The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Fifth generation (5G) mobile communications
• Heterogeneous networks and small cells
• Big data networking
• Software radio
• Protocols, architectures and applications for the Internet of things
• Network functions virtualization and software defined networking
• Green communications and energy efficiency
• Self – organizing/self – deploying networks
• Cognitive radio and networks
• Wireless sensor and actuator networks
• D2D and M2M communications
• Ad – hoc communications
• Cooperative communications
• Multi-antenna and beamforming systems
• Game theory for communications
• Signal processing for communications
• Wireless communication testbeds, measurements and modelling
• Optical networks and converged optical-wireless networks
• ICT for smart cities
• Smart grid communications
• Powerline communications
• Vehicular networking
• Pervasive and mobile computing
• Cloud computing
• Satellite & space communications
• Emerging WLANs, WPANs and WMANs
• Optical communications and technologies
• Wireless optical communications and VLC
• Information theory, channel coding and joint source channel coding
• Network coding techniques
• Image processing, video compression and coding
• QoS provision and management
• Metrics and models for QoE
• Multimedia and virtual reality
• Cryptography and network security
• Standards for communications and networking
• Terahertz communications