CUCE 2015 - Workshop on Communications in Underground and Confined Environments

The Workshop on Communications in Underground and Confined Environments will be held in conjunction with 15th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband ICUWB’2015 in Montreal, Canada, from October 4th to 7th, 2015.
Truly ubiquitous wireless communications are often described as the next telecom frontier. As such, in-building environments have received huge attention for this purpose but other peculiar environments present significant opportunities and specific niche vertical markets for the wireless industry.
This workshop is a forum for academic researchers, professionals and industrial specialists that are interested in or have realized original research, innovative applications, or field trials related to telecommunications in a confined area (basement, vehicle) or an underground environment (e.g., underground city, tunnels, subway, mine, shelter).
This workshop should focus on antennas & propagation channel modeling, smart antennas, wireless networks, prediction tools and admissible topics include but are not limited to the following:
Concepts for Communications in Underground and Confined Environments
? Access & transmission: channel allocation, medium access control, modulation, coding, and MIMO systems
? Networks: ad-hoc networks, wireless local area networks, mesh networks, sensor networks, linear sensor networks, and wireless intra-body networking
? Network planning and deployment: architecture, protocols, handover, roaming, and QoS
? Performance measurements
? Location systems: algorithms, simulation, and implementations
Applications in Underground and Confined Environments
? Automation: autonomous vehicles, telemetry, and remote control
? Inter-/intra-vehicle wireless communication: location techniques, obstacle detection, target tracking, and collision avoidance
? Role of wireless telecommunications in the industries and confined areas of the future
? Low-power consumption techniques
? Energy-harvesting implementations