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Von: Walid Saad saad.walid@GMAIL.COM Datum: 6. September 2013 16:06:17 MESZ An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE WCNC 1st International Workshop on Device to Device and Public Safety Communications (WDPC) Antwort an: Walid Saad saad.walid@GMAIL.COM

The IEEE 1st Int. Workshop on Device to Device and Public Safety Communications (WDPC),

Co-located with IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 6-9 2014, Istanbul, Turkey

Device-to-Device (D2D) communications as an underlay for wireless cellular networks is viewed as a key technology for providing seamless, high-quality wireless access in next-generation wireless systems. The D2D concept is built around the idea of allowing the wireless devices to communicate with one another via direct D2D links over licensed or unlicensed spectrum. Unlike traditional short-range D2D technologies such as Bluetooth or Zigbee, D2D in cellular systems is expected to provide high capacity and guaranteed QoS over long ranges. D2D is also expected to lead to novel wireless applications such as proximity services and robust public safety communications. Indeed, D2D is seen as a key feature of 5G wireless systems. However, reaping the benefits of D2D requires handling several challenges such as interference management, self-organization, network discovery, and resource allocation, among others.

Main Topics The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to D2D and PS communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• D2D neighbor discovery techniques
• D2D and multi-hop communications
• D2D channel measurements/modeling, including new path loss and Doppler models
• Recent advances in 3GPP Release-12 standardization related to D2D and public safety communications
• Energy efficiency analysis for D2D communications
• Game-theoretic techniques for D2D communications
• Resource allocation and power control for D2D communications
• Interference cancellation and coordination for D2D communications
• Localization and ranging in D2D scenarios
• Applications of D2D communications in public safety scenarios
• Mobility, traffic, and channel models for public safety communications
• Exploiting social networks for D2D and public safety communications
• Experimental results on D2D proximity services and public safety scenarios
• Pricing and accounting for D2D systems and D2D economics
• Sensing and measuring social phenomena using D2D systems

Papers should be written in English with a maximum paper length of 6 printed pages (10-point font) including figures. Papers that are longer than 6 pages will not be reviewed. For your submission you can use the standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at http://www.ieee.org/go/conferencepublishing/templates.

Workshop information: https://sites.google.com/site/wdpc2014/

Important Dates Paper Submission: Oct. 16, 2013 Accept. Notif.: Jan. 8, 2014 Manuscript Due: Jan. 26, 2014

Workshop Chairs

Merouane Debbah, SUPELEC, France Ismail Guvenc Florida Int. University, FL Walid Saad University of Miami, FL Murat Yuksel University of Nevada-Reno, NV

Local Arrangements Chair

Hasari Celebi, GYTE, Turkey Steering Committee Neiyer Correal Motorola Solutions, Inc., FL Salih Ergut Avea Labs, Turkey

Keynote Speakers

Vincent Lau, Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Petar Popovski, Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark Amira Alloum, Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs, France

Panel Chair: Satoshi Nagata, NTT DOCOMO, Japan (Chair, 3GPP RAN1 Working Group)

TPC Committee

Mehdi Bennis, Univ. of Oulu Rittwik Jana, AT&T Labs Research Koushik Kar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Hasan Karaoglu, Cisco Systems Subhash Lakshminarayana, SUPELEC Husheng Li, University of Tennessee Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological University Kemal Ozdemir, Sehir University Francesco Pantisano, European Commission - Joint Research Centre Omid Semiari, University of Tehran Hanbyul Seo, LG Electronics Biplab Sikdar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Meryem Simsek, Florida International University Lingyang Song, Peking University Vijaynarayanan Subramanian, Cisco Systems Saurabh Tavildar, Qualcomm Engin Zeydan, AveaLabs

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