[Tccc] 2nd Workshop on Cooperative Heterogeneous Networks (coHetNets); ----------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 16, 2012

Bennis Mehdi mehdi.bennis
Thu Feb 23 04:04:39 EST 2012


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> CALL FOR PAPERS
> 2nd Workshop on Cooperative Heterogeneous Networks (coHetNets)
> July 30 - August 2, 2012, Munich, Germany
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> https://sites.google.com/site/cohetnet2012/
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> Collocated with:
> International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN 2012)
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> 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.
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> Main Topics:
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> 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
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> - 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.
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> 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.
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> IMPORTANT DATES
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> PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 16, 2012
> Accept notification:   April 25, 2012
> Camera Ready: May 10, 2012
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> The organizing committee:
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> Lorenzo Galati Giordano (Azcom Technology, Italy)
> Mehdi Bennis (University of Oulu, Finland)
> Alvaro Valcarce (TriaGnoSys, Germany)
> Ana Galindo-Serrano (CTTC, Spain)
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