Special Session Chairs: Dr. Zeping Sui (University of Essex, UK), Dr. Qu Luo (University of Surrey, UK), Dr Kuntal Deca (IIT Guwahati, India), Prof Lei Liu (Zhejiang University, China), Prof Bruno Clerckx (Imperial College of London, UK), Prof Zhiguo Ding (Manchester University, UK), Dr. Zilong Liu (University of Essex, UK)

Special Session Chairs: Dr. Ahmed Elzanaty and Prof. Gabriele Gradoni (University of Surrey, UK), Dr. Alain Mourad, Arman Shojaeifard and Mohammad Heggo (Interdigital Europe, London, UK)

Special Session Organisers: Jalal Jalali (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Rodrigo C. de Lamare (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and University of York, UK)

Special Session Chairs: Mohsen Khalily (Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), University of Surrey, UK), and Arman Shojaeifard (InterDigital, UK, and Ata Khalili, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany)

Special Session Chairs: Dr Alireza Esfahani and Dr Shidrokh Goudarzi (University of West London, UK), Prof. Shahid Mumtaz (Nottingham Trent University, UK), Prof. Marcus Völp (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Dr Mazdak Zamani (State University of New York (Empire State University), USA)

Special Session Chairs: Dr. Mohammad Shojafar and Dr. Mahtab Mirmohseni (University of Surrey, UK), Dr Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali (University of Minnesota, US), Dr. Hamed Ahmadi (University of York, UK), Dr. David Owens (Virgin Media O2, UK)

Special Session Chairs: Kai-Kit Wong (University College London, UK), Dusit (Tao) Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), George Karagiannidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Hao Xu (Southeast University, China), Yongxu Zhu (Southeast University, China), Farshad Rostami Ghadi (University College London, UK)

Special Session Chairs: Mingzhe Chen (University of Miami, USA), Yuchen Liu (North Carolina State University, USA), Ye Hu (University of Miami, USA)

Special Session Chairs: Lixia Xiao (Hust University of Science and Technology, China), Zhengyu Song (Beijing Jiaotong University, China), Yulan Gao (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Special Session Chairs: Chuan Heng Foh (University of Surrey, UK), Rongpeng Li (Zhejiang University, China), Gaojie Chen (Sun Yet-sen University, China)

Special Session Organisers: Nir Shlezinger (Ben-Gurion University, Israel), George Alexandropoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Special Session Organisers: Tolga M. Duman (Bilkent University, Turkey), Mohammad Kazemi (Imperial College London, UK)

Special Session Chairs: Prof. Trung Q. Duong (Memorial University, Canada), Prof. Simon L. Cotton (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)

Special Session Chairs: Prof. Ping Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China), Prof. Nan Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China), Dr. Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi (University of Surrey, UK), Dr. Bizhu Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China)

Special Session Organisers: Dr. Mattia Merluzzi and Dr. Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-Leti, Université Grenoble Alpes, France), Prof. Paolo Di Lorenzo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Prof Yi Ma (University of Surrey, UK)

Special Session Organisers: Rodrigo C. de Lamare (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and University of York, UK)
Special Session Chairs: Lukas Landau (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Arumugam Nallanathan (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Special Session Chairs: Dr Yangyishi Zhang (British Telecom, UK), Dr Minglei You (University of Nottingham, UK), Prof. Marco Di Renzo (King’s College London, UK), Prof. Gabriele Gradoni (University of Surrey, UK)