The 17th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC'2014) was held at the Menzies Hotel, Sydney, Australia from the 7th to the 10th of September 2014 under the technical sponsorship of the IEEE Communications Society and with the support of the ACS. The WPMC symposia series were inaugurated in 1998, as a global platform which aims at enabling collaboration in the field of wireless information. Held in Asia, Europe and America, WPMC has established itself as a unique global conference dedicated to wireless multimedia convergence. Continuing the series, the 17th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications was held for the first time in Australia.

The theme of this year’s conference was “Orchestrating Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications” with a focus on current research and development in 5th Generation mobile technology (5G), machine to machine (M2M), embedded and nano technologies, cognitive radio, green wireless, next generation Internet, big data, cloud, as well as multimedia communications.

WPMC2014 featured eight distinguished keynote speakers from industry and from academia. The technical program consists of 22 technical sessions, 2 special sessions, 2 workshops, and 6 tutorials. The conference proceeding contains 138 high quality technical papers from 24 countries in six continents around the globe. Together, all these forums present cutting-edge advances of both the scientific and industrial developments in wireless multimedia communications.

Sampling the Best Papers

Of the 138 papers accepted for presentation, several were identified as “Best papers”. The mix showed the widely heterogeneous nature of future mobile communications networks.

  • Hybrid Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Two-Way Relay Networks : Xing Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Yan Zhang (Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo, Norway); Zhenhai Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Jia Xing (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Wenbo Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

  • Field Experiment of Long-distance Broadband Communications in TV White Space Using IEEE 802.22 and IEEE 802.11af : Kentaro Ishizu (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Keigo Hasegawa (Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., Japan); Keiichi Mizutani (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Hirokazu Sawada (NICT, Japan); Kei Yanagisawa (Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., Japan); Keat-Beng Toh (Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., Japan); Takeshi Matsumura (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan); Seishi Sasaki(Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., Japan); Masahiro Asano (Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., Japan); Homare Murakami (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan); Hiroshi Harada (National Institute of Information & Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

  • Performance of Massive MIMO with Zero-Forcing Beamforming and Reduced Downlink Pilots : Qiang He (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Limin Xiao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Xiaofeng Zhong (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Shidong Zhou (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

Further information is available at http://wpmc14.org