Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium

• Mobile and wireless ad hoc networks

• Hybrid wireless ad hoc networks

• Vehicular ad hoc networks

• Wireless sensor and actuator networks

• Wireless multimedia and 3-D sensor networks

• Underwater and underground sensor networks

• Body area networks and e-Health

• Wireless local and personal area networks

• Home networks

• Pervasive and wearable computing

• Self-organization and autonomic networking

• Transport layer protocols

• Multimedia access control (MAC) protocols

• Routing and multicasting protocols

• Synchronization and scheduling techniques

• Quality of service provisioning and management

• Energy optimization and scavenging

• Resource management

• Mobility management

• Deployment and coverage

• Localization and positioning

• Topology control and management

• In-network processing and data storage

• Fault tolerance and traffic reliability

• Cross-layer design and optimization

• Performance modeling and evaluation

• Simulation methodologies and tools

• Experimental prototypes and testbeds

Communication Theory Symposium

• Coding theory

• Information theory and channel capacity

• Network information theory

• Detection and estimation theory

• Cooperative communications theory

• CDMA and spread spectrum

• Compressed sensing

• Adaptive modulation and coding

• Joint source and channel coding

• Error control coding

• Network coding

• Source coding and data compression

• Space-time coding and processing

• Distributed coding and processing

• Turbo and LDPC codes

• Distributed storage

• Diversity and fading countermeasures

• Theoretical aspects of interference management, cancellation, alignment, and avoidance

• Theoretical aspects of energy-efficient communications

• Theoretical aspects of cognitive radio

• Theoretical aspects of cross-layer design

Wireless Communications Symposium

• Wireless propagation and channel characterization

• OFDM and multi-carrier techniques

• Smart antennas techniques

• MIMO and multi-antenna techniques

• Diversity techniques

• Dynamic spectrum access techniques

• Software-defined radio techniques

• Equalization techniques

• Synchronization, estimation,and detection techniques

• Wireless multiple access techniques

• Cooperative communications

• Cognitive radio communications

• Wireless green communications

• Ultra-wideband (UWB) communications

• Free-space optical communications

• Joint source and channel coding

• Dynamic spectrum management

• Resource allocation and interference management

• Fixed wireless broadband access systems

• Energy harvesting communication systems

• Performance evaluation of wireless communications systems

• Wireless communications standards

Wireless Networking Symposium

• Cellular systems,4G/5G and beyond

• Wireless mesh networks

• WLAN,WPAN,and wireless home networks

• Cognitive radio networks

• Self-organizing networks

• Software-defined wireless networks

• Heterogeneous and Femtocell networks

• Free-space optical networks

• mmWave wireless networks

• Opportunistic wireless networks

• Wireless multimedia networks

• Wireless social networks

• Green wireless networks

• Network architecture and protocol design

• Medium access control and routing

• Flow and congestion control

• Radio resource allocation and management

• Traffic modeling and management

• Mobility, handoff, and location management

• Quality of service provisioning

• Cross-layer design and optimization

• Wireless network virtualization

• Wireless cloud computing

• Performance modeling and analysis

• Network deployment and testbeds

• Emerging wireless services and applications

Wireless Network Security Symposium 

• Security for 4G/5G cellular systems

• Security for wireless networks

• Security for mobile ad hoc networks

• Security for vehicular ad hoc networks

• Security for wireless sensor networks

• Security for software-defined networks

• Security for network function virtualization

• Security risk management for wireless networks

• Message authentication for wireless networks

• Trust management for wireless networks

• Trust model design for wireless networks

• Authorization and access control for wireless networks

• Key distribution and management for wireless networks

• Cryptography and evaluation for wireless networks

• Privacy enhancing techniques for wireless networks

• Hardware and software security for wireless networks

• Security performance evaluation for wireless networks

• Security for wireless network middleboxes

• Security and privacy for mobile applications

• Security and privacy for wireless big data

• Physical security for wireless networks

• Security protocol design for wireless networks

Signal Processing Symposium

• Adaptive signal processing

• Blind signal processing

• Speech and audio signal processing

• Image and video signal processing

• Multimedia signal processing

• Multidimensional signal processing

• Array and multi-channel signal processing

• Signal processing systems

• Signal processing applications

• Channel estimation and equalization

• Signal detection and synchronization

• Signal processing for spectrum sensing, shaping, and management

• Signal processing for single-carrier, OFDM, and OFDMA systems

• Signal processing for multi-antenna and multi-user systems

• Signal processing for full-duplex communication

• Signal processing for interference cancellation

• Signal processing for software-defined and cognitive radio

• Signal processing for adaptive antennas and beamforming

• Signal processing for security and cryptography

• Signal processing for localization, positioning, and tracking techniques

• Signal processing for milimeter and Tera-Hz communications systems

• Signal processing for spread spectrum and ultra-wideband systems