ACM WiNTECH has advanced to its 15th anniversary as one consolidated tradition for bringing together an important number of researchers and industry players working in different aspects of experimental wireless communications and networking. The workshop will continue to serve as a forum for sharing new ideas and experiences gathered across all experimental aspects of wireless networks and systems, such as the methodological and technical issues that have to be faced for defining, running, controlling and benchmarking experiments on wireless solutions. The workshop will also facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges and emerging problems in the field, such as new laboratory methodologies, key real-life limitations of current and novel wireless technologies that have emerged over the past few years (including mmWave, 5G, IoT, VLC, wearables, underwater and aerial networking, and SDN), as well as key challenges facing the wireless networking of the future.

We are particularly interested in papers describing developments, lesson-learned and new results obtained through platforms for at-scale wireless research such as those in the US NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program, the European 5G-PPP program under the coordination of EMPOWER, technical co-sponsors of the workshop, and of similar programs focused on large-scale experimentation.

We are seeking original, previously unpublished papers empirically addressing key issues and challenges in experimental wireless networking.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Design and evaluation of wireless testbeds and prototyping platforms for

mmWave communications and networking
Emerging PHY implemented on Software Defined Radio (SDR)
IoT and wearable computing
Visible Light Communications (VLC)
UAV, multi-robot and vehicular networks
Underwater/underground networks
Software Defined Networking (SDN) for wireless cellular networks (LTE, 5G)
Underwater/underground networks
Innovative protocols on sensor nodes
Innovative protocols on WiFi nodes
Other wireless networks, mobile computing, cyber-physical systems

Experiences/lessons from testbed deployments (especially, PAWR/ICT-17-like)

Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing of wireless systems

Testbed control and management issues

Machine learning applied to wireless systems

Evaluation of large-scale and heterogeneous wireless networks

Experimental evaluation of performance/energy consumption of applications and protocols, including the impact of cross-layer interactions

Measurement and evaluation on large-scale smartphone-based deployments

Real-world evaluation of cellular networks

Real-world white-space networks, interference and spectrum usage measurements

Spectrum Sharing and Coexistence in unlicensed bands, including LTE/WiFi coexistence

Measurement and characterization (modeling) of real-world aspects of wireless networks such as usage patterns, traffic, mobility and channel characteristics

Security and privacy mechanisms for mobile and wireless networks

Sharing experiences and results with real testbeds, experimental evaluation, prototyping and empirical characterization of wireless technologies

Papers should contain original material and not be previously published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. All submissions will be judged by their technical merit and relevance to the workshop, based on reviews by the Technical Program Committee.

Manuscripts must be submitted by using the HotCRP conference management system. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a single PDF file with all fonts embedded, using the ACM conference proceedings format (use the same PDF formatting guidelines as the main conference). Paper length is limited to eight (8) pages (in two-column, 10-point format), all-inclusive (references, figures, etc.). Papers must include author names and affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the program committee. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM WiNTECH proceedings and will be archived in the ACM Library. All papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: June 14^th 2021
Notification to authors: July 31^st 2021
Camera ready due: August 15^th 2021
Workshop: April 1^st 2022

If you have any other questions regarding ACM WiNTECH 2021, please contact us at chair.wintech2021@gmail.com.