2016 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Wireless and Mobile (APWiMob 2016)

APWiMob 2016 invites papers, original & unpublished work from individuals active in the broad theme of the conference. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Track 1: Fundamentals and PHY

• Advanced modulation schemes
• Antennas, beamforming, multi-antenna signal processing
• Channel capacity estimation and equalization
• Channel measurement, modeling, and characterization
• Cognitive and green radio
• Cooperative communications
• Equalization, synchronization, channel estimation
• Information-theoretic aspects of wireless communications
• Interference characterization, cancellation, multiuser detection and mitigation
• Iterative techniques
• Modulation, coding, diversity
• Multihop and cooperative communications
• OFDM, CDMA, spread spectrum
• Physical layer designs for WLAN, WPAN, and WBAN
• Physical layer network coding and security
• Power efficient communications
• Propagation models for high frequency channels
• RF propagation studies
• Signal processing for wireless communications
• Single and multi-user MIMO
• Source and channel coding
• Space-time coding, MIMO, adaptive antennas
• Ultra-wideband and gigabit wireless communications
• Vehicular communications
• Wireless localization and tracking techniques

Track 2: MAC and Cross-Layer Design

• Adaptability and reconfigurability
• Adaptive and cognitive MACs
• B3G/4G Systems, WiMAX, WLAN, WPAN
• Cognitive and cooperative MAC
• Collaborative algorithms
• Cross-layer design, cross-layer security
• Cross-layer designs involving MAC
• Delay tolerant MAC designs
• Implementation of testbeds and prototypes
• Information-theoretical approaches to MAC designs
• Joint access and backhaul scheduler designs
• Joint MAC and networking layer designs
• MAC for low power embedded networks
• MAC for mesh, ad hoc, relay, and sensor networks
• MAC for mobile and vehicular ad hoc networks
• MAC in 4G and future mobile networks
• Multiple access techniques
• Network information theory
• QoS provisioning in MAC
• Radio resource management, allocation, and scheduling
• Reconfigurable MACs
• Routing and QoS scheduling
• Scheduler for cellular macro-, pico- and femto- systems
• Scheduler for cooperative systems
• Scheduler for relay systems
• Security issues in MAC designs
• Software defined radio, RFID
• Time-critical MAC designs
• Wireless MAC protocols: design and analysis

Track 3: Mobile and Wireless Networks

• Body area networks
• Capacity, Throughput, Outage, Coverage
• Cognitive radio networks
• Congestion and Admission Control
• Congestion, load and admission control
• Dynamic spectrum management
• Future wireless Internet
• Green wireless networks
• Internet of things
• Interworking Heterogeneous Wireless/Wireline Networks
• Localization for Wireless Networks
• Location dependent networks
• Mesh, Relay, Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks
• Mobile and Wireless IP
• Mobile computing
• Mobility, location, and handoff management
• Multi-hop and relay networks
• Multimedia QoS and Traffic Management
• Network architectures
• Network Estimation and Processing Techniques
• Performance of E2E Protocols over Wireless Networks
• Proxies and Middleware for Wireless Networks
• Robust routing
• Satellite communications
• Self-organizing networks
• Smart cities and smart grids
• Vehicular networks
• Wireless Broadcasting, Multicasting, Geo-casting, Streaming and Routing
• Wireless Network Security and Privacy
• Wireless sensor networks

Track 4: Services, Applications, and Business

• Aerospace, Electronic and Defence sector
• Audio and video broadcast applications
• Authentication, authorization and accounting
• Cognitive radio and sensor-based applications
• Content distribution in wireless home environment
• Context and location-aware wireless services & applications
• Context and location-awareness in pervasive systems
• Cyber-physical systems and applications
• Dynamic services, autonomic services
• Emerging wireless and mobile applications
• Geoscience and remote sensing and related fields
• Innovative user interfaces, P2P services for multimedia
• Intelligent transportation systems
• Mobile multimedia services
• Mobile to mobile and in-car communication networks
• Next generation home networks
• P2P services for multimedia
• Personalization, profiles and profiling
• Personalization, service discovery, profiles and profiling
• Regulations, standards, spectrum management
• Secure network and service access
• Self-adaptation on the service layer
• Service discovery and portability
• Service oriented architectures, service portability and cloud computing
• SIP based services, multimedia, QoS support, middleware
• Test-bed and prototype implementation of wireless services
• User interfaces, user-machine interactions
• Wireless applications in robotics
• Wireless emergency and security systems
• Wireless health applications, telemedicine and e-health services