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Organizing Committee
General Chairs

SPAWC 2018 will be held in Kalamata, Greece on June 25-28, 2018. The workshop is
devoted to advances in signal processing for wireless communications, networking, and
information theory. The technical program features tutorials, plenary talks , thematic
oral talks, as well as invited and contributed papers presented in poster format.

Athina Petropulu

Call for Papers

Rutgers University, USA

Constantinos Papadias
Athens Information Technology, Greece

Technical Program Chairs
Waheed Bajwa
Rutgers University, USA

Urbashi Mitra
University of Southern California, USA

Special Sessions Chair
Rick Brown
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Plenaries Chair
Qing Zhao
Cornell University, USA

Tutorials Chair
Ioannis Krikidis
University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Industrial Liaison Chairs
Marios Kountouris
Huawei, France

Yupeng Liu
Nokia, USA

Publications Chair
Angeliki Alexiou
University of Piraeus, Greece

Publicity Chair
Eleftherios Kofidis
University of Piraeus, Greece

Thematically, SPAWC 2018 will in particular focus on the areas of:
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Machine learning and data analytics
Physical-layer security and privacy
Biological communications and signal processing
5G and beyond

In addition, special session proposals and regular papers are also being solicited in the
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Smart antennas, MIMO systems, massive MIMO, and space-time processing
Reliable wireless communications for autonomous vehicles
Signal processing for ad-hoc, multi-hop, and sensor networks
Cooperative communication, coordinated multipoint transmission and reception
Distributed resource allocation and scheduling
Convex and non-convex optimization; game theory for communications
Heterogeneous networks, small cells
Millimeter wave, 60 GHz communications
Full duplex systems
Cognitive radio and networks
Cooperative sensing, compressed sensing, sparse signal processing
Machine-to-machine, device-to-device communications
Modeling, estimation and equalization of wireless channels
Acquisition, synchronization, localization and tracking
Low latency & delay-limited communications
Signal processing for optical, satellite, and underwater communications
Energy efficiency and energy harvesting

Three best papers, with students as primary authors, will be recognized at the workshop
through a student-paper competition. All invited and regular papers, with up to five pages in
length, will be published through IEEE Xplore. Papers will be submitted via EDAS.

Important Dates
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Special Session Proposals: Dec-4, 2017
Decisions Due for Special Sessions: Dec-25, 2017
Initial Invited and Regular Paper Submission: Feb-19, 2018
Paper Decisions Due: Apr-30, 2018
Camera-Ready Papers Due: May-14, 2018
Registration Deadline for Authors: May-14, 2018
Workshop Dates: 25-28 June, 2018

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