IEEE WCNC is the premier event for wireless communications researchers, industry professionals, and academics interested in the latest development and design of wireless systems and networks. Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE WCNC has a long history of bringing together industry, academia, and regulatory bodies. In 2016, Doha will become the wireless capital by hosting IEEE WCNC 2016. The conference will include technical sessions, tutorials, workshops, and technology and business panels. You are invited to submit papers in all areas of wireless communications, networks, services, and applications. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Track 1: PHY and Fundamentals
· Channel modeling, characterization, and estimation
· Modulation, coding, diversity, equalization, synchronization
· OFDM, multi-carrier modulation
· Interference modeling, management, cancellation, and alignment
· Space-time coding, beamforming, MIMO, massive MIMO
· Cooperative, device-to-device, and multihop communications
· Cognitive radio, spectrum sensing
· PHY layer design for cellular, wireless LAN, ad hoc, and sensor networks
· Energy efficient PHY layer design, energy harvesting
· PHY layer security
· Ultra wideband, mmWave, and sub-THz communications
· Information-theoretic aspects of wireless communications
· Signal processing for wireless communications
· VLSI and RF circuits 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 multi-tier cellular/small cell networks
· Multiple access in machine-to-machine communications
· MAC for cloud radio access networks (Cloud-RANs)
· MAC protocols for molecular and bacterial nano networks


Track 3: Mobile and Wireless Networks
· Localization for wireless networks
· Network estimation and processing techniques
· Mesh, relay, sensor and ad hoc networks
· Mobility, location, and handoff management
· Mobile and wireless IP
· Wireless multicasting, routing
· Robust 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
· Performance of E2E protocols over wireless networks


Track 4: Services, Applications, and Business
· Adaptive content distribution in on-demand services
· Mobility management in User-centric services
· Context and location-aware wireless services & applications
· User-centric networks and adaptive services
· Internet of Things services and data access
· Wireless body area networks and e-health services
· Intelligent transportation systems
· Dynamic sensor networks for urban applications
· Wireless emergency and security systems
· QoS-based differential business models for adaptive networks
· Dynamic services, autonomic services and novel mobile applications
· Regulations, standards, spectrum management
· Test-bed and prototype implementation of wireless services


CALL FOR TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS
Proposals for tutorials and workshops are solicited on hot topics for future wireless communications systems and applications.



CALL FOR PANELS
Panel proposals are also solicited on technical, business and policy-related issues and opportunities for the wireless communications industry.



IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: October 11, 2015 (FINAL)
Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2015
Camera Ready Submission: 12 January 2016
Tutorial proposals: 15 September 2015
Workshop proposals: 28 June 2015
Panel proposals: 15 September 2015


Participaion should be submitted to suitable conference track on EDAS.


IEEE and IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY POLICIES
To ensure appropriate consideration of conflicts of interest during the review process, ComSoc prohibits changes to the list of authors once a paper has been submitted for review during review, revision, or (if accepted) ­final publication. The author list may be changed only prior to the submission deadline.

PLEASE NOTE: To be published in the IEEE WCNC 2016 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference unless the TPC Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter arranged in advance of the event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE WCNC 2016 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.