RAWNET 2015 - International Workshop on Resource Allocation, Cooperation and Competition in Wireless Networks (RAWNET)

Wireless mobile communications are continuously evolving to respond to increasing needs of quality of service, data rates and diversity of the offered services. Meeting the ever expanding requirements require innovations in architectures, protocols, spectrum sharing techniques, and interoperability between heterogeneous networks. In this context, small cells represent a promising solution to enhance network performance with a pervasive coverage at low-cost and energy consumption. Small cells stand for small-size cells that can be deployed in indoor or outdoor environments and are based on existing or emerging cellular wireless network standards (such as WiMAX, UMTS and LTE).
Deployment of small cells in realistic environments poses significant challenges. It is crucial to address these challenges for enabling large scale adoption of small cells in the future. The myriad of challenges include co-existence schemes with neighboring cells (including small and macro cells), interference management mechanisms (to ensure continuity of service over neighboring small and macro cells), self organizing and self management issues (crucial for efficient deployment of small cells) and optimal network architectures (related to the host radio access technology).