LTE and LTE-advanced (i.e.

small cells, interference coordination and cancellation,

CoMP, femtocells, adaptive PHY and MAC design, higher order modulations)
Smart Grid (i.e. secure and reliable communication design, application of PLC and
wireless to smart grid,
TV-White Space (i.e. spectrum sensing, waveform shaping for efficient utilization of
spectrum opportunities, spectrum hand-off )
Dynamic channel allocation (i.e. spectrum sensing, efficient modulation and waveform
design, spectral shaping, interference management and avoidance)
Reliable Communication in Unlicensed Bands (i.e. Interference avoidance and
cancellation, dynamic spectrum utilization)
Public safety and military radio (i.e. secure link design in PHY and MAC layers, SigINT,
communication in harsh channel conditions, software defined radio, cognitive radio)
Aeronautical communications, High Altitude Platforms (HAP) (i.e. handling Doppler
spread and mobility issues, exploiting the channel for efficient radio and network design)
High data rate underwater acoustic communications (i.e channel modeling, application of
OFDM to underwater communication, interference cancellation and avoidance)
HF radio (i.e. HF channel modeling and efficient digital baseband algorithm design,
equalization, channel estimation and tracking)
In-vivo communication (i.e. in-vivo channel modeling, efficient link and network design
for in-vivo channels)
Vehicular communications, V2V, V2I (i.e. mobility issues, mobility modeling, Doppler
handling, adaptive PHY and MAC design, radio parameters estimation and tracking)