[Tccc] CFP: IEEE Wireless Comm. SI on Enhancing Spectral Efficiency for LTE-Advanced and Beyond Cellular Networks

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| Call for Papers |
| IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine |

| Special Issue on                                 |

| Enhancing Spectral Efficiency for LTE-Advanced and Beyond Cellular Networks |

To meet rapidly growing demands for high data-rate wireless broadband services, 
a significant effort has been made towards the development of 
Long-Term-Evolution (LTE)-advanced and beyond cellular networks, which are 
expected to offer considerably higher data rates than the existing 3rd 
generation (3G) networks. In recent years, a number of wireless technologies 
such as massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) and small cell solution 
have been proposed and/or developed in order to enhance spectral efficiency of 
cellular networks. In massive MIMO systems, a large number of transmit antennas 
(e.g., hundreds of antennas) are deployed at base station and very high 
spectral-efficiency can be achieved by exploiting degrees of freedom in spatial 
domain. Recent theoretical and experimental findings show that massive MIMO has 
shown great potential to dramatically improve data rates and link reliability, 
and power savings for cellular networks. Another attractive technology is sm!
all cell solution, in which low-cost BSs are densely deployed and the size of a 
cell is substantially reduced. Small cell solution can greatly improve 
frequency-reuse ratios in geographical domain and thus is able to enhance 
spectral-efficiency of cellular networks. Several other technologies such as 
Device-to-Device (D2D) and cognitive radio have emerged as promising solutions 
to improve spectral-efficiency for cellular networks in various scenarios. Each 
of these solutions has its advantages and challenges, which need to be 
thoroughly addressed. Equally important, the issue of how these solutions can 
be effectively integrated into cellular networks also needs to be carefully 
tackled. Other possible solutions along with related technical challenges also 
need to be further investigated. 

Scope
The goal of this special issue is to provide a collection of survey/tutorial 
content focusing on the recent advances in the development of 
spectral-efficient technologies for LTE-Advanced and beyond cellular networks. 
We solicit papers of both academic and industrial contributions, covering 
various topics of interest that include, but not limited to the following: 
Channel modeling and characterization of large-scale multi-antenna systems 

Low-complexity beamforming and precoding schemes for massive MIMO systems 


Efficient signal processing algorithms for massive MIMO systems 

Inter-cell interference mitigation for multi-cell massive MIMO systems 

Load-balance and handover between macro cells and small cells 

Interference management for spectral efficiency improvement for small cells 

Cooperation among small cells and small cell backhaul 

D2D radio resource and link management, interference coordination, and access 
scheduling 

Beamforming and power allocation for multi-user MIMO cognitive radio networks 

Spectrum sharing techniques for cognitive radio networks 

Interactions and impacts among different spectral-efficient technologies (e.g. 
massive MIMO, small sells, D2D communications, cognitive radio) 

Submissions Guideline
For manuscript preparation and submission, please follow the guidelines in the 
Author Guidelines?and Paper Submission Guidelines?at the IEEE Wireless 
Communications Magazine web page, http://www.comsoc.org/wirelessmag. A paper 
should have no more than 4500 words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and its 
abstract should have no more than 250 words. Any submission that fails to 
comply with the guidelines will be rejected without review. Papers must be 
submitted in PDF format to the Manuscript Central 
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm. 

Schedule
Submissions deadline: July 15, 2013
Author notifications: November 15, 2013
Final manuscripts due: January 15, 2014
Publication date: April, 2014 

Guest Editors
Prof. Shaowei Wang, Nanjing University, China (wan... at nju.edu.cn)
Dr. Yan Xin, Samsung Dallas Technology Labs, USA (yan.... at sta.samsung.com)
Dr. Weiyi Zhang, AT&T Labs Research, USA (maxzh... at research.att.com)
Dr. Chonggang Wang, InterDigital Communications, USA (cgw... at ieee.org)   _______________________________________________
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