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Call for Papers

IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC) 2008

19-23 May 2008, Beijing, China

Workshop on Cooperative Communications and Networking: Theory, Practice and Applications

Scope:

Cooperative communications and networking for wireless systems has recently attracted enormous attention. Unlike conventional point-to-point communications, cooperative communications and networking offers tremendous advantages such as allowing users or nodes to share resource to create collaboration through distributed transmission and processing. Cooperative communication and networking is a new paradigm offering significant reliability and spectral efficiency gains in wireless systems. It realizes a new form of cooperative diversity to combat the hostile wireless fading channels. For instance, there are lot standardization activities such as IEEE802.16j trying to exploit the potential benefits of cooperative communications. Although some initial understanding of cooperative communications and networking has been demonstrated in recent years, there are still a lot of open problems in the area both from the theoretical aspects and the practical considerations.

The objective of this workshop are (1) to bring together experts and researchers from the International research community from Asia Pacific, North America and Europe, (2) business leader to address the market potential and emerging applications and services, and (3) the engineers from the wireless telecommunication vendors and service providers to enhance the understanding of the promising (but yet challenging) paradigm and deployment practices of cooperative networking.

Topic of Interest:

The workshop is calling for paper contributions to (but not limiting to) the following topics on cooperative networking.

Information and Communication Theory

¨ Information Theoretical Aspects on Cooperative Networking

¨ Coding and Signal Processing Techniques for Cooperative Communications

¨ Cooperative Diversity Schemes

¨ Game Theoretical Aspects on Cooperation, Coalition and Competition

Networking Protocol and Applications

¨ Cross-layer Resource allocation in Cooperative Networking

¨ Multi-hop Routing and Networking in Cooperative Communications

¨ Delay Sensitive Applications in Cooperative Networks

¨ Cooperative Sensing Applications

Architecture, Implementation and Market Potential

¨ Implementation and Engineering Challenges on Cooperative Networking

¨ Business Model and Market Potential

¨ Emerging Applications and Services

Standards Activities

¨ Standardization Issues

¨ Interoperability

¨ Current Standardization Activities

This workshop is in conjunction to IEEE ICC2008 and therefore, all papers for this workshop must be submitted through the official ICC2008 web-based paper processing system. All accepted papers must be accompanied by a limited or full registration in order to be appeared in the conference proceedings. For more information, please check the official workshop website at http://www.IEEE-CoopNet.org http://www.ieee-coopnet.org/

Important Deadlines

20 December 2007 -- Paper Submission Deadline (on EDAS)

31 January 2008 -- Notification of Acceptance

28 February 2008 -- Camera Ready Paper

Workshop Co-Chairs

Dr Sastri Kota, Harris Corporation, USA,

Email: skota@harris.com

Dr Qinqing Zhang, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, USA,

Email: qinqing.zhang@jhuapl.edu

Professor Vincent Lau, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Email: eeknlau@ee.ust.hk

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