Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Wireless communications

1.A. Technologies:

• Software-defined radio and cognitive radio
• Signal processing for wireless communications
• Energy efficiency and power management
• Smart and mobile antennas and propagation
• Practical implementation issues and performance evaluation
• Spectrum management and regulatory issues
• Electromagnetic energy harvesting
• Global and local positioning systems in wireless networks

1.B. Networking:

• Intelligent transportation system and vehicular communications
• Wireless sensor networks
• Machine-to-machine communications
• MAC layer and routing protocols
• Ad-hoc and cell-based networking
• Multiple access and scheduling
• Cooperative and distributed communications
• Radio resource allocation, bit allocation, power allocation
• Performance analysis, QoS and network management
• Cross-layer optimization
• Advanced wireless network technologies, architectures
• Cellular-Wi-Fi Integration and interworking
• Traffic analysis of wireless networks

1.C. Wireless PHY:

• Advanced MIMO techniques
• Ultra-wideband communications
• Multicarrier communications
• Channel characterization
• Channel coding
• Acoustic communication systems
• Physical layer security

2. Optical communications

• Optical Signal Processing
• Advances in Optical Networking
• Photonic Communications Systems and Networks
• High-speed Optical Communications systems and devices
• All-Optical Communication Systems
• Passive optical networks
• Active optical networks
• Energy-Efficient and Spectral-Efficient Optical Communication Systems
• Microwave Photonics
• Optical MIMO
• Radio over Fiber (RoF) and Wireless over Fiber (WoF) systems
• Optical Fibers and Fiber Devices for Optical Communications
• Optical Amplifiers
• Modeling and Optimization of Optical Communication Networks
• Optical sensors technologies
• Optical network management
• Software-defined networks
• Visible light communication