We invite the submission of applied research papers to the 18th Annual Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2019, which will be held April 9-12, 2019 in New York City, New York, USA. For further information, visit www.cpp.edu/wtsi.

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, business, policy, applications and security. Past WTS participants have included Dr. Vinton Cerf, Dr. Robert Kahn, and Dr. Leonard Kleinrock, Internet pioneers; Martin Cooper, “Father of the Cell Phone”; Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Co-Founder and Former CEO of QUALCOMM; and Mike Lazaridis, Founder and former Vice-Chairman, Blackberry.

The theme for WTS 2019 will be "Global Wireless Communications: Now and in the Future”. Planned highlights of WTS 2019 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. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. 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 2019 will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications & Networking, 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
Wireless Communications Investments & Ventures
Satellite Based Systems
WLANs, WPANs, and Femtocells
Global Wireless Services, Business & Applications
4G, 5G and Beyond Wireless Networks & Systems Mobile Operating Systems & Architectures Wireless and New Media Mobile and Wireless Network Security and Privacy Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Wireless Modeling, Algorithms & Simulation Spectrum Management and Policy
QoS, QoE, and Wireless Network Reliability
Wireless M2M and Home Networks
Mobile & Cloud Computing
Wireless Telecommunications Management
Wireless and Healthcare
GPS and Indoor Geolocation Systems
Spread-Spectrum/CDMA/OFDM Technologies
RFID Systems & Applications
IoT Device Connection Efficiency
IoT Security
Mobile IP and Cloud Security
Autonomous Transportation
Big Data Analytics in Telecommunications
Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) Network
Mobile and Cloud Digital Forensics
Mobile Cybersecurity and Phishing

IMPORTANT DATES:
December 3, 2018 Paper submission deadline February 3, 2019 Notification of acceptance March 3, 2019 Camera-ready submissions

WTS 2019 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
Dr. Zory Marantz, New York City College of Technology, USA zmarantz@citytech.cuny.edu Dr. Albena Mihovska, Aarhus University, DK amihovska@btech.au.dk Dr. Hong Zhao, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA hong_zhao@fdu.edu

WTS COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
General Chair: Dr. Steven Powell, Cal Poly Pomona Program Chair: Dr. JP Shim, Georgia St. Univ.