Message from the general chairman

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is our pleasure to welcome you to the 6^th International Conference on Signal Processing and Telecommunication Systems, ICSPCS´2012, at the Gold Coast, Australia. The roots of ICSPCS go back to a series of successful symposia and workshops, namely, the International Symposia on DSP and Communication Systems (DSPCS), and Workshops on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing (WITSP). Accordingly, the topics covered by ICSPCS stretch over the entire protocol stack of modern telecommunication systems from the physical and data link layers to networking and application layers along with the related processing, applications, and services. The technical program for this year covers a range of topics such as wireless communications, communications theory, communication systems, networks and protocols, information and network security, localization and tracking, signal processing for multimedia and communications, and medical applications. One of the main goals of this international conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from academia and industry that work in the aforementioned areas to present and discuss their latest research results, explore new ideas and solutions, and to facilitate networking among colleagues. As in the previous years, the Organizing Committee has succeeded in achieving an official technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE Communications Society for the conference. As a result, ICSPCS´2012 has been listed in the IEEE database of conferences and the proceedings will be published in IEEEXplore.