IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2025), 24-27 Mar 2025

Description

The IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2025) is focused on wireless research, applications and technology.

Topics

Mac and cross-layer design
- Cognitive and cooperative MAC
- Wireless MAC protocols for 5G: design, analysis, and optimization
- Scheduling and radio resource management
- MAC for mesh, ad hoc, relay and sensor networks
- Software defined radio, RFID MAC
- Cross-layer MAC design
- MAC protocol for energy harvesting wireless networks
- QoS support and energy efficient MAC
- Multiple access in machine-to-machine communication
- MAC design for multitier cellular/small cell networks
- MAC protocols for molecular and nano networks
- MAC for cloud-RAN
- Full-duplex MAC design
- MAC protocols for mmWave networks
- Cross-layer design for massive MIMO and multiuser MIMO networks
Phy and fundamentals
- Modulation, coding, diversity, equalization, synchronization
- Channel modeling, characterization and estimation
- Interference modeling, management, cancellation and alignment
- OFDM, multi-carrier modulation, waveform design
- MIMO, massive MIMO and cloud-RAN
- PHY strategies for low-rate, sporadic and asynchronous communications
- Cognitive radio, spectrum sensing
- Cooperative, device-to-device and multi-hop communication
- PHY layer design for cellular, wireless LAN, ad hoc and sensor networks
- Content caching and storage in wireless networks
- Joint information and energy transmission
- Energy efficient and energy harvesting PHY layer design
- Information-theoretic aspects of wireless communications
- PHY layer security and privacy, ultra-wideband, mmWav and sub-THz communication
- Molecular and nano communications
- Signal processing for wireless communications
Emerging technologies, architectures and services
- Adaptive content distribution in on-demand services
- Mobile/Wireless network support for vertical industries
- User-centric networks and adaptive services
- Context and location-aware wireless services and applications
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Wireless body area networks and e-health services
- Wireless emergency and security systems
- Dynamic sensor networks for urban applications
- Enabling regulations, standards, spectrum management
- Ultra-reliable communication
- Technologies, architectures and enabling business models for rural communications
- Hybrid licensed/unlicensed spectrum access schemes (e. g. licensed-assisted access)
- Hybrid satellite-terrestrial networks
- Satellite-based mobile access and backhaul
- Joint access and backhaul schemes
- Full duplexing
- Testbed and prototype implementation of wireless services
Wireless networks
- Wireless Network Functions Virtualization
- Software-defined mobile/wireless networks
- Mobile cloud
- Virtual network management and orchestration
- Mobile Edge Computing
- Fog computing and networking
- Routing in wireless networks
- Mesh, relay, sensor and ad hoc networks
- Resource management and optimization
- Cognitive radio and networking
- Mobile big data and network data analytics
- Big Data enabled Self-Organized Networking
- Mobility, location, and handoff management
- Integrated Wireless/Optical networks
- Wireless broadcast, multicast and streaming
- Multimedia QoS and traffic management
- Wireless network security and privacy
- Congestion and admission control
- Wireless network measurements and characterization
- Mobile social networks