SDCR 2013 - 2013 Symposium on: Software Defined and Cognitive Radios

Wireless communication has witnessed a continuous trend towards application, services, usage and standard diversification. At the same time, communication services are used more often with battery-powered devices, whose performance requirements are coupled with drastic constraints on energy-efficiency. Besides, the variety of wireless standards and the huge and increasing costs related to system-on-chip design urge high-volume, multi-purpose, and preferably widely programmable devices that can be easily updated even after deployment. An effective solution is the combination of reconfigurable analog front-end circuits and programmable digital baseband engines, namely software-defined radio (SDR). The design of energy-efficient SDR baseband solutions for broadband standards yields exciting design challenges in particular in dynamic spectrum management in cognitive radios (CR) and in improving spectrum sharing efficiency with the aid of cooperative communications. The Symposium invites novel contributions on energy-efficient SDR and CR, baseband processing software design methodologies and dynamic spectrum access.
Submissions of at most 4 pages in two-column IEEE format are welcome on topics including:
Algorithm and architecture co-optimization
Platforms and architectures for SDR and CR
RF/analog architectures for SDR
Design methodologies and tools
Baseband processing techniques
Software for SDR and cognitive radios
Cognitive radio technologies
Dynamic spectrum access technologies