About IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications, CAMA

IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications, CAMA (IEEE CAMA)

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The IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications, known everywhere in its field as IEEE CAMA, is not a journal. It is a specialist international conference, sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, devoted to a subject that rarely gets a conference of its own: how antennas and antenna systems are actually measured, and what those measurements make possible. This title is its proceedings — the archival volume published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) after each edition. The proceedings are a recognised serial, with ISSN 2474-1760 for the print record and ISSN 2643-6795 for the online record, linked by the ISSN-L 2474-1760 in the ISSN Portal. Because CAMA is a conference, there is no journal impact factor to quote and no article processing charge to pay; there is a call for papers (for the 2026 edition, a one-page abstract in the first instance), a technical programme built around measurement science, and a community of antenna engineers, metrologists and electromagnetic specialists who return to it year after year.

Overview

Antenna engineering has a problem that most branches of electronics do not: a design that simulates beautifully can still fail in the real world, and the only way to know is to measure it. Radiation patterns, gain, efficiency, polarisation purity, scattering behaviour and radar cross-section are physical facts that have to be established in an anechoic chamber, on a near-field scanner, on an outdoor range, from a drone in flight, or in the uncontrolled environment where the antenna will actually work. CAMA was created as the dedicated forum for that measurement discipline and for the applications that depend on it. The conference's own description, used across recent editions, defines it as an international conference financially sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, providing an interdisciplinary forum for sharing experience and discussing the state of the art in the development of antennas and antenna systems, with measurements in controlled and non-controlled (in-situ) environments at its heart.

That in-situ phrase matters. Classical antenna measurement assumed a controlled range and a cooperative device under test. Modern antennas are embedded in vehicles, aircraft, handsets, satellites, medical devices and infrastructure, and many of the hardest measurement problems now concern systems that cannot be brought into a chamber at all. CAMA's scope has grown accordingly, from near-field and far-field technique and scattering measurement toward radar and radar-cross-section measurement, inverse scattering and imaging, electromagnetic metrology and compatibility, and measurement-driven work for terrestrial and space communications, remote sensing, electronic warfare, unmanned aerial vehicles and e-health. The 2026 edition states its focus explicitly as "Focus on Antenna Systems", and its sponsorship widens accordingly: sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) — the professional association whose entire remit is antenna measurement. When the measurement association itself co-sponsors a conference, that is a fair signal of where the conference sits in its field.

History and editions

CAMA papers were already being published from an Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France edition in November 2014, and the ISSN Portal record for the online proceedings notes that its description is based on the 2015 edition, with the series consulted through the 2019 edition on IEEE Xplore — in other words, an established annual series by the second half of the 2010s, rooted on the French Riviera, home to one of Europe's strongest antenna-measurement research communities. The documented recent sequence then runs: Antibes Juan-les-Pins again from 15 to 17 November 2021; Guangzhou, China, from 14 to 17 December 2022, an edition held online and notable as the first time the conference was held in China, with a keynote by UCLA's distinguished professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii; Genoa, Italy, from 15 to 17 November 2023; and Da Nang, Vietnam, from 9 to 11 October 2024, where the host university reported participants from 20 countries and territories and more than 150 reports across regular and special sessions. The 2026 edition is announced for 21 to 23 October 2026 at a hotel in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, in the Tokyo Bay area.

The published volumes confirm a substantial archival record. The 2022 Guangzhou proceedings ran to 690 pages in one volume (ISBN 978-1-6654-9038-2, IEEE catalogue CFP2299X-POD). The 2023 Genoa proceedings grew to 1,068 pages in two volumes (ISBN 979-8-3503-2305-4, catalogue CFP2399X-POD), published by IEEE with print-on-demand distribution by Curran Associates. The general chairs named for the 2023 edition — Christian Pichot of Université Côte d'Azur and CNRS in France, and Matteo Pastorino and Andrea Randazzo of the University of Genoa — neatly illustrate the conference's European measurement-school roots and its host-university model: each edition is chaired by senior figures from the hosting institution and country, working within the continuing sponsorship of the Antennas and Propagation Society.

Aims and scope

CAMA's aims can be stated in one sentence: to advance how antennas, antenna systems and electromagnetic phenomena are measured, modelled and applied, by bringing the people who build measurement systems together with the people whose applications depend on measurement results. The suggested technical topics published for the 2026 edition give the current, authoritative map of the scope:

• Electromagnetic measurement methods and techniques
• Scattering and diffraction measurements
• Antenna measurements in controlled and non-controlled environments
• Near-field and far-field measurements
• Radar and RCS measurements, processing, quantum radar and information sensing
• Microwave, millimetre-wave and THz systems
• Modelling, simulations and prediction of measurements in complex environments
• Inverse and imaging methods and techniques
• Applications, including electromagnetic metrology and compatibility, radar, terrestrial and space-based communications including wireless communications, sensing, electronic warfare, UAVs, UAS and drones, remote sensing, non-destructive evaluation and testing, industry, medicine and e-health

Earlier editions express the same territory in closely similar terms, adding computational methods for antenna design and sub-millimetre systems. Two features of this scope deserve a prospective author's attention. First, measurement is the organising principle, not a side session: a paper whose contribution is a measurement technique, a measurement uncertainty analysis, a comparison of measurement against simulation, or an application result that stands or falls on measured data is at the centre of this conference, whereas a purely simulated antenna design with no measurement dimension is a weaker fit here than at a general antennas conference. Second, the applications list is genuinely interdisciplinary — the same programme can contain reverberation-chamber efficiency work aimed at 6G devices, UAV-borne near-field measurement of large structures such as radio telescopes, and antenna work for medical sensing — because the common thread is not the application but the measurement problem the application creates.

Publication details

Editorial and organisational information

CAMA has no editor-in-chief and no standing editorial board, because it is a conference. Each edition is led by general chairs from the host institution — the 2023 Genoa edition, as noted, was chaired by Christian Pichot, Matteo Pastorino and Andrea Randazzo — supported by the organising and technical programme committees for that year, under the continuing financial sponsorship of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and, for the 2026 edition, the technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and AMTA. Committee composition therefore changes with each host city, and the authoritative list for any year is that edition's own conference site and programme. This profile names only chairs that are documented for a specific edition, and attributes them to that edition, rather than presenting any individual as a permanent editor of the series — a distinction that matters, because enquiries about a specific year's review process, programme or proceedings should go to that year's organisers.

Indexing and abstracting

CAMA proceedings are IEEE publications delivered through IEEE Xplore, and individual papers carry IEEE DOIs under the CAMA conference code — citations in the journal literature show the pattern clearly, with 2021 and 2023 papers referenced by DOIs of the form 10.1109/CAMA… together with the proceedings' ISSNs 2474-1760 and 2643-6795. The ISSN Portal records also confirm that the series has been partly archived through the keepers network of preservation agencies, which is a useful, if unglamorous, indicator that the record is being preserved as a serial. Researchers who need to demonstrate that a particular CAMA paper appears in a particular indexing service should check that paper's own record in that service, since indexing decisions rest with the services. This profile prints no acceptance rate and no citation metric for CAMA: the conference publishes no verified standing figure of either kind, and inventing one would help nobody.

Metrics — an honest note

There is no impact factor for IEEE CAMA. Journal metrics — impact factor, journal quartile, SCImago journal rank — do not apply to a conference proceedings, and any third-party page that assigns this title a journal-style score is confusing categories, sometimes by mixing the proceedings up with one of IEEE's antenna journals. The legitimate quality signals are specific and checkable: financial sponsorship by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, technical co-sponsorship by AMTA and the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, an annual series documented since the mid-2010s, IEEE publication with registered DOIs, proceedings volumes growing to more than a thousand pages, and a speaker and author community that includes the field's most cited antenna researchers — the 2022 and 2024 editions both featured keynote-level participation by Yahya Rahmat-Samii of UCLA, and the 2024 host reported contributions from 20 countries. Judge a CAMA paper, finally, by its measurement evidence: the facility, the calibration, the uncertainty and the comparison with simulation or theory.

Submission guidance

Submission is to a specific edition, through that edition's conference site, under that edition's call for papers. The 2026 edition's published author information shows the current pattern clearly: the first step is a one-page abstract, with a submission deadline of 19 June 2026 and notification of acceptance on 17 July 2026 for that edition. Authors should treat those dates as belonging to the 2026 edition only — the sequence (a short initial submission in early summer, acceptance notification roughly a month later, and an autumn conference) is the planning guide, while the operative deadlines are always those on the current edition's official pages. As an IEEE conference, CAMA then requires accepted contributions in IEEE proceedings format for the published record, and the final papers appear in IEEE Xplore with DOIs, as the citation record of earlier editions demonstrates.

The Da Nang 2024 edition's structure — regular sessions and special sessions, with more than 150 reports — points to the two practical routes in: a regular submission under the standing topic list, or a contribution to a special session organised around a narrower measurement theme. For most authors the regular route is right. Whichever route you choose, write for this audience. State the measurand and the measurement method in the abstract itself; name the facility or instrument class (anechoic chamber, near-field scanner, reverberation chamber, UAV-borne system, in-situ installation) that produced your results; report frequency range, polarisation and uncertainty in the paper, not just in the slides; and show the comparison — measured against simulated, or one measurement method against another — that justifies the contribution. A CAMA reviewer is, by the nature of the conference, someone who measures things for a living, and unsupported performance claims are the fastest route to rejection. Conversely, a modest but carefully measured result, with its error budget honestly stated, is exactly the kind of paper this conference exists to publish.

How to read and cite CAMA papers

Find papers through IEEE Xplore by conference name and year, or by DOI. A complete citation gives the authors, the paper title, the conference name with year — for example, 2023 IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications (CAMA) — the page range and the DOI; repository records for CAMA papers helpfully print both ISSNs (2474-1760 and e-ISSN 2643-6795) alongside the edition ISBN. For library requests, quote the edition ISBN for the year's volume (print-on-demand copies are distributed by Curran Associates) and the series ISSN for the proceedings as a whole. If your institution lacks IEEE Xplore access, check the authors' university repository: accepted manuscripts of CAMA papers do appear in institutional archives, as the White Rose repository record for a 2023 CAMA paper illustrates.

CAMA in the wider field

CAMA's place among neighbouring venues explains why it exists separately at all. The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society's journal and letters publications are the home of finished archival antenna research, and the society's large general symposia cover the whole of antennas and propagation, in which measurement is one strand among many. The Antenna Measurement Techniques Association serves the measurement profession directly through its own meetings and community. CAMA sits deliberately across those boundaries: an IEEE conference, inside the Antennas and Propagation Society's portfolio, whose entire programme is organised around measurement and its applications, and which the measurement association itself has chosen to co-sponsor. For a researcher whose contribution is a better way to measure — a new near-field sampling strategy, a reverberation-chamber method for next-generation wireless devices, a drone-borne technique for antennas too large or too remote for a conventional range, an uncertainty analysis that changes how a standard measurement should be read — CAMA offers something a general conference cannot: a room in which every referee, session chair and audience member works on measurement, and in which the questions after a talk will be about calibration, repeatability and error budgets rather than about whether measurement matters.

That specialisation also shapes how the proceedings should be read. CAMA papers are frequently the first published record of a measurement capability — a facility, a method, a comparison campaign — that later journal papers in antennas, microwaves, radar and wireless communications then rely on and cite. A literature search on a measurement question that stops at the journals will therefore miss part of the primary record. Searching IEEE Xplore for the CAMA series, using the ISSNs given in this profile to isolate it, is the more complete approach.

Frequently asked questions

Is IEEE CAMA a journal?

No. CAMA is an annual IEEE conference on antenna measurements and applications, sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, and this title is its proceedings. The ISSNs identify the proceedings as a serial; they do not make it a journal.

What are the ISSNs of the CAMA proceedings?

2474-1760 for print and 2643-6795 online, with ISSN-L 2474-1760, as recorded in the ISSN Portal. Title variants recorded there include IEEE CAMA and IEEE International Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications.

What does CAMA cover?

Antenna and electromagnetic measurement in all its forms — near-field and far-field technique, scattering and RCS measurement, measurements in controlled and in-situ environments — plus the modelling, imaging and application work that depends on measurement, from radar and space communications to UAVs, remote sensing and e-health. The 2026 edition focuses on antenna systems.

Where and when is CAMA held?

Annually, usually in the autumn, in rotating host cities. Documented editions include Antibes Juan-les-Pins (2014 and 2021), Guangzhou (2022, held online), Genoa (2023) and Da Nang (2024); the 2026 edition is announced for 21–23 October 2026 in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.

How do I submit?

To the current edition, through its official site. For 2026, the published pattern is a one-page abstract by 19 June 2026, with acceptance notification on 17 July 2026. Always confirm the current edition's own dates and format requirements rather than relying on earlier years.

Does CAMA have an impact factor or charge an APC?

Neither. Impact factors are journal metrics and do not apply to conference proceedings, and there is no journal-style article processing charge; participation costs are a matter for each edition's call for papers.

Who sponsors CAMA?

The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society is the financial sponsor. The 2026 edition is also technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA).

Where can I read CAMA papers?

Primarily in IEEE Xplore, where the proceedings are published with DOIs. Print-on-demand volumes are distributed by Curran Associates, and some accepted manuscripts are openly available from authors' university repositories.

Sources consulted for this profile are listed in the accompanying sources file. Information that could not be verified from official publisher, society, ISSN Portal or programme sources — including any acceptance rate or citation metric — has been left out rather than estimated.