========================================================================================= The 26th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2023) will be held on November 19-22, 2023, in Tampa, Florida, USA. As a global platform aiming at enabling academia-industry-government collaboration in the field of wireless information, WPMC have manifested itself as a unique global annual symposium on wireless techno-business world encapsulating the high-end wireless technologies and the current markets and trends to create future businesses and innovative societies. WPMC 2023 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), and the accepted manuscripts will be included in IEEE xplore. http://wpmc2023.com/ MAIN TOPICS OF INTERESTS WPMC 2023 solicit high-quality manuscripts, and the topics of interests categorized into six tracks include (but not limited to): 1. RF,Optical,Spectrum Technology • Antennas and RF Techniques • Ultra-Wideband, Millimeter-Wave, and Terahertz • Next Generation MIMO and Massive MIMO • Waveforms and Modulation • Channel Modeling and Estimation • Smart Radio Environment • Optical Communication • Visible Light and Wireless Optical Communication • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface • Signal Processing and Integrated Circuits • Spectrum Sharing/Coexistence 2. Wireless Networks • Ad-hoc Networks • Vehicular Networks • 802.11 and Next-generation Wi-Fi • UAVs and Non-Terrestrial Networks • Software Defined Radio and Networks • Networking Architectures for AI • Local 5G/B5G Systems • Data Science and AI for Wireless Networks • Resource Management 3. International Standards, Multimedia, Social Media, Application Services, and Services • Experiments, Prototypes, and Testbeds • Sensing and Localization • O-RAN • B5G and 6G Standardization • Networking Support for Virtual and Augmented Reality • Network Economics • Mobile Social Media and Social Networks • Holographic Communications • Video and Multimedia Coding 4. Wireless Communications Systems • Advanced Modulation Schemes • Cooperative and Relay-aided Communications • Interference Management, Alignment, and Cancellation • Cross-Layer Optimization • Massive Communication and Information Theory • Multiple Access • Equalization, Channel Estimation, Synchronization • Error Correcting Codes • Satellite and Deep Space Communications • ML for Wireless Communications • Game-Theoretic Approaches to Wireless 5. Security and Privacy in Communications • Applied Cryptography for Cyber, Information, and Network Security • Public Key Infrastructures and Authentication Protocols • Communication Privacy and Anonymity • Blockchain Security • Malware Detection and Damage Recovery • Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Firewalls, Packet Filters • Key Management and Credential Management Cloud, Data Center and Distributed Systems Security Quantum Communications and Networks 6. IoT, Sensor Networks, and AI-enabled Networks • IoT and Machine Type Communications • E-health and Mobile Health • Innovative Implanted and Wearable Devices • Bayesian Optimization for Wireless • End-to-end ML over Wireless Channels • Communication-inspired ML • Edge Computing, Edge Intelligence and Fog Networks • Green Communications and Networks • Machine-to-machine Communication • Smart Factory, Smart Community ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS General Chairs Kwang-Cheng Chen (University of South Florida, US) Morio Toyoshima (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) General Vice Chairs Uma Jha (L3Harris Technology, US) Huseyin Arslan (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey) Ryuji Kohno (Yokohama National University, Japan) TPC Chair Shao-Yu Lien (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) TPC Co-Chairs North and South America: Yao Liu (University of South Florida, US) Europe: Neeli Prasad (VehicleAvatar, US) Asia Pacific: Chih-Cheng Tseng (National Ilan University, Taiwan) Workshop Chair Albena Dimitrova Mihovska (Aarhus University, Denmark) Track Chairs RF, Optical, and Spectrum Technology Shih-Chen Lin (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) Qimei Cui (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China) Wireless Networks Kapal Dev (Munster Technology University, Ireland) Jingjing Wang (Beihang University, China) Applications Services and Applications De-Nian Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, US) Wireless Communications Systems Chun-Hung Liu (Mississippi State University, US) Koichi Adachi (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan) Security and Privacy in Communications Pin-Yu Chen (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, US) Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon, France) IoT, Sensor Networks, and AI-enabled Networks Shih-Chun Lin (North Carolina State University, US) Megumi Kaneko (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Keynote Chair Valdimir Poulkov (Technical University–Sofia, Bulgaria) Finance Chair Chu-Hsiang Huang (Qualcomm Inc., US) Publicity Chair Der-Jiunn Deng *National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan) Local Arrangement Chair Zhuo Lu (University of South Florida, US) Tutorial Chairs Yi-Ching Liao (Realtek Inc., Taiwan) Srinivas Katkoori (University of South Florida, US) Publication Chair Ying-Ren Chien (National Ilan University, Taiwan) Registration Chair Chao-Yu Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Website Chair Chih-Yu Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) IMPORTANT DATES Symposium paper submission: July 1, 2023; July 23, 2023 (extended) Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2023 Camera-ready submission: October 15, 2023 Workshop proposal: July 1, 2023 Tutorial proposal: September 1, 2023 SUBMISSIONS Technical papers can be submitted through EDAS using the link: https://edas.info/N30791. Workshop and tutorial proposals can be forwarded to wpmc2023.tampa@gmail.com<mailto:wpmc2023.tampa@gmail.com>. Detailed information is available on http://wpmc2023.com/. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Associate Professor Computer Engineering Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini@unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab’s News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” ~ Aristotle