VTC2017-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.
The full paper version of accepted workshop papers will be published in the VTC2017-Spring conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore (conditional on presentation by one of the authors at the workshop).
Submissions have now closed. Papers are being reviewed.
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Extended to 5 February 2017 |
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1 March 2017 |
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1 April 2017 |
Early conference registration ends: 15 May 2017
W1: 6th International Workshop on High Mobility Wireless Communications (HMWC) 2017
Organized by Zhaoyang Zhang
Abstract: The vision of future mobile communication systems is to provide seamless high data rate wireless connections for anyone at anytime and anywhere, including the high mobility scenarios such as high speed trains and highway vehicles. High mobility results in rapidly time-varying channels, which pose significant challenges in the design of practical systems, including channel modeling, fast handover, location update, synchronization, estimation and equalization, anti-Doppler spread techniques, coding and network capacity, capacity-approaching techniques, dedicated network architectures, distributed antenna techniques and etc. To deal with these challenges, the 6th international workshop on High Mobility Wireless Communications (HMWC) aims at fostering fruitful interactions among interested communication engineers, information theorists and system designers from all over the world, building successful collaborations and bridging the gap between theory and practice.
Topics
- Rapidly time-varying channel modeling, estimation and equalization
- Fast synchronization
- Doppler shift estimation & compensation
- Doppler diversity and anti-Doppler techniques
- Efficient modulation and detection techniques employed in high speed vehicles
- Fast power control
- Fast handover and group handover
- Fast location update
- Highly dynamic radio resource allocation
- Theoretical performance limits of HMWC systems
- Coding and network capacity for HMWC systems
- Interference utilization and capacity approaching techniques
- Multiple access schemes for very high speed radio systems
- Relay, distributive multi-antenna and cooperative techniques for HMWC systems
- High-speed vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) radio systems
- Dedicated high speed radio network architectures
Workshop home: https://sites.google.com/site/hmwc2017/home
Submit a paper: https://vtc2017s-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1585
W2: 2nd International Workshop on Connecting All Things for Enabling Smart Cities (CONTEST)
Organized by Hongjian Sun
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.
This workshop aims to address these challenges and enhance international collaborations by disseminating cutting-edge research results.
Topics
- Green communications and networks
- Electric vehicles, vehicular electronics
- Intelligent transportation
- Vehicular communication networks
- Positioning, localization and navigation
- Green computing
- Cognitive radio and spectrum management
- Machine-to-machine communications
- Heterogeneous networks
- Energy harvesting technologies and communications
- Antennas design and propagation
- Safety, security, and privacy for smart cities
- Internet of things platform and theory
- Ultra-dense network
- Interference management and alignment
- Energy-efficiency
- Wireless power and information transfer
- Smart grid communications
- Novel network architecture design
- Wireless networks and security
- Future trends and emerging technologies
- Resource-efficient cross-layer optimization
- Cooperative communications
- Duplexing methods
Workshop home: https://www.dur.ac.uk/ecs/smart.grid/contest2/
Submit a paper: https://vtc2017s-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1581
W3: 2nd International Workshop on Research Advancements in Future Networking Technologies (RAFNET 2017)
Organized by Syed Hassan Ahmed, Waleed Ejaz, Safdar H. Bouk, Tanveer Zia and Danda B. Rawat
Call for Papers
Abstract: Recently, a lot of research efforts have been made from both academia and industry side to promote various new and emerging network paradigms. The reason is straight that during the past decade, it has been realized that the current internet architecture was originally designed for end-to-end host centric communications. However, the actual focal of communications is the content itself. Hence, we have witnessed new architectures such as an Information Centric Network (ICN) with various extensions like Content-Centric Network (CCN), Named Data Network (NDN), Data-Oriented Network Architecture, and so on.
On the other hand, enormous efforts in cellular networks have been made for improving the user experience, and in result today we are able to use LTE-A and so on. In this context, the upcoming 5G networking architectures, whose ongoing research is focused on the networking mechanisms in regards to the massive increase in the number of connected devices, bandwidth requirements, reduced latency, and the deployment of supporting operational mechanisms such as network virtualization, cloud-based deployments, mobile edge computing, and storage and new utilization scenarios. Moreover, these all new technologies are being applied in other networking domains as well, including VANETs, Smart Grid, Smart Cities, Internet of Things, Big Data, and so on. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, academics, individuals working on selected areas of future internet architectures along with 5G implications and share their new ideas, latest findings and results
Topics
- Future Internet in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Future Internet in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
- Future Internet in Internet of Things
- Future Internet in Smart Grid
- Future Internet in Machine to Machine
- Future Internet in Big Data
- Future Internet and 5G architectural designs
- 5G advancements in VANETs
- Interest/Data Forwarding in Content Centric Networks
- Interest/Data Forwarding in Named Data Networks
- Analysis of Content-Centric Networking in current network paradigms
- Analysis of Named Data Networking in current network paradigms
- Transport layer issues in Future Internet architectures
- Real-time Test Beds and experimental Results
- Cellular Networking and its emergence with Future Internet
- Multimedia Applications and Feasibility with Future Internet architectures
- Smart and Wireless Cities and Future Internet cohesion
Workshop home: http://rafnetworkshop.wixsite.com/2017
Submit a paper: https://vtc2017s-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1582
W4: Technology Trials and Proof-of-Concept Activities for 5G and Beyond (TPoC5G)
Organized by Gerhard Bauch and Hidekazu Murata
Abstract: The 5th generation (5G) cellular communication systems are to be launched in a couple of years. In the 5G standardization, key enabling technologies such as massive MIMO, beamforming, access technology and a new frame design are to be specified. Meanwhile, the research and development of those key technologies and their technology trials are being carried out in many research entities. On the other hand, new technology concepts for beyond 5G (B5G) have been also investigated. In these regards, this workshop is aiming to provide the opportunity to present the latest trials and trial results for 5G and the proof-of-concept activities for B5G. Through the discussion at the workshop, it is also expected to promote the exchange of new ideas among researchers.
Topics
- 5G technology trials
- Validation of technology concepts for the 5G systems (e.g. Massive MIMO, Beamforming, MU-MIMO, Distributed Cells)
- Hardware implementation issues of the 5G systems in SFH band or millimeter wave band
- Proof-of-concept activities for the B5G systems
- Experimental investigation of new radio waveforms (e.g. Filtered OFDM, GFDM, UFMC)
- Experimental investigation of full duplex
Workshop home: http://www.ieice.org/cs/rcs/tpoc5g/
Submit a paper: https://vtc2017s-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1583
W5: Wireless Access Technologies and Architectures for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications
Organized by Branka Vucetic, Yonghui Li, Phee Yeoh, and Wibowo Hardjawana
Abstract: The Internet-of-Things (IoT) will revolutionize industry and our lives. Future IoT networks will need to provide low latency and high reliability communications for multiple vertical industries including transport, healthcare, manufacturing, agriculture and energy. Wireless technologies will be the most cost-effective and scalable solution for enabling the intensive acquisition of information from fixed and mobile IoT devices. However, many open questions still need to be addressed to overcome fundamental constraints of radio spectrum, power, and transmission distance to support secure wide area coverage and ultra-reliable low latency communications for IoT devices. Furthermore, it is expected that each vertical industry will need to share a common IoT platform and there are formidable challenges in unifying existing networks. These include massive computational complexity and transmission latency for data processing and management of massive number of terminals from multiple vertical industries, which are not adequately addressed in the latest 5G wireless network standard. As such, there is a need to redesign wireless access technologies and architectures with reconfigurable software-defined networks to facilitate a flexible and highly-scalable common IoT platform.
This workshop is designed to bring together academic and industrial researchers in an effort to identify and discuss the major technical challenges and recent breakthroughs related to wireless IoT networks.
Topics
- IoT applications for Smart City and Smart Industry
- Wireless and network security
- Dynamic spectrum and massive access management
- Cooperative communications and interference mitigation
- Cognitive radio technology
- IoT network economics and pricing
- IoT architectures, protocols, and resource allocation algorithms for multiple vertical industries
- Wireless network domain technologies for vertical industries (LTE/LTE-A, WSN, VANET, RFID, WiFi, Zigbee)
- Wireless network architectures for vertical industries (Virtualisation, Cloud radio access networks)
- Device-to-device (D2D), Machine-to-Machine (M2M), and Machine-to-Cloud (M2C) communications
- Energy-Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer
- Performance evaluation of wireless IoT technologies
- Software-based reconfigurable wireless networks
- IoT Prototyping and experimental results
Workshop home: http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/VTC-IoT-workshop/call-for-papers
Submit a paper: https://vtc2017s-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1586
W6: Positioning Solutions for Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems
Organized by Allison Kealy and Guenther Retscher
Abstract: Cooperative intelligent transportation systems (CITS) have emerged in response to the major transportation challenges for society today. At the core of all CITS is the positioning and communications technologies used to connect people, vehicles, infrastructure etc. As CITS evolve and become increasingly safety-liability critical, it is essential that the required performance levels for positioning (accuracy, integrity and availability) is assured.
This workshop aims to connect CITS capabilities and requirements with the domain of positioning and navigation technologies. It focuses on the positioning technologies and infrastructure that will be necessary to deliver the fully capabilities of future CITS. It presents the current landscape for positioning based on signals from Global Satellite Navigation Systems (GNSS) such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) and describes developments over the next decade which will add satellite constellations from Europe, China, India and Japan. It will expose the weaknesses of using satellite positioning alone for CITS and propose techniques that combine both GNSS and non-GNSS signals, to meet the stringent requirements for safety critical applications. Going beyond the signals, invited presentations followed by a panel of experts will identify and critically evaluate what the core components of a positioning infrastructure for CITS should comprise.
Topics
- Positioning systems for CITS
- Core components of CITS positioning infrastructures
- Multi-constellation Global Navigation Satellite Systems
- Interference of GNSS signals
- Augmentation of GNSS
- Multi-sensor positioning and navigation
- Cooperative positioning solutions
- Innovative applications and services
Workshop home: http://geo.tuwien.ac.at/ps4cits/
Submit a paper: https://vtc2017s-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1587
W7: Workshop on Emerging Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Techniques for 5G
Organized by General Chairs H. Vincent Poor and Robert Schober
Program Chairs: Mojtaba Vaezi, Wonjae Shin, Zhiguo Ding and Jungwoo Lee
Call for Papers
Abstract: The data traffic over the cellular network is projected to continue growing explosively in the coming years in view of the proliferation of smartphones and tablets and the advent of smart terminals and emerging applications, e.g. machine-type communications (MTC). As such, an increasingly large amount of research in academia, industry, and standardization bodies such as 3GPP is now dedicated to future 5G technologies.
Future radio access networks are expected to have the capability to support: 1) massive connectivity and dramatically higher capacity; 2) diverse sets of users and applications with radically different requirements in terms of delay, bandwidth, etc.; and 3) flexible and efficient use of all available resources, such as spectrum and time. The above requirements, especially the need for massive connectivity and diverging latency, challenge the current cellular networks in many ways including the multiple access (MA) methods. As a result, significant efforts have been recently made to design more spectrally and energy efficient MA schemes for future wireless networks. A common feature of these newly designed MA schemes is the avoidance of the use of conventional orthogonal schemes, such as time division multiple access (TDMA) and frequency division multiple access (FDMA). Instead, users are encouraged to share their bandwidth resources opportunistically according to their diverse channel conditions or quality of service requirements, where the superior spectral efficiency of these non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) schemes has been demonstrated by recent theoretical and experimental studies.
This workshop will provide a forum for brainstorming on the emerging NOMA techniques for 5G cellular networks. We aim to bring together the leading researchers in the field, both from academia and industry, to share their recent findings and their views on what access methods best suit the diverse requirements of next generation networks."
Topics
- Non-orthogonal multiple access via power domain
- Advanced coding and modulation for NOMA
- MIMO techniques for NOMA
- Multi-cell/massive MIMO NOMA
- Security concerns for NOMA
- Cross-layer design and optimization of NOMA
- Hardware implementation issues in NOMA
- Non-orthogonal multiple access via code domain
- Sparse code multiple access (SCMA)
- Multi-user shared access (MUSA)
- Lattice partition multiple access (LPMA)
- Interleave division multiple access (IDMA)
- Filtered and filter bank based multi-carrier
- Other multiple access protocols for
- Massive MTC applications
- Massive internet-of-things (IoT)
- Vehicle-to-X (V2X) and satellite networks
- Coexistence of NOMA and OFDMA
Workshop home: https://sites.google.com/site/vtc17ma/
Submit a paper: https://vtc2017s-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1584
W8: International Workshop on Quantum Communications for Future Networks (QCFN) 2017
Organized by Robert Malaney
Abstract: The Quantum Communications for Future Networks (QCFN’17) workshop is dedicated to explore the new opportunities for application of communications theory and technologies to quantum technology. Over the last decade, a variety of physical quantum computing devices has been demonstrated and used for fundamental experiments in laboratories. Results confirm the feasibility of practical applications in quantum communications and quantum information processing related fields. Some specific applications, such as quantum key distribution are already close to the market. Come and join this workshop to connect with people from academia and industry to discuss and progress all the theory, technology and applications and to exchange ideas conceived for progressing the engineering and development of this exciting new field.
Topics
- Quantum communications
- RF technology, components and control
- Coding theory and information theory
- Photonic communications technology
- Interconnection, complexity theory and error correction
- RF based programming and algorithms
- Modeling, simulation and systems architecture
- Optimized algorithms and applications
- Quantum control
- Experimental results
- Signal processing
Submit a paper: https://vtc2017s-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1601