NWC 2014 - 5th Symposium on Networking and Wireless Communications

The scope of the wireless communications technology includes but not limited to two-way radio, cellular communications, personal communications, multi-media communications, antennas, propagation, cognitive radio, dynamic spectrum allocation, and security issues. The author submissions include algorithms, modeling, applications, security issues, and adaptive capabilities to meet the current customer requirements of operating environments, missions and constraints.
The Symposium invites the authors to submit their research articles that explore design, development, applications, and operations of wireless networks. The topics of the tracks include but not limited to:
Topics:
Dynamic Spectrum Access
 Cognitive radio, ultra-wideband, sensor-based applications
 Cognitive Networks including Cross-Layer Perspective, interference management, Dynamic spectrum Access, scaling laws, Game models, spectrum sharing games, etc.
 Wireless energy and security systems
 OFDM, CDMA, spread spectrum
 Channel modeling and characterization
 Physical layer algorithms
 Applications of Genetic algorithms, neural networks, and game models
 Parallelization of spectrum access
 Environment development and tool usage
Modeling, Algorithms, and Performance Evaluation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
 Methods and tools for Ad Hoc Networks
 Performance modeling and analysis in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
 Routing, broadcasting and multicasting in Ad Hoc Networks
 Energy-efficient protocols for Ad Hoc Networks
 Resource management, quality of service, and routing in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
 Fault-tolerance and reliability issues in Ad Hoc and Sensor networks
 Power control and management in Wireless Sensor Networks
 Security in Ad Hoc and Sensor networks
 Scalability issues and time synchronization techniques in Ad Hoc and Sensor Network
 Design issues in sensor networks applications, such as solar sensors, soil moisture sensors
 Sensor Cloud and its integration
Sensor networks and Security
 Real-time issues in sensor networks
 Sensor network applications and deployment experiences
 Sensor network protocols and architectures
 Operating systems and middleware for sensor networks
 Distributed sensing and control
 Power management
 Detection, classification, and estimation
 Localization and time synchronization
 Security and privacy
RF-based Localization: Novel system approaches, technologies and algorithms
 Modeling, Algorithms, and Performance Evaluation
 Wireless Home Communication and Networking
 Measurements and Experimental Research
 Interference Cancellation, Characterization and Avoidance for Cognitive Radio
 Multi-Hop and Cooperative Communications
 OFDM, CDMA, Spread Spectrum
 Space-Time, MIMO, Adaptive Antennas, Network Coding, Cooperative Communications and Other Novel Techniques
 Channel Modeling and Characterization
 Information-Theoretic Aspects of Wireless Communications, Capacity, Throughput, Outage, Coverage
 Ultra-Wide Bandwidth Communication
 Machine Learning, Estimation and Processing Techniques for Wireless Communications
 Mobile and Wireless IP, Congestion and Admission Control
Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) and WiMAX
 Call Admission Control and Traffic Scheduling in WiMAX and MANET
 Quality of Service and Fairness Provisioning in Broadband Wireless Access
 (BWA) and MANET
 Multimedia over Broadband Wireless Access
 Mesh and Relay Networks in WiMAX
 Cross layer support and Radio Resource Management in BWA and MANET
 MAC protocols in WiMAX and IPv6 compatibility
 MIMO and OFDMA in WiMAX
 Downlink/Uplink Resource Management in BWA
 PMP/Mesh mode in BWA
 IEEE 802.16e, IEEE 802.16d standards
 Bandwidth Allocation Algorithms for BWA
 Next Generation Broadband Wireless Access
 Spatial Reuse and QoS Routing in WiMAX and MANET
 Neural- Genetic algorithms for Scheduling Problems for WiMAX and MANET
 Selfish Misbehaviour in WiMAX and MANET
 Hidden and Exposed Terminal Problems in MANET
 Virtual Administration in MANET
 Fixed and Mobile WiMAX
Software Architecture for wireless communications
 Smart wireless reconfigurable wireless communication devices
 Cognitive Networks
 Protocols design
 Cross-layer design
 Sensor networks and security
Cloud Computing
 Architecture, standards, Delivery models, Cloud monitoring, QoS for cloud applications, cloud education
 Security, Privacy, reliability, and Compliance Management
 Testing, adaption, and delivery
 Trouble shooting and best practices
 Cloud optimization and automation
 High performance cloud computing
 Distributed management of cloud computing
 Cost management, modeling, and pricing
 Cloud and future
Hadoop Distributed Systems and Big Data management
 Architecture and design
 Threat and Vulnerability Analysis
 Trust, Reliability, Security and Privacy in networks and data
 Encrypted Information Retrieval
 Cryptographic Algorithms
 Attacks and Counter Measures
 Intrusion Detection and Response
 Identity Management and Key Management