Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

TRACK 1: PHY AND FUNDAMENTALS 

• Channel modeling, characterization and estimation
• Modulation, coding, diversity, equalization, synchronization
• OFDM, multi-carrier modulation, waveform design
• Interference modeling, management, cancellation and alignment
• PHY strategies for low-rate, sporadic and asynchronous communications
• MIMO, massive MIMO and cloud-RAN
• Cooperative, device-to-device and multi-hop communication
• Cognitive radio, spectrum sensing
• Content caching and storage in wireless networks
• PHY layer design for cellular, wireless LAN, ad hoc and sensor networks
• Energy efficient and energy harvesting PHY layer design
• Joint information and energy transmission
• PHY layer security and privacy, ultra-wideband, mmWave and sub-THz communication
• Information-theoretic aspects of wireless communications
• Signal processing for wireless communications • Molecular and nano communications

TRACK 2: MAC AND CROSS-LAYER DESIGN 

• Wireless MAC protocols for 5G: design, analysis, and optimization
• Cognitive and cooperative MAC
• MAC for mesh, ad hoc, relay and sensor networks
• Scheduling and radio resource management
• Cross-layer MAC design
• Software defined radio, RFID MAC
• QoS support and energy efficient MAC
• MAC protocol for energy harvesting wireless networks
• MAC design for multitier cellular/small cell networks
• Multiple access in machine-to-machine communication
• MAC for cloud-RAN
• MAC protocols for molecular and nano networks
• MAC protocols for mmWave networks
• Full-duplex MAC design
• Cross-layer design for massive MIMO and multiuser MIMO networks

TRACK 3: WIRELESS NETWORKS 

• Software-defined mobile/wireless networks 
• Wireless Network Functions Virtualization 
• Virtual network management and orchestration 
• Mobile cloud 
• Fog computing and networking 
• Mobile Edge Computing 
• Mesh, relay, sensor and ad hoc networks 
• Routing in wireless networks 
• Cognitive radio and networking 
• Resource management and optimization 
• Big Data enabled Self-Organized Networking 
• Mobile big data and network data analytics 
• Integrated Wireless/Optical networks 
• Mobility, location, and handoff management 
• Multimedia QoS and traffic management 
• Wireless broadcast, multicast and streaming 
• Congestion and admission control 
• Wireless network security and privacy 
• Mobile social networks 
• Wireless network measurements and characterization 

TRACK 4: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, ARCHITECTURES AND SERVICES 

• Mobile/Wireless network support for vertical industries 
• Adaptive content distribution in on-demand services 
• Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization 
• Network slicing and softwarization 
• Context and location-aware wireless services and applications 
• User-centric networks and adaptive services 
• Wireless body area networks and e-health services 
• Intelligent transportation systems 
• Dynamic sensor networks for urban applications 
• Wireless emergency and security systems 
• Ultra-reliable communication 
• Enabling regulations, standards, spectrum management 
• Hybrid licensed/unlicensed spectrum access schemes (e. g. licensed-assisted access) 
• Technologies, architectures and enabling business models for rural communications 
• Satellite-based mobile access and backhaul 
• Hybrid satellite-terrestrial networks 
• Full duplexing 
• Joint access and backhaul schemes 
• Testbed and prototype implementation of wireless services

Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE WCNC 2019 Conference Proceedings.