Track 1
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning And Optimization For Communications, Networks And Signal Processing
Track Chair: Dr. Nan Cheng

    Deep, distributed, reinforcement, end-to-end communication-inspired machine learning (ML), Bayesian optimization and performance analysis and scalability of ML techniques for 5G onwards to 6G wireless communications networks & systems.
    Implementation of AI/ML algorithms for modelling and optimization of wireless networking architecture for load balancing and cell/band association and data-driven networks & wireless systems.
    Convex and non-convex optimization, unsupervised and generative models, semantic and goal-oriented and game-theoretic approaches for wireless communications.
    Emerging Topics in consumer communications & networking, cloud & fog/edge computing and networking, edge intelligence, software-defined networking, and network function virtualization.
    Networking solutions for emerging industrial and social applications.

Track 2
Advances Of Wireless Communication Theory, Protocols, And Security 
Track Chair: Dr. Nikolaos Pappas

    Semantics-aware communications, Age and Value of Information for Networks.
    Performance analysis, stochastic optimization, stochastic geometry.
    Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for future wireless communications.
    Physical layer & cyber security, privacy and blockchains security.
    Medium access control, mobility management, interference mitigation, multi-user access, resource allocation, duplexing techniques and wireless coexistence technologies.
    Dynamic spectrum access, sensing, sharing and scheduling & resource management techniques, cross-layer optimization, cognitive radios, cooperative communications and networking.
    Protocols for next generation wireless systems.
    Localization and sensing, energy efficiency and energy harvesting.
    Next generation communication and Wi-Fi systems, cognitive radio systems & networks, software-defined radios and networks, machine intelligence for mmWave communication and networking.
    Information theory, feedback & two-way communications and channel capacity, Millimeter-wave & Terahertz systems and next generation MIMO and massive MIMO.

Track 3
Emerging Technologies, IOT And Applications
Track Chair: Dr. Li Chen

    Visible light and optical communications, free space optical. communications, LiFi fundamentals, concepts, and new approaches.  
    Satellite and space communications, Quantum communications, molecular and nano communications.       
    Network and radio resource management, V2X technologies for connected and automated Vehicles, UAVs and Non-terrestrial Networks.
    Smart cities and IoT enabling technologies and services, computational intelligence, and big data analytics for reliable IoT, IoT Security/Cyber Security for connected and autonomous vehicles, blockchain and cryptography.
    Biomedical applications including E-health and mobile health, emerging implanted sensors and wearable devices, virtual and augmented reality.

Track 4
Wireless Positioning And Multi-sensor Navigation
Track Chair: Dr. Umar Iqbal

    Advanced methods for high precision GNSS positioning.
    Wireless high precision positioning based on mmWave cellular systems for challenging and denied GNSS environments in both indoor and urban areas.
    Ultra-wideband (UWB) and low Earth orbit (LEO) communication satellites technologies as navigation aids.
    Advances of the emerging LEO-based satellite for positioning and timing services.
    Fusion with onboard sensors for uninterrupted, robust guidance and navigation for safety critical applications such as autonomous vehicles, intelligent transportation systems and mapping.