has to be obligatory presented in regular or student sections by its author or co-author.

Upon closing of the Forum accepted and presented papers will be submitted for possible publication in the IEEE Xploredatabase (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org). Accepted paper that was not presented in the relevant TELFOR Session cannot be referenced as the paper published at the TELFOR.

Technical Program Committee may select and recommend some papers for additional publication in TELFOR Journal (http://journal.telfor.rs) or other scientific or expert national and in ternational journals.

AWARDS

In memory and to pay the respect to Prof. Dr Ilija Stojanovic, the first and long-standing Chairman of the TELFOR Program Committee, TELFOR Steering and Program Committees established the “ILIJA STOJANOVIC” ANNUAL AWARD FOR THE BEST TELFOR SCIENTIFIC PAPER. Family Mircevski proposed and TELFOR Steering and Program Committee accepted and established the “Blazo Mircevski” annual award for the best paper of a TELFOR young first author, in memory and respect for technical and scientific work of Blazo Micevski, dipl. eng. EE.

Awards propositions and results are announced at www.telfor.rs.

 

 

Deadlines

September 2, 2013 – Deadline for the full paper sumission;

October 2, 2013 – Notification of paper acceptance;

November 10, 2013 – TELFOR 2013 Program announcement;

November 26-28, 2013 – TELFOR 2013, SAVA CENTER, Belgrade, Serbia

November 26, 2013, 10:30h – OPENING SESSION

Post address

TELFOR, ETF, Bul. kralja Aleksandra 73, POB 3554, Belgrade, 11120, SerbiaContacts

http://www.telfor.rs

office@telfor.rs

Fax 00381 11 3370159

General Chair Prof. Dr George Paunovic