Heterogeneous wireless networks

• Ultra broadband small cell deployment
• C/U splitting, common pilot channel, mobility management
• Dynamic cell structuring, virtual cell, ghost cell, phantom cell
• Backhaul/fronthaul architecture, cloud-RAN, centralized-RAN
• Cloud cooperated radio resource control, energy saving, wake-up

Cognitive radio networks and dynamic spectrum management

• Spectrum sensing and measurement
• MAC and networking protocols
• Applications and services based on TV white space/cognitive radio networks
• Standards, regulatory policies
• Green cognitive radio

Communication theory and its application

• Network information theory
• Coding theory
• Physical-layer security
• Compressed sensing
• Learning for wireless communication

Wireless distributed network, MAC protocol, and network management

• Cross layer wireless networks
• Wireless LAN, sensor networks, and mesh networks
• High density wireless networks
• Wireless network virtualization and virtual network management
• Software defined networks (SDN)
• Intelligent transportation system (ITS)
• Intelligent and cooperative MAC protocol
• Network controlled D2D communication

Hardware architecture and implementations

• Broadband and multiband antennas
• Multiband and multimode RF/analog circuits
• Reconfigurable baseband circuits
• Implementation of testbeds and prototypes, especially for higher frequency bands including mmWave
• Wireless equipment for 5G, beyond 5G and IoT

Advanced wireless technologies

• Advanced MIMO, Massive MIMO
• Interference control, alignment, management techniques
• Full-duplex communications
• Advances in mmWave, terahertz (THz) wireless communication, and nano sensor networks
• Wireless power transfer
• Visible light communications
• Dynamic TDD
• Wireless sensing technologies and applications
• Radar signal processing

Technical exhibitions*

• Implementation, prototype, and wireless equipment for smart radio
• Applications and related works of wireless communications

* Note that available equipment in the technical exhibitions is strictly limited due to the limitation of power supply.