The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government institutions presenting novel research on wireless and optical communication systems. Conference calls for papers describing practical implementation activities, results and issues. Papers describing novel paradigms, original directions, or non-traditional perspectives are also encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Optical communications:
Optical signal processing
Advances in optical networking
Photonic Communication Systems and Networks
All-Optical Communication Systems
Passive optical networks
Active optical networks
Efficient Optical Communication Systems
Microwave Photonics
Optical Fibers
Modelling and Optimization
Visible light communication
Optical MIMO
Radio over Fiber (RoF)
Optical Amplifiers
Optical sensors technologies
Optical network management
High-speed

Wireless Communications:
Antennas and electromagnetic fields
Channel characterization
PHY techniques
MIMO techniques
Energy harvesting
Software-defined radio and cognitive radio
Wireless network security
Cross-layer optimization
Regulatory issues
Ad-hoc and cell-based networking
Resource allocation
Multiple access and scheduling
Network technologies, architectures
Cellular-Wi-Fi
Acoustic communications

Systems and Applications:
Software-defined networks
Electronic circuits
QoS and network management
Traffic analysis
Channel coding
Signal processing
Energy and power
Practical implementation
Software
Positioning
Vehicular communications
Sensor networks
Machine-to-machine communications
MAC and routing protocols
Intelligent embedded systems
Intelligent and Adaptive control systems
Industrial Standards
Wireless sensor networks in medical diagnosis
Smart homes

All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore and will be indexed by relevant databases. It will be offered to publish extended version of the accepted paper in scientific journal Automatic Control and Computer Sciences (indexed by Scopus, Web of Science).

RTUWO'18 will be special because it is held couple days before 100-year anniversary of Republic of Latvia.