Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

TRACK 1: FUNDAMENTALS AND PHY

• Advanced modulation schemes for 5G, IoT/IoE, etc

• Antennas and beamforming

• Channel estimation and equalization

• Channel modeling and simulation

• Cognitive and green radio

• Cooperative/relayed communications

• DSP/VLSI circuits and devices

• Energy harvesting, wireless power transfer

• Interference characterization & mitigation

• Machine learning and artificial intelligence

• Microwave circuits and devices

• Multi-antenna signal processing

• PHY aspects of WLAN, WPAN, and WBAN

• PHY network coding and security

• PHY performance: capacity, outage, BER

• Positioning, localization, and tracking

• Power-efficient communications

• Power electronics in wireless

• Propagation: mmW, Terahertz, light-wave

• Radio access, FSO, OW, RoF/FiWi, etc

• Signal processing for wireless

• Single and multi-user MIMO

• Source and channel coding

• Synchronization techniques

• Vehicular communications

• Wireless broadband for 5G, IoT/IoE, etc

TRACK 2: MAC AND CROSS-LAYER DESIGN

• Adaptive MACs

• Cognitive MACs

• Cross-layer designs involving MAC

• Delay tolerant MAC designs

• Docitive MACs

• Dynamic spectrum management

• Implementation, testbeds and prototypes

• Information-theoretical approaches to MAC designs

• Joint access and backhaul scheduler designs

• Joint MAC and networking layer designs

• MAC for cloud networking

• MAC for low power embedded networks

• MAC for mobile and vehicular ad hoc networks

• MAC for cloud networking

• QoS/QoE-enabling MAC

• Radio resource management, allocation and scheduling

• Reconfigurable MACs

• Scheduler for heterogeneous cellular systems

• Scheduler for cooperative and relay systems

• Security issues in MAC designs

• Time-critical MAC designs

TRACK 3: MOBILE AND WIRELESS NETWORKS

• Ad hoc networks

• Body and personal area networks

• Cloud and virtual networks

• Cognitive radio networks

• Cooperative networks

• Delay-tolerant networks

• Future wireless Internet

• Green wireless networks

• Local dependent networks

• Location management

• Mobile and wireless IP

• Mobile computing

• Multi-hop networks

• Network architectures

• Routing, QoS and scheduling

• Satellite communications

• Self-organising networks

• UAV networks

• Vehicular networks

• Wireless multicasting, broadcasting and geocasting

• Wireless sensor networks

TRACK 4: SERVICES, APPLICATIONS AND BUSINESS

• Authentication, authorization, and accounting

• Cloud computing, virtualization, and service-oriented architectures

• Connected vehicle systems

• Content caching and delivery

• Context awareness in pervasive systems

• Economy and management of 5G networks

• Edge computing applications

• Emerging wireless/mobile applications

• Internet of Things and connected wireless sensor platforms

• Intrusion detection and mitigation in wireless networks

• Location-based services and applications

• Mobile and wireless Internet services

• Mobile e-health

• Mobile multimedia services

• Mobile online gaming

• Mobile payment services

• Mobile social networks P2P services for multimedia

• Personalisation, profiles, and profiling

• Secure network and service access

• Security and privacy in wireless applications and services

• Security and privacy of Internet of Things

• Self-adaptation on the application and service layers

• Sensor-cloud integration

• Service discovery and access

• Smart homes, offices, factories, and cities

• Tactile Internet services and applications

• Ubiquitous application and service delivery

• User interfaces and user-machine interactions

• Wireless big data analytics and applications

• Wireless emergency and security systems

• Wireless enabled smart environments

• Wireless for AR/VR and immersion

• Wireless for robotics, wearables, and implants

• Wireless multimedia broadcasting