The IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) is one of the premier annual events of IEEE in the wireless research arena bringing together researchers, academics, and industry professionals. The 2021 edition of this important event will be held in Nanjing, China. WCNC 2021 will include technical sessions, tutorials, workshops, and technology and business panels. You are invited to submit papers, and proposals for panels, tutorials, and workshops, in all areas of wireless communications, networks, services, and applications. The proposals for panels, tutorials, and workshops should be sent to the Chairs listed below. The submissions of technical papers should be made on EDAS. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Track 1: Fundamentals and PHY

    Channel modeling, characterization and estimation
    Modulation, coding, diversity, equalization, synchronization
    Multi-carrier modulation, waveform design
    Wireless Communications through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
    AI, machine learning and data analytics for wireless communications
    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
    Beyond 5G and 6G
    Full duplexing

Track 2: MAC and Cross-Layer Design

    Wireless MAC protocols for beyond 5G: design, analysis, and optimization
    AI, machine learning and data analytics for MAC and cross-layer design
    Cognitive and cooperative MAC
    MAC for mesh, ad hoc, relay and sensor networks
    Scheduling and radio resource management
    Cross-layer MAC design
    MAC design for Non-Terrestrial Networks and Aerial Networks
    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

    Software-defined mobile/wireless networks
    Wireless network functions virtualization
    Virtual network management and orchestration
    AI, machine learning and data analytics for wireless networks
    Mobile cloud
    Fog computing and networking
    Mobile edge computing
    Mesh, relay, sensor and ad hoc networks
    Routing and congestion control in wireless networks
    Cognitive radio and networking
    Resource management and optimization
    Mobile big data and network data analytics
    Wireless network security and privacy
    Mobile social networks
    Wireless network measurements and characterization
    Wireless networking for autonomous vehicles
    Wireless networking for smart X (energy, factory, city, etc.)
    IoT wireless networking

Track 4: Emerging Technologies, Architectures and Services

    Wireless networks empowered by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
    Age of Information in Real-time Systems and Networks
    Mobile/Wireless network support for vertical industries
    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
    Technologies, architectures and enabling business models for rural communications
    Satellite-based mobile access and backhaul
    Non-terrestrial, Aerial and hybrid satellite-terrestrial networks
    Testbed and prototype implementation of wireless services