CWCN 2009 - International Workshop on Cognitive Wireless Communications and Networking (CWCN 2009)

International Workshop on Cognitive Wireless Communications and Networking (CWCN 2009, sponsored by IEEE, St. Petersburg, Russia)

(http://www.csit.carleton.ca/~fyu/CWCN09/index.htm)
(http://www.icumt.org/index.html)


CALL FOR PAPERS

Theme:

The radio frequency spectrum is becoming a scarce resource. Conventional fixed spectrum allocation cannot utilize the resource efficiently. Cognitive radio is a novel technology which improves the spectrum utilization through detection of unused radio spectrum and dynamic spectrum allocation. Cognitive wireless communications and cognitive wireless networks have potential to bring tremendous economic benefits to both customer and telecom operators. In recent years, cognitive wireless communications and networking arouse wide interests from both academia and industry. Many interdisciplinary research efforts and prototyping work are going on, including, spectrum sensing, coexistence mechanisms, medium access, QoS provisioning, environment awareness, cross layer techniques, upper layer studies, policy and pricing, signal processing, information theory, artificial intelligence, etc. The Workshop on "Cognitive Wireless Communications and Networking" provides a forum for discussio!
ns of all these most recent developments and brings together industry and academia, engineers and researchers. The Workshop is in conjunction with ICUMT-2009 (IEEE Sponsored) conference (http://www.icumt.org). The conference has strong industrial support from worldwide leading telecommunication vendors as well as national companies and SMEs. The workshop proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore (approved) and indexed in relevant databases. Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue.

Topics:

The Workshop invites submissions on the following topics (but not limited to):

Flexible, dynamic and opportunistic spectrum management
Qos provisioning and resource management in cognitive radio networks
MAC, routing and transport protocols for cognitive radio networks
Cross-layer optimization of cognitive radio wireless networking
Multiple access scheme for cognitive radio
End-to-end modeling and performance of cognitive radio wireless networking
Collaborative radio resource, spectrum, power management, resource optimization
Cognitive radio devices, reconfigurable elements, evolution from software defined radio to cognitive infrastructures
Pricing and billing for cognitive radio devices and services
Authorization and authentication of cognitive radio devices
Pilot channels, radio enablers in support of cognitive infrastructures
Cognitive 3G/4G, wireless wide area infrastructures, short range networks, mesh topologies
Cognitive radio in IEEE 802.22 wireless regional area network (WRAN)
Security of cognitive radio wireless networking
Signal processing for cognitive radio wireless networking
Information theory for cognitive radio
Solutions for protecting primary users
Spectrum sensing mechanism and protocol support
Synchronization and channel estimation for cognitive radio
Cooperative theory, game theory and causal reasoning for cognitive radio networks
Interdisciplinary research for cognitive radio
Energy management
Standards, policy and regulation for cognitive radio
Military cognitive radio and network
Experimental test-beds and results


Paper submission:

http://edas.info

The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking and data communications. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published in IEEE Explore (approved). Papers must be submitted electronically in the EDAS. The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue.

Schedule:

(Full) Paper submission deadline: 15 June 2009
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2009
Camera-ready version and copyright form submission: 15 Aug. 2009
Registration deadline for authors: TBD
Conference: 12-14 Oct 2009


Organizing Committee:

Chair:
Victor C. M. Leung
The University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
vleung-AT-ece.ubc.ca

Co-Chairs:
Kevin (Qixiang) Pang
General Dynamics Canada
Kevin.pang-AT-gdcanada.com
F. Richard Yu
Carleton University, ON, Canada
richard_yu-AT-carleton.ca

TPC Chair:
Ekram Hossain
University of Manitoba, MB, Canada
ekram-AT-ee.umanitoba.ca

TPC Co-Chairs:
Dusit Niyato
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
dniyato-AT-ntu.edu.sg
Alireza Attar
The University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
attar-AT-ece.ubc.ca

Technical Program Committee (Tentative):
Alireza Attar, University of British Columbia, Canada (attar-AT-ece.ubc.ca)
Jun Cai, University of Manitoba, Canada (jcai-AT-ee.umanitoba.ca)
Lin Cai, University of Waterloo, Canada (lcai-AT-bbcr.uwaterloo.ca)
Peter Chong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (ehjchong-AT-ntu.edu.sg)
Serhat Erkucuk, Kadir Has University, Turkey (serkucuk-AT-khas.edu.tr)
Afshin Fallahi, University of Toronto, Canada (afallahi-AT-comm.utoronto.ca)
Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba, Canada (ekram-AT-ee.umanitoba.ca)
Fen Hou, University of Waterloo, Canada (fhou-AT-bbcr.uwaterloo.ca)
Long Le, MIT, USA (longble-AT-mit.edu)
Amir Hamed Mohsenian Rad, University of British Columbia, Canada (hamed-AT-ece.ubc.ca)
Victor C.M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada (vleung-AT-ece.ubc.ca)
Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (dniyato-AT-ntu.edu.sg)
Kevin (Qixiang) Pang, General Dynamics, Canada (kevin.pang-AT-gdcanada.com)
Md. Mostafizur Rahman, University of Manitoba, Canada (mmrahman-AT-ee.umanitoba.ca)
Walid Saad, University of Oslo, Norway (saad-AT-unik.no)
Wei Song, University of California, Berkeley, USA (wsong-AT-bbcr.uwaterloo.ca)
Helen Tang, DRDC-Ottawa, Canada (helen.tang-AT-drdc-rddc.gc.ca)
Joseph Teo, Institute for InfoComm Research, Singapore (cmteo-AT-i2r.a-star.edu.sg)
Alexey Vinel, Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia (vinel-AT-ieee.org)
Ping Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (wangping-AT-ntu.edu.sg)
Mea Wang, University of Calgary, Canada (meawang-AT-ucalgary.ca)
Qin Xin, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway (xin-AT-simula.no)
F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada (Richard_Yu-AT-Carleton.ca)
Ho Ting Cheng, University of Waterloo, Canada (htcheng-AT-bbcr.uwaterloo.ca)
Deepak Rao, Samsung India Software Operations Pvt. Ltd., India (deepakd-AT-samsung.com)
Hai Jiang, University of Alberta, Canada (hai.jiang-AT-ece.ualberta.ca)
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland (yk-AT-cs.tut.fi)
Jianping Pan, University of Victoria, Canada (pan-AT-uvic.ca)
Pengbo Si, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (sipb.bupt-AT-gmail.com)