■ Modeling, performance evaluation, simula- ■ Opportunities/Concerns about 3G in India tion, and optimization techniques of network ■ Next Generation Mobile Networks and systems, applications and services Mobile Application frameworks ■ Incumbent and Future BWA Technologies, ■ Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence UMTS, HSPA, LTE, LTE-Advanced, 802.16x ■ Multimedia Computing ■ IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Next ■ Multi-core Architectures and Programming Generation Networks (NGN) Challenges ■ Value Added Services: present and future ■ Increasing Testing Effectiveness ■ IPTV v/s DTH ■ S/W Development in Agile Environment Generic (Other topics) ■ eLearning with immersive telepresence Information Technology ■ Issues and solutions in setting up Remote ■ Semantic web Lab ■ Client and Server Side Scripting ■ Addressing Digital Divide (USO, Rural v/s ■ Cloud Computing Urban India, Developed v/s Developing) ■ Detection and Prevention of Online Fraud ■ India 2020: policies/strategies to ensure ■ Cyber Crime and network security sustained growth ■ Next generation Internet ■ Leveraging Open Source: strategies for business growth ■ Social Networking integration in mainstream Electronics telecom ■ Speech, Audio and Video Processing ■ Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) ■ Novel network concepts and architectures ■ Home Networking ■ Advancement in Recognition Technologies GUIDELINES FOR PAPER SUBMISSION ■ This contest is open to students of all courses and streams ■ This is a paper presentation contest for individuals - The paper should be authored by one person ■ The paper should be original and should not have been presented/published earlier ■ The subject matter should be neatly typed and not exceed 2000 words ■ The font should be in Times New Roman (size 12) with 1 1/2 line spacing. Kindly check the paper for spelling and grammatical errors before submitting. All graphs / tables should be created using MS Office applications ■ Individual have to submit a soft copy by registering at http://www.aricent.com/brightminds ■ The last date for submission of Abstract - October 30, 2010 and Final paper by November 30, 2010 ■ Paper submissions which do not fulfill the above mentioned criteria will not be considered for the contest ■ Aricent reserves the right to accept or reject any paper without assigning any reason ■ For any queries, please drop in an email to brightminds@aricent.com