Main Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Wireless Communications and PHY

• Advanced modulation schemes
• Cognitive radio
• Cooperative communications
• Information and coding theory
• Interference characterization
• MIMO/Massive MIMO channel models and channels
• Smart/ Reconfigurable antennas
• Ultra wideband, mmWave and sub-THz communications
• Visible Light Communications

Wireless Networks

• Ad-hoc networks
• Cognitive radio networks
• Cross-layer design
• Interference management
• IoT and M2M communications devices
• Localization for wireless networks
• Mobility, location and handoff management
• Multimedia QoS and traffic management
• Spectrum sharing and coexistence
• Vehicular networks
• Wireless multicast and streaming

Communications Services and Multimedia Applications

• Big data and data mining
• Cloud computing
• Emerging wireless and mobile applications
• Experimental trials and deployment
• Mobile multimedia services
• Mobile social networks
• QoS and QoE for multimedia applications
• Service oriented architectures
• User interfaces, user-machine interactions
• Wireless health applications

Security and Privacy in Communications

• PHY-layer Security
• Communication privacy and anonymity
• Network intrusion detection and prevention, firewalls, packet filters
• Malware, botnets and distributed denial of service
• Public key infrastructures, key management, credential management
• Secure routing, naming/addressing, network management
• Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing, e.g., RFIDs
• Security and privacy for emerging technologies: VoIP, peer-to-peer and overlay network systems
• Security and privacy in networks
• Security and privacy in applications