[Mycolleagues] [CogCom 2009] Call For Papers

 

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Please kindly find the Call For Papers (CFP) of COGCOM 2009 (http://home.simula.no/~yanzhang/COGCOM2009/) as attached here and as the following.

 

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CALL FOR PAPERS (COGCOM2009)

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Second International Workshop on Cognitive Networks and Communications (COGCOM 2009)

http://home.simula.no/~yanzhang/COGCOM2009/

 

to be held in conjunction with IEEE ICCCN 2009, San Francisco, USA, Aug. 2-6, 2009

http://icccn.org/icccn09/

Important Dates:

 

Paper submission due:  15 March 2009

Author notification: 1 May 2009

Camera-ready due:  15 May 2009

Author registration due: 15 May 2009

Conference dates: first week of August 2009

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Aim of the Workshop

The aim of the workshop is to bring together a highly qualified group of people to present current state-of-art research and development in interrelated fields of cognitive radio and cognitive networking. To date much of the research in the cognitive networks/cognitive radio has focused on the development of dynamic and adaptive strategies, often referred to as ‘weak’ intelligence.  The next big gains in this field will be realized with increasing application of ever ‘stronger’ intelligence techniques, e.g. based on machine learning.  This fusion of wireless communications with the field of distributed artificial intelligence holds the promise of a new highly efficient and flexible communications paradigm, capable of supporting overlapping heterogeneous systems in pooled spectrum. Such intelligence techniques are ideally suited to the lower layers of the protocol stack, e.g. to influence routing, resource and spectrum assignment, and spectrum sensing decisions.  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, enabling technologies for cognitive wireless networks, practical implementations, and policy issues. Besides the technical insights, the workshop will provide a supportive environment for technical discussions between like-minded researchers.

 

Topics of interests (not limited to)

 

Topics of interest relating to cognitive radio and cognitive networking are (but not limited to):

 

• Architectures and platforms of cognitive networks
• Distributed artificial intelligence techniques for cognitive networks
• Cognitive routing metrics and supporting protocols
• Reduced complexity cognitive radios and cognitive networks
• Modeling of cognitive access techniques, including regulatory and business cases
• Signal processing for cognitive networks
• Physical and MAC layer issues
• Protocols design for cognitive networks
• Cross-layer optimization in cognitive networks
• Security issues for cognitive networks
• Sensor aided cognitive networks
• Cognitive  mesh networks
• Spectrum management policy and strategy for cognitive networks
• Peer-to-Peer technologies
• Fast and wideband spectrum sensing
• Measurements on the spectrum usage
• Application of game theory and intelligence techniques for spectrum assignment
• Testbed experiment, applications and new advances

 

Submission Guidelines

 

COGCOM accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers in the area of Cognitive Wireless Networks. Submissions must include an abstract, five to ten keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 6 pages, including tables and figures (up to two extra pages at additional cost) in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). The proceedings of the workshops program will be published, as the IEEE ICCCN 2009 main conference, by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Digital Library.

 

Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submissions will be conducted electronically on the conference website: http://icccn.org/icccn09/.

 

Workshop General Chairs

 

Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA;

 

Workshop TPC Chairs

 

Lingyang Song, Philips Research, UK

David Grace, University of York, UK

 

Workshop Industry Chair

 

Jianfeng Wang, Philips Research, US

 

Workshop Publicity Chair

 

Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China

 

Technical Program Committee

 

Carlos Cordeiro, Intel Cooperation, US

Ivan Cosovic, DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe, Germany

Monisha Ghosh, Philips Research, US

Zhu Han, Houston University, US

Hiroshi Harada, NICT, Japan

Tim Harrold, University of Bristol, UK

Kihong Kim, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, US

Tho Le-Ngoc, McGill University, Canada

Ye Li, George Institute of Technology, US

Yingchang Liang, I²R, Singapore

Petri Mahonen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, UK

Mihael Mohorcic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Maziar Nekovee, BT, UK

Keith Nolan, Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research, Rep. of Ireland

Pavel Pechac, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

R Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Anil Shukla, QinetiQ, UK

Myung-Sun Song, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea

Vahid Tarokh, Harvard University, US

Jie Zhang, University of Bedfordshire, UK

Wei Zhang, The University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia

Wenyi Zhang, Qualcomm, US

John Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK

Zheng Zhou, BUPT, China

Chengxiang Wang, Heriot-Watt University, UK

 

Contact Information

 

Dr. Yan Zhang

Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Email: yanzhang@ieee.org

 

Dr. Lingyang Song

Philips Research, Cambridge, UK

 

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Department of Information Science & Electronic Engineering

Zhejiang University

Zheda Road 38, Hangzhou 310027, CHINA

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