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The following topics are dealt with: optical wireless communication; resilient optical and wireless networks design; teletraffic models and traffic engineering; next generation wireless LANs; antenna technology for satellites and terrestrial wireless systems; chaos in communication systems; overview of survivability and fault management in optical networks; signal and image processing systems and techniques for medical monitoring and diagnosis; complex networks in signal processing and communication systems; routing algorithms and optimization techniques in packet networks; emerging technologies for secure, intelligent, and energy-efficient optical communication networks; algorithms for communications systems; devices for communications systems; future Internet; photonic communications systems and networks; modelling and optimisation of communication networks; optical communication; wireless sensor networks; satellite and space communications; and methods and devices for communication systems.