IEEE PIMRC 2025: Call for Papers

The 36th edition of the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2025) will be held in İstanbul, Türkiye, from September 1–4, 2025. As one of the two major conferences of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) in wireless communications and networking, PIMRC 2025 will be a face-to-face event and will assemble worldwide experts to deliver keynotes, tutorials, workshops, industry panels, and high-quality technical sessions.

Topics of Interest

Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers, as well as proposals for special sessions and workshops, addressing a wide range of topics in wireless and mobile communications, including but not limited to:

Track 1: Fundamentals and PHY

• AI and ML in/for communications
• Coding/modulation, information theory
• Channel modeling and equalization
• Cooperative communications, coded caching/computing
• Integrated sensing and communications
• Millimeter wave and Terahertz communications
• Multi-user communications and interference mitigation
• Optical wireless and visible light communications
• Physical layer security
• Propagation, antennas and beamforming
• Quantum communications
• Semantic communications and signal processing
• Source coding and joint source-channel coding
• Synchronization techniques
• Ultra-wideband communications
• Ultra/Tera multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
• Wireless information and power transfer

Track 2: MAC and Cross Layer Design

• Adaptive and reconfigurable MAC
• Age of information aware MAC design
• Information-theoretic approaches to MAC design
• Joint access and backhaul scheduler design
• Joint MAC and networking layer design
• MAC for low-power embedded networks
• MAC for mobile and vehicular networks
• ML for resource management
• Next-generation multiple access
• Radio resource management, allocation, and scheduling
• Scheduler for cooperative and relay systems
• Security issues in MAC design

Track 3: Mobile and Wireless Networks

• Ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks
• Cognitive radio networks and self-organizing networks
• Cooperative networking
• Data-driven, large-scale network modelling and optimization
• Digital twins and autonomous networks
• Green and energy-efficient networks
• Massive Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor networks
• ML for networking, distributed ML, multi-agent systems
• Mobile edge, cloud, and fog computing
• Network security
• O-RAN
• Software-defined and open interface-based networks
• Stochastic geometry
• UAVs and non-terrestrial networks

Track 4: Emerging Technologies, Applications and Platforms

• 5G NR and 6G standardization
• 802.11 and next-generation Wi-Fi
• Connected vehicles and digital twin
• Experiments, prototypes, and testbeds
• Fluid antenna communications
• Full-duplex communication networks
• Holographic MIMO
• Innovative implanted and wearable devices
• Intelligent beamforming relays
• Joint radar and communications
• Networking support for virtual and augmented reality
• Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
• Sensing and localization
• Software defined radio and networks
• Surface wave communications

Submission Guidelines

Paper Submission

• All papers must be submitted electronically via the official PIMRC 2025 EDAS submission system.
• Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process.
• It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that the author list and the paper title of the submitted pdf file exactly match the author list and paper title on the paper registration page. The paper registration page must include all co-authors.
• The author list of an accepted paper cannot be changed in the final manuscript.

Page Limits and Charges

• Initial Submissions: Maximum of SIX (6) printed pages (10-point font). Submissions longer than six pages will be rejected without review.
• Final Submissions: Maximum of SIX (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures.
• An optional seventh page is allowed for final submissions, incurring an over-length page charge of US$100.

Publication

• All accepted and presented papers will be published in IEEE Xplore.

Important Dates

• Workshop Proposals: 16 February 2025
• Tutorial Proposals: 16 March 2025
• Paper Submissions: 13 April 2025 (FINAL)
• Panel Proposals: 15 May 2025
• Acceptance Notification: 5 June 2025 (EXTENDED)
• Final Manuscripts: 07 July 2025

Registration and Travel

• Conference Registration is COMING SOON! Visit https://pimrc2025.ieee-pimrc.org/registration.
• Visa Letter Requests are available at https://pimrc2025.ieee-pimrc.org/hotel-travel/visa-letter-request.
• Participants require a valid passport. Visa requirements may apply; check www.evisa.gov.tr or the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs (www.mfa.gov.tr) for the most updated information.
• Student Travel Grants will be provided. Details can be found at https://pimrc2025.ieee-pimrc.org/registration/student-travel-grants.