The 31st IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications - ICT 2025

IEEE ComSoc Technical Sponsorship

Hotel Splendid, Budva, Montenegro

28th to 29th April 2025

About the conference

Welcome to the 31st International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), an event that has a long tradition of highlighting key advancements and pioneering research in the ever-evolving field of telecommunications. Established in 1991, this annual conference has become a renowned gathering place for a diverse community of global researchers, engineers, and stakeholders' representatives. ICT 2025 aims to continue the conference's long successful tradition of facilitating collaborations, discussions and knowledge exchange while revealing the latest trends and innovations in telecommunications. We note the global impact of the recent successful conferences such as ICT 2024 in Amman, Jordan, ICT 2023 in Toba, Indonesia, including ICT 2021 that took place in London, UK. ICT 2025 in Montenegro is expected to continue this journey and provide an existing gathering for further advancing the fields of telecommunications.

The scope of ICT 2025 includes the key areas of telecommunications, including applications of ICT and novel technologies that are driving progress in fields of telecommunications. The conference will attract submissions in core fields such as physical layer, also, higher layers such as MAC and networking including both theoretical and experimental findings. In addition to these fundamental fields, ICT 2025 encourages submissions in all related areas of ICT applications such as business and regulatory aspects, then, the areas of agriculture, smart cities, e-health etc. Submissions including works in new emerging technologies, such as AI, machine learning, advanced signal processing, and their uses in telecommunications, are particularly welcome. ICT 2025 will also include submissions on advancement of telecom systems and services. These are particularly scoped to further developments in 5G and research and visions for 6G, and the Internet of Things, Future Internet etc.

ICT 2025 papers will be published in IEEE Xplore and indexed in the high-quality Scopus database, ensuring wide accessibility and impact.

For the Book of abstracts, click here.

Call for pappers

We invite submissions in all areas of telecommunication and electrical engineering research. In particular, we encourage submissions related to the conference theme: "Towards the era of hyperconnectivity and intelligence in telecommunications". To download Call for Papers, click here.

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Programme

Conference Day 1 - 28th April
Time Conference room: Petrovic hall
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome address
Prof. Vladimir Bozovic, General Conference Chair, Head of University of Montenegro
09:10 - 09:30 KEYNOTE SPEECH: MIXED CRITICALITY NETWORKS IN IIoT
Keynote speaker: Dr. Valerio Frascolla, Director of Research and Innovation, Intel Deutschland GmbH, Neubiberg, Munich, Germany
09:30 – 09:50 KEYNOTE SPEECH: NEW TECHNIQUES FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND SENSING IN 6G
Keynote speaker: Prof. Izzat Darwazeh, Director of UCL's Institute of Communications and Connected Systems, University College London (UCL)
30min Coffee Break
Session 1: Experiment, Applications, and Business
Session Chairman: Prof. Gordana Gardasevic
10:20-12:40 Paper Presentations:
• Paper 1.1: Abdulrahman Alshehry, Amany Kassem, Zhixin Liu and Izzat Darwazeh, "Clock and Carrier Synchronization Using Optical Frequency Combs in Radio Access Networks"
• Paper 1.2: Tongyang Xu and Izzat Darwazeh, "NOFS: A Non-Orthogonal Signal Waveform to Break the Fast-OFDM Limit"
• Paper 1.3: Marko Vasiljević Toskić, Boris Radovanović, Dejan Vukobratović and Ivan Mezei, "UAV-Assisted Remote Water Quality Monitoring Using Low Power Wide Area Networks"
• Paper 1.4: Gordana Gardašević and Dragorad Milovanovic, "5G-Advanced RedCap and Digital Twin Technologies for Emerging IIoT Applications"
• Paper 1.5: Qiuwen Lu and Qingyun Liu, "A Lightweight Framework for Network Traffic Scheduling in Cloud-Native Environments"
• Paper 1.6: Gordana Gardasevic, Konstantinos Katzis and Lazar Berbakov, "Digital Twin Architecture for IoT-based Healthcare Systems: A Preliminary Study"
• Paper 1.7: Navin Kumar, Jaswanth Kumar N, Jayprakash A, Sreeja Kochuvila, Satyakumar V and Seungil Yoon, "Enhanced Planning of Truck Platooning for Vehicle Routing in Dynamic Road Networks"
90min Lunch break
PANEL SESSION: Determinism and predictability in multi-domain networks for Industrial IoT and Smart cities
14:10 – 15:40 Lead panellist Dr. Valerio Frascolla (Intel), with two invited speeches, discussions and interactive session with audience
30min Coffee Break
Session 2: Intelligence for Communications
Session Chairman: Dr. Seyed Ali Ghorashi
16:10 – 18:10 Paper Presentations:
• Paper 2.1: Qi Li, Vladimir Terzija and Dragorad Milovanovic, "Study on Smart Energy services in 3GPP and evaluation of representative use cases"
• Paper 2.2: Anis Elgabli, "Learn Efficiently Without a Server: RIS-Aided Federated Learning"
• Paper 2.3: Narges Movahedkor, Reza Shahbazian and Seyed Ali Ghorashi, "Explainable Decentralized Federated Learning for Energy-Efficient Base Station Sleep Control"
• Paper 2.4: Wessam Mesbah, "Federated Learning with Differential Privacy: Gaussian Mechanism or Laplacian Mechanism?"
• Paper 2.5: David Campoy, Irene Vilà, Jordi Pérez-Romero and Oriol Sallent, "Digital Twin as a Service for 6G Radio Access Networks: Functional Model and Key Challenges"
• Paper 2.6: Valerio Frascolla, "Dynamic Spectrum Management Techniques in Multi-Access Systems moving towards 6G"
19:00 Conference Dinner - Hotel Splendid
Conference Day 2 - 29th April
Time Conference room: Petrovic hall
Session 3: New Trends in Signal Processing (Invited Session)
Session Chairman: Prof. Miloš Daković
09:00 – 10:20 Paper Presentations:
• Paper 3.1: Djordje Stanković, Andjela Draganić and Irena Orović, "On optimal forms of the Hermite transform"
• Paper 3.2: Nicoletta Saulig and Siniša Miličić, "Time-Frequency-Inspired Structural Image Analysis"
• Paper 3.3: Ivan Volaric and Victor Sucic, "Analysis of the Image Tiling Influence in its Sparse Reconstruction
• Paper 3.4: Andjela Draganić, Djordje Stanković, Cornel Ioana and Irena Orović, "Adaptive compressive sensing for reconstruction and denoising with sparsity-measure-driven sampling"
30min Coffee Break
Session 4: Networking and MAC 1
Session Chairman: Prof. Tatjana Loncar Turukalo
10:50 – 12:10 Paper Presentations:
• Paper 4.1: Isaac Ngwata and Olabisi Falowo, "Speed-based Handover Decision Algorithm for Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks"
• Paper 4.2: Tamer E. Fahim, Ahmed H. Abd El-Malek, Waheed K. Zahra and Sherif I. Rabia, "Optimizing Age of Information for Energy Harvesting Systems Using an Energy-Aware Hybrid Preemptive/Non-Preemptive Discipline"
• Paper 4.3: Muhammad Irfan Khan and Muhammad Zeeshan, "Smart Intrusion Detection for IoT Networks Using ResNet50 and Deep Learning for High-Accuracy Security"
• Paper 4.4: Samuele Paone, Giorgos Armeniakos, Stefanos Gerangelos, Michele Paolino and Daniel Raho, "SVFF+: Kubernetes FPGA virtualization and reconfiguration for network virtualization"
90min Lunch break
Session 5: PHY & Fundamentals
Session Chairman: Prof. Djuradj Budimir
13:40 – 15:40 Paper Presentations:
• Paper 5.1: Yalin Zhou and Izzat Darwazeh, "An End-to-End Autoencoder-based Non-Orthogonal Multi-Carrier System for Transmission"
• Paper 5.2: Widad Belaoura, Saud Althunibat, Mazen Hasna, Ali Görçin and Khalid Qaraqe, "A UAV-Based Mixed RF/FSO System with RIS-Aided Reflection Modulation Multiple Access"
• Paper 5.3: Toivo Vajakas, Amnir Hadachi and Eero Vainikko, "Leveraging Call Detail Records to Uncover Azimuth Configuration Errors in Cellular Networks"
• Paper 5.4: Bassant Tolba, Maha Elsabrouty, Mohammed Abo-Zahhad, Akira Uchiyama and Ahmed H. Abd El-Malek, "Securing Task Computation Offloading for Mobile Edge Computing in Untrusted Relay Networks"
• Paper 5.5: Gan Wang and Zhongliang Deng, "Mutipath Aggregation Timestamping Method for Precise and Robust Wireless Two-way Time Synchronization"
• Paper 5.6: Dalal Harikesh, Dariush Mirshekar-Syahkal and Djuradj Budimir, "Antenna Arrays for Full-Duplex Systems"
30min Coffee Break
Session 6: Networking and MAC 2
Session Chairman: Dr. Yantong Wang
16:10 – 18:10 Paper Presentations:
• Paper 6.1: Jamie Robert Samuels and Izzat Darwazeh, "Experimental 5G Network Testing: A Methodology to study the Impact of Traffic Characteristics on 5G Performance"
• Paper 6.2: Olabisi Falowo and Samuel Kehinde Falowo, "Hidden Markov Model for Predicting the Sequence of a User's Connections in an Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Network"
• Paper 6.3: Yantong Wang, Chuanfen Feng and Jiande Sun, "Cost-Efficient Computation Offloading and Service Chain Caching in LEO Satellite Networks"
• Paper 6.4: Binghong Liu, Wei Wang, Yiming Zhang, Xingyu Huang, Xiu Zhang, Yang Xiao, Yanyan Zou, Yuejin Du and Wei Huo, "A Coverage-Guided Fuzzing Method for Non-Access Stratum Protocol"
• Paper 6.5: Binghong Liu, Wei Wang, Ning Li, Yiming Zhang, Xiu Zhang, Yang Xiao, Yanyan Zou, Yuejin Du and Wei Huo, "RRCFuzzer: A 3GPP-Guided Fuzzing Method for Radio Resource Control Protocol"
• Paper 6.6: Navin Kumar, Pranav A, Abhinaya S, Satyakumar V, Seungil Yoon and Gnanapriya Ma, "Drone Communication and Monitoring using Cloud Computing"

SPEAKERS and PANELS

Dr. Valerio Frascolla

Dr. Valerio Frascolla

Director of Research and Innovation, Intel Deutschland GmbH, Neubiberg, Munich, Germany

Keynote Speech: Mixed criticality networks in IoT

Panel: Determinism and predictability in multi-domain networks for Industrial IoT and Smart cities

Prof. Izzat Darwazeh

Prof. Izzat Darwazeh

Director of UCL's Institute of Communications and Connected Systems, University College London (UCL), UK

Keynote Speech: New Techniques for communications and sensing in 6G

Registration, Dates, Fees & Submissions

Dates

  • Paper Submission Deadline: CLOSED
  • Notification of Acceptance: CLOSED
  • Early Registration: 4th April 2025
  • Camera Ready Submission: 3rd 7th April 2025

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Fees

Original fees are in US Dollars ($), converted to Euros (€) shown in brackets bellow for the fee registration payment in the local currency - Euro. Exchange rate applied: 1.00 US Dollar ($) ≈ 0.916 Euros (€) on Mar 12, 2025, 08:56 UTC.

Early Registration Late Registration
Presenter (non-IEEE member) $475 (€435) $550 (€504)
Presenter (IEEE member) $430 (€394) $500 (€458)
Attendee (non-IEEE member) $375 (€343) $450 (€413)
Attendee (IEEE member) $300 (€275) $375 (€344)
Atendee (student) $250 (€229) $325 (€298)
Registration coverage Up to 2 papers, for additional papers full registration is required
Extra page: 5 pages are free, maximum pages 7 $100 (€92)

Committees

Organizing Committee

Prof. Hamid Aghvami, King's College London, conference co-founder

Prof. Farokh Marvasti, Sharif University of Technology/King's College London, conference co-founder

Prof. Izzat Darwazeh, University College London, Conference Advisor

Prof. Srdjan Stankovic, University of Montenegro, Conference Chair

Ass. Prof. Andjela Draganic, University of Montenegro, Publicity Chair / Information Contact / Treasurer

Ass. Prof. Stefan Vujovic, University of Montenegro, Media Chair

Dr. Andrej Mihailovic, King's College London, Organisation Chair

Prof. Vladimir Bozovic, University of Montenegro, General Conference Chair

Technical Committee

Prof. Toktam Mahmoodi, King's College London, General Technical Chair

Ass. Prof. Yansha Deng, King's College London, Technical Co-Chair

Prof. Nancy Alonistioti, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Technical Co-Chair / Industry Liaison

Prof. Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic, University of Montenegro, Technical Track Chair

Prof. Milos Dakovic, University of Montenegro, Technical Track Chair

Prof. Enis Kocan, University of Montenegro, Technical Track Chair

Ass. Prof. Slavica Tomovic, University of Montenegro, Technical Track Chair

Contact ictconference2025@gmail.com