CrownCom 2010

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CrownCom 2010
Crowncom 2010
Start	June 16 2010
End	June 18 2010
Homepage:	ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications
Location
City:	Cannes
Country:	France
Important dates
Tutorial due:	February 14 2009
Submissions due:	February 14 2009
Notification:	April 11 2009
Camera ready due:	May 2 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPONSORS

Sponsored by ICST Technically co-sponsored by CREATE-NET, U.R.S.I. and SPS IEEE (pending)

SCOPE

Cognitive radio is an emerging technology in wireless access, aimed at vastly improving the way radio spectrum is utilized. The motivation for cognitive radio stems from various measurements of spectrum utilization, which generally show that spectrum is under-utilized. This means that there are many “holes†in the radio spectrum that could be exploited by the secondary users. The secondary user must exploit these spectrum opportunities without causing harmful degradation to the primary system. The research challenges in this area include devising methods for efficient spectrum pooling and sensing, and for interference management and dynamic resource allocation as well as circuits and architectures meeting the often challenging requirements.

The aim of this conference is to bring together original, high-quality contributions that present new techniques, concepts and analyses in the area of cognitive radio algorithms and system design. Specific topics of the conference include: spectrum sensing and pooling, network design and optimization, software-defined and flexible radio architectures, channel modeling, cooperative communications, as well as beamforming and multicast methods.

TOPICS

We seek original and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Track 1: Cognitive access and interference management strategies

Advanced access technologies for spectrum sharing Location-aided optimization of communication networks Cooperative and compressed sensing techniques for spectrum measurements Higher-layer resource allocation and scheduling Interference management, avoidance and alignment Multiple-antenna techniques (beamforming, MIMO, multicast)

Track 2: Fundamental limits

Fundamental limits of cognitive radio Cooperative and coordinated multiuser communications Network, resource, and interference aware coding and decoding Network information theory, channel capacity bounds and network coding Wireless networks with private and common information: physical layer secrecy

Track 3: Network design and optimization

Self-organizing Networks WSN aided cognitive radio Cognitive radio protocols design Cognitive radio pilot channel

Track 4: Architectures and implementation aspects

Software defined radio and flexible radio Real-time implementation and testbeds for cognitive radio Circuits and Architectures for cognitive radio

Track 5: Modeling and performance evaluation tools

Spectral and Spatial aspects of channel modeling Antenna issues in cognitive radio Phy/Mac layers abstraction and modeling Interference modeling System level simulations

PUBLICATION

All accepted submissions will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library (confirmation pending).

SUBMISSION

For submission instructions, please visit the conference website.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission and tutorial proposal deadline: 14 February 2010 Special session proposals deadline: 1 November 2009 Notification of acceptance: 11 April 2010 Camera-ready deadline: 2 May 2010

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs Erik G. Larsson, Linkoping University, Sweden Aawatif Hayar, EURECOM, France

General Vice-Chair Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Spain

Technical Program Chairs Peter Olanders, Ericsson, Sweden Jacques Palicot, Supelec, France

For a complete list of committee and board members, please visit http://www.crowncom2010.org/org_committee.shtml

RELATED CONFERENCES

To find out about other conferences in the field of future networks and communications, please visit http://www.icst.org/sibs/future_networks/