ZTE 2011 - Special issue on Digital RF in Wireless Communications/Broadcasting/Radar/Sonar

Special issue on Digital RF in Wireless Communications/Broadcasting/Radar/Sonar

ZTE Communications, International Journal

For more information: Contact with: Dr. Jun Fang via email: junfang-AT-ieee.org

With the rapid development
and world-wide deployment of broadband wireless communication and digital
broadcasting infrastructures, the use of digital processing technology in the
front-end and radio frequency unit is explosively increased. Digital processing
for front-end and RF covers a broad range of topics including digital
pre-distortion (DPD), digital up conversion (DUC) and down conversion (DDC),
DC-offset calibration, peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) or crest factor
reduction (CFR), pulse/noise shaping, delay/gain/imbalance compensation and
numerical controlled oscillator (NCO). These digital processing technologies
offer a number of advantages in power efficiency, cost reduction,
time-to-market and flexibility for software define radio so as to support
multiple standards and multimode applications. Unlike baseband processing,
front-end is tightly connected to radio frequency layer and hence imposes great
limitations and difficulties on digital processing speed, memory, computational
capability, power, size, data interfaces and bandwidths. This suggests that
digital processing and circuit implementation of front-end are very challenging
tasks and require the huge efforts of the related industry, research and
regulatory authorities so as to bring the success.

This special
issue aims to stimulate and guide the development of new and improved RF systems
for wireless communication and digital broadcasting by providing a unique forum
with highly quality and timely manner for scientists, engineers, broadcasters,
manufacturers, software developers and other related professionals. Topics of
interest of this special issue include (but are not limited
to):

Signal Processing
Techniques for Digital and Software RF
System and IC
integration of Digital Front-End
Digital
Pre-Distortion and Crest Factor
Reduction
Digital?Up
Conversion and Digital-Down Conversion
Analog to Digital
Conversion and Digital to Analog Conversion
Digital Compensation
and Calibration for Gain, Imbalance,
Phase, Offset and Delay
Re-sampling/Sub-sampling Theory and
Algorithms
Noise Shaping and
Pulse Shaping
Numerical Controlled
Oscillator and Digital Mixer
Single-Chip Solution
for Digital Front-End Processing
Circuits, Software
and Systems for Digital Front-End to Support Multiple Standards and Multiple
Modes
Integration and
Interface with Baseband Processing and Analog Front-End

Reconfigurable
Multi-Core and Multiprocessor Solution for Cross-Layer Processing with Digital
Front-End
Single-Chip Solution
for Digital Front-End, Baseband and Media Processing
Computing Platform
for Digital and Software RF (FPGA, SoC, ASIC, DSP, Vector/Adaptive
Processors)
Programming Models
and Environments for Digital and Software RF

Prospective authors should send the full manuscripts for consideration to the
lead guest editor: Dr. Jun Fang via email: junfang-AT-ieee.org and the tentative timetable is as
follows.

Manuscript Due:

June 1 , 2011

First Round Review

September 1,
2011

Tentative Publication
Date

December 1,
2011

Guest Editors:

Dr. Jun Fang,
Research Institute of Tsinghua
University, China
Dr. Fa-Long Luo,

Element CXI, San Jose,
USA
Prof.
Mikko Valkama,
Tampere University of
Technology, Tampere, Finland
Prof.

S.O. Tatu,
INRS, University of Quebec,
Canada

Prof.
Tom Wada, University of
the Ryukyus, Okinawa,
Japan