[Tccc] [CFP] DEADLINE APPROACHING - COST IC1004+iPlan joint Workshop on Small Cell Cooperative Communications, May 2, 2012, Lyon, FRANCE

Guillaume VILLEMAUD guillaume.villemaud
Thu Feb 23 04:05:39 EST 2012


*Submission Deadline: Feb 27*

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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*COST IC1004 + iPLAN Joint Workshop on "Small Cell Cooperative 
Communications"*
May, 2, 2012; Lyon, France, http://ic1004-iplan-2012.conf.citi-lab.fr 
<http://ic1004-iplan-2012.conf.citi-lab.fr/>
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/Scope and topics of interest: /
Mobile Internet Traffic today exceeds the total Internet traffic of 10 
years ago. 3GPP Cellular networks have succeeded in offering sufficient 
coverage and capacity up to now, but the exponential current increase in 
mobile data traffic has opened a new challenge: providing high data 
rates in densely populated areas with limited spectrum availability, 
quite insufficient to cover the increasing demand. With radio access 
systems offering performance close to the Shannon limit, the addition of 
more cells in Radio Access Networks, combined with a tigher interference 
control is essential to continue increasing capacity. Small cells, pico- 
and femtocells are playing a key role in the current evolution of 
Cellular Networks, providing improved scalability, automated 
configuration and optimisation, rapid and cost effective deployment, 
efficient use of available backhaul, and high capacity density and 
enhanced user experience.

The European COST Action IC1004 addresses research issues in the field 
of cooperative radio communications to make communications in smart 
environments (SEs) cleaner, safer, and more energy efficient. SEs are 
areas populated by many devices, not only phones or tablets, but also 
machines, sensors, vehicles, connected by wireless networks, resulting 
in a high spatial data density environment to be served by radio access 
technologies. In SEs, small cells will be crucial to reach the mentioned 
objectives of energy and spectrum efficiency and to cope with the future 
data density demand.

The iPlan FP7 project adresses the problem of developing efficient Radio 
Access Network (RAN) Planning and Optimization (P&O) tools:- Research 
and develop fast and accurate radio propagation models that can be used 
for indoor radio network planning and optimisation.
- Investigate various issues arising from the use of femtocells, for 
example, the study of interference between femtocells, between femto and 
outdoor macrocells.
- Investigate how to effectively reduce power usage and radio wave 
pollutions in indoor environment.
- Develop an automatic indoor radio network planning and optimization 
tool suite that will fill the gap in the indoor RAN P&O market.

This workshop is intended to serve as a discussion framework on advances 
on smalls cells technologies, including not only indoor residential 
femtocells but also rural, enterprise or picocells systems.

Topics of interest for the workshop include:

.    Radio propagation simulation tools: indoor, outdoor and hybrids
.    Measurements, trials and demonstrators for small cells
.    Broadband Femtocell Network architectures
.    3GPP LTE HetNets
.    Coexistence between macrocellular and femtocell networks
.    Cooperative femtocell networks
.    Enterprise femtocells
.    Indoor radio propagation models
.    Interference management and coordination: (e)ICIC
.    Interference modelling, analysis, avoidance, and mitigation
.    Mobility support and handover
.    PHY/MAC design for 3G, WiMAX, and LTE small cells systems
.    Power saving and energy efficient mechanisms in small cells
.    Radio network planning tools
.    Regulatory aspects
.    Resource allocation (RRM)
.    Routing algorithms
.    Self-organising femtocell networks
.    Backhaul load reduction, including distributed compression and 
network coding
.    Trade-offs between femtocells, picocells, relaying and DAS systems

*Important Dates:*
.    Submission of papers: *27 February 2012*
.    Notification of acceptance:     30 March 2012
.    Final version of papers ready:     18 April 2012
.    Workshop:                  2 May 2012

/Details on /http://ic1004-iplan-2012.conf.citi-lab.fr 
<http://ic1004-iplan-2012.conf.citi-lab.fr/> or//www.ic1004.org

*Committee*
Workshop Chairs:
Prof. Narcis Cardona, iTEAM, U.P. Valencia, Spain
Prof. Jean-Marie Gorce, INSA-Lyon, France

Steering Committee (alphabetic order):
Prof. Alister Burr, U. of York, UK
Dr. Nikolai Lebedev, Ranplan Ltd, UK
Prof. Christoph Meckenblauer, T.U.Vien, Austria
Prof. Claude Oestges, U.C. Louvain, Belgium
Dr. Guilaume de la Roche, Mindspeed, France
Prof. Silvia Ruiz, U.P.Catalunya, Spain
Prof. Alain Sibille, Telecom ParisTech, France
Prof. Roberto Verdone, CNIT - Univ. Bologna, Italy
Dr. Guillaume Villemaud, INSA Lyon, France
Dr. Joyce Wu, Ranplan Ltd, UK
Prof. Jie Zhang, Univ. of Sheffield, U

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Guillaume VILLEMAUD, PhD
Associate professor - CITI Laboratory
International Exchange Coordinator- Electrical Engineering Department INSA Lyon, bat. Claude Chappe
6 avenue des Arts
69621 Villeurbanne cedex (France)

Tel : (33) 4 72 43 60 67
Fax : (33) 4 72 43 62 27
Email :guillaume.villemaud at insa-lyon.fr




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