Original technical papers are solicited on the topics including, but not limited to, the following:

Wireless Symposium

• PHY/MAC technologies for 5G

• mmWave technologies for 5G

• MIMO technologies (massive MIMO, full dimension MIMO , etc.)

• Cross-layer design and radio resource management

• Multi-cell cooperation and interference management

• Mobile ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks

• Small cell and heterogeneous networks

• Cognitive radios and networks

• Green communications and networking

• Vehicular communication networks

• Wireless body area networks

• Emerging mobile applications and services

• Cloud radio access networks

• Wireless network modeling and performance analysis

• Wireless technologies for IoT

Networks Symposium

• Future internet and next-generation network architectures

• Networking technologies for IoT

• Access systems and networks

• Network virtualization and services

• Hybrid wireless-optical networks

• Network security, privacy, survivability, and network resilience strategies

• Provisioning, monitoring, and management of IP services

• Overlay networks and P2P networking

• Social networking and computing

• Routing issues and technologies

• Network steganography and steganalysis

• Cloud computing

• Software-defined networking

• Data center networks

• Information-centric networks

Optical Symposium

• Fibers and fiber devices/amplifiers/lasers

• Advanced optical components and modules

• Waveguide and optoelectronic devices

• Advanced optical modulation and detection schemes

• High-speed optical transmissions

• Optical network applications and services

• Optical access networks and fixed-mobile convergence

• Optical interconnection

• Nano-photonics and micro/nano optics

• microwave photonics

• Optical fiber sensors and networks

• Quantum and nonlinear optics

• Visible light communications

Big Data and IoT Symposium

• Big data models and algorithms

• Big data visualization and representation

• Semantic/context aware multimedia representation and processing

• Big data, IoT, and multimedia search and mining

• Big data, IoT, and multimedia service architectures

• Big data, IoT, and multimedia security and privacy

• Real-time coding, streaming of large volume interactive multimedia

• Cloud-based big data, IoT, and multimedia computing and communications

• Big data analytics in social media and IoT

• Big data applications in healthcare, finance, business, education, etc.

• Sensor and sensing technologies for IoT

• Scalable data management for big data and IoT