[hpc-announce] CFP: 2019 11th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) @ Xi'an, China

[Qinghe Du]

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WCSP'19
2019 11th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal 
Processing (WCSP)
http://www.ic-wcsp.org/
October 23-25, 2019, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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WCSP is one of the most influential international conferences in the 
areas of Wireless Communications and Signal Processing traditionally 
held in China. Xi'an is one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, 
with more than 3,100 years of history. It is a city worth of multiple 
visits. We warmly welcome researchers and engineers all over world to 
participate in this influential academic event.

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Important Dates
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Submission deadline:June 30, 2019
Acceptance notification:Aug. 25, 2019
Camera-ready paper: Sept. 10, 2019

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Scope
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The Annual International Conference on Wireless Communications and 
Signal Processing (IC-WCSP) aims to gather international researchers 
from academia and industry to meet and exchange ideas and recent 
research works across the broad field of ICT technologies.

The event of WCSP 2019 will be held in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, on October 
23-25, 2019. The theme of WCSP 2019 is to embrace the future 
communications toward intelligence, including but not limited to 
wireless communications, future networking, signal processing, 5G 
Beyond, network and information security, optical communications, 
satellite communications, intelligent informatics and big data and 
multimedia.

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Submission Guidelines
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Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=26069

All papers should be written in English with a maximum paper length of 
six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures without 
incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with 
overlength page charge if accepted).

Note that the maximum number of pages for a paper is 7,i.e., 6 pages 
plus 1 additional page allowed with a charge of USD50 for the additional 
page if accepted. Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted by EDAS, 
nor reviewed at all. Please note you may not reduce the length of a 
paper submitted for review
after it is accepted.

Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all 
submissions must be done through EDAS.


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Technical Symposia
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Prospective authors are welcome to submit original technical
papers for publication in the conference proceedings and for
presentation at the following nine symposia through EDAS.

Accepted and presented technical papers will be published in the
WCSP 2019 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore?.

1. Wireless Communications Symposium
2. Future Networks Symposium
3. Signal Processing for Communications Symposium
4. 5G & Beyond Symposium
5. Network and Information Security Symposium
6. Optical Communications Symposium
7. Space Information Communications and Networks Symposium
8. Intelligent Informatics and Big Data Symposium
9. Multimedia and Communications Symposium

The detailed topics of interests include, but are not restricted to:

1. Wireless Communications Symposium
- Antenna, wireless propagation, and channel modeling
- OFDM and multi-carrier techniques
- Smart antenna and space-time signal processing
- MIMO, multi-user MIMO, and massive MIMO
- Modulation, coding, and diversity techniques
- Dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio
- Interference management and radio resource allocation
- Equalization techniques
- Synchronization, estimation, and detection techniques
- Wireless multiple access (CDMA, OFDMA, NOMA, etc)
- Cooperative and relay-aided communications
- Heterogeneous and small-cell networks
- Full-duplex communications and networking
- Artificial intelligence/machine learning for wireless systems
- Energy-efficient and green communications
- Ultra-wideband (UWB) communications
- Wireless optical communications
- Millimeter wave and Terahertz communications
- UAV-based communications
- Cross-layer design and optimization for wireless systems
- Energy harvesting and wireless power transfer
- Wireless physical layer security
- M2M, D2D, and IoT communications
- Wireless communications systems and standard
- Performance evaluation for wireless systems
- Localization and navigation techniques
- Multimedia communications over wireless
- Wireless communications prototype and testbed

2. Future Networks Symposium
- Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization 
(NFV)
- Knowledge-defined networking (KDN) and the applications of artificial 
intelligence (AI) in future networks Future data-center networks
- Resource allocation and orchestration in future networks
- Energy-efficient networking
- 5G/6G mobile networks
- Cross-layer design, security, and optimization
- Integration of fiber-optic and wireless networks
- Congestion and admission control in future networks
- QoS/QoE support in future networks
- Future Internet-of-thing (loT) networks
- Network fault management and service availability
- Multicasting, broadcasting, anycasting, manycasting and incasting in 
future networks
- Optimization models and algorithms for the control and management of 
future networks
- System prototypes, real deployments and experimental demonstrations of 
future networks
- Context and location aware applications
- Vehicular communication networks
- Security and privacy in future networks

3. Signal Processing for Communications Symposium
- Signal processing techniques in 5G/B5G
- Spatial transmission and distributed transmission techniques
- Multi-antenna (SIMO, MISO, MIMO, Massive MIMO), multi-user, 
centralized/distributed multi-node systems
- Signal processing techniques for full-duplex communications
- Signal processing for Quality of Service based Applications
- Signal processing for Quality of Experience based Applications
- Signal processing for Multimedia services
- Signal processing for Over the Top flows
- Interference cancellation techniques in communications systems 
including NOMA
- Decentralized and cooperative signal processing in networked systems
- Signal processing for single-carrier, OFDM/OFDMA, multicarrier systems 
including new waveforms
- Signal processing for green communications, energy harvesting and 
wireless power transmission
- Signal processing for security enhancement particularly physical layer 
security
- Channel estimation and equalization
- Signal transmission, detection and synchronization

4. 5G & Beyond Symposium
- Quantum communications
- Millimetre-wave and Terahertz communications
- UAV communications
- Molecular communications
- Wireless-powered communication systems
- Fog/edge/cloud
- Cognitive radio communications
- Free-space optical communications
- Beyond 5G wireless channel simulator
- Blockchain technologies
- Wireless AI
- AR/VR & holographic communications
- Wireless sensor and loT communications
- Visible light communications
- ICT for sustainable development
- Security for 5G & Beyond
- Graphene photonics
- Satellite communications
- Bio signal processing
- Software-defined radio techniques
- Localization techniques for beyond 5G
- Spectrum and resource virtualization
- Ultra-wideband (UWB) communications
- Future networks
- Photonics technologies for mobile networks

5. Network and Information Security Symposium
- Security for wireless networks
- Security for mobile social networks
- Security for ad hoc networks
- Security for vehicular networks
- Security for wireless sensor networks
- Security for software-defined networks
- Security for network function virtualization
- Security risk management for wireless networks
- Message authentication for wireless networks
- Trust management for wireless networks
- Trust model design for wireless networks
- Authorization and access control for wireless networks
- Key distribution and management for wireless networks
- Cryptography and evaluation for wireless networks
- Privacy enhancing techniques for wireless networks
- Hardware and software security for wireless networks
- Security performance evaluation for wireless networks
- Privacy for mobile social networks
- Security and privacy for mobile applications
- Security and privacy for wireless big data
- Physical security for wireless networks
- Security protocol design for wireless networks

6. Optical Communications Symposium
- Optical networks in network function virtualization
- Machine learning assisted optical networks
- Big data driven optical networking
- Software defined optical networks
- Multi-band optical spectrum utilization and optimization
- Routing and spectrum assignment for optical networks
- Elastic, flexible rate and flexi-grid optical networks
- Cross-layer design of optical networks
- Energy efficient optical networks
- Optical network survivability and availability
- Optical network testbeds and experiments
- Optical network for inter and intra data centre connectivity
- All organic based optical wireless communication
- Array-based and MIMO optical wireless communitcation
- Optical wireless communication using camera
- Nonlinear channel modeling and characterization
- Channel capacity and achievable rates
- Free space optics
- Visible light positioning
- Hybrid RF/OWC technology
- Modulation, coding and detection schemes
- Novel (photonic) devices and components OWC
- Underwater OWC communication
- Ultraviolet communications
- Visible light communications (indoor, outdoor and localization)

7. Space Information Communications and Networks Symposium
- Coding, modulation and synchronization in SatelliteCom
- Cognitive radio, spectrum sensing and spectrum sharing between 
terrestrial and satellite systems
- Interference modeling, management and cancellation in SatelliteCom
- Massive MIMO, antenna array and beamforming design in SatelliteCom
- Wireless MAC protocols for integrated networks in SatelliteCom
- Distributed and centralized resource allocation schemes in SatelliteCom
- Multiple access strategies, with particular emphasis on heterogeneous 
networks
- Heterogeneous users scheduling and management in SatelliteCom
- Cross-layer design for integrated terrestrial and satellite networks
- Integrated terrestrial-satellite network architectures
- Integration of 5G and satellite systems to extend service coverage
- Software-defined networking (SDN) and mobile cloud applied to 
integrated networks
- Routing protocols in integrated terrestrial-satellite networks
- Extension of terrestrial maritime services with a satellite segment 
(VDES via satellite)

8. Intelligent Informatics and Big Data Symposium
- Autonomic and Adaptive Distributed Computing
- Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
- Bayesian Networks and Probabilistic Reasoning
- Big data science and foundations
- Big data infrastructure
- Big data management
- Big data search and mining
- Big data security, privacy and trust
- Big data applications
- Biologically Inspired Intelligence
- Brain-Computer Interfacing
- Clustering and Data Analysis
- Complex Systems and Applications
- Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing
- Context-Aware Intelligent Computing
- Distributed Intelligent Systems
- Evolutionary Computation, Expert Systems
- Fusion of Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems
- Green and Renewable Energy Systems
- Human Interface, Human Information Processing
- Hybrid and Distributed Algorithms
- High Performance Computing
- Image and Speech Signal Processing
- Intelligence in Distributed Multimedia Systems
- Intelligence in Mobile, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
- Intelligence in Peer-To-Peer Systems
- Knowledge Based Systems, Knowledge Networks
- Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning
- Multimedia and Applications
- Networked Control Systems
- Neural Networks and Applications
- Optimization and Decision Making
- Pattern Classification and Recognition
- Robustness Analysis, Wavelet Analysis
- Self-Organizing Systems, Stochastic systems
- Social Intelligence, Web Intelligence

9. Multimedia and Communications Symposium
- Multimedia cloud services
- Multimedia streaming services
- Multicast, broadcast services and IPTV
- Interactive and/or immersive media services
- VR and AR communication systems
- Multimedia content analysis and search
- Web services and distributed software technology
- Multimedia big data and social media
- Distributed systems and applications for multimedia services
- AI and Machine Learning for multimedia network and applications
- Multimedia security and privacy
- Multimedia edge computing and fog communication
- Cross-layer optimization for multimedia delivery
- Multimedia coding
- Sensing, recognition and detection with radio signals
- Quality of Experience (QoE) modeling and metrics
- Quality assessment, control and management of multimedia services
- Quality-oriented routing algorithms
- Video quality assessment and impairment concealment
- High quality service provisioning for multimedia applications
- Error resilience and concealment

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Organizing Committee
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General Co-Chairs
Jinkang Zhu (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Shihua Zhu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
G. B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota, USA)

Executive Co-Chairs
Pinyi Ren      (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
Wuyang Zhou      (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

TPC Co-Chairs
Zhengyuan Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Martin Haenggi (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Chengxiang Wang (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
  Guoqiang Mao (University of Technology Sydney, AUS)

Publicity Co-Chairs
Feifei Gao (Tsinghua University，China)
Shui Yu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Hu Jin (Hanyang University, Korea)

Publication Co-Chairs
Ming Zhao (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

Financial Co-Chairs
Sihai Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

EDAS Chair
Li Chen (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

WEB Chair
Shun Zhang      (Xidian University, China)

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Qinghe Du      (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
Jiang Xue      (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)