SPAWC'14 and IT Summer School at Toronto
The 15th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2014), which will be held in Toronto, Canada, June 22-25, 2014. The workshop is devoted to recent advances in signal processing for wireless communications, networking, and information theory. The technical program features plenary talks as well as invited and contributed poster papers. This year's SPAWC will also be co-located with North American School on Information Theory, June 18-21, 2014, which is a great opportunity for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
Jan 24, 2014

Dear Colleagues:

We would like to invite you to participate in The 15th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2014), which will be held in Toronto, Canada, June 22-25, 2014.

The workshop is devoted to recent advances in signal processing for wireless communications, networking, and information theory. The technical program features plenary talks as well as invited and contributed poster papers.

This year's SPAWC will also be co-located with North American School on Information Theory, June 18-21, 2014, which is a great opportunity for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

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Call for Papers:
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SPAWC 2014: The 15th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications

June 22-25, 2014 Toronto, Canada

http://www.spawc2014.org/SPAWC2014_Call_for_Paper.pdf

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in the following areas:
• Smart antennas, MIMO systems, and space-time coding
• Single-carrier, multi-carrier, and multi-rate systems
• Multiple-access and broadcast channels, multi-user receivers
• Signal processing for ad-hoc, multi-hop, and sensor networks
• Cooperative communication, coordinated multipoint transmission and reception
• Distributed resource allocation and scheduling
• Interference management, dynamic spectrum management
• Heterogeneous networks, small cells
• Millimeter wave, 60GHz communications
• Physical layer security
• Feedback in wireless networks
• Cognitive radio and networks
• Cooperative sensing, compressed sensing, sparse signal processing
• Ultra-wideband radio, localization, RFID
• Modeling, estimation and equalization of wireless channels
• Acquisition, synchronization, and tracking
• Cross-layer issues, joint source-channel coding, delay-limited communication
• Signal processing for optical and satellite communications
• Signal processing for nano- and molecular communications
• Emerging techniques and technologies


Full papers up to five-page limit should be submitted via EDAS.

Deadlines:
  March 1, 2014: Paper submission
  April 30, 2014: Acceptance notification
  May 10, 2014: Final paper due

General Chairs:
  Tim Davidson
  Wei Yu

Technical Program Chairs:
  Eduard Jorswieck
  Akbar Sayeed


For information on North American School on Information Theory, please see:
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/13-14/infotheory/