[Tccc] [CFP] COST IC1004+iPlan joint Workshop on Small Cell Cooperative Communications, May 2, 2012, Lyon, FRANCE
Guillaume VILLEMAUD
guillaume.villemaud
Mon Jan 9 11:44:24 EST 2012
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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
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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 paper submission template and registration are posted at
/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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