RABAN 2011 - 2nd International Workshop on Recent Advances in Broadband Access Networks

The rapid proliferation of wireless cellular systems over the last decade has introduced fundamental changes to ”anytime, anywhere” Mobile Internet access, as well as posed new challenges for the research community. The next generation of broadband standards, such as IEEE 802.16m enhancements and LTE-Advanced, target aggressive improvements in all aspects of wireless system design, including system capacity, energy efficiency and quality of service. Promising next generation technologies cover, for example, more advanced antenna technologies on mobile platforms, advanced network topologies, cross-layer and co-operative transmission techniques.
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The Workshop aims to bring together the researchers from academia and the experts from industry to address recent advances in the design, modeling, prototyping, implementation, standardization, and deployment of broadband wireless access networks. It is held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Telecommunications for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITST), St. Petersburg, Russia on 23-25th August, 2011.

Topics of the 2nd RABAN Workshop include, but not limited to, the following:

Cross-layer optimization concepts
Energy efficiency and power management
Co-operative techniques and traffic relaying
Multi-access networks and multi-radio terminals
Network cognition and self-configuration
Multi-tier network technologies and architectures
Mobile broadband traffic support
Vehicular networks
Client quality of experience enhancement
Machine-to-machine communications
Interference mitigation approaches
Distributed antenna architectures
Advanced MIMO techniques
Channel estimation techniques and channel models
Spectrum management and regulatory issues