SmartCom 2018 - The 5th International Workshop on Smart Wireless Communications -
SmartCom 2018 -The 5th International Workshop on Smart Wireless Communications-
SmartCom 2018 is organized by IEICE Technical Committee on Smart Radio (SR) and IEICE Technical Committee on Radio Communication Systems (RCS), and jointly hosted by Asian Institute of Technology (AIT).

TOPICS

Heterogeneous wireless networks

  • Ultra broadband small cell deployment
  • C/U splitting, common pilot channel, mobility management
  • Dynamic cell structuring, virtual cell, ghost cell, phantom cell
  • Backhaul/fronthaul architecture, cloud-RAN, centralized-RAN
  • Cloud cooperated radio resource control, energy saving, wake-up

Cognitive radio networks and dynamic spectrum management

  • Spectrum sensing and measurement
  • MAC and networking protocols
  • Applications and services based on TV white space/cognitive radio networks
  • Standards, regulatory policies
  • Green cognitive radio

Communication theory and its application

  • Network information theory
  • Coding theory
  • Physical-layer security
  • Compressed sensing
  • Learning for wireless communication

Wireless distributed network, MAC protocol, and network management

  • Cross layer wireless networks
  • Wireless LAN, sensor networks, and mesh networks
  • High density wireless networks
  • Wireless network virtualization and virtual network management
  • Software defined networks (SDN)
  • Intelligent transportation system (ITS)
  • Intelligent and cooperative MAC protocol
  • Network controlled D2D communication

Hardware architecture and implementations

  • Broadband and multiband antennas
  • Multiband and multimode RF/analog circuits
  • Reconfigurable baseband circuits
  • Implementation of testbeds and prototypes, especially for higher frequency bands including mmWave
  • Wireless equipment for 5G, beyond 5G and IoT

Advanced wireless technologies

  • Advanced MIMO, Massive MIMO
  • Interference control, alignment, management techniques
  • Full-duplex communications
  • Advances in mmWave, terahertz (THz) wireless communication, and nano sensor networks
  • Wireless power transfer
  • Visible light communications
  • Dynamic TDD
  • Wireless sensing technologies and applications
  • Radar signal processing

Data Science, AI for wireless communications and others

  • Novel design of machine-learning for wireless communication technologies
  • Applications of AI for optimizing wireless communication systems
  • Applications of AI for 5G wireless transmission technologies and resource management
  • Evaluating the scope for and potential limitations of AI solutions in wireless communications

Technical exhibitions

  • Implementation, prototype, and wireless equipment for smart radio
  • Applications and related works of wireless communications

IMPORTANT DATE (for Japanese organization)

  • Registration of paper submission deadline: Aug. 31st, 2018 (Extended).
  • Camera-ready paper submission deadline: Oct. 9th, 2018.
  • Participant registration deadline: Oct. 17th, 2018.
  • Registration fee payment deadline: Oct. 25th, 2018.

IMPORTANT DATE (for Non-Japanese organization)

  • Registration of paper submission deadline: Sept. 30th, 2018 (Extended).
  • Camera-ready paper submission deadline: Oct. 12th, 2018.
  • Participant registration deadline: Oct. 17th, 2018.
  • Registration fee payment deadline: Oct. 25th, 2018.
  • * "Registration of paper submission" means for submission an abstract of your manuscript.
      "Camera-ready paper submission" means for submission your final manuscript.
  • ** Note that the accepting of applications could be stopped earlier if all the places are taken.