Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Track 1: Antennas and propagation, Communication theory and information theory

• MIMO and multi-antenna communications

• Underlay/overlay systems

• Error control coding including turbo codes, LDPC and iterative decoding

• Multiuser, network, massive and distributed MIMO systems

• Cooperative communications and relaying

• Fundamental limits, information theory for wireless

• Multiple access schemes, multiuser detection

• Interference mitigation and management

• Communication with limited feedback, Precoding and scheduling

• Space-time coding and processing, Interference alignment techniques

• Wireless Communications Powered by Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

• Spread spectrum systems: UWB, CDMA,MC CDMA, MC DS CDMA

• Information theory

• Adaptive modulation and coding

• Network coding

• Spectrum sensing & dynamic spectrum access

• Detection, equalization, synchronization, estimation

• Performance analysis, field tests and measurements

• Resource allocation and interference management

• Satellite and high altitude platforms

• Antennas and propagation

• Localization techniques

• Physical layer security

• Advanced Multicarrier waveforms: beyond OFDM and filterbank-based schemes

• Radio over fiber techniques

• Wireless channel modelling

• Gigabit wireless communications for 5G

• Millimeter wave and visible light communications

• Cognitive wireless networks

• PHY layer design for cellular, wireless LAN, ad hoc, and sensor networks

• Energy efficient PHY layer design, energy harvesting

• Over-the-air testing

• Cross-layer air interface design

• Ultra wideband, mmWave, and sub-THz communications

• Information-theoretic aspects of wireless communications

• Concepts for 5G and future PMR/PPDR broadband systems

• Signal processing for wireless communications

• Next generation M2M communications for internet of things

Track 2: Networking, protocols, cognitive radio, wireless sensor networks, services and applications

• Ad-hoc and mesh networks

• Cognitive radio networking

• Software defined networking

• Radio resource management and interference control

• ICT applications in smart cities and smart grid

• Homeland security and military communications

• Mobile Internet

• Wireless sensor networks

• Self-organisation

• Cross layer design

• Wireless routing techniques

• Mobility management

• Green networking and Energy harvesting

• Innovative services and applications

• Implementation concepts and test beds

• Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication

• Delay tolerant networks

• Heterogeneous and small cell networks

• Traffic control and engineering

• Optical wireless and visible light communications

• End-to-End QoS and QoS provisioning

• Cloud-based networking techniques (mobile cloud computing, Cloud-RAN)

• Network virtualization

• Networking techniques for mmWave

• Vehicular Networks (VANETs)

• Machine-to-machine communications and applications

• Wireless MAC protocols for 5G: design, analysis, and optimization

• Cognitive and cooperative MAC

• MAC for mesh, ad hoc, relay, and sensor networks, Scheduling and radio resource management

• Cross-layer MAC design, Software defined radio, RFID MAC, QoS support and energy efficient MAC

• MAC protocol for energy harvesting wireless networks

• MAC protocols for molecular and bacterial nano networks

• MAC design for multi-tier cellular/small cell networks

• Multiple access in machine-to-machine communications

• MAC for cloud radio access networks (Cloud-RANs)

• Wireless personal/body area networks (WPAN/WBAN) and Context awareness

• Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Everthing (IoE)

Track 3: Security and Privacy

• Authentication

• Cryptanalysis

• Digital Forensics

• Cloud computing security

• Threat Modelling

• Cyber - physical security

• Applied Cryptography

• Data and application security

• Embedded Systems Security

• Intrusion Detection

• Key Management

• Wireless or mobile security and privacy in health, automotive, avionics, or smart grid applications

• Access Control

• Wireless and mobile privacy and anonymity

• Mobile computing security

• Secure localization and location privacy

• Security Architectures

• Security & Privacy for Smart Devices (e.g., Smartphones)

• Security and privacy for mobile sensing systems

• Trusted computing

• Security solutions in VLSI

Track 4: Signal and Image Processing

• Audio and acoustic signal processing

• Multimedia signal processing

• Bio-inspired image and signal processing

• Nonlinear signal processing

• Design and implementation of signal processing systems

• Image Fusion

• Speech processing

• Image and video processing

• Signal processing theory and methods

• Sensor array, multichannel and communications signal processing

• Machine learning

• Signal processing for education

• Medical image and signal processing

• Signal processing applications

• Compressive Sensing

• VLSI signal processing