Welcome from the general co-chairs

On behalf of the organizing committee, we extend a warm welcome to all participants of the 5th International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing (ISCCSP2010) being held at the University of Rome "TRE," Rome, Italy on May 2-4, 2012. This international conference is held every second year, the first one in Hammamet, Tunisia in 2004, the second one at Marrakech, Morocco in 2006, the third one in St. Julians, Malta in 2008, and the fourth one in Limassol, Cyprus in 2010. The symposium has gathered experts from a wide ranging field. Out of more than 184 submitted papers, the technical program committee accepted 77 papers that will be presented at the conference. Our technical program features six plenary sessions, 13 invited special session with 61 papers, and 12 regular sessions with 77 papers to be presented by authors from over 36 countries. We thank the technical program committee for their hard work in arranging the review of all contributed papers and in setting up the technical sessions. We are honored to have six plenary speakers, internationally renowned experts in communications, control, and signal processing. Our plenary speakers are Tamer Basar, Lajos Hanzo, Henrique Malvar, Ronald Schafer, Roberto Padovani, and Ezra Zeheb. Thanks are also to the Microsoft Corporation and Qualcomm Corporation, our industry sponsors.