Topics may be addressed from the implementation or analytical perspectives. They include but are not limited to those listed below.

Waveforms and Signal Processing

* Advanced antenna technology
* Anti-jamming techniques
* Channel modeling
* Cognitive radios
* Compressive sensing
* Cooperative diversity
* Detection and estimation
* Dynamic link control
* Equalization
* Error-control coding
* Fading channels and diversitytechniques
* Free-space optical communications
* Interference modeling and mitigation
* LPI/LPD techniques
* Modulation
* Multiple antenna systems
* Multiuser techniques
* OFDM and multicarrier systems
* Physical layer security
* Quantum communications
* Radar waveforms and processing
* Radio hardware implementation
* Signal processing
* Software defined radio
* Source coding
* Spread spectrum
* Synchronization and acquisition
* Ultrawideband signaling
* Underwater communications

Networking Protocols andPerformance

* Cognitive networks
* Cross-layer design
* Disruption-tolerant networks
* Heterogeneous networks
* MAC and link-layer protocols
* Mesh networks
* Mobile ad hoc networks
* Multicasting
* Network and transport protocols
* Network architectures
* Network coding
* Network optimization
* Network planning and topology
* Networked control systems
* Optical networks
* Overlay networks
* Quality of service
* Routing
* Securing network protocols
* Sensor networks
* Vehicular networks

Cyber Security and Network Management

* Computer and network security systems
* Cryptography and cryptographicdevices
* Cyber operations
* Data collection and fusion
* Information assurance
* Information management and dissemination
* Key management and distribution
* Multimedia storage, processing, and transmission
* Network operations and management
* Network traffic monitoring and prediction
* Peer-to-peer networks
* Secure and robust implementations
* Service-oriented architectures
* Services at the tactical edge
* Tactical network security approaches
* Traffic modeling and engineering
* Trust management

Systems Perspectives

* Airborne technologies
* Affordability and agility
* Applications and operational concepts
* Architectures
* Assuring mission success
* Coalition partners
* Communications on the move
* Disaster response
* Efficient use of spectrum
* Homeland defensecommunications
* Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
* Interoperability
* Military utility of communications
* Network-centric systems and technologies
* Policies and standards (military and commercial)
* Reliability Testbeds, experiments, exercises, and demonstrations
* Satellite communication systems
* Satellite crosslinks
* Situation management (SIMA)
* Space networks and protocols
* Spectrum management and coordination
* Standards-based datalinks
* System-level modeling and simulation
* Systems, programs, and initiatives
* System of systems