The 28th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2017) will feature a comprehensive technical and industry program covering the latest research and innovation in wireless communications technologies. Prospective authors are invited to submit technical papers of their previously unpublished work to one of the four Regular Tracks listed below. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:



TRACK 1: FUNDAMENTALS AND PHY

· Advanced modulation schemes for 5G, IoT, …

. Antennas and beamforming

. Channel estimation and equalization

· Channel modeling and simulation

· Cognitive and green radio

· Cooperative/relayed communications

· Energy harvesting, wireless power transfer

· Interference characterization & mitigation

· Microwave/DSP circuits and devices

· Multi-antenna signal processing

· PHY aspects of WLAN, WPAN, and WBAN

· PHY performance: capacity, outage, BER

· PHY network coding and security

· Positioning, localization, and tracking

· Power-efficient communications

· Propagation: mmW, Terahertz, light-wave

· Signal processing for wireless

· Single and multi-user MIMO

· Source and channel coding

· Synchronization techniques

· Vehicular communication

· Wireless broadband for 5G, IoT, …



TRACK 2: MAC AND CROSS-LAYER DESIGN

· Adaptive MACs

· Cognitive MACs

· Cross-layer designs involving MAC

· Delay tolerant MAC designs

· Docitive MACs

· Dynamic spectrum management

· Implementation, testbeds and prototypes

· Information-theoretical approaches to MAC designs

· Joint access and backhaul scheduler designs

· Joint MAC and networking layer designs

· MAC for low power embedded networks

· MAC for mobile and vehicular ad hoc networks

· MAC for cloud networking

· QoS/QoE-enabling MAC

· Radio resource management, allocation and scheduling

· Reconfigurable MACs

· Scheduler for heterogeneous cellular systems

· Scheduler for cooperative and relay systems

· Security issues in MAC designs

· Time-critical MAC designs



TRACK 3: MOBILE AND WIRELESS NETWORKS

· Ad hoc networks

· Body and personal area networks

· Cloud and virtual networks

· Cognitive radio networks

· Cooperative communications

· Delay tolerant networks

· Future wireless Internet

· Green wireless networks

· Local dependent networks

· Location management

· Mobile and wireless IP

· Mobile computing

· Multi-hop networks

· Network architectures

· Routing, QoS and scheduling

· Satellite communications

· Self-organising networks

· Vehicular networks

· Wireless multicasting, broadcasting and geocasting

· Wireless sensor networks



TRACK 4: SERVICES, APPLICATIONS AND BUSINESS

· Audio and video broadcast applications

· Authentication, authorisation and accounting

· Context and location-awareness in pervasive systems

· Cyber-physical system / real-world Internet

· Emerging wireless/mobile applications

· Intra-vehicle communications

· Mobile multimedia services

· Link data and networked knowledge

· Next generation digital home networks

· P2P services for multimedia

· Personalisation, profiles and profiling

· Secure network and service access

· Self-adaptation on the service layer

· Semantic technologies

· Service discovery

· Cloud computing, virtualization, and service-oriented architectures

· Smart cities and environments

· Service portability

· User interfaces, user-machine interactions

· Wireless emergency and security systems

· Wireless robotics, wearables, implants and wireless for AR/VR and immersion