Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: 7 June 2013
Paper Status Notification: 10 June 2013
Final paper submission deadline: 12 June 2013
VTC2013-Fall Workshops provide invaluable opportunities for researchers and industry practitioners to share their state-of-the-art research and development results on specific areas or challenging topics. VTC attendees will be able to attend a workshop for a nominal additional fee. Registration packages for individual workshops without VTC will also be available.
Workshop Overview
- W1: 1st International Workshop on Cloud Technologies and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communication Networks
- W2: 1st International Workshop on Wideband Mobile Cognitive Radio Communications and Networks
W1: 1st International Workshop on Cloud Technologies and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communication Networks
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This workshop explores novel concepts to allow for flexibly centralised radio access networks using cloud-processing based on open IT platforms, to allow for a high quality of experience for mobile access to cloud-processing resources and services, and to allow a future network evolution focused on energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness. In fact, all future innovative network solutions will be conceived and deployed with a long term perspective of sustainability, both in terms of energy consumption of mobile network (and related interoperability with terminals) and cost efficiency of the different deployment and management options. This requires new concepts for the design, operation, and optimization of radio access networks, backhaul networks, operation and management algorithms, and architectural elements, tightly integrating mobile networks and cloud-processing. This workshop will cover technologies across PHY, MAC, and network layer, it covers technologies which translate the cloud-paradigm to the radio access and backhaul network, and analyse all the network evolutions from the energy efficiency perspective. It will study the requirements, constraints, and implications for mobile communication networks, and also potential relationship with the offered service, both, from an academic and industrial point of view.
Topics of Interest- Centralized / decentralized PHY and MAC processing
- Flexible assignment of functionality in mobile networks
- Joint operation and optimization of radio access and backhaul networks for cloud-based mobile networks
- Integration of cloud-services into green heterogeneous wireless networks
- Management of cloud-based/cloud-operated heterogeneous networks providing access to cloud-services
- Energy efficiency vs. QoS vs cost-efficiency trade-offs
- Architectural evolution of mobile networks
- Cost effective deployment strategies for evolved heterogeneous wireless network
- Service and energy management aspects of cloud-based mobile networks
- Storage and computation capability of small cells
- Resource allocation techniques; interference analysis, avoidance, and mitigation for heterogeneous networks
- Testbeds and performance evaluation for cloud-based mobile communication networks
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W2: 1st International Workshop on Wideband Mobile Cognitive Radio Communications and Networks
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The cognitive radio (CR) concept emerged as an evolution of software-defined radio (SDR) whose original purpose was to address the issue of interoperability. As proliferation of mobile wireless services and systems continues, wideband cognitive radio technology has the potential to introduce a new paradigm in the world of wireless communications and networking. Indeed, with the recent declaration of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Report in July 2012 of a 1000 MHz of new spectrum that would be made available for commercial communications, the mobile wireless telecommunications can only be expected to grow further. However, conventional transceiver technologies may not be capable of operating with mobility over such a wideband spectrum. Wideband mobile cognitive radio (WMCR) technology promises multi-mode, multi-band radios with the ability to capitalize on such wide spectrum opportunities. However, realizing full-potential of this technology requires bold rethinking of protocol, hardware and signal processing architectures beyond what is normally assumed in cognitive radios for utilizing idle primary channels.
This workshop organized by a mixed blend of researchers from industry and academia will be aimed at recognizing the broad potential of WMCR and advancing new technological trends.
The program will include three key note presentations, oral presentations and a poster & demonstration session to enable lively discussions. The workshop welcomes submissions from both researchers and practitioners, either closely related to currently standardized, emerging or visionary future systems.
Topics of Interest- Wideband spectrum knowledge acquisition techniques
- Novel solutions for real-time wideband spectrum sensing
- New access techniques for mobile wideband spectrum sharing
- PHY/MAC protocols for mobile wideband cognitive radios
- Mobile multi-mode/multi-band cognitive radios
- Interoperability and wideband cognitive radios
- Novel networking solutions for mobile wideband autonomous cognitive radio operation
- Cooperative sensing and cooperative cognitive communications
- Information theoretic aspects of wideband cognitive radio
- Receiver architecture design facilitating cooperative wideband operation
- Computationally efficient signal processing techniques for wideband cognitive radios
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning methodologies
- SDR and reconfigurable hardware platforms for wideband cognitive radios
- Applications of wideband cognitive radios
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