Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• MIMO, multi-hop, and cooperative communications

• HetNets

• IoE and Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Wireless mobile networks protocols, applications, and services

• Telecommunications channels characterization, wireless propagation modeling

• Radio access technologies for 5G and beyond

• Wireless localization and positioning algorithms and applications

• Antenna systems and RF design

• Advanced transceiver algorithms and designs

• Software defined radio and cognitive radio systems and networks

• Spectrum management techniques and applications

• Green communications networks

• Ad-hoc networks, mesh networks, sensor networks, and machine-to-machine communications

• Analog and digital signal processing techniques, applications, and implementations

• Security and privacy issues at physical, MAC, and upper communications layers

• Modulation, coding, diversity, equalization, synchronization

• Energy efficient, energy harvesting, and wireless power transfer systems design

• Multi-user interference modeling, management, cancellation and alignment

• mmWave, THz, and optical communications

• Cross-layer design and harmonization

• Mobile big data and network data analytics

• Mobility and traffic modeling, management, and optimization

• Network access, fronthaul, and backhaul schemes

• Testbed and prototype implementation of wireless technologies and services