27th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2026)

The 27th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2026) brings together experts to explore signal processing and artificial intelligence techniques for advancing wireless communications.

Key Topics

• Signal processing for optical, satellite, and underwater communications
• Reliable wireless communications for autonomous vehicles
• Machine learning and data analytics
• Low latency & delay-limited communications
• Full duplex systems
• Modelling, estimation and equalization of wireless channels
• Millimetre wave, 60 GHz communications
• Physical-layer security and privacy
• Signal processing for ad-hoc, multi-hop, and sensor networks
• Distributed resource allocation and scheduling
• Cooperative sensing, compressed sensing, sparse signal processing
• Energy efficiency and energy harvesting
• Machine-to-machine, device-to-device communications
• Heterogeneous networks, small cells
• Smart antennas, MIMO systems, massive MIMO, and space-time processing
• Biological communications and signal processing
• 5G and beyond
• Convex and non-convex optimization; game theory for communications
• Acquisition, synchronization, localization and tracking
• Cognitive radio and networks
• Cooperative communication, coordinated multipoint transmission and reception

Who should Attend

• Academic researchers in wireless communications
• Optimization and statistics specialists
• Experts in signal processing
• Industry professionals in networking
• Developers of wireless communication systems
• Researchers in artificial intelligence
• Machine learning scientists
• Information theory scholars