CFP: CrownCom 2010

*CROWNCOM 2010*

*5th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless
Networks and Communications*
16-18 June 2010, Cannes, France

www.crowncom2010.org

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*SPONSORS*

Sponsored by ICST <http://www.icst.org/>
Technically co-sponsored by CREATE-NET <http://www.create-net.org/>,
U.R.S.I. and SPS IEEE (pending)

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*SCOPE*

Cognitive radio is an emerging technology in wireless access, aimed at
vastly improving the way radio spectrum is utilized. The motivation for
cognitive radio stems from various measurements of spectrum utilization,
which generally show that spectrum is under-utilized. This means that there
are many "holes" in the radio spectrum that could be exploited by the
secondary users. The secondary user must exploit these spectrum
opportunities without causing harmful degradation to the primary system. The
research challenges in this area include devising methods for efficient
spectrum pooling and sensing, and for interference management and dynamic
resource allocation as well as circuits and architectures meeting the often
challenging requirements.

The aim of this conference is to bring together original, high-quality
contributions that present new techniques, concepts and analyses in the area
of cognitive radio algorithms and system design. Specific topics of the
conference include: spectrum sensing and pooling, network design and
optimization, software-defined and flexible radio architectures, channel
modeling, cooperative communications, as well as beamforming and multicast
methods.

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*TOPICS*

We seek original and unpublished work not currently under review by any
other journal/magazine/conference. Topics include, but are not limited to,
the following:

*Track 1: Cognitive access and interference management strategies*

- Advanced access technologies for spectrum sharing
- Location-aided optimization of communication networks
- Cooperative and compressed sensing techniques for spectrum measurements
- Higher-layer resource allocation and scheduling
- Interference management, avoidance and alignment
- Multiple-antenna techniques (beamforming, MIMO, multicast)

*Track 2: Fundamental limits *

- Fundamental limits of cognitive radio
- Cooperative and coordinated multiuser communications
- Network, resource, and interference aware coding and decoding
- Network information theory, channel capacity bounds and network coding
- Wireless networks with private and common information: physical layer
secrecy

*Track 3: Network design and optimization*

- Self-organizing Networks
- WSN aided cognitive radio
- Cognitive radio protocols design
- Cognitive radio pilot channel

*Track 4: Architectures and implementation aspects*

- Software defined radio and flexible radio
- Real-time implementation and testbeds for cognitive radio
- Circuits and Architectures for cognitive radio

*Track 5: Modeling and performance evaluation tools*

- Spectral and Spatial aspects of channel modeling
- Antenna issues in cognitive radio
- Phy/Mac layers abstraction and modeling
- Interference modeling
- System level simulations

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*PUBLICATION*

All accepted submissions will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library
(confirmation pending).

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*SUBMISSION*

For submission instructions, please visit the conference
website<http://www.crowncom2010.org/>
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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission and tutorial proposal deadline: 14 February 2010
Special session proposals deadline: *1 November 2009*
Notification of acceptance: *11 April 2010*
Camera-ready deadline: *2 May 2010*

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*

*General Co-Chairs*
Erik G. Larsson, Linkoping University, Sweden
Aawatif Hayar, EURECOM, France

*General Vice-Chair*
Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Spain

*Technical Program Chairs*
Peter Olanders, Ericsson, Sweden
Jacques Palicot, Supelec, France

For a complete list of committee and board members, please visit
http://www.crowncom2010.org/org_committee.shtml