ULTRA 2014 - workshop on Ultra-Low Latency and Ultra-High Reliability in Wireless Communications

ULTRA^2 - International Workshop on Ultra-Low Latency and Ultra-High
Reliability in Wireless Communications
In conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2014, December 8-12, Austin, Texas.
Future wireless communications will not only be used for content distribution, where typically throughput per area is the most relevant KPI, but more and more for applications where the system capacity may not by the critical point, but rather stringent latency and/or reliability requirements. Examples for such applications are
- User-specific 3D video rendering and augmented reality
- Remote control (e.g. remote robotics, surgery etc.)
- Wireless automation of production facilities
- Vehicular traffic efficiency and safety
- Mobile gaming
Effectively, many future applications will require an end-to-end latency of a few ms, while fields such as wireless automation and control may in addition require reliabilities in terms of block error rates on the order of 10^-9. Current state-of-the art technology, such as LTE-A, is clearly far away from meeting these requirements. Optimizing wireless communications for latency and reliability requires a complete paradigm change in wireless systems design, and has to be reflected in various technology fields such as e.g. air interface design, signal processing on both the device and infrastructure side, network infrastructure and architecture considerations, control / user plane design, session management and protocol stack design. The workshop provides a platform for technical experts from the radio, core network and application side to elaborate on latency and reliability requirements of future applications or provide solutions to significantly reduce end-to-end latency and/or increase reliability in wireless communications systems. The workshop chairs and TPC chairs solicit original, unpublished technical papers in the fields of (but not limited to):
- Latency and/or reliability requirements of future application fields
- Means to reduce end-to-end latency and/or introduce higher reliability in either legacy systems (e.g. UMTS/WCDMA, LTE-A, WLAN, Bluetooth, WSAN-FA) or in 5G cellular communications, e.g.
- Air interface and signal processing concepts
- Advanced radio resource management techniques
- Redundant or multi-point transmission, multi-point connectivity
- Novel approaches towards session management and protocol stack
- Network infrastructure and core network concepts
- Cloud-RAN concepts in the context of latency- or reliability-critical applications
- Distributed or edge computing and device-to-device communications
- Fundamental trade-offs between latency, reliability and other KPIs (e.g. throughput) in wireless communications
- Technical solutions to allow for a co-existence of traffic with stringent latency and/or reliability requirements as well as traffic with other requirements (e.g. ultra-high throughput)
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: July 15th 2014
Author notification: Sept 1st 2014
Camera-ready manuscript: Oct 1st 2014
PAPER SUBMISSION:
Papers should follow the 2-column IEEE conference template and not exceed 7 pages, and be submitted through the EDAS paper submission website (see link below). Accepted papers will be available at IEEEXplore. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full workshop rate.
GENERAL CHAIRS:
Dr. Patrick Marsch, Nokia Solutions and Networks, Poland
Dr. Andreas Festag, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Prof. Hans Schotten, Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
TPC CHAIRS:
Prof. Preben Mogensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Dr. Peter Fertl, BMW Group Research and Technology, Germany
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Mate Boban, NEC Laboratories Europe
Ömer Bulakci, Huawei European Research Center
Alexandros Kaloxylos, University of Athens
John Kennedy, Toyota InfoTechnology Center
Esteban Egea López, Univ. Politécnica de Cartagena
Luciano Leonel Mendes, INATEL
Peter Rost, NEC Laboratories Europe
Joachim Sachs, Ericsson
Slawomir Stanczak, Fraunhofer HHI
Gerhard Wunder, Fraunhofer HHI
Ilja Radusch, Fraunhofer FOCUS
Find more information at:
http://www.ultra-wireless-workshop.com