RABAN 2013 - 4th International Workshop on Recent Advances in Broadband Access Networks

The rapid proliferation of wireless cellular systems over the last decade has introduced fundamental changes to ”anytime, anywhere” Mobile Internet access, as well as posed new challenges for the research community. The fifth generation (5G) of mobile broadband standards, such as further evolution of 3GPP LTE-Advanced, target aggressive improvements in all aspects of wireless system design, including system capacity, energy efficiency, and quality of user experience. Promising next generation improvements cover, for example, more advanced antenna technologies on mobile platforms, enhanced network topologies, cross-layer and co-operative transmission techniques.
The Workshop aims to bring together the researchers from academia and the experts from industry to address recent advances in the design, modeling, prototyping, implementation, standardization, and deployment of broadband wireless access networks. It is held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference Intelligent Transportation Systems Telecommunications (ITST), Tampere, Finland on 5-7th November, 2013.
Topics of the 4th RABAN Workshop include, but not limited to, the following:
Cross-layer optimization concepts
Energy efficiency and power management
Co-operative and device-to-device communications
Multi-access networks and multi-radio terminals
Network cognition and self-configuration
Heterogeneous network technologies and architectures
Mobile broadband traffic support
Vehicular networks
Client quality of experience enhancement
Machine-to-machine communications
Interference mitigation and coordination approaches
Distributed antenna architectures
Advanced MIMO techniques
Channel estimation techniques and channel models
Spectrum management and regulatory issues
Submission Instructions
The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing cutting-edge, state-of-the-art, previously unpublished and complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal.
Papers in double column IEEE format must be submitted electronically via the EDAS system and should not exceed 6 pages. The list of authors in the submitted manuscript should correspond to the list of the authors in EDAS. Proceedings of the Workshop will be published in IEEE Xplore and indexed in the relevant databases.