Communications and Networking Protocols

• Energy efficient protocols and routing techniques

• Cognitive networking

• Cooperative communications

• Cross-layer protocol designs

• Multiple-access and medium access control and sharing

• Low-power wireless communications

• Ad-hoc, mesh, and linear sensor networks

• Distributed sensing

Systems and Applications

• Modeling, simulation, and experimental studies

• Tools, testbeds, and deployment issues

• Software defined systems and testbed designs

• Transceiver designs

• Internet of (underwater, underground, and intrabody) things

• Autonomous mobile or static (implantable in a living tissue or in a reservoir) transceiver and system designs

• Health and environmental concerns for next-generation applications

• Future arising challenges

Signal Processing and Channel Modeling

• Signal models

• Sensor-array processing

• Physical layer communication schemes

• Modulation and coding techniques

• Receiver design Signal filtering and detection

• Signal propagation and attenuation models (absorption, scattering, fading, multipath)

• Measurement and characterization (modeling) of real-world aspects of wireless (underwater, intrabody, underground) networks