There is a phenomenal burst of research activities in big data, which shows great potential in decision making, optimizing operations, mitigating security threats and capitalizing on new sources of revenues in a variety of fields, such as retail, advertisement, manufacturing, healthcare, and insurance. Data from wireless devices and networks (e.g., smart phones, cellular networks, sensor networks, vehicle networks, etc.) is an important source of big data. Therefore, wireless networks play a critical role in big data generation, delivery, and processing. On the other hand, big data, as an important networking application, will have profound impacts on the design and operation of wireless networks. Particularly, big data analytics can benefit advanced wireless technologies, such as wireless virtualization, software defined networking (SDN), device-to-device (D2D) communications, cloud- based radio access networks (C-RANs), etc. 

Both wireless and big data are hot research topics in the IEEE society. Many researchers are working on the related topics. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first workshop focusing on the topics of wireless for big data and big data for wireless. Therefore, this workshop will attract a significant number of submissions of good quality.