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Multiple antenna (also known as MIMO: multiple input and multiple output) has been widely accepted as a promising scheme to improve the spectrum efficiency of mobile communication systems. MIMO is supported by various international standards such as long term evolution (LTE), WiMAX and International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)-Advanced. Due to the limited size of hand-held mobile stations (MSs), however, no more than two antennas can usually be fit per MS. As a result, implementing conventional MIMO with MSs in practice becomes challenging. On the other hand, multiple single-antenna MSs can be grouped to create a virtual MIMO (VMIMO) system. The system performance can be greatly enhanced by VMIMO because the size of the MIMO channel increases significantly, resulting in more degrees of freedom and improved spatial diversity gain. Moreover, interesting research areas and various challenges arise in VMIMO systems to solve problems that do not appear in MIMO systems. For example, given a large number of MSs and limited processing capability of base stations, a proper subset of the MSs must be chosen to form the VMIMO system; this is also known as user grouping. One of the considerations when carrying out user grouping is fairness. Moreover, in existing cellular systems, information exchange between MSs is difficult. To manage spatial interference at each MS, powerful precoding techniques are needed at base stations, which are crucial to the performance of VMIMO. On the other hand, considering wireless ad-hoc networks and future cellular systems, collaboration among MSs could be possible. As such, it is also interesting to investigate VMIMO with cooperating terminals and security issues arising as a consequence of cooperation. Therefore, VMIMO is a pressing research topic that has a wide range of applications in wireless communication systems, including both cellular and wireless ad hoc networks. It is timely and important to develop enabling techniques for VMIMO. The goal of this issue is to bring together the most updated research contributions in this area and contribute in identifying issues that need to be addressed when analyzing and designing VMIMO systems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Capacity analysis of VMIMO * User grouping in VMIMO * Precoding schemes for VMIMO * Pilot signal design for VMIMO * Distributed Coding and Modulation for VMIMO * Signal detection in VMIMO with and without user collaboration * Feedback scheme design in VMIMO * Impact of limited feedback in VMIMO * Impact of limited backhaul in VMIMO * Multiple-terminal synchronization in VMIMO * MAC protocol design for VMIMO * Fairness in VMIMO * Self-optimization and distributed implementation of VMIMO * Security issues of VMIMO

Prospective authors should prepare their manuscripts following the IEEE J-SAC format described at http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to http://www.edas.info. The timetable is as follows:

Manuscript Submission Due: Oct. 1, 2012 First Reviews Due: Feb. 1, 2013 Second Reviews Due and Acceptance Notification: Apr. 1, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: Jun. 1, 2013 Publication: Fourth quarter 2013

Guest Editors:

Prof. Yiqing Zhou, zhouyiqing@ict.ac.cn, China Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi, adachi@ecei.tohoku.ac.jp, Japan Dr. Kai-Kit Wong, k.wong@ee.ucl.ac.uk, United Kingdom Prof. Xiang-Gen Xia, xxia@ee.udel.edu, USA Prof. Dimitris Toumpakaris, dtouba@upatras.gr, Greece Prof. Heidi Steendam, Heidi.Steendam@telin.ugent.be, Belgium Prof. Wei-Ping Zhu, weiping@ece.condordia.ca, Canada Prof. Lie-Liang Yang, lly@ecs.soton.ac.uk, United Kingdom

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