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The following topics are dealt with: broadband, wireless computing, communication and applications; ad hoc networks; sensor networks; parallel and multi-core systems; mesh networks; practical security and privacy application; optical networks; networks algorithms and protocols; distributed schemes and protocols; wireless networks; disaster information systems; network security, privacy and trust; distributed algorithms and systems; multimedia and Web applications; wireless communication; digital signature; computer forensics; authentication and privacy; cloud and wireless security; image secret, sensor network and computer security; fault detection and diagnosis; intelligent networks; human behavior understanding; image and video analysis; scattering and diffraction; wireless modelling; wireless technologies; wireless traffic control and resource allocation; intelligent algorithms; network performance analysis; network services; teleoperation and robot control; robotics; agent technology and multiagent systems; symbolic computing; and wireless sensor networks protocols.