RTUWO 2017 : Advances in Wireless and Optical Communications

Proceedings of the Conference will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library and indexed by SCOPUS.

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

1. Wireless communications 1.A. Technologies:

Software-defined radio and cognitive radio Signal processing for wireless communications Energy efficiency and power management Smart and mobile antennas and propagation Practical implementation issues and performance evaluation Spectrum management and regulatory issues Electromagnetic energy harvesting Global and local positioning systems in wireless networks

1.B. Networking:

Intelligent transportation system and vehicular communications Wireless sensor networks Machine-to-machine communications MAC layer and routing protocols Ad-hoc and cell-based networking Multiple access and scheduling Cooperative and distributed communications Radio resource allocation, bit allocation, power allocation Performance analysis, QoS and network management Cross-layer optimization Advanced wireless network technologies, architectures Cellular-Wi-Fi Integration and interworking Traffic analysis of wireless networks

1.C. Wireless PHY:

Advanced MIMO techniques Ultra-wideband communications Multicarrier communications Channel characterization Channel coding Acoustic communication systems Physical layer security

2. Optical communications

Optical Signal Processing Advances in Optical Networking Photonic Communications Systems and Networks High-speed Optical Communications systems and devices All-Optical Communication Systems Passive optical networks Active optical networks Energy-Efficient and Spectral-Efficient Optical Communication Systems Microwave Photonics Optical MIMO Radio over Fiber (RoF) and Wireless over Fiber (WoF) systems Optical Fibers and Fiber Devices for Optical Communications Optical Amplifiers Modeling and Optimization of Optical Communication Networks Optical sensors technologies Optical network management Software-defined networks Visible light communication

Registration fee

Participation in the conference and publication of the accepted paper in IEEE Xplore Digital Library is free of charge. The financial sponsor of the conference is Riga Technical University.

Venue --- Conference will be held at the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications of Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia. Riga is a wonderful ancient Hanseatic city on the coast of Baltic sea. Conference event on the vital combination of wireless and optical communications offers an excellent opportunity to network with world specialists and forge new friendships and cooperation with colleagues in Europe, Asia and worldwide.

History --- RTUWO is held annually from 2015. Each year in the conference more than 50 high quality papers are presented.

Contact - Please direct all correspondence to Dr. Arturs Aboltins, Riga Technical University, Azenes 12, Riga, Latvia, LV-1048 Email: rtuwo@rtu.lv Tel: +371 26 557 340. As more information becomes available, it will be published at the RTUWO'17 Conference web page rtuwo.org.