Scope

The WiCON 2018 continues to be an international forum dedicated to innovative research and development related to the emerging wireless internet and networks. WiCON is a highly selective conference with a long track record of publishing novel ideas and breakthroughs, with this year’s edition to be held during October 15-16, 2018 in Taipei, Taiwan.

WiCON 2018 will continue to serve as a premier international conference to discuss novel research results related to the emerging wireless internet. WiCON 2018 is soliciting both academic research and industry practice papers.

Topics

We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not limited to:

Convergence and interworking of heterogeneous wireless networks,
Vertical handoff and seamless roaming,
Mobile P2P networking, systems, and applications,
Next generation Internet services and applications
Clean-slate wireless Internet architecture,
Interaction among PHY/MAC, routing, and congestion control,
PHY-aware wireless scheduling,
QoS provisioning over Multimedia wireless networks
Multiple access technology (OFDMA, CDMA, and TDMA),
WLANs, WiMAX, satellite, 3G and Beyond,
QoS management and traffic modeling,
Algorithm design and performance analysis
Wireless sensor, ad hoc, and mesh networks,
Cooperative and relay networks
IMT2000, UMTS, LTE, IMT-Advanced networks,
Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET),
Wireless access in vehicular environment (WAVE),
Dedicated short-range communications (DSRC),
Cognitive radio networks,
Context-aware mobile network,
Wireless body area networks (WBANs),
Tele-medicine/e-health networks
Architectural support for security,
Security, privacy, and dependability issues,
Security in cooperative networks
Testbeds and simulation tools,
Middleware, operating system, and programming languages,
Experimental measurements
Green wireless network architectures and communication protocols,
Green applications by wireless communications and mobile computing technologies,
Energy-efficient mobile and wireless networks,
Network planning and optimization for green wireless networking

Publication

All registered papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

WiCON proceedings are indexed in leading indexing services, including Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to: