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First IEEE International Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Networks
In conjunction with IEEE PIMRC 2008

http://personal.stevens.edu/~ssengupt/crnets08/

15 September 2008 Cannes, France
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DESCRIPTION

Cognitive radio has emerged as a promising technology for
optimizing utilization of radio bandwidth in the next generation
wireless communications systems and networks. This will enable us
to cope with the increasing spectrum demand for wireless services
as well as create new wireless applications and services.
Recently, we have witnessed a flurry of research in dynamic
spectrum access and cognitive radio. Development of cognitive
radio technology has to deal with technical and practical
considerations as well as regulatory requirements, and therefore,
there is an increasing interest in this technology among the
researchers and the spectrum policy makers. The First IEEE
International Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Networks (CRNETS),
in conjunction with the 19th IEEE International Symposium on
Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) to be
held from 15-18 September 2008 in Cannes, French Riviera, France,
will focus on the research challenges associated with the design,
implementation, and application of cognitive and spectrum agile
wireless networks.

SCOPE

Original papers describing both theoretical and experimental
results associated with the design of cognitive and spectrum-agile
wireless networks are solicited. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to, the following:

•   Fundamental performance limit of dynamic spectrum access based
cognitive radio networks

•   Challenges and issues in designing cognitive radio systems

•   Architectures and building blocks of cognitive radio networks

•   Spectrum sensing, measurements and statistical modeling of
spectrum usage

•   Signal detection and Interference classification methods

•   Modulation schemes for coexistence

•   Spectrum awareness and dynamic channel selection

•   Distributed cooperative spectrum sensing

•   Distributed adaptation and optimization methods

•   Cognitive machine learning techniques

•   Interoperability and co-existence issues

•   Cognitive MAC and routing protocols for dynamic spectrum
access

•   Security and robustness of cognitive spectrum-agile networks

•   Cross-layer optimization of cognitive radio systems

•   Applications of cognitive radio networks

•   Pricing models for spectrum sharing in cognitive radio

•   Regulatory policies

•   Emerging standards

•   Cognitive radio test-beds and hardware prototypes

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers will need to be submitted through EDAS. Papers should be in
English, not exceeding 5 double-column pages (over-length pages
will be charged for), and should follow IEEE paper templates
available on the IEEE PIMRC 2008 website
(http://www.pimrc2008.org/).

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:        March 31 Notification of acceptance:
April 28 Final paper due:        May 26 Date of the workshop:
September 15

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba Shamik Sengupta, Stevens
Institute of Technology Soodesh Buljore, Motorola Labs, Paris,
France

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology Mainak
Chatterjee, University of Central Florida Chia-Chin Chong, DoCoMo
USA Labs Natasha Devroye, Harvard University Stefan Kaiser, DoCoMo
Euro-Labs Dong In Kim, Sungkyunkwan University Long Le, University
of Waterloo Petri Mähonen, Aachen University, RWTH, Institute of
Wireless Networks Michele Rossi, University of Padova Koduvayur
Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute of Technology Wei Zhang, Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology

PUBLICITY CHAIR

Zhu Han, Boise State University

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http://personal.stevens.edu/~ssengupt/crnets08/