VTC2016-Spring in Nanjing: Workshops

VTC2016-Spring 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.

All workshops will be held on Sunday, 15 May 2016.

Early registration ends: 18 April 2016
Hotel registration ends: 15 April 2016

W1: 5th International Workshop on High Mobility Wireless Communications (HMWC) 2016
13:00 – 17:30, Room: Wanda

W2: 2nd International Workshop on Wireless Communications for High Speed Railways (HSRCom2016)
13:00 – 17:30, Room: Liu He

W3: International Workshop on Connecting All Things for Enabling Smart Cities (CONTEST)
13:00 – 17:30, Room: Jian Kang + Ye Cheng

W3: International Workshop on Connecting All Things for Enabling Smart Cities (CONTEST)

Organized by Hongjian Sun, University of Durham, UK

Time: 13:00 – 17:30
Room: Jian Kang + Ye Cheng

Abstract: As a key initiative for promoting the quality of living and resource efficient economy, the smart city concept has attracted much attention in both academia and industry. Information and communication technologies (ICT), particularly advanced communication techniques, play a critical role in facilitating intelligent collection and utilization of heterogeneous data from deployed equipment throughout cities. The major challenges in this area have included: low energy consumption requirement, limited radio frequency bandwidth, low-latency requirement and cost-effective requirement. To address these challenges, it is of vital importance to sustainably develop a set of new concepts and theories for improving the energy efficiency, the spectral efficiency and the network design, such as cognitive radio, interference alignment, energy harvesting communications and ultra-dense network technologies. This workshop aims to facilitate this sustained effort and enhance international collaborations by disseminating cutting-edge research results. Participants will be able to share perspectives and newest research findings, and further identify collaboration opportunities in the emerging research areas of smart cities.

Topics

Green cities and smart cities
5G oriented smart cities
Big data and cloud computing in smart cities
Internet of things in smart cities
Cognitive radio in smart cities
Spectrum sensing and spectrum sharing
Ultra-dense network
Interference management and alignment
Energy-efficiency and spectral-efficiency
Energy harvesting technologies and communications
Wireless power and information transfer
Smart grid communications
Green communications and computing
Novel network architecture design
Resource-efficient cross-layer optimization
Cooperative communications
Antennas design and channel modelling
Duplexing methods
Machine-to-machine communications
Safety, security, and privacy for smart Cities
Intelligent transportation systems

Workshop home: https://www.dur.ac.uk/ecs/smart.grid/contest/

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W4: Second International Workshop on Advances in Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (AINIS 2016)
8:30 – 12:00, Room: VIP

W4: Second International Workshop on Advances in Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (AINIS 2016)

Organized by Prof. Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China

Time: 8:30 – 12:00
Room: VIP

Abstract: With the development of wireless communication technologies, e.g., wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, large scale industrial plants slowly get the opportunities to adapt their advantages. Traditional industrial fieldbus can be replaced by wireless networks, which give more flexibility with lower cost and risk of single point of failure. Thousands of industrial equipment can also be monitored by using wireless sensors to detect their health status and even diagnose the type/location of fault based on extracted features. We see a huge potential of applying wireless technologies and artificial intelligences to make the existing large scale industrial plants smarter. We also see a huge amount of effort should be made to realize this beautiful computing vision. Thus, in this workshop, we are interested in exploring recent emerging technologies and research developments on industrial networks and intelligent systems to advance the step towards the smarter plants in conjugation with this semi-annual flagship conference of IEEE VTS.

Topics

State-of-the-art technologies in industrial networks and intelligent systems
Wireless industrial networks development
Industrial wireless sensor networks and its applications
Large scale industrial plants monitoring and security
Automated manufacturing systems
Design of intelligent industrial systems
Computational intelligence in automation
Opportunistic networks in the industry
Security of wireless industrial networks
Fault diagnosis on large scale industrial equipment
Intelligent energy harvesting technologies for industrial networks
Cloud computing for intelligent industrial processing management
Big data analysis and processing in various industries and services
Intelligent middleware for industrial networks and systems integration
Low emission energy and efficient resources use for a sustainable city
Hardware and software design and development for intelligent systems
Simulation and testbed of current industrial networks and intelligent systems
Applications of intelligent systems in smart cities and various industries

Workshop home: http://www.iswsnlab.cn/AINIS2016/

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CANCELLED W5: Second Workshop on Mobile and Context Aware Services (MOCS2016)

W6: FANTASTIC-5G International Workshop on 5G New Air Interface
13:00 – 17:30, Room: VIP

W6: FANTASTIC-5G International Workshop on 5G New Air Interface

Organized by Frank Schaich (ALCATEL-LUCENT, Germany), Berna Sayrac (ORANGE, France), Martin Schubert (HUAWEI, Germany), Gerhard Wunder (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany), Hao Lin (ORANGE, France), Klaus Pederson (Nokia Networks, Denmark) and Musbah Shaat (CTTC, Spain)

Time: 13:00 – 17:30
Room: VIP

Abstract: The next generation (5G) cellular technology is expected to arrive in 2020. There are four trends indicating the need for a new generation of cellular technology including new air interface:

The demand for wireless data is predicted to increase significantly, resulting in 1000x higher mobile data volumes and 10-100x higher end user data rates.
The number of connected devices is predicted to increase by a factor of 10-100, which means that up to 300,000 devices need to be served per access point.
Wireless connectivity will be applied to new use cases that require very reliable connections and mission-critical communication, such as vehicle-to-vehicle coordination, critical control of the power grid, etc.
Remote presence and tactile Internet that impose stringent latency constraints on the overall connection, including the wireless part of it. Forecasts imply that the latency should be decreased for a factor of 5 in order to enable such services.

The air interfaces for 2G, 3G, and 4G were all designed for specific use cases (limited only to voice and data communications) with a certain number of limited KPIs in mind (throughput, capacity, dropped/blocked call rates, etc.). However, as outlined above, 5G requires the support of a much broader class of services and consequently a very diverse family of devices and traffic characteristics. The scope of the workshop is to contribute to the design of a new 5G air interface taking specifically the above application constraints into account. An important subject of the workshop is the feasibility of a single golden air interface able to support these requirements in a highly flexible manner.

Topics

New Air Interface solutions on PHY/MAC layer with respect to:
Unified frame structure concepts
Gigabit wireless connectivity
Enabling scalable MTC for massive machine-type traffic
Ensuring reliability in mission-critical communication and V2V coordination
Transmission with very low delay
Advanced waveform design such as UFMC, FBMC or any other competing approach including MIMO
Advanced signal processing solutions such as compressed sensing for scalable MTC
Low-complex massive MIMO solutions (TDD/FDD, pilot contamination, antenna correlations etc)
Control signaling architecture for support of small cell architecture
Interference management and co-channel interference mitigation
Control signaling architecture for support of heterogeneous networks
Advances in synchronization and channel estimation & equalization for multicarrier waveforms and wideband single-carrier transmission
Peak to average power ratio (PAPR) reduction techniques, efficient techniques for out-of-band radiation reduction
Relaying and range extension techniques
New coding solutions for small resource blocks
Cross-layer aspects such as coded random access for contention-based access vs scheduled access
Regulatory and standardization aspects

Workshop home: http://workshop2016.fantastic5g.com/

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CANCELLED W7: mmWave Massive MIMO Communication for 5G

W8: First IEEE International Workshop on User-Centric Networking for 5G and Beyond
8:30 – 12:00, Room: Wanda

W9: International Workshop on Emerging Technology on Massive MIMO System (E-MIMO 2016)
8:30 – 12:00, Room: Liu He

W9: International Workshop on Emerging Technology on Massive MIMO System (E-MIMO 2016)

Organized by Dr. Yingmin Wang (China Academy of Telecommunications Technology, China), Prof. David J. Love, (Purdue University, USA) and Dr. Runhua Chen (China Academy of Telecommunications Technology)

Time: 8:30 – 12:00
Room: Liu He

Abstract: The exponential growth of mobile broadband communication is expected to result in a spectral efficiency requirement in the range of hundreds of bits per second in future 5G wireless systems. To meet such high data rate requirement, massive MIMO with a very large number of active antennas is expected to play a critical role. As opposed to traditional passive MIMO system where antenna components are arranged as a 1-D array that can only steer the beam direction in the horizontal domain, massive MIMO arrays are often designed as a 2-D planar array, which can flexibly adjust the beam waveform and steering angles in both horizontal and vertical domains. This extra degree of beam steering capability, together with increased array gain, opens a new horizon for advanced beamforming technologies in future 5G systems. For future 5G scenarios with data bandwidth of several GHz and carrier frequency in the range of millimeter wave range, massive MIMO system is expected to be even more promising due to the reduced wavelength and antenna array size. It is widely acknowledged that massive MIMO will be an essential driver for satisfying the spectral efficiency requirement of future 5G communication systems, especially in the 6 – 100GHz spectrum. The performance potential of massive MIMO, however, comes at the expense of increased system design challenges including reference signal, channel quantization and feedback, power consumption, as well as hardware complexity. To address these challenges, the goal of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers in both academia and industry to share their views on these issues, discuss recent progress in both theoretical and implementation aspects, and identify promising concepts and technologies that enable successful rollout of massive MIMO as a path toward the future 5G society.

Topics

Theoretical results for massive MIMO
3D MIMO spatial channel model
Multiuser MIMO
Higher-order MIMO
Beamforming
Pilot design for massive MIMO
Quantization and channel feedback for massive MIMO
Codebook design
Scheduling and link adaption
Initial cell search and association
Inter-cell coordination
Enhancement in radio-resource management (RRM)
Massive MIMO for existing cellular frequency bands

Workshop home: http://www.datanggroup.cn/templates/T_Second_sys/conference/EMIMO2016/

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All workshops will be held on Sunday, 15 May 2016.