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Tracks & Co-Chairs

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Track 1: Antenna Systems, Microwaves & RF Design

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Topics

  • Antennas, arrays, and circuits
  • Antennas for space systems, modeling, and design
  • Distributed antenna systems
  • Energy-efficient antenna systems
  • Antenna applications and emerging technologies
  • Computational and numerical techniques
  • RF and microwave integrated circuits
  • Propagation, scattering, and remote sensing
  • Electromagnetic environment and interference
  • Electromagnetics and materials
  • Hazards of electromagnetic
  • Design methodology for RF and microwave ICs
  • Microwave photonics integrated circuits
  • Digital RF
  • Narrowband and wideband channel characterization and modeling
  • Propagation channel measurements, prediction, and simulation

Track 2: Radars, Space Systems, Signal Processing & Navigation

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Topics

  • Beam-Forming, MIMO, and Exploiting Diversity
  • Tracking, Localization, and Classification
  • Robust Detection and Information Extraction
  • Multi-Sensor Architectures and Systems
  • Electronic Surveillance, Defense, and Attack
  • Radar environment and phenomenology
  • Signal Processing
  • Ground to air, Ground to space surveillance
  • Airborne, Naval, and coastal surveillance
  • Multifunction, active/passive RF-EW-CNI systems
  • ECM / ECCM
  • Remote sensing from airborne or spaceborne systems
  • SAR modes for 2D and interferometric SAR
  • Weather radar
  • Novel methods for design, development, integration of complex space systems
  • Navigation, avionics, spacecraft, and aerospace power
  • Telemetry, defense, transportation, and command and control
  • Micro & Nano satellite systems
  • Space robotics
  • Space communication and onboard hardware design

Track 3: IoT, M2M, Sensor & Ad-Hoc Networks

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Topics

  • Ad hoc, sensor, and IoT networks
  • Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communication
  • Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication
  • Protocols, architectures, and applications for IoT
  • Connected cars, automotive, and intelligent transportation systems
  • Low-power wide area networks (LowPANs) and technologies
  • LoRa & LoRaWAN technologies
  • Ultra-low power IoT technologies and embedded system architectures
  • Distributed storage & data fusion for IoT
  • Wearables, body sensor networks, smart portable devices
  • Underwater and underground sensor and actuator networks
  • Autonomic computing for IoT
  • IoT big data mining and analytics

Track 4: AI and Machine Learning for Communications

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Topics

  • Machine learning in communication systems
  • Generating ML and AI data sets for communications benchmarking
  • Network function virtualization (NFV)
  • Service function chaining
  • Resource sharing & isolation
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in AI
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Planning, Scheduling, and Uncertainty Modelling in AI
  • Software-defined networking (SDNs)
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning for IoT
  • Cognitive and software-defined radio
  • Virtualization technologies/techniques
  • Performance, interoperability, and scalability challenges
  • Security and privacy issues in virtualized environments

Track 5: Smart Grid & Sustainable Power Systems

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Topics

  • Renewable energy and distributed generation
  • Condition monitoring in smart grid
  • Control and Automation in Smart Grid
  • Electric Vehicle and Smart Grid Integration
  • Smart building and IoT
  • Demand response in smart grid
  • Smart Grid technologies
  • Smart Grids Transmission Infrastructure
  • Smart Grids management and control
  • Software for Smart Grids
  • Advanced IT energy-aware technologies
  • Challenges in Smart Grids and IT-energy aware technologies
  • Trends in energy fields
  • Power System Management Technologies
  • Power System Monitoring and Mitigation
  • Integrated Substation Automation Technologies
  • Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis System
  • Control Strategies for Modern Power System Stability
  • Power System Analysis and Optimization
  • Renewable Energy and Applications

Track 6: Advanced Topics in Communication Technologies and Applications

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Topics

  • 5G/6G and beyond communication systems
  • Millimeter wave and Terahertz communications
  • Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems and massive MIMO
  • Wireless Security
  • Ultra-reliable and low-latency communications
  • Ultra-wideband communication systems
  • Cache-aided communication
  • Information Centric Networks (ICNs)
  • Quantum Communication
  • Backhaul and Fronthaul communications and networking
  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)
  • Distributed, Fog, Edge, and Cloud Computing
  • Mobile multi-access edge computing
  • Extreme Edge Networks
  • Social networks
  • Big Data frameworks
  • Advanced and ruggedized networking materials
  • Tactile Internet
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