2017 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2017)

Track 1: PHY and Fundamentals

• Channel modeling, characterization and estimation

• Modulation, coding, diversity, equalization, synchronization

• OFDM, multi-carrier modulation, waveform design 

• Interference modeling, management, cancellation and alignment

• PHY strategies for low-rate, sporadic and asynchronous communications

• MIMO, massive MIMO and cloud-RAN

• Cooperative, device-to-device and multi-hop communication

• Cognitive radio, spectrum sensing

• Content caching and storage in wireless networks

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

• Energy efficient and energy harvesting PHY layer design

• Joint information and energy transmission

• PHY layer security and privacy, ultra-wideband, mmWave and sub-THz communication

• Information-theoretic aspects of wireless communications

• Signal processing for wireless communications

• Molecular and nano communications

Track 2: MAC and Cross-Layer Design

• 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 design for multitier cellular/small cell networks

• Multiple access in machine-to-machine communication

• MAC for cloud-RAN

• MAC protocols for molecular and nano networks

• MAC protocols for mmWave networks

• Full-duplex MAC design

• Cross-layer design for massive MIMO and multiuser MIMO networks

Track 3: Wireless Networks

• Network estimation and processing techniques

• Mesh, relay, sensor and ad hoc networks

• Mobility, location, and handoff management

• Wireless routing

• Multimedia QoS and traffic management

• Wireless broadcast, multicast and streaming

• Congestion and admission control

• Proxies and middleware for wireless networks

• Wireless network security and privacy

• Software-defined wireless networks

• Cognitive radio networks

• Mobile social networks

• Mobile cloud and fog networking

• Mobile big data and network data analytics

Track 4: Emerging Technologies, Architectures and Services

• Adaptive content distribution in on-demand services

• Context and location-aware wireless services and applications

• User-centric networks and adaptive services

• Wireless body area networks and e-health services

• Intelligent transportation systems

• Dynamic sensor networks for urban applications

• Wireless emergency and security systems

• Ultra-reliable communication

• Enabling regulations, standards, spectrum management

• Hybrid licensed/unlicensed spectrum access schemes (e. g. licensed-assisted access)

• Technologies, architectures and enabling business models for rural communications

• Satellite-based mobile access and backhaul

• Full duplexing

• Joint access and backhaul schemes

• Testbed and prototype implementation of wireless services