CALL FOR PAPERS

The first ANDEAN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS & APPLICATIONS WORKSHOP AWCA 2022 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in all topics related to wireless communications to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research. AWCA is the ideal arena to foster collaboration between researchers especially from the Andean region, which can take advantage of similar interests and geographical closeness of the region.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Wireless Communications

• Physical Layer and Fundamentals
• RF channel modeling and analysis
• Real experimentation, deployments, open platforms
• Network Protocols
• MAC Protocols
• Network Algorithms
• Security & Privacy
• Simulation, performance evaluation and analysis methods
• Performance evaluation of wireless networks

Internet of Things

• Device Management
• Factory automation solutions
• Autonomous driving solutions
• Digital health and wellbeing
• Critical communications and public safety
• Agriculture and environmental monitoring
• Smart cities and smart grids

Applications & Services

• Mobile applications, system software and algorithms
• Real-time services
• Fog and edge computing
• Light-weight protocols
• Crowd Sensing services
• Application of machine learning techniques in wireless communications

Accepted papers for AWCA 2022 will be published directly, free-of-charge in a special issue of open-access Revista de Investigación en Tecnologías de la Información (RITI) , an Latindex, DOAJ indexed journal among others.