The 18th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2017, will be held at Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan between July 3rd and July 6th, 2017. The workshop is devoted to advances in signal processing for wireless communications, networking, and information theory. The technical program features plenary talks as well as invited and contributed papers presented in poster format.


Call for Papers

Prospective authors are invited to by the deadline listed above submit original papers in the following areas but not limited to
Topics of Interest include

Smart antennas, MIMO systems, massive MIMO, and space-time processing
Single-carrier, multi-carrier, and multi-rate systems
Multiple-access and broadcast channels, multi-user receivers
Signal processing for ad-hoc, multi-hop, and sensor networks
Cooperative communication, coordinated multipoint transmission and reception
Distributed resource allocation and scheduling
Convex and non-convex optimization; Game theory for communications
Interference management, dynamic spectrum management
Heterogeneous networks, small cells
Millimeter wave, 60GHz communications
Full duplex systems
Physical layer security
Feedback in wireless networks
Cognitive radio and networks
Cooperative sensing, compressed sensing, sparse signal processing
Machine-to-machine, device-to-device communications
Ultra-wideband radio, localization, RFID
Modeling, estimation and equalization of wireless channels
Acquisition, synchronization, and tracking
Cross-layer issues, joint source-channel coding, delay-limited communication
Signal processing for optical, satellite, and underwater communications
Signal processing for nano- and molecular communications
Energy efficiency and energy harvesting
Large networks and big data in wireless communications
Emerging techniques, technologies, and new waveforms for 5G

Authors are invited to submit a 5-page full paper electronically through EDAS.


Important Dates

March 1, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline
April 30, 2017 Acceptance Notification
May 10, 2017 Final Paper Due