Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Communications

• Fundamental limits, information theory for wireless

• Modulation and coding: MIMO systems, space-time coding, joint source/channel coding, channel coding, distributed coding and cooperation

• Multiple access: multiuser detection, spectrum sensing and parameter estimation

• Interference mitigation and management, localization and positioning, error protection

• Near-field, Ultra-wideband, Mm-wave, Wired-wireless integration

• Implementation and testbed: antenna and RF modeling and design, issues in practical and experimental systems

• Energy: green communications, energy harvesting devices

• Optimization and game theory, tools for M&A

• New disruptive concepts for wireless systems

Networking

• Wireless sensors & actuators, vehicular and disruption-tolerant, heterogeneous, wireless ad-hoc, mesh networks

• Protocols and architectures, QoS and resource allocation, topology control, self-organizing, relays and buffers

• Implementation: low-cost radio, scalable, sustainable, low-complexity systems

• Application: Mobile apps and platforms, emerging applications in wireless networks

• Reliability and Security: privacy and trust in wireless networks, robust and dependable wireless systems

TW Thematic Wireless for EW2017
The Way Towards Holistic 5G

• Regional visions, requirements and development of 5G (Europe, Asia and America)

• Industry views of 5G: SME, manufacturers, operators and service providers, business developing for different markets

• Enabling technologies and novel concepts: SDN/NFV, network coding, compressed sensing, software defined wireless networks and reconfigurability, mobile edge computing, distributed caching

• Applications and services: development, implementation and validation, cloud computing, 5G test-beds, migration, integration, and convergence

• M2M communications and the Internet of Things