We welcome contributions from the following fields:

Telecommunications Systems and Networks

• UAV Communications
• 5G Networks and Beyond
• IoT Networks for Smart Cities
• Emerging Communication & Networking Technologies
• Mission Critical Communications & Networks
• Wireless Multimedia Networks
• Software Defined Networks, Software Defined Smart Objects, Connected Vehicles
• Wireless Body Area Network and Wireless Healthcare
• Overlay and Programmable Networks
• Green and Energy Efficiency Communications
• Next Generation Networks Infrastructures
• Wireless big data enabled technologies
• Edge intelligence for beyond 5G networks
• Machine learning-based wireless systems and services
• Artificial Intelligence for 5G Networks and Beyond

Industrial Networks and Applications

• Industry Cases and Deployment of IoT Systems towards 5G
• IoT-based Supply Chains
• Smart Grid, Energy Management
• Architectures, Protocols and Designs for Industrial Networks, e.g., Control Network, Communication Network, Sensor and Actuator Network, Body Area Network, Social Network, Opportunistic Network, and Cloud-based Network
• Analysis of Industrial Networks, i.e., Network Lifetime, Scalability and Stability, Transmission Reliability, Quality of Service, etc.
• Autonomous networks

Intelligent Systems and Applications

• Deep Learning for Communications and Cybersecurity
• Embedded Systems and Sensor Networks in IoT
• Smart Cities, Smart Public Places, and Smart Environments
• Smart Home, and IoT-based Building Automation
• IoT Applications and Services
• Collaborative Applications and Systems
• Computational Intelligence in Automation, i.e., Neural, Fuzzy and Evolutionary Approaches, Ant Colonies Optimization, Swarm Intelligence, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Expert Systems, Multi‐agent Systems, Game and Decision Theories, etc.

Security & Privacy

• Hardware Forensics
• Deep Learning for Hardware Oriented Cybersecurity
• Hardware Forensics
• Security/Privacy/Safety in IoT
• IoT and Blockchain
• IoT Privacy and Security Tests, Certification, and Labelling
• Communication Security in IoT
• Security Standards in IoT
• Incident Response
• Encryption, Authentication, Availability Assurance
• Intrusion Detection
• Network Security and Protocols

Hardware and Software Design and Development

• Health Monitoring and Wearable Devices
• Analogue/Digital System Design and Structures
• Design and Analysis of Embedded Industrial Systems
• VLSI Design for Embedded Industrial Systems
• Emerging Memory Technologies for Future Computing Systems
• Modelling and Analysis Tools for Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems
• IoT Simulation and Testbed for Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems
• New multiple antenna technologies and deployments
• Circuit Design for 5G Networks and Beyond

Information Processing and Data Analysis

• Audio/Image/Video Processing
• Data Mining, Pattern Recognition, Estimation and Identification
• Information Fusion, Compressive Sensing, Signal Transforming and Filtering
• Fault Detection and Diagnosis
• Optimization Techniques
• Big Data and IoT Data Analytics
• Cloud/Edge Computing/Processing

Signal Processing

• Decoding and Encoding Techniques
• Modulation, Coding, and Diversity Techniques
• Signal Detection and Parameter Estimation
• Signal, Image and Video Processing
• Image Processing and Visualization Audio, Acoustic Signal, Speech and Language Processing
• Sensor Array, Multichannel and Communications Signal Processing
• Radar and Sonar Array Signal Processing
• Estimation Theory and Applications
• Signal Processing for Education
• Bio-inspired Modelling and Signal Processing
• Signal Processing Applications