C3HetNet 2012 - First International Workshop on Cognitive Cooperative Communications in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

First International Workshop on Cognitive Cooperative Communications in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Introduction
Currently wireless communications have been severely limited by the heterogeneity of wireless networks, which causes that the transmission capacity and end-to-end performance for the wireless systems cannot be improved fundamentally. In recent years, the concept of cognition and cooperative have been studied and discussed from both academia and industrial communities. Cognitive radio and cooperative communication networks may be integrated together and work jointly in heterogeneous wireless networks. They represent a new paradigm which involves the innovations in both smart radio transmission and distributed signal processing techniques, promising a significant increase of overall capacity in futuristic wireless networks and energy efficiency design as well. The workshop “Cognitive Cooperative Communications in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks” is devoted to recent advances on cognitive radios, cooperative communications and its applications to wireless communications systems and networks. The workshop will be held on August 7, 2012 in Kunming, China. We are seeking papers that present original and unpublished contributions addressing various aspects of cognitive cooperative communications in heterogeneous wireless networks.
Topics of Interest
Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Cognitive and cooperative techniques in heterogeneous networks
Resource management in cognitive radio networks
Spectrum sharing/trading in cognitive radio networks
Efficient multi-band multi-resolution channel sensing algorithms
Cooperation and game theory for cognitive ratio networks
Capacity and achievable data rates in cognitive radio networks
Novel dynamic/opportunistic spectrum access techniques
Cross-layer optimization of cognitive radio wireless networks
Wireless multi-hop and mesh cooperative networks
Multiple antenna techniques in cooperative networks
Cross-layer optimization in relay networks
Cooperative and cognitive communications for Energy-Efficiency (EE)
Spectrum sensing and green communications
Any other papers related to cognitive radios, as well as cooperative communication technique in wireless networks are all welcome.
Submission
This workshop accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers in the area of cognitive radio and cooperative communication technology. Prospective Authors are encouraged to submit a 5-page IEEE conference style paper (including all text, figures, and references) through submission system (http://chinacom.org/show/initial-submission). All accepted and presented papers will be published together with ChinaCom 2012 proceedings and available on IEEE eXplore database and indexed by Engineering Information (EI).