The 8th International Conference on Telecommunications, ConTEL 2005, was held in Sheraton Zagreb Hotel, Zagreb, Croatia, from June 15-17, 2005.

The Organizing Committee wishes to thank all the participants for joining their efforts in making this conference an enjoyable event.

Thank you all, and see you in 2007!

ConTEL 2005 proceedings indexed in INSPEC

ConTEL 2005 proceedings have been indexed in INSPEC bibliographic database. The contents of the proceedings are also available through the IEEE Xplore.

Keynote talks' slides

The keynote speakers have kindly agreed to provide the slides of their talks presented at ConTEL. Please note that these slides are intended for personal use. All rights are reserved by speakers.

• Dr. Klaus-D. Kohrt
  3G and beyond - The Future of Mobile Communication
  [ abstract ] [ slides, ZIP/PDF - 2.99 MB ]
  
• Dr. Kimon Valavanis
  Heterogeneous System Challenges in Control, Coordination, and Communication: A Case Study with Unmanned Ground - Aerial Vehicles
  [ abstract ]
  
• Dr. Magdy A. Bayoumi
  Wireless Sensor Networks: The Product of a Marriage Made in Heaven
  [ abstract ]

Best Student Paper Award Winners

The Best Student Paper Award Committee, chaired by Professor Dr. Vera Goebel, University of Oslo, has announced the winners of the Best Student Paper contest at the conference dinner.
The winners are:

• Best Student Paper Award, awarded to two papers:
  
  - Panu Hamalainen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
  Design and Implementation of an Enhanced Security Layer for Bluetooth
  by Panu Hamalainen, Ning Liu, Risto Leppisaari, Marko Hannikainen, Timo D. Hamalainen

  - Joanna Moulierac, University of Rennes I, France 
  Scalable Tree Aggregation for Multicast
  authored by Alexandre Guitton and Joanna Moulierac

• Best Junior Student Paper Presentation
  
  - Ana Petric, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  KrokodilAgent: A Supply Chain Management Agent
  by Ana Petric and Kresimir Jurasovic

Congratulations!

Organization

ConTEL 2005 was organized by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Zagreb, the IEEE Croatia Section, and the IEEE Communications Society Chapter of the Croatia Section, with the technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Region 8.

Proceedings

The proceedings of the conference (hardcopy and CD-ROM) may be purchased through the conference organizers, as well as from the IEEE bookstore.