Organizing

committee

General co-chairs
Mathini Sellathurai
Jonathon Chambers

Technical co-chairs
Tharm Ratnarajah
Constantinos B. Papadias

TPC
Biao Chen
Chong-Yung Chi
Philippe Ciblat
Tim Davidson
Min Dong
FeiFei Gao
Kaibin Huang
Joakim Jaldn
Shi Jin
Yindi Jing
Erik Larsson
Amir Leshem
David Love
Wing-kin Ma
Mathew McKay
Urbashi Mitra
Chandra Murthy
Michael Rabbat
Alejandro Ribeiro
Ahmed Sadek
Mathini Sellathurai
Milica Stojanovic
Weifeng Su
Cihan Tepedelenlioglu
Zhi Tian
Wolfgang Utschick
Sergiy Vorobyov
Pengfei Xia
Rui Zhang
Shengli Zhou

Call For Papers

SPAWC 2016, July 3rd to 6th, in John McIntyre Conference Centre, University of
Edinburgh, UK.
SPAWC brings together signal processing and communications researchers and
academics from around the world to share and celebrate the signal processing
advancements in wireless communications and wireless technology.
Deadlines
February 22, 2016 Paper submission
April 12, 2016 Acceptance notification
May 10, 2016 Final paper due
Prospective authors are invited to by the deadline listed above submit original papers in the following
areas but not limited to

Special session chair

Chandra Murthy

Tutorial session chair

John Thompson

Publicity chair
Christos Masouros and Sudip
Biswas

Publications chair
Said Bousakta

Industrial and international

liaisons chair
Kit August

Local arrangement
Faheem Khan and

Smart antennas and MIMO systems, Massive

and large scale MIMO
Single-carrier, multi-carrier, and multi-rate
systems
Multiple-access and broadcast channels,
multi-user receivers
Signal processing for ad-hoc, multi-hop, and
sensor networks
Cooperative communication, coordinated
multipoint transmission and reception
Distributed resource allocation and scheduling
Energy efficient, green, radios and radars
Interference alignment and management,
dynamic spectrum management
Heterogeneous networks, small cells
Millimeter wave, 60GHz communications
Modeling, estimation and equalization of
wireless channels
Acquisition, synchronization, and tracking
Compensation of transceiver front end nonidealities
Full duplex systems

Full papers of up to a five-page limit should
be submitted via EDAS, and will be subject
to peer review by the TPC. All papers will be
presented as posters in various poster
sessions.

Important notes
Authors are required to submit material that is original
and that has not been published, or submitted for

Physical layer security

Feedback in wireless networks
Cognitive radio and networks
Cooperative sensing, compressed sensing,
and sparse signal processing
Ultra-wideband radio, localization, RFID
Cross-layer issues, joint source-channel
coding, delay-limited communication
Signal processing for optical and satellite
communications
Signal processing for nano- and molecular
communications
Emerging techniques and technologies, 5G
large networks and large data (BigData)
Visible light communications
Defence and emergency communications
Energy efficiency and energy harvesting
Underwater communications
Social networks
Signal processing for 5G
Machine to machine communications
Coding and Information theory
consideration, elsewhere. Any accepted paper included
in the final program is expected to have at least one
author or qualified proxy attend and present the paper
at the conference. Authors of the accepted papers
included in the final program who do not attend and
present at the conference will be added to a "No-Show
List".