[Mycolleagues] COGCOM2008 submission deadline extended to April 17

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Due to many requests, the submission deadline has been extended to April 17, 2008.
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               CALL FOR PAPERS (COGCOM2008)

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2008 International Workshop on Cognitive Networks and Communications
(COGCOM2008)
 to be held in conjunction with CHINACOM'08 in Hangzhou, China,
                                                25-27 August, 2008
     http://www.chinacom.org/COGCOM2008.htm
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Aim of the Workshop
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The aim of the workshop is to bring together a highly qualified group of
people with the state-of-art research and development in cognitive wireless
networks. Cognitive techniques are becoming major subjects of research in
the wireless communication community as they have been identified as some of
the underlying principles for future wireless communication systems.
Cognition is exploited as a means to use the wireless communication systems
more efficiently and is widely applicable to aspects at all layers of the
protocol stack including: adaptive signal processing, pooled spectrum
management and sensing, and dynamic routing. The workshop will highlight the
newest trends in this emerging area, complementing it with first practical
implementations and demonstrations in this field. COGCOM seeks papers
dealing with architectural issues, theoretical studies, new paradigms, but
also contributions on enabling technologies for cognitive radio and
cognitive wireless networks, practical implementations, and policy issues.
Besides the technical insights, the workshop will encourage the participants
to discuss among each other.

Topics of interest (not limited to)
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. Hardware architectures and platforms for Cognitive Radio
. Network architectures and platforms
. Signal processing for Cognitive Radio
. Physical layer transmission schemes
. Modeling of cognitive access techniques, including regulatory and business
cases
. Fast and wideband spectrum sensing
. Protocols for spectrum agile communications
. Measurements on the spectrum usage
. Spectrum management policy and strategy
. Novel dynamic/opportunistic access techniques
. Standards and regulatory developments for Cognitive Radio
. Spectrum pooling for heterogeneous nodes and systems, including QoS
performance
. Cognition techniques and methodologies for Cognitive Radio
. Peer-to-peer technologies
. Cross-layer optimization
. Security issues
. Sensor aided cognitive networks
. Self-organizing mesh and ad hoc networks and autonomic communications
. Cognitive Networking, including new routing metrics and protocols
. Testbed experiments, applications and new advances

Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: 17 April, 2008
Acceptance notification: 15 May, 2008
Camera ready version due: 31 May, 2008

Submission Guidelines
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COGCOM accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers in the area
of Cognitive Wireless Networks. Prospective Authors are encouraged to
submit a
5-page IEEE conference style paper (including all text, figures, and
references) through Cocus submission system (http://cocus.info). All
accepted and presented papers will be published together with Chinacom
2008
proceedings and available on IEEE eXplore database and indexed by
Engineering Information (EI).

Workshop Co-Chairs
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Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway;
Alister Burr, University of York, UK;
Gerard Smit, University of Twente, The Netherlands.

TPC Co-Chairs
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Lingyang Song, Philips Research Laboratories, UK;
David Grace, University of York, UK;
Andre Kokkeler, University of Twente, The Netherlands.

Publicity Co-Chairs
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Qiwei Zhang, University of Twente, The Netherlands;
Yang Zhang, University of Twente, The Netherlands;
Jie Xiang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway.

Technical Program Committee
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Yong Bai, DoCoMo Beijing Comms Lab Co., China;
Lars Berlemann, Swisscom, Switzerland;
Manav R. Bhatnagar, University of Oslo, Norway;
R. Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA;
Luiz DaSilva, Virginia Tech, USA;
Yijia Fan, Princeton University, USA;
Hiroshi Harada, NICT, Japan;
Yonghui Li, University of Sydney, AU;
Petri Mahonen, RWTH Aachen, Germany;
Joseph Mitola III, The MITRE Corporation, USA
[Dr. Mitola's association with MITRE does not imply the endorsement of MITRE
or its sponsors for this event];
Patrick Mitran, University of Waterloo, Canada;
Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, UK;
Mihael Mohorcic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia;
Maziar Nekovee, BT Research, UK;
Pavel Pechac, Czech Technical Univ. in Prague, Czech Republic;
Janne Riihijarvi, RWTH Aachen, Germany;
John Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK;
Honggang Zhang, Create-Net, Italy;
Jianwei Zhang, Huawei Technologies, China;
Jie Zhang, Bedfordshire University, UK;
Wei Zhang, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong;
Zheng Zhou, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China;
Han Zhu, Boise State University, USA.