-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > CALL FOR PAPERS > 2nd Workshop on Cooperative Heterogeneous Networks (coHetNets) > July 30 - August 2, 2012, Munich, Germany > > > > https://sites.google.com/site/cohetnet2012/ > > Collocated with: > International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN 2012) > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > The proliferation of new applications, e.g. mobileTV, Internet gamming, > large file transfer, and the development of user terminals, e.g., smart > phones, notebooks, has dramatically increased user traffic and network load. > Moreover, with the number of wireless subscribers expected to triple over > the next five years, it is obvious that current networks will not be able > to satisfy customer demands in the near future. > In order to meet this traffic growth and provide service to their > customers, vendors and operators are working on the development of new > technologies and cellular standards. Within them, heterogeneity in network > deployment has been heralded as the most promising way of increasing both > the coverage and the capacity of future wireless systems. > Thus, it is expected that new elements such as remote radio heads, > picocells, femtocells, and relay nodes will > be deployed overlying macrocells. Therefore, future networks are expected > to be heterogeneous. In this way, networks will be closer to users, and > system capacity will be enhanced through a better spatial spectrum reuse. > However, although HetNets are envisioned to support the increasing data > traffic demand and meet the requirements imposed for the fourth generation > of mobile networks, they also lead to new technical challenges never faced > before. For example, due to the larger number of cells and thus of cell > boundaries, the management of interference becomes an intricate problem. > Since centralized network planning and optimization cannot deal with the > individualistic nature of user-deployed cells, e.g., femtocells, a key to > the success of HetNets is the cooperation between nodes in a decentralized > and distributed manner. > Such cooperation is the only way to ensure a proper network operation. > However, cooperation is not easy to achieve due to different issues and > threats imposed by the network itself, e.g., limited back-haul > capabilities, dynamics of traffic and radio channel, energy consumption, > operational costs, etc. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Main Topics: > > > The target of this workshop is to bring together academic and industrial > researchers to identify and discuss all recent challenges and developments > related to cooperation in HetNets, and establish future research > directions. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the > following: > > - Collaborative techniques in macro/pico/femto-cellular networks. > - Performance modeling and simulation for HetNets. > - Cooperative communications between HetNet nodes. > - Downlink and uplink PHY/MAC design for cooperative HetNets. > - Self-configuration, self-optimization and self-healing in HetNets. > - Cognitive radio techniques in HetNets. > - Mobility management in HetNets. > - Load balancing in HetNets. > - Restricted access versus open-access for low-power HetNet nodes. > - Interference analysis, mitigation and avoidance in HetNets. > - Power saving mechanism in HetNets. > - Distributed radio resource management in cooperative HetNets. > - Cooperative sensing techniques and feedback in HetNets. > - Remote radio headers planning and deployment. > - Expanded region picocells planning and deployment. > - Cooperative relaying in HetNets. > - eICIC techniques in LTE-Advanced HetNets. > - MIMO techniques in HetNets. > - Positioning and tracking systems based on HetNets. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Instructions for Authors: > Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready > format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EDAS ( > http://edas.info/ ) as PDF files (formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper). The > manuscripts should be no longer than 5 pages. One additional page is > permitted if the authors are willing to pay an over-length charge at the > time of publication (manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages). Submitted > papers cannot have been previously published in or be under consideration > for publication in another journal or conference. The workshop Program > Committee reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the > length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. > Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and > affiliation(s) with postal and e-mail address(es). A paper abstract must be > registered on EDAS by the deadline. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > IMPORTANT DATES > > PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 16, 2012 > Accept notification: April 25, 2012 > Camera Ready: May 10, 2012 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The organizing committee: > > Lorenzo Galati Giordano (Azcom Technology, Italy) > Mehdi Bennis (University of Oulu, Finland) > Alvaro Valcarce (TriaGnoSys, Germany) > Ana Galindo-Serrano (CTTC, Spain) > > > _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
