WCN 2016 - Track on Wireless Communication and Networking

Wireless communication has become the dominant mode by which devices, whether human operated or not, access modern networks. The increasingly diverse communication needs of these devices ? from ever increasing bandwidth, to bursty traffic, to low latency ? are resulting in an industry-wide need to rethink communication architectures for the “5G world” This task is being taken up by the 2 primary players in the wireless standards arena ? 3GPP and IEEE 802. However, it is likely that other standards, e.g. IEEE 1609, IEEE 1419, etc. are likely to play an increasingly important role in this diverse ecosystem.
The track solicits new and previously unpublished papers that address these emerging architecture and the standardization approaches and strategies that these may take.
Paper topics may include (but are not limited to):
Physical layer and MAC layer design for cellular and other wireless networks.
Dynamic scheduling, power control, interference management, and QoS management in 5G wireless networks.
Topology, deployment, and optimization of wireless networks, including heterogeneous, ultra dense, and mesh networks, device to device (D2D) communication, relays and wireless backhaul, as well as dynamic radio topology based on moving cells.
New control signaling for heterogeneous networks.
mmWave access, backhaul and self-backhauling.
Massive and FD-MIMO communications, hybrid and coordinated beamforming technologies.
Application of SDN, NFV, and cloud computing to 5G (and legacy) RAN and core network architectures and implementations, such as network slicing.
C-RAN and flexible fronthaul / backhaul.
Green and energy efficient wireless networks.
Massive MTC (mMTC) and long distance communications.
Automotive/V2X and ultra-reliable communications.
LTE/Wi-Fi/Wi-Gig interworking and aggregation.
Spectrum regulation above 24GHz.
R&D and standardization activities towards 5G and IMT-2020.
Wireless optical communications.
Satellite communications.
Results from simulation, prototyping, and experiments.