[Mycolleagues] Cognitive Radio: Algorithms & System Design by Physical Communication Journal (ELSEVIER)

 

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Dear all colleagues,

 

A special issue on “Cognitive Radio: Algorithms & System Design” is under process by the ELSEVIER Physical Communication Journal. Please kindly find the Call For Papers (CFP) as attached here.

 

 

PHYCOM:

Physical Communication Journal (ELSEVIER)

Special issue on:

Cognitive Radio: Algorithms & System Design

 

Cognitive radio is an emerging technology in wireless access, aimed at vastly improving the way radio spectrum is utilized. The basic idea is that an “unlicensed” secondary user can be permitted to use licensed spectrum, provided that it does not interfere with any primary users. 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. The research challenges in this area include devising methods for efficient spectrum pooling, interference management and dynamic resource allocation to achieve spectral efficiency without causing harmful degradation to the primary system.

The aim of this issue is to bring together theoretical research contributions and practical applications presenting new techniques, concepts or analyses focusing on cognitive radio algorithms and system design. Original papers on related subjects will be considered, among them spectrum pooling, collaborative communication, system protocols design, implementation and architectures for enabling technologies on cognitive radio, and dynamic spectrum access based communication systems.

 

Topics of interest:

·         Wireless Spectrum Auctions ·         Dynamic Spectrum Management Interference Management Spectrum Pooling Blind Sensing Techniques Co-existence of Heterogeneous Systems ·         Distributed Channel Selection and Resource Allocation Algorithms

·         Cross Layer Design for Cognitive Radio ·         Cooperative Communications in the Context of Cognitive Radio  Measurements and Channel Modeling for Flexible Bandwidth Systems ·         Cognitive and Flexible Radio Architectures and Implementations ·         Ultra-wideband Cognitive Radio

Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts to http://ees.elsevier.com/phycom and to follow manuscript preparation guidelines, in the complete Guide for Authors, at

http://www.elsevier.com/locate/phycom according to the following timetable:

 

Manuscript Submission: September 30, 2008

First Round of Reviews: November 15, 2008

Acceptance Notification: December 15, 2008

Final Manuscript Due: December 31, 2008

Publication: January 2009

 

Guest Editors:

 

Aawatif HAYAR EURECOM, France aawatif.hayar@eurecom.fr	Heather ZHENG Univ. of California Santa Barbara, USA htzheng@cs.ucsb.edu	Dana PORRAT The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel dana.porrat@huji.ac.il
Honggang ZHANG Zhejiang University, China honggangzhang@zju.edu.cn	Sai Shankar Nandagopalan Broadcom Corp. nsai@broadcom.com

 

 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Honggang Zhang

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Honggang ZHANG, Professor, Ph.D.

Department of Information Science & Electronic Engineering

Zhejiang University

Zheda Road 38, Hangzhou 310027, CHINA

Tel: +86-571-87952022       Fax: +86-571-87952022

Email: honggangzhang@zju.edu.cn

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