The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

TRACK 1

COMMUNICATION THEORY, SIGNAL PROCESSING, INFORMATION THEORY, ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION

• Advanced Multicarrier waveforms: beyond OFDM and filterbank-based schemes

• MIMO and multi-antenna communications

• Multiuser, network, massive and distributed MIMO systems

• Cooperative communications and relaying

• Space-time coding and processing

• Interference alignment techniques

• Communication with feedback

• Precoding and scheduling

• Wireless Communications Powered by Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

• Spread spectrum systems: UWB, CDMA

• Information theory

• Green communications and energy efficiency

• Small cells and heterogeneous networks

• Cognitive radio

• Error control coding including turbo codes, LDPC and iterative decoding

• Adaptive modulation and coding

• Network coding

• Detection, equalization, synchronization, estimation

• Performance analysis, field tests and measurements

• Cross-layer air interface design

• Multiple access techniques

• Resource allocation and interference management

• Satellite and high altitude platforms

• Antennas and propagation

• Localization techniques

• Concepts for 5G and future PMR/PPDR broadband systems

• Physical layer security

• Radio over fiber techniques

• Wireless channel modelling

• Over-the-air testing

• Millimeter wave and visible light communications

TRACK 2

NETWORKING, PROTOCOLS, COGNITIVE RADIO, WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS, SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS

• Ad-hoc and mesh networks

• Cognitive radio networking

• Green networking

• Energy harvesting

• Mobile Internet

• Heterogeneous and small cell networks

• MANETs

• Vehicular Networks (VANETs)

• Wireless sensor networks

• Machine-to-machine communications

• MAC protocols

• Self-organisation

• Radio resource management and interference control

• Cross layer design

• Wireless routing techniques

• Mobility management

• End-to-End QoS and QoS provisioning

• Traffic control and engineering

• Wireless privacy and security

• Multimedia systems

• Innovative services and applications

• Implementation concepts and testbeds

• Homeland security and military communications

• Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication

• ICT applications in smart cities and smart grid

• Delay tolerant networks

• Software defined networking

• Cloud-based networking techniques (mobile cloud computing, Cloud-RAN)

• Network virtualization

• Networking techniques for mmWave, MIMO, and massive-MIMO

• Machine-to-machine communications and applications