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The Third International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CrownCom 2008)

May 15-17, 2008
Holiday Inn Atrium Singapore

http://www.crowncom.org

SCOPE OF CONFERNCE

Today, access to radio spectrum is largely based on the principle of fixed resource allocation. With the proliferation of wireless applications/services in the last couple of decades, in many countries, most of the available spectrum has been allocated. This results in the radio spectrum scarcity which poses a serious problem for the future development of the wireless communications industry. On the other hand, careful studies of the usage pattern reveal that most of the allocated spectrum experiences low utilization. This motivates the concept of dynamic spectrum access via cognitive radio technologies, which allows secondary networks to use unused or under-utilized radio spectrum from primary licensed networks.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

There will be around a hundred papers in various areas of cognitive radio to be presented over the 18 technical sessions. Besides the regular paper presentation, there are also 3 invited keynote speakers and 6 half day tutorial sessions. The details can be found in the conference website.

Keynote speec:

- Are we really running out of radio frequency spectrum?
Geok-Leng Tan
Chief Technology Officer and Senior Director (Technology & Planning),
Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore.

- Spectrum trading
Sverrir Olafsson
Chief Researcher, British Telecommunications Research Laboratories, UK
Professor, Risk Management at Reykjavik University in Iceland.

- (to be finalized)
Joseph B. Evans
Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
University of Kansas

Tutorials

First half-day - 15 May 2008 (AM)

- Cognitive Radio as an Advanced Radio Resource Management
Prof. Seiichi Sampei, Osaka University, Japan

- Cognitive Wireless Networks
Prof. Petri Mähönen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Janne Riihijärvi,RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Marina Petrova, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

- Challenges of Cognitive Radios in the physical layer
Prof. Aarne Mämmelä, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Marja Matinmikko, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Second half-day - 17 May 2008 (PM)

- An Introduction to Cognitive Radio and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing
Prof. Friedrich K. Jondral, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Dr. Ivan Cosovic, NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany
Dr. Gunther Auer, NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany

- Cognitive MIMO Mesh Network for Spectrum Sharing
Prof. Kei Sakaguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Prof. Takeo Fujii, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan

- Cognitive Radio Networks – Opportunities, Challenges and Technologies for Dynamic Spectrum Access of TV Band White Spaces
Dr. Carlos Cordeiro, Intel Corporation, USA
Dr. Sai Shankar N, Broadcom Corporation, USA

REGISTRATION

If you are interested, please register at the conference website http://www.crowncom.org/registration.shtml

There are two type of registrations – Conference Registration and Tutorial Registration.

Conference registration includes two half-day tutorials, all keynotes and technical sessions, lunches and social event, at USD740 for IEEE members.

Tutorial registration includes two half-day tutorials and two lunches, at USD200.

CrownCom 2008 Organizing Committee

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