-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] *Extended to Nov 30* CfP: IEEE VTC2011-Spring Workshop on Broadband Femtocell Technologies Datum: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:11:42 +0000 Von: Frank Zdarsky Frank.Zdarsky@neclab.eu An: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

************************************************** * * * IEEE VTC2011-Spring Workshop on * * Broadband Femtocell Technologies * * * * May 15, 2011, Budapest, Hungary * * * * Call for Papers * * * **************************************************

** Submission Deadline: Nov. 30, 2010 (extended!) ** Notification: Jan. 9, 2011 ** Camera-ready: Feb. 20, 2011

PDF version of this CfP: http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2011spring/BeFemt.pdf

Femtocell technologies accelerate the cost effective provision of ubiquitous broadband services by convergence between fixed and wireless broadband. This full day workshop aims to bring together internationally leading academic and industrial perspectives and thinking to highlight and discuss recent progress in femtocell technologies. The list of promising new developments includes cooperative networks of femtocells and extending the classical concept of indoor femtocells to the outdoors, e.g. as fixed relays in macrocells for enhancing coverage and cell-edge capacity or as mobile femtocells in public transports. Self-organizing techniques for high capacity and optimum use of transmit power whilst minimizing OPEX and simplifying complexity for remote network management are vitally important to cope with expected multiple million femtocells networks.

Scope and Objectives -------------------- In view of current standardization activities in 3GPP and IEEE, changing regulatory landscape and impetus from industrial bodies such as Femto Forum, this workshop focuses on presenting and debating advanced femtocell technologies that have the potential to be considered in future standards such as LTE-A to make the radio access solutions highly efficient with major leapfrog in spectral-efficiency per unit area, while minimizing the transmit power. Specifically, but not exclusively, the workshop proposes to address the following issues: * Optimization of Radio Access * New generation of baseband and radio frequency techniques * Smart interference management * Self-configuration and self-optimization techniques * Network management and architecture * Field Trials / Test-beds / Regulatory issues

Submission Guidelines --------------------- Papers need to be uploaded to the VTC Trackchair (http://vtc11s-workshops.trackchair.com), should be in English, not exceeding 5 double-column pages, and should follow IEEE paper templates. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplorer. They will be presented either orally or by means of a poster.

Organizing Committee -------------------- Chair: Thierry Lestable, SAGEMCOM, France

Co-Chairs: Frank Zdarsky, NEC Europe Matti Latva-aho, University of Oulu

Technical Programme Committee: Alexander Tyrrell, DOCOMO Eurolabs Atta ul Quddus, University of Surrey Carles Anton, CTTC Emilio Calavnese Strinati, CEA-LETI Emilio Mino Diaz, Telefonica Frederic Geheniau, Sagemcom Gunther Auer, DOCOMO Eurolabs Jean Baptise Vezin, Sagemcom Lorenza Giupponi, CTTC Manuel Palmowski, mimoOn Mariano Lopez, TTI Massinissa Lalam, Sagemcom Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu Mirosław Brzozowy, PTC Muhammad Imran, University of Surrey Stefan Brueck, Qualcomm Stefan Kaiser, DOCOMO Eurolabs Stefan Schmid, NEC Europe Sylvie Mayrargue, CEA-LETI Willem Mulder, mimoOn

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