The annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) is one of the premier conferences in the wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of the IEEE Communication Society’s flagship conferences in wireless networking. After a long absence from the United States, this important wireless event will be returning to Washington D.C. in 2014. PIMRC 2014 will include technical sessions, tutorials, workshops, and technology and business panels. You are invited to submit papers, and proposals for panels, tutorials, and workshops, in all areas of wireless communications, networks, services, and applications.

Track 1: Fundamentals and PHY

• Advanced modulation schemes
• Antennas and beamforming
• Channel capacity estimation and equalization
• Channel measurement and modeling
• Cognitive and green radio
• Cooperative communications
• Interference mitigation
• Multi-antenna signal processing
• Physical layer designs for WLAN, WPAN, and WBAN
• Physical layer network coding and security
• Power efficient communications
• RF propagation studies
• Signal processing for wireless communications
• Single and multi-user MIMO
• Source and channel coding
• Ultra-wideband and gigabit wireless communications
• Vehicular communications
• Wireless localization and tracking techniques

Track 2: MAC and Cross-Layer Design

• Adaptive and cognitive MACs
• Cross-layer designs involving MAC
• Delay tolerant MAC designs
• Implementation of testbeds and prototypes
• Information-theoretical approaches to MAC designs
• Joint access and backhaul scheduler designs
• Joint MAC and networking layer designs
• MAC for low power embedded networks
• MAC for mobile and vehicular ad hoc networks
• MAC in 4G and future mobile networks
• Radio resource management, allocation, and scheduling
• Reconfigurable MACs
• Routing and QoS scheduling
• Scheduler for cellular macro-, pico- and femto- systems
• Scheduler for cooperative systems
• Scheduler for relay systems
• Security issues in MAC designs
• Time-critical MAC designs

Track 3: Mobile and Wireless Networks

• Ad hoc networks
• Body area networks
• Cognitive radio networks
• Congestion, load and admission control
• Dynamic spectrum management
• Future wireless Internet
• Green wireless networks
• Internet of things
• Location dependent networks
• Mobile computing
• Multi-hop and relay networks
• Network architectures
• Satellite communications
• Self-organizing networks
• Smart cities and smart grids
• Vehicular networks
• Wireless multicasting, broadcasting, and geo-casting
• Wireless sensor networks

Track 4: Services, Applications and Business

• Audio and video broadcast applications
• Authentication, authorization and accounting
• Context and location-awareness in pervasive systems
• Cyber-physical systems and applications
• Emerging wireless and mobile applications
• Mobile to mobile and in-car communication networks
• Mobile multimedia services
• Next generation home networks
• P2P services for multimedia
• Personalization, profiles and profiling
• Secure network and service access
• Self-adaptation on the service layer
• Service discovery and portability
• Service oriented architectures and cloud computing
• User interfaces, user-machine interactions
• Wireless emergency and security systems
• Wireless applications in robotics
• Wireless health applications