The Wireless Telecommunications Symposium brings together industry professionals and academics from companies, governmental agencies, and universities around the world to exchange information on advances in mobile communications and wireless networking technology, applications, management, and security. Past WTS participants have included Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Chairman and Co-Founder of QUALCOMM; Mike Lazaridis, Founder, President, and Co-CEO, Research In Motion; Dr. Vinton Cerf, Dr. Robert Kahn, and Dr. Leonard Kleinrock, Internet pioneers; and Dr. Charles Elachi, Director, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Organizations represented have included Bell Laboratories, Vodafone, Verizon Communications, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, IBM, Ericsson, Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, NTT DoCoMo, T-Mobile, Motorola, Vodafone, SK Telecom, Cisco, QUALCOMM, RIM, Intel, Gartner, Forrester Research, The Carlyle Group, Arthur D. Little, Microsoft, PwC, MITRE Corporation, BBN Technologies, KBS, Google, RBC Capital Markets, Ernst & Young, JPL, FCC, NTIA, DARPA, FBI, and Ofcom.

The theme for WTS 2013 will be "Global Wireless Communications: Future Directions". Planned highlights of WTS 2013 include executive presentations and keynote addresses; presentations of accepted academic and practitioner research papers; panel discussions; tutorials and workshops; a poster paper session; and a doctoral students’ session. Refereed proceedings will be published by the IEEE and be available on its Xplore online publication system. The proceedings also will be distributed at the Symposium via a CD. Awards will be given for the most outstanding paper presented and best graduate and undergraduate student papers presented. Some selected high quality papers from WTS 2013 will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications & Networking,, IGI Global publisher, pending their successful extension and an expedited review process.

Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Wireless Internet and Multimedia
Satellite Based Systems
Global Wireless Services, Business & Applications
Mobile Operating Systems & Architectures
Mobile and Wireless Network Security and Privacy
Wireless Modeling, Algorithms & Simulation
QoS and Wireless Network Reliability
Mobile & Cloud Computing
Wireless and Healthcare
Mobile Cellular TV
Spread-Spectrum/CDMA/OFDM Technologies

Wireless Communications Investments & Ventures
WLANs, WPANs, and Femtocells
4G Wireless Networks & Systems
Wireless and New Generation Media
Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Wireless Network Modeling, Algorithms, and Simulation
Spectrum Management and Policy
Wireless M2M and Home Networks
Wireless Telecommunications Management
GPS and Indoor Geolocation Systems
Mobile Cellular TV