2018 27th Wireless and Optical Communication Conference (WOCC)

Wireless communications and Networking Symposium

• Innovation and field trials of 5G
• PHY/MAC technologies for 5G
• mmWave technologies for 5G
• MIMO technologies (massive MIMO, full dimension MIMO , etc.)
• Cross-layer design and radio resource management
• Multi-cell cooperation and interference management
• Mobile ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks
• Small cell and heterogeneous networks
• Cognitive radios and networks
• Green communications and networking
• Vehicular communication networks
• Wireless body area networks
• Emerging mobile applications and services
• Cloud/Fog radio access networks
• Wireless network modeling and performance analysis
• Wireless technologies for IoT
• Wireless technologies for smart cities, smart communities and smart homes

Emerging networks and future internet symposium

• Future internet and next-generation network architectures
• Networking technologies for IoT
• IoT applications
• Protocols and architectures for IoT
• Access systems and networks
• Hybrid wireless-optical networks
• Network security, privacy, survivability, and network resilience strategies
• Provisioning, monitoring, and management of IP services
• Overlay networks and P2P networking
• Social networking and computing
• Routing issues and technologies
• Network steganography and steganalysis
• Cloud computing
• Edge computing
• Tactile internet
• Network virtualization (NV) and services
• Software-defined networking (SDN)
• Network function virtualization (NFV) for next generation networks
• Data center networks
• Information-centric networks
• Network science

Optical communications and photonics symposium

• Fibers and fiber devices/amplifiers/lasers
• Advanced optical components and modules
• Waveguide and optoelectronic devices
• Advanced optical modulation and detection schemes
• High-speed optical transmissions
• Optical network applications and services
• Optical access networks and fixed-mobile convergence
• Optical interconnection
• Nano-photonics and micro/nano optics
• microwave photonics
• Optical fiber sensors and networks
• Quantum and nonlinear optics
• Visible light communications

Big data and machine learning symposium

• Machine learning models and algorithms for communications and networking
• Machine learning for intelligent IoT
• Big data models and algorithms
• Big data visualization and representation
• Semantic/context aware multimedia representation and processing
• Big data, IoT, and multimedia search and mining
• Big data, IoT, and multimedia service architectures
• Big data, IoT, and multimedia security and privac
• Real-time coding, streaming of large volume interactive multimedia
• Cloud-based big data, IoT, and multimedia computing and communications
• Big data analytics in social media and IoT
• Big data applications in healthcare, finance, business, education, etc.
• Sensor and sensing technologies for IoT
• Scalable data management for big data and IoT
• Big data analytics and machine learning for network managements
• Big data analytics and machine learning for QoS improvements in communications and networking
• Big data analytics and machine learning for self-organized networks
• Big data analytics and machine learning for adaptive and accurate resource allocation