Selected Areas of Wireless Communications and Networking


The technical track on Wireless Communications and Networking (WCN) of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2024) will be held in Avila, Spain, April 8 - 12, 2024.

Over the past few decades, wireless communications and networking (WCN) have become essential in modern society. The practical applications of communication concepts have bridged long distances and facilitated connectivity on a global scale. Such broad range of technologies include cellular networks (5G and beyond to 6G), wireless sensor networks (WSNs), ad-hoc networks, WiMAX, metaverse networking etc. The continued expansion of WCN applications has led to the development of novel technologies, shaping new paradigms in research and development. The demand for new applications brings forth complex technical challenges that necessitate innovative solutions. Moreover, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into networking solutions has introduced autonomous and intelligent decision-making capabilities, enhancing system performance. In addition to the WCN research topics, a great number of individuals, researchers, academics are emphasizing new novel ideas and improving the performance of next generation of networking paradigms including Future Internet architectures, software defined networks (SDNs), Network Virtualization. This special track aims to bring together researchers, academics, individuals working on selected areas of wireless communications and networking to share their new ideas, latest findings, and results.



Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

  • Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)

  • Metaverse Networking

  • Cellular Networks: Advances in 5G and Beyond

  • Cell-free Wireless Networks

  • Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications (V2V communications)

  • Wireless Body area Networks (WBANs)

  • Internet of Things (IoT)

  • Machine to Machine Communications (M2M)

  • Peer-to-Peer Networks

  • Ubiquitous Networks

  • Cognitive Wireless Networks

  • Network design, control, and performance

  • Congestion control and Traffic management

  • Energy efficiency and power control

  • MAC, Routing and Transport protocols

  • Data Centric Communications and Protocols



Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers of research and applications for this track. Full papers are limited to 8 pages with the option for up to 2 additional pages at extra charge ($80 per page). The author name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate double-blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author information. Papers must be formatted according to the ACM SAC template. Contributions must contain original unpublished work. Papers that have been concurrently submitted to other conferences or journals (double submissions) will be automatically rejected. For full submission guidelines, please follow the instructions on the ACM SAC 2024 website. Please submit your contributions via SAC 2024 Webpage.

Prospective papers should be submitted using the provided automated submission system for Regular Papers and SRC Papers.

Important Note: Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library.

Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts: October 13, 2023

Notification of paper and SRC acceptance/rejection: October 30, 2023

Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC: November 30, 2023

Author registration due date: November 30, 2023

School of Computer Science and Engineering,

Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Prof. Dongkyun Kim received the B.S. degree from Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea; and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. He was a Visiting Researcher with Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1999. He also performed a post doctorate program with the Department of Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, in 2002. From 2015 to 2016, he was a visiting faculty at CSC Research Group, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. Currently, Prof. Kim is with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University. His current research interests include connected cars, vehicular ad hoc networks, the Internet of Things (machine-to-machine/device-to-device), Wi-Fi networks (including Wi-Fi Direct), wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, and future Internet. Prof. Kim has been with the Organizing Committee or the Technical Program Committee for many conferences of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery. He has been doing many editorial duties for several well-reputed international journals.

Detailed research publication list can be found at https://monet.knu.ac.kr/pub_list


Department of Computer Science,

San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA

Dr. Wei Wang is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at San Diego State University (SDSU). He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at South Dakota State University from January 2010 to May 2014. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Nebraska - Lincoln , NE, USA, in December 2009. He worked as a Software Engineer with Nokia Siemens Networks Ltd (former Siemens Communications Ltd) in 2005. His research interests include wireless networks, wireless multimedia communications, QoE-QoS issues, network economics and IoTs. He serves as the publication co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2020, the area chair of IEEE ICME 2020-2019, the symposium co-chair of IEEE GLOBECOM-NGNI 2019, the track-chair of ACM SAC 2019, the web co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2018-16, the symposium co-chair of IEEE ICC-NGNI 2018, the symposium co-chair of ICNC-MCC 2018, the program co-chair of ACM RACS 2017-14, workshop co-chair of ICST BodyNets 2013, the chair of IEEE CIT-MMC track 2012, the vice-chair of IEEE ICCT-NGN track 2011, and the program chair of the ICST-IWMMN 2010, a Guest Editor of several journals and special issues such as IEEE ACCESS, Springer MONET, IJDSN, etc, a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for many international conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM, GLOBECOM, and ICC, the Co-Director of IEEE MMTC Review Board 2020-2017, and the Co-Director of the IEEE MMTC Publicity Board 2016-2014. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Detailed research publication list can be found at https://wwang.sdsu.edu/Publication.htm



Syed Hassan Ahmed, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA.

Muhammad Azfar Yaqub, Free University of Bolzano, Italy.

Malik Muhammad Saad, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.

- Juan-Carlos Cano, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.

- Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA.

- Floriano De Rango, University of Calabira, Italy.

- Mahasweta Sarkar, San Diego State University, USA.

- Nafaa Jabeur, German University of Technology, Oman.

- Muhammad Ali Jamshed, University of Glasgow, UK.

- Gautam Srivastava, Brandon, Canada.

- Kun Hua, Lawrence Technical University, MI, USA.

- Houbing Song, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA.

- Syed Mehdi Abbas Rizvi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

- Zeeshan Qamar, University of Oklahoma, USA.

- Attaullah Buriro, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

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