WPMC 2016 - 19th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2016)

The 19th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2016)
Shenzhen, PR China, 13--16 November, 2016.
http://wpmc2016.org/
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SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE
The 19th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2016) will be held at Shenzhen, China from the 13th to the 16th of November, 2016. The theme of this year's conference is Interconnecting Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications. In addition to high-quality technical sessions, the symposium will feature exciting keynotes, workshops and tutorials. It will also offer a fantastic social program.
WPMC 2016 is technically sponsored by the IEEE ComSoc and IEEE ComSoc Beijing Chapter. All accepted and presented papers in technical sessions and workshops will be published in the conference proceedings, the IEEE Xplore as well as EI and other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest are (but not limited to):
Wireless Communications and PHY
- Advanced modulation schemes
- Cognitive radio
- Cooperative communications
- Information and coding theory
- Interference characterization
- MIMO/Massive MIMO channel models and channels
- Smart/ Reconfigurable antennas
- Ultra wideband, mmWave and sub-THz communications
- Visible Light Communications
Wireless Networks
- Ad-hoc networks
- Cognitive radio networks
- Cross-layer design
- Interference management
- IoT and M2M communications devices
- Localization for wireless networks
- Mobility, location and handoff management
- Multimedia QoS and traffic management
- Spectrum sharing and coexistence
- Vehicular networks
- Wireless multicast and streaming
Communications Services and Multimedia Applications
- Big data and data mining
- Cloud computing
- Emerging wireless and mobile applications
- Experimental trials and deployment
- Mobile multimedia services
- Mobile social networks
- QoS and QoE for multimedia applications
- Service oriented architectures
- User interfaces, user-machine interactions
- Wireless health applications
Security and Privacy in Communications
- PHY-layer Security
- Communication privacy and anonymity
- Network intrusion detection and prevention, firewalls, packet filters
- Malware, botnets and distributed denial of service
- Public key infrastructures, key management, credential management
- Secure routing, naming/addressing, network management
- Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing, e.g., RFIDs
- Security and privacy for emerging technologies: VoIP, peer-to-peer and overlay network systems
- Security and privacy in networks
- Security and privacy in applications
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: July 10, 2016
Acceptance notification: August 28, 2016
Camera ready version: September 25, 2016
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers reporting original research of theoretical or applied nature for presentation at the conference and publication in the WPMC 2016 Proceedings. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. The manuscripts must be prepared in English, following IEEE two-column Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings with a maximum length of six (6) printed pages without incurring additional page charges (maximum 2 additional pages are allowed with over length page charge of USD100 for each page if accepted). Papers exceeding 8 pages will not be accepted.
All papers for the WPMC 2016 main tracks or workshops should be submitted via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=22389. Only pdf files are accepted.
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CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
General Chair:
Ping Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, PR China
TPC Co-Chair:
Xiaofeng Tao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, PR China
Thomas Hou, Virginia Tech, US
Martin Haenggi, University of Notre Dame, US
For more information, visit the conference website: http://www.wpmc2016.org/