CALL FOR PAPERS:

IEEE CogNet 2008 Workshop 'Towards Cognition in Wireless Networks'

(This is the second workshop after a very successful one at ICC-2007)

Sponsored by IEEE ComSoc Technical Sub-committee on Cognitive Networks

(http://ieee-cognet.org)

Important Dates: Full papers due: 20 December 2007, 11:59 PM EDT (EDAS time) Acceptance notification: 31 January 2008 Camera ready version: 28 February 2008

Scope of the Workshop

Recently we have been witnessing an unbounded growth in communication technology; in particular, wireless devices have been proliferating. There is a serious demand for spectrum to support the communication needs of all these devices. At the same time, many researchers are developing methodologies to sieve the unused spectrum.

There are already many solutions proposed under the 'Cognitive Radio' (CR) umbrella that address this issue. The efforts by IEEE 1900 Working Group and various researchers are blazing a trail in the direction of intelligently using the spectrum available locally for communication needs, making Cognitive Radio Networking (CRN) one of the promising candidates for future communication. They are usually in terms of architecture, sensing, optimization, resource allocation, cross layer issues, etc. However, an end user requires a system that is capable of intelligently finding and handling the available frequency band without any compromise on the QoS. Thus there is a need for the community to look at the whole issue holistically such that these solutions, results and proposals can lead to the rapid deployment of Cognitive Radio.

The need is to bring together all the efforts resulting in a cohesive approach. This workshop will enable such a platform. We select, from the submissions, a small set of papers discussing novel ideas that should not only analyze the issues in a CRN but also incorporate a clear direction towards the implementation of the CRN systems. This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners and the early proponents of CR. This workshop will be planned so as to allow more interactions amongst the participants rather than a conference would allow.

CRW paradigm has been trying also to gain industrial relevance through the Cognitive Radio work done especially in the USA. The workshop aims to bring in together both long-term academic and shorter term industrial viewpoints.

Topics of Interest * Architectures for Hardware and Software defined CR * Regulatory policies for non-centralized spectrum management * Enforcement of policies for CR devices * Pricing and billing for CR devices * Authorization and authentication of CR devices * Novel Dynamic/Opportunistic Spectrum Access techniques * MAC and Network layer management in CR context * Cross-layer optimization of CRWN (Cognitive Radio Wireless Networks) * End-to-End modeling of CRWN * Security of CRWN * Applications of CR, i.e., CR for Personal Area Networks * Spectrum Sensing and Quality of Detection * Signal Processing for CRWN * Game Theoretical Analysis of CRWN * Error correction and coding for CR * Testbeds, Experiences of CR implementations

Organizing Committee * Ignas Niemegeers (General Chairperson), Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands * Joseph Evans (Vice General Chairperson), University of Kansas, USA * R. Venkatesha Prasad (TPC Chairperson), Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands * Petri Mahonen (TPC Vice-Chairperson), RWTH Aachen, Germany * Przemysław Pawełczak (Posters and Demos Chairperson), Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands * Sai Shankar (Publicity Chairperson), Qualcomm, USA

Technical Program Committee Lars Berlemann, Swisscom Innovations, Switzerland Milind Buddhikot, Lucent Technologies, USA Stephen Berger, TEM Consulting, USA Soodesh Buljore, Motorola Labs, Paris, France R. Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA John Chapin, Vanu, Inc., USA Xin Chunsheng, Norfolk State University, USA Luiz DaSilva, Virginia Tech, USA Sudhir Dixit, Nokia Research Center, USA Linda Doyle, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Joseph B. Evans, University of Kansas, USA Hugo de Graaf, Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile Communications, the Netherlands Sonia Hemstra de Groot, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands K.V.S Hari, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Ramin Hekmat, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Fokke W. Hoeksema, University of Twente, the Netherlands James Hoffmeyer, Western Telecom Consultants, USA Gerard Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Friedrich Jondral, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany Bill Krenik, Texas Instruments, USA Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA Xin Liu, University of California, Davis, USA Liangping Ma, Argon ST, Inc., USA Petri Mahonen, RWTH Aachen, Germany Michael Marcus, Marcus Spectrum Solutions, USA Stefan Mangold, Swisscom Innovations, Switzerland R. Muralishankar, PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India Marcus Muck, Motorola Labs, Paris, France Joseph Mitola, MITRE, USA Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Keith Nolan, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Przemysław Pawełczak http://www.wmc.ewi.tudelft.nl/~przemyslawp , Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Neeli Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark R. Venkatesha Prasad http://www.wmc.ewi.tudelft.nl/~vprasad , Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Sofie Pollin, University of California, Berkeley, USA Jeff Reed, Virginia Tech, USA Tom Rondeau, Virginia Tech, USA H.N. Shankar, PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India Sai Shankar, Qualcomm, Inc., USA K.P. Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Chien-Chung Shen, University of Delaware, USA John Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK Sriram Vishwanath, University of Texas at Austin, USA Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Alexander Wyglinski, University of Kansas, USA Honggang Zhang, Create-Net, Italy Qing Zhao, University of California, Davis, USA Heather Zheng, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Italy

Contact Information R Venkatesha Prasad Delft University of Technology Wireless and Mobile Communications Group Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, the Netherlands Phone: +31 (0)15 27 87372 Fax: +31 (0)15 27 81774 E-mail: vprasad@ewi.tudelft.nl, p.pawelczak@ewi.tudelft.nl WWW: www.ieee-cognets.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc