The 17th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2014) will be held in Sydney, Australia. The WPMC symposia series were inaugurated in 1998, as a global platform which aims at enabling collaboration in the field of wireless information. Held in Asia, Europe and America, WPMC has established itself as a unique global conference dedicated to wireless multimedia convergence. Continuing the series, the 17th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications will be held for the first time in Australia. The theme’s of this year’s conference is “Orchestrating Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications for Digital Services”. In addition to high-quality technical sessions, the symposium will feature keynotes, workshops and tutorials. It will also offer an exciting social program.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Wireless Communications and PHY
· Information and coding theory
· Radio propagation and channel modeling
· Advanced modulation schemes
· Signal processing
· Space-time coding and MIMO
· Cooperative communications
· Interference characterization
· Cognitive radio
· Green communications
· Smart antennas

Internet of Things and M2M Communications
· IoT and M2M communications devices
· PHY design for IoT and M2M
· Ad hoc networks and sensor networks
· QoS and routing
· Next generation home networks
· IoT and M2M multimedia services
· IoT and M2M enabling scenarios
· Smart grid communications

Wireless Networks
· Self-organizing networks
· Cross-layer design
· Wireless multicast and streaming
· Multimedia QoS and traffic management
· Mobility, location and handoff management
· Localization for wireless networks
· Cognitive radio networks
· Spectrum sharing and coexistence
· Wireless network security
· Vehicular networks
· Green wireless networks
· International standards

Communications Services and Multimedia Applications
· Mobile multimedia services
· Emerging wireless and mobile applications
· QoS and QoE for multimedia applications
· Mobile social networks
· Application security and privacy
· Service oriented architectures
· Cloud computing
· User interfaces, user-machine interactions
· Wireless health applications
· Experimental trials and deployment

Important Dates:

Paper Submission: 7 April 2014
Tutorial Proposals: 7 April 2014
Workshop Proposals: 7 April 2014
Notification of Acceptance: 23 June 2014
Camera Ready Submission: 21 July 2014

Previous conferences in the WPMC series have been held under the technical sponsorship of the IEEE Communications Society. An application for the technical sponsorship of WPMC 2014 by the IEEE Communications Society has been submitted for approval.

General Co-Chairs:
Ian Oppermann, CSIRO, Australia
Eryk Dutkiewicz, Macquarie University, Australia
Y. Jay Guo, CSIRO, Australia

Honorary Chair:
Ryuji Kohno, Yokohama National University, Japan

TPC Co-Chairs:
Ren Ping Liu, CSIRO, Australia
Sanjay Jha, University of NSW, Australia
Xiaojing Huang, CSIRO, Australia
Hajime Suzuki, CSIRO, Australia