HetCarrierCom 2015 - Workshop on Heterogeneous Carrier Communication Technologies (HetCarrierCom)

IEEE International Workshop On (in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2015)
December 6 - 10, 2015, San Diego, CA, USA (http://faculty.csie.ntust.edu.tw/~smcheng/HetCarri...)
The explosion in the number of mobile users and the use of diverse bandwidth-hungry wireless applications
have resulted in an exponential growth in the demand for wireless access to the Internet. As a
consequence, not only the volume of mobile data traffic is overwhelming the capacity of existing wireless
communication networks, but the required high data rates also drains the limited radio resources.
Theoretically, one of the possible solutions to this problem is to broaden the amount of allocated spectrum.
However, spectrum for commercial use solely in the conventional licensed bands or ISM unlicensed bands is
no longer sufficient to support the practical and constantly increasing needs. This in turn decreases the
feasibility of this solution and renders the interests of network operators. Hence, heterogeneous carrier
communication technologies have received lots of attention from both industry and academia for data
communications and telecommunications in recent years.
Heterogeneous carrier communication technologies enable the network to operate not only on homogeneous
carriers, but also on carriers with different characteristics. For example, in licensed-assisted access (LAA)
of LTE (also known as LTE-U), both licensed and unlicensed carriers are involved in, where licensed carriers
are used for control channels, while unlicensed carriers are used for data channels. For IEEE 802.11af,
communication is no longer carried out on ISM bands and are extended to TV bands. For IEEE 802.11ac (also
known as the fifth generation of WiFi), a higher order modulation (256-QAM), wider bandwidth (up to 160MHz),
and 8X8 MIMO are adopted for indoor communications. Furthermore, communication using mmWave carriers has
recently received considerable attention due to the possible advantages of using wider bandwidth and the
potential significant gains. Although these innovative technologies provide new communication paradigms
enjoying wider bandwidth and/or stronger signal strength, they also come with challenging technical issues
to overcome.
The goal of this workshop is consequently to bring together academic and industrial researchers in an effort
to identify and discuss the major technical challenges, recent results, and future research issues related
to existing and emerging technologies for heterogeneous carrier communication.
Topics of interest (include but are not limited to)
- LAA in LTE (LTE-U) Technology
- Evolving of IEEE 802.11 (e.g., ac, af, ax), IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.22
- Communications on mmWave carriers
- Interference and radio resource managements for heterogeneous carrier communications
- Cloud (heterogeneous) radio access network architecture supporting heterogeneous carriers
- PHY/MAC/network layer design
- QoS, energy efficiency, spectrum efficiency issues
- Offloading, handoff, and network selection among heterogeneous carriers
- Coexistence of heterogeneous carriers technologies
- Emerging applications and services, standardization progress, modeling and simulation methods, and performance evaluation
Important Dates:
Full Paper Due: July 1st, 2015
Acceptance Notification: Sept. 1st, 2015
Camera-ready Due: Oct. 1st, 2015
Paper Submission:
All final submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages
(10-point font) including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page
with over length page charge of USD100 if accepted). Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted at EDAS.
Paper submission link: https://edas.info/chair.php?c=20685
Organizing Committee:
Chih-Cheng Tseng, National Ilan University, Taiwan
Shao-Yu Lien, National Formosa University, Taiwan
Shin-Ming Cheng National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Mohammed Atiquzzaman University of Oklahoma, USA
Marios Kountouris Huawei Technologies, France
Keynote Speakers:
Li-Chun Wang, National Chao Tung University, Taiwan
Ying-Chang Liang, I2R, Singapore
Chih-Lin I, China Mobile Research Institute, China