• Wireless PHY layers for 5G: design, analysis, and optimization
  • Wireless MAC protocols for 5G: design, analysis, and optimization
  • 5G IoT networks for urban applications
  • Adaptive content distribution in on-demand services
  • Backhaul/fronthaul for multi-tier ultra-dense heterogeneous small cell networks
  • Cognitive and Cooperative Communications
  • Commercial and Societal Impact of Networks, Data, and Adaptive Services
  • Context and location-aware wireless services and applications
  • Cross-layer design for massive MIMO and multiuser MIMO networks
  • End-to-End Network slicing
  • Efficient integration of multiple novel 5G air interfaces
  • Energy harvesting wireless networks
  • Mobile big data and network data analytics
  • Mobile cloud and fog networking
  • Mobile social networks
  • Mobility, location, and handoff management
  • Multimedia QoS, and traffic management
  • Multiple access in machine-to-machine communication
  • Network estimation techniques
  • Optical Communications & Fiber Optics for 5G
  • QoS support and energy efficient MAC
  • Quality of Experience: Framework, Evaluation and Challenges
  • Simulation Techniques for Large-Scale Networks
  • Smart Grids: Communication, Modeling and Design
  • Software-defined wireless networks
  • Testbed, experiments, and prototype implementations of systems & services
  • Traffic Engineering, Modeling and Analysis
  • Ultra low-latency and ultra high-reliability
  • Validation of Simulation Models with Measurements
  • Wireless body area networks and e-health services
  • Wireless broadcast, multicast and streaming