The 23rd Annual Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC 2014) will provide a unique opportunity to explore the leading areas of wireless and optical communications technologies, future network and big data.

Original technical papers are solicited on the topics including, but not limited to, the following:

Wireless Symposium

PHY/MAC technologies for 3G/4G and future wireless communication systems
Cross-layer design and radio resource management
Multi-cell cooperation and interference management
Mobile Ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks
Small cell and heterogeneous networks
Convergence of fixed and mobile communication systems
Cognitive radios and networks
Green communications and networking
Ubiquitous mobile computing, mobile cloud
Vehicular communication networks
Wireless body area networks
Emerging mobile applications and services

Networks Symposium

Future Internet and next-generation network
Internet of Things
Network virtualization and services
Convergent network architectures
Migration to NGN and mobile broadband
Hybrid wireless-optical networks
Network planning and optimization
Provisioning, monitoring, and management of IP services
Routing issues and technologies
Network coding and application
Overlay networks and P2P networking
Social networking and computing
Network Security
Network Steganography and Steganalysis
Cloud computing
Software-defined networks
Data center networks
Information-centric networks

Optical Symposium

Optical interconnection
Optical network applications and services
High-speed optical transmission
Advanced optical modulation and detection schemes
Optical fiber subsystems and access networks
Optical fiber sensor devices and networks
Advanced optical components and modules
Fibers and fiber devices/amplifiers/lasers
Microwave photonics, silicon photonics
Waveguide devices and planar lightwave circuits
Nano-photonics and Micro/Nano Optics
Quantum and nonlinear optics
Visible light communication

Big Data Symposium

Big data models and algorithms
Big data and multimedia search and mining
Big data visualization and representation
Semantic/context aware multimedia representation and processing
Multimodal and soft/hard data fusion
Big data and multimedia service architectures
Interactive platforms for data access and understanding
Cloud based big data and multimedia computing and communications
Big data analytics in social media
Big data and the Internet of Things
Bioinformatics
Big data applications in healthcare, finance, business, education etc.
Big data security and privacy
Business opportunities and models for big data