[Front matter]
2012
The following topics are dealt with: online game systems; optical communication networks; optical communication devices; near Shannon limit channel codes; modified turbo codes; privacy issues; security issues; computing paradigms; wireless communications; wireless networking; mobile communications; m-commerce; health care; home networking; optical passive components; optical active components; mobile ad-hoc networks; sensor mesh networks; WLAN/WiMAX; e-commerce metamorphosis; information and communication technologies.