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{{Event 
|Acronym=RTUWO 2017 
|Title=RTUWO  2017 : Advances in Wireless and Optical Communications 
|Type=Conference 
|Field=communications
|Start date=2017/11/02
|End date=2017/11/03 
|City=Riga 
|Country= Latvia
|Homepage=http://rtuwo.org
|Submission deadline=2017/08/01
}}
Proceedings of the Conference will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library
and indexed by SCOPUS.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
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1. Wireless communications
1.A. Technologies:

Software-defined radio and cognitive radio
Signal processing for wireless communications
Energy efficiency and power management
Smart and mobile antennas and propagation
Practical implementation issues and performance evaluation
Spectrum management and regulatory issues
Electromagnetic energy harvesting
Global and local positioning systems in wireless networks

1.B. Networking:

Intelligent transportation system and vehicular communications
Wireless sensor networks
Machine-to-machine communications
MAC layer and routing protocols
Ad-hoc and cell-based networking
Multiple access and scheduling
Cooperative and distributed communications
Radio resource allocation, bit allocation, power allocation
Performance analysis, QoS and network management
Cross-layer optimization
Advanced wireless network technologies, architectures
Cellular-Wi-Fi Integration and interworking
Traffic analysis of wireless networks

1.C. Wireless PHY:

Advanced MIMO techniques
Ultra-wideband communications
Multicarrier communications
Channel characterization
Channel coding
Acoustic communication systems
Physical layer security

2. Optical communications

Optical Signal Processing
Advances in Optical Networking
Photonic Communications Systems and Networks
High-speed Optical Communications systems and devices
All-Optical Communication Systems
Passive optical networks
Active optical networks
Energy-Efficient and Spectral-Efficient Optical Communication Systems
Microwave Photonics
Optical MIMO
Radio over Fiber (RoF) and Wireless over Fiber (WoF) systems
Optical Fibers and Fiber Devices for Optical Communications
Optical Amplifiers
Modeling and Optimization of Optical Communication Networks
Optical sensors technologies
Optical network management
Software-defined networks
Visible light communication

Registration fee
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Participation in the conference and publication of the accepted paper in IEEE
Xplore Digital Library is free of charge. The financial sponsor of the
conference is Riga Technical University.

Venue
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Conference will be held at the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications of
Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia. Riga is a wonderful ancient Hanseatic
city on the coast of Baltic sea. Conference event on the vital combination of
wireless and optical communications offers an excellent opportunity to network
with world specialists and forge new friendships and cooperation with colleagues
in Europe, Asia and worldwide.

History
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RTUWO is held annually from 2015. Each year in the conference more than 50 high
quality papers are presented.

Contact
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Please direct all correspondence to Dr. Arturs Aboltins,
Riga Technical University,
Azenes 12, Riga, Latvia, LV-1048
Email: rtuwo@rtu.lv
Tel: +371 26 557 340.
As more information becomes available, it will be published at the RTUWO'17
Conference web page rtuwo.org.