The ubiquity and flexibility of wireless access to the Internet played a very significant role in the tremendous growth in mobile devices such as smartphones, tablet PCs, and laptops over the past years. As a consequence, a progressively larger fraction of Internet traffic is delivered wirelessly. How to deal with this growth is one of the most important challenges for future wireless networks. State-of-the-art wireless communication already operates close to Shannon capacity and one of the most promising options to further increase data rates is to increase the communication bandwidth. Very high bandwidth channels are only available in the extremely high frequency part of the radio spectrum, the millimeter wave band (mm-wave). However, this part of the spectrum suffers from high attenuation and signal absorption and usually involves the use of highly directional links. This brings about unique challenges for the design of millimeter-wave network architectures. Past work has focused to a large degree on the radio communication aspects, but efficient millimeter-wave networking also requires changes to higher layer protocols and mechanisms such as medium access and transport protocols as well as mobility support in mobile networks.

The purpose of this workshop is bring together researchers from academia and industry in the field of millimeter-wave networking and communications to present and discuss their latest research efforts and new findings, exchange ideas, and discuss research challenges.