The topics of special interest for the 2017 of the MACOM workshop include, but are not limited to:

• 5G technologies and network architectures

• Internet of Things (IoT)

• Multiuser receivers and successive interference cancellation

• Device-to-device communication

• High reliability and low latency support

• New solutions for 30-300 GHz mmW communications

• Software defined radio and networks for 5G

• Next generation WLANs, including IEEE 802.11ax, 11ac, 11ai, etc.

• Smart, adaptive and self-configurable MAC/PHY protocols

• Cooperative and collaborative MAC/PHY protocols

• MAC/PHY protocols for multi-hop and relay-based networks

• Cognitive radio networks, software radio, dynamic spectrum access and channel bonding techniques

• MAC/PHY protocols supporting MIMO, dynamic spectrum access, spatial multiplexing, full-duplex communication and transmit diversity techniques

• Energy-aware MAC/PHY protocols

• Scheduling and radio resource management, including inter and intra network coexistence techniques

• MAC/PHY solutions for M2M-type communications in Broadband Wireless Networks (IEEE 802.11, 4G, 5G)

• M2M massive communications

• Queueing networks of shared access communication systems

• Game-theoretic queueing models for non-cooperative access on shared channels

• Control of queueing models for multiple access communications

• Green queueing models to assess energy/performance tradeoffs

• Information-theoretic security

• Network information theory

• Multi-user information theory

• Multi-terminal information theory