BWA 2013 - 9th International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access

9th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS (BWA)
Co-located with IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, 9-13 December, 2013, Atlanta, US
Paper submission deadline: June 25th, 2013
Workshop web page: http://bwaws.org/GLOBECOM2013
GENERAL
In the next decade, we will not only see an exponential increase in
the demand of wireless broadband capacity, with predictions on traffic
growth ranging from x100 to x1000, but we will also see a large
diversification in the applications and communication scenarios
requiring broadband wireless access. With the advent of the Internet of
Things, at least an order of magnitude more devices will require
wireless connectivity anytime and anywhere with the cloud. On the other
hand, it is likely to see more localized and context-aware
communication between humans or devices in close proximity, where
direct but network-facilitated device-to-device communication will play
a bigger role, and where hence the classical function split between the
cloud, network infrastructure and devices may have to be rethought. The
question arises whether the evolution of current standards such as LTE
Advanced is sufficient to address these needs, or if more radical,
possibly non-backward compatible approaches are needed.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
The 9th Broadband Wireless Access full day workshop will provide a
forum for the exchange and discussion of new research results and for
the pragmatic assessment of the usage of innovative technologies in the
broadband wireless access domain. It will cover a broad range of topics
including, but not limited to:
- Novel application and communication scenarios (Traffic and mobility
models, propagation models for novel deployment scenarios, edge
computing, context and application-aware communication)
- Novel physical layer techniques (New waveforms, non-orthogonal
multiple access schemes, PHY concepts facilitating machine-type
communications (MTC) and direct device-to-device (D2D) communication)
- Novel MAC design for broadband wireless access (Flexible and
programmable MAC design, collaborative and cooperative MAC schemes, MAC
for user/control plane split, MAC for centralized/decentralized schemes)
- Further evolution of multi-antenna and cooperative communications
(Massive MIMO communications, interference alignment techniques, full
duplex radio)
- Management of dense, heterogeneous networks (Novel interference and
mobility management concepts, possibly incorporating MTC or D2D
communications, novel cell concepts, e.g. regarding user/control plane
split)
- Novel forms of spectrum access and usage (Cognitive and dynamic
spectrum management techniques, mm-Wave for backhaul and access links,
dynamic and opportunistic carrier aggregation schemes)
- Novel broadband wireless access architecture concepts (Architectures
for B4G networks and cloud RAN, cross-layer optimization techniques,
QoS/QoE management, cellular network congestion management schemes)
- Pragmatic assessment / experimental concept evaluation (Lab- / field
trial results and their comparison to simulation and stochastic
geometry based analysis, economical assessment of broadband wireless
access concepts)
PAPER SUBMISSION
Paper submission is handled via EDAS (www.edas.info -> Submit paper ->
GC13 WS - BWA). Submitted papers should consist of novel, previously
unpublished work, be written in English, and correspond to the standard
IEEE double-column conference format. The maximum paper size including
figures is 6 pages (a 7th page is possible but will be charged an
additional $100 upon acceptance and when registering for the workshop).
Accepted papers will be available at IEEEXplore. At least one author of
an accepted paper is required to register at the full registration rate.
Important deadlines are:
Paper submission: June 25th 2013
Notification of acceptance: Sept 1st 2013
Camera ready papers: Oct 1st 2013
WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
GENERAL CHAIRS:
Dr. Patrick Marsch, Nokia Siemens Networks, Poland
Dr. Andreas Maeder, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
TPC CHAIRS:
Dr. Arun Ghosh, AT&T Labs, USA
Dr. Giridhar K, IIT Madras, India
Dr. Peter Fertl, BMW Group Research & Technology, Germany
The technical program committee (TPC) is currently being setup.
Confirmed members so far are:
Neda Aboutarab (Australian National University), Khalid Al-Begain
(University of Glamorgan), Guiseppa Alfano (Politecnico di Torino),
Tara Ali Yahira (University Paris Sud), Sergey Andreev (Tampere
University of Technology), Guiseppe Avellone (ST Microelectronics),
Leonardo Badia (Universita degli Studi di Padua), Francisco Barcelo
Arroyo (Universitat Politecnia de Catalunya), Marco Belleschi
(Ericsson), Francisco Cercas (ISCTE-IUL), Swades De (IIT Delhi),
Antonio de la Oliva (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Guido Dietl
(University of Applied Sciences Landshut), Michael Einhaus (Panasonic),
Mauro Femminella (University of Perugia), Marco Fiore (National
Research Council of Italy), Frank Frederiksen (Nokia Siemens Networks),
Sudhanshu Gaur (Hitachi America), Michael Grieger (TU Dresden,
Germany), Ilkka Harjula (VTT, Finland), Peyman Hesami (University of
Notre Dame), Patrick Hosein (University of the West Indies), Eduard
Jorswieck (Dresden University of Technology), Volker Jungnickel
(Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute), Juha Karjalainen (Renesas Mobile
Europe), Witold Krzymien (University of Alberta / TR Labs), Ying Li
(Samsung Telecommunications America), Jia-Chin Li (National Central
University), Giridhar Mandayam (Qualcomm), Guoweng Miao (KTH Royal
Institute of Technology), Keivan Navaie (University of Leeds), Ai-Chun
Pang (National Taiwan University), Klaus Pedersen (Nokia Siemens
Networks), Simone Redana (Nokia Siemens Networks), Mark Reed
(Australian National University), Markku Renfors (Tampere University of
Technology), Peter Rost (NEC Laboratories Europe), Jorge Sa Silva
(University of Coimbra), Pierluigi Salvo Rossi (Second University of
Naples), Harru Skianis (University of the Aegean), Susanna Spinsante
(Universita Politecnica delle Marche), Hwee Pink Tan (Institute for
Infocomm Research), Hidekazu Taoka (DOCOMO Euro-Labs), Sibel Tombaz
(KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Stefan Valentin (Bell Labs),
Alexey Vinel (Tampere University of Technology), Florian Wamser
(University of Wuerzburg), Dirk Wuebben (University of Bremen), Wei
Zhang (University of South Wales).