To ensure complete coverage of the advances in wireless communications technologies for current and future systems, the Wireless Communications Symposium invites original contributions in, but not limited to, the following topical areas: Antennas, smart antennas, and space-time processing Broadband wireless access techniques, systems, and standards Cognitive radio communications Channel modeling and propagation Cross-layer design and physical-layer based network issues Device-to-device (D2D) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications Distributed, relay assisted, and cooperative communications Energy harvesting communications & Wireless power transfer Full-duplex radio communications Green communications Heterogeneous and small-cell networks Hybrid communication systems (e.g. satellite/terrestrial/wireline hybrids) Interference characterization and modeling Interference management, alignment, and cancellation Localization and navigation techniques Maritime, space and underwater communications Millimeter wave and Terahertz communications MIMO, multi-user MIMO, and massive MIMO Modulation, coding, and diversity techniques Millimeter Wave  Multiple access techniques and air interfaces OFDM and multi-carrier systems Performance analysis of wireless systems Physical-layer network coding Physical-layer security Physical-layer aspects of wireless sensor networks Radio resource management Radio Systems Virtualization Ultra-wideband communications (UWB) Underwater wireless communications Visible light communications Wireless communications testbeds, field tests, and measurements