Track Descriptions

2020 Wireless Africa Conference is organized into 10 tracks covering all relevant technical areas:

1. IoT, Wireless Sensor Networks, Applications of Artificial Intelligence

   IoT & Wireless sensor Networks:
   Admission control; Cross-layer protocol design; Data aggregation techniques and architectures; Data storage and allocation; Delay-tolerant networks; Gateways and inter-working; Information processing and aggregation; Peer-to-peer service in mobile networks; Routing and transport protocol; Self-organization, self-configuration and adaptation; Terminal intelligence; Traffic scheduling; Topology construction, reconfigurability and control,

   Green Communications, Energy & Smart Grid:
   Energy consumption management; Energy-efficient heterogeneous networks; Energy storage and recycling; Field trials and deployment experiences; Hybrid fiber-wireless networks for energy efficient delivery of wireless signals; Low-power sensor networks; Radio resource management for green wireless systems; Smart grid networks.

   Machine learning applications:
   Machine Learning techniques for communications and sensing convergence, Learning for wireless communication and sensor networks.

   Wireless Health:
   Wireless communications technologies in health monitoring, wearable sensor systems.

   Vehicular Communications, Vehicular Electronics, Transportation

   Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET); Cellular/VANET interworking; Channel models and mobility models for vehicular networks; Cloud-mobility; Connected vehicles; Data traffic offloading; Information distribution services; Interaction between intra- and inter-vehicular communications; Location-based services; Network design for V2X communications; Prototype, measurements, and field tests; Ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability communications for road safety applications; 5G technologies for vehicular communications.

   Signal Transmission and Communication Theory

   Cooperative communications; Signal processing for wireless communications; Information theory for wireless communications; Modulation, coding, and multiple access; Adaptive modulation and coding; Advanced waveforms and signal processing solutions for 5G systems; Non-orthogonal multiple access; CDMA and multi-carrier CDMA; Compressive sensing; Full-duplex and flexible duplex system; Near-field communication; New air interfaces; Visible light communications.

   Dynamic Spectrum Management, Cognitive Radio

   Algorithms for TV whitespace usage; Applications of cognitive radio networks; Cognitive radio networks; Cognitive radio protocols and algorithms; Cooperative sensing; Dynamic spectrum access; Energy-efficient spectrum sensing; Game theory for cognitive radio networks; Interference management; Machine learning techniques for cognitive radio systems; Spectrum database; Spectrum measurements and monitoring; Unlicensed and licensed shared access.

   Antenna Systems, Propagation, and RF Design

   Antenna design and characterization; Antenna integration in cars; Antenna measurement and channel characterization, including 3D effects, polarization and antenna efficiency; Antenna and solar cell integration technologies; Car-2-X channel measurements and models;; Channel (multi-band, multi-antenna) characterization, propagation and modeling, Simulation and verification; Air-to-ground channel measurement and modeling; Novel antenna deployment concepts; Digital RF; Distributed antenna systems; Energy-efficient antenna systems; Exotic wireless channels (terahertz, optical wireless, acoustic, underwater); Interaction of in-car antennas with car-electronics; Interference in heterogeneous deployment scenarios (relays, small cells); Measurement-based performance evaluation; Testing of mobile terminal antennas; Reconfigurable antennas and arrays; RF subsystems.

   Radio Access Technology and Heterogeneous Networks

   Access techniques for MIMO-based networks including massive MIMO; Channel and power allocation; Cloud radio access network architectures; Context-aware and ambient access protocols; Coexistence of multiple radio access techniques; Distributed scheduling for D2D communications; DVB and DAB systems; Hybrid optical-wireless networks; MAC/PHY cross-layer design; Mobility in dense networks; Multi-hop cellular management, scheduling and statistical multiplexing; Multiple access; New air interfaces; 4G evolution: LTE-Advanced; LTE-Pro; LTE-U: LTE Advanced in unlicensed spectrum; 5G New Radio; 6G; Non-orthogonal multiple access; Network function virtualization; Power control algorithms; Radio resource management in heterogeneous and small-cell networks; Small-cell networking; Software defined network methodologies for wireless access; Ultra-dense networks; Virtualized resource & virtualized network functions; Wireless heterogeneous networks; Wireless multicasting; Wireless PANs, LANs, MANs and WANs.

   Wireless Networks: Protocols, Security

   Big data security and privacy; Cooperative networks; Cross-layer methods for enhancing security; Defending against energy depletion attacks in resource-constrained networks; Distributed content delivery; Fixed-mobile convergence; Heterogeneous wireless network architectures; Information-theoretic security; Jamming and jamming-resistance; IMS; Intrusion detection; Middleware; Mobility and handoff management; Mobile and wireless IP; Mobile quality-of-service (QoS); Mobile social networks; Mobile/wireless network modeling and performance evaluation, analysis and simulation; Mobile/wireless network performance measurements; Network coding; Network planning; Network security; Physical layer security: secure advanced spatial diversity techniques; Resource management; Security in cooperative wireless networks; Security and privacy in end-to-end connections; Security and privacy in mobile ad hoc, M2M, sensor networks, the Internet, cloud computing, and smart grid; Secure routing and network management; Self-organized networks (SON); Service availability and network survivability in the presence of denial of service; User privacy protection; Wireless traffic characterization and modeling.

   Green Communications, Energy & Smart Grid

   Energy harvesting; Wireless energy transfer; Architectures and design of low power equipment; Cross-layer optimization for green networks; Energy-aware self-organized networks; Energy consumption management; Energy-efficient heterogeneous networks; Energy storage and recycling; Field trials and deployment experiences; Hybrid fiber-wireless networks for energy efficient delivery of wireless signals; Low-power sensor networks; Radio resource management for green wireless systems; Smart grid networks.