CRNs 2012 - IEEE CIT 2012 workshop on Cognitive Radio and Networks (CRNs 2012)

Call for Papers
IEEE CIT 2012 workshop on Cognitive Radio and Networks (CRNs 2012)
With the fast developments of wireless communication technologies and the amazing growing of wireless customers, the limited spectrum resource has become more and more scarce, and can not satisfy the transmission requirements of wireless services (Voice, Video and Data transmissions). On the other hand, based on current fixed spectrum assignment policy, the assigned spectrum is not in an efficiency usage, the utilization ranges from 15% to 85% according to the Federal Communication Commission report. How to solve current spectrum scarcity and inefficiency problems has become the key research topic for the development of wireless communications.
Cognitive radio (CR) has been regarded as one of the most promising technologies to solve these problems, since its inception in 1999. Based on CR technologies, spectrum resource can be assigned dynamically. CR users are capable of periodically sensing, and identifying available spectrum channels to occupy them while they are not being used by primary users. Once primary users are detected, the CR users occupying the primary users¡¯ channels need to vacate them. CR technologies represent a great potential for wireless communications.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together and disseminate the state-of-the-art CR research, addressing the various aspects of analysis, design, optimization, implementation, and application of CR technologies.
Topics of Interest
The CRNs 2012 seeks original contributions in, but not limited to, the following topics:
->Challenges and issues in designing cognitive radio and networks
->Spectrum sensing techniques of cognitive radio
->Physical (PHY) layer design of cognitive radio
->Sensing information integration methods in cognitive radio networks
->Medium access control (MAC) design for cognitive radio networks
->Routing and spectrum mobility management in cognitive radio networks
->Security and robustness of cognitive radio networks
->Cross-layer optimization for cognitive radio networks
->Energy-efficiency design for cognitive radio networks
->Game theory based spectrum sharing methods in cognitive radio networks
->Machine learning used in cognitive radio networks
->QoS provisioning services transmission in cognitive radio networks
->Policy based dynamic spectrum management in cognitive radio networks
->Business models for the development of cognitive radio networks
->Applications and services based on cognitive radio networks
->Cognitive radio standards, test-beds, simulation tools, and hardware prototypes
Submissions and Publishing
Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the CIT 2012 submission site: http://www.ee.uestc.edu.cn/cit2012/papersubmission...
Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.
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Workshop Co-Chairs
Branka Vucetic University of Sydney, Australia
Bernd Bochow Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Germany
Yuming Ge Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China