1. Wireless communications

1.A. Technologies:

• Software-defined radio and cognitive radio

• Signal processing for wireless communications

• Energy efficiency and power management

• Smart and mobile antennas and propagation

• Practical implementation issues and performance evaluation

• Spectrum management and regulatory issues

• Electromagnetic energy harvesting

• Global and local positioning systems in wireless networks

1.B. Networking:

• Intelligent transportation system and vehicular communications

• Wireless sensor networks

• Machine-to-machine communications

• MAC layer and routing protocols

• Ad-hoc and cell-based networking

• Multiple access and scheduling

• Cooperative and distributed communications

• Radio resource allocation, bit allocation, power allocation

• Performance analysis, QoS and network management

• Cross-layer optimization

• Advanced wireless network technologies, architectures

• Cellular-Wi-Fi Integration and interworking

• Traffic analysis of wireless networks

1.C. Wireless PHY:

• Advanced MIMO techniques

• Ultra-wideband communications

• Multicarrier communications

• Channel characterization

• Channel coding

• Acoustic communication systems

• Physical layer security

2. Optical communications

• Optical Signal Processing

• Advances in Optical Networking

• Photonic Communications Systems and Networks

• High-speed Optical Communications systems and devices

• All-Optical Communication Systems

• Passive optical networks

• Active optical networks

• Energy-Efficient and Spectral-Efficient Optical Communication Systems

• Microwave Photonics

• Optical MIMO

• Radio over Fiber (RoF) and Wireless over Fiber (WoF) systems

• Optical Fibers and Fiber Devices for Optical Communications

• Optical Amplifiers

• Modeling and Optimization of Optical Communication Networks

• Optical sensors technologies

• Optical network management

• Software-defined networks

• Visible light communication