IMWS 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Microwave Workshop Series on "RF Front-ends for Software Defined and Cognitive Radio Solutions" (IMWS)

The IEEE MTT-S Administrative Committee (AdCom) has recently passed a resolution of its Transnational Committee to create and develop the IEEE MTT-S International Workshop Series (IMWS), which will complement the existing workshops of the MTTS International Microwave Symposia. The purpose of this new platform is to boost and promote MTT-S technical and educational activities as well as MTT-S international exchanges and collaborations. Several workshops covering different topics of MTT-S interest will be developed each year at a worldwide scale, spreading in various continents and countries.

Through its technical program, this edition of the workshop aims to stimulate the discussion and promotion of new ideas in the field of advanced Microwave and RF front ends for Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio technologies.

The workshop format will consist of a single oral session paralleled by a permanent poster session. Submitted abstracts are expected to cover state-of-the-art, theoretical aspects, implementation and innovative applications in the field of RF front ends for software defined radio and cognitive radio. Participation of young researchers is strongly encouraged and supported via Young Researcher Grants.

TOPICS

Topics of interest are, but are not limited to:

Adaptive and Reconfigurable Radio Front-end Architectures.
Signal processing techniques for reducing front-ends complexity.
Power control and bandwidth management.
Technologies for Dynamic Spectrum Access
New A/D and D/A technologies and techniques
UWB-Based Cognitive Radio
PHY requirement regarding new Cognitive Radio standards
Advanced SDR and CR technologies for TV broadcast service spectrum.
Linearized transmitters for multimode - multiband operation
Efficient high peak power transmitters.
PAPR reductions techniques
Multimode and/or multiband efficient power amplifiers