PIMRC 2018 accepts workshops, special session and tutorial proposals, and papers, dealing with the following topics (non-exhaustive list):
Track 1: Fundamentals and PHY
- Advanced modulation schemes for 5G, IoT/IoE, etc.
- Antennas and beamforming
- Channel estimation and equalization
- Channel modeling and simulation
- Cognitive and green radio
- Cooperative/relayed communications
- Energy harvesting and wireless power transfer
- Interference characterization and mitigation
- Microwave circuits and devices
- Multi-antenna signal processing
- PHY aspects of WLAN, WPAN, and WBAN
- PHY network coding and security
- PHY performance: capacity, outage, BER
- Positioning, localization, and tracking
- Power-efficient communications
- Propagation: mmW, Terahertz, light-wave
- Radio access, FSO, OW, RoF/FiWi, etc.
- Signal processing for wireless
- Single and multi-user MIMO
- Source and channel coding
- Synchronization techniques
- Ultra-wideband communications
- Vehicular communications
- Wireless broadband for 5G, IoT/IoE, etc.
Track 2: MAC and Cross-layer Design
- Adaptive MACs
- Cognitive MACs
- Cross-layer designs involving MAC
- Delay-tolerant MAC designs
- Docitive MACs
- Dynamic spectrum management
- Implementation, testbeds, and prototypes
- Information-theoretical approaches to MAC designs
- Joint access and backhaul scheduler designs
- Joint MAC and networking layer designs
- MAC for cloud networking
- MAC for low power embedded networks
- MAC for mobile and vehicular ad hoc networks
- QoS/QoE-enabling MAC
- Radio resource management, allocation, and scheduling
- Reconfigurable MACs
- Scheduler for cooperative and relay systems
- Scheduler for heterogeneous cellular systems
- Security issues in MAC designs
- Time-critical MAC designs
- MAC in 5G and future mobile networks
Track 3: Mobile and Wireless Networks
- Ad hoc networks
- Body and personal area networks
- Cloud and virtual networks
- Cognitive radio networks
- Cooperative networks
- Delay-tolerant networks
- Future wireless Internet
- Green wireless networks
- Local dependent networks
- Location management
- Mobile and wireless
- IPMobile computing
- Multi-hop networks
- mmWave networks
- Network architectures
- Routing, QoS, and scheduling
- Satellite communications
- Self-organizing networks
- UAV networks
- Vehicular networks
- Wireless multicasting, broadcasting, and geocasting
- Wireless sensor networks
Track 4: Services, Applications, and Business
- Authentication, authorization, and accounting
- Cloud computing, virtualization, and service-oriented architectures
- Cyber-physical systems
- In-/intra-car communications
- Content caching and delivery
- Context awareness in pervasive systems
- Economy and management of 5G networks
- Edge computing applications
- Emerging wireless/mobile applications
- Internet of Things and connected wireless sensor platforms
- Intrusion detection and mitigation in wireless networks
- Location-based services and applications
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Mobile and wireless Internet services
- Mobile e-health
- Mobile multimedia services
- Mobile payment services
- Mobile social networks P2P services for multimedia
- Secure network and service access
- Security and privacy in wireless applications and services
- Self-adaptation on the application and service layers
- Sensor-cloud integration
- Service discovery and access
- Smart homes, offices, factories, and cities
- Tactile Internet services and applications
- Ubiquitous application and service delivery
- User interfaces and user-machine interactions
- Wireless big data analytics and applications
- Wireless emergency and security systems
- Wireless enabled smart environments
- Wireless for AR/VR and immersion
- Wireless multimedia broadcasting
- Wireless for robotics, wearables, and implants