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First International Workshop on Planning and Optimization of Wireless
Communication Networks (PlanNet2009)
http://www.beds.ac.uk/research/irac/cwind/PlanNet2009
To be held in conjunction with IWCMC 2009, Leipzig, Germany, 21-24 June, 2009
http://iwcmc.com/
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Aim of the Workshop
The aim of the workshop is to bring together both the mobile
communications industry (operators, telecom vendors, radio network
planning and optimization consulting firms and tool producers) and
academia to present and discuss the problems, challenges, directions,
and state-of-art in the fields of future wireless communication
networks deployment, planning and optimization. The workshop will try
to build a bridge between the mobile communications industry and
academic research so that future collaborations between two sectors
can be identified. The goal of future wireless networks is to provide
ubiquitous connections and support high data rate demand. The WiMAX,
LTE, and LTE-Advanced standardizations have already processed toward
this direction but still require significant improvements. Network
planning and optimization faces many challenges arising from the use
of new air interfaces and new technologies (e.g., MIMO, smart
antennas, cooperative relay), the mix of voice, video and data
traffic, the co-existence of different RATs (Radio Access
Technologies), the growing importance of indoor coverage and the
paradigm shifts (e.g., femtocells). The future wireless networks
cannot operate efficiently, unless these challenges are properly
addressed.
In this workshop, the advances of wireless communications that enable
future wireless networks and challenges in network planning and
optimization arising from the adoption of new technologies will be
discussed. PlanNet seeks papers dealing with architectural issues,
theoretical studies, new paradigms, enabling technologies, practical
implementations, and policy issues for future wireless communications
and network planning and optimization problems. Besides the technical
insights, the workshop will provide a supportive environment for
technical discussions between like-minded researchers and engineers.
Further details are listed on the website
http://www.beds.ac.uk/research/irac/cwind/PlanNet2009.
Topics of interests
Topics of interest relating to network planning and optimization and
future wireless communications are (but not limited to):
Network Planning and Optimization
• Automatic UMTS/HSPA/LTE/WiFi/WiMAX radio network planning and
optimization methods
• New system simulation and performance evaluation methods
• Indoor/outdoor radio propagation models and scenarios
• The use of measurements in radio network planning and optimisation
• MIMO measurements scenarios
• Network performance study using MIMO and smart antennas
• Automatic configuration algorithms of femtocells
• Mobility management in femto/macrocell scenarios
• Interference analysis in femto/macrocell scenarios
• Indoor radio network planning and optimization (repeaters, DAS,
picocells and femtocells) methods and tools
• Heterogeneous wireless networks (UMTS/HSPA/LTE/WiFi/WiMAX/DVB)
planning and optimization
• CRRM/JRRM in heterogeneous wireless networks
• Radio resource management (RRM)
• Dynamic frequency allocation and spectrum sharing techniques
• Radio network planning and optimization reference scenarios
• UMTS/HSPA/WiMAX pre-launch and post-launch optimization
• Self-optimization and self-healing in LTE networks
• Cooperative relay in UMTS/HSPA/LTE and WiMAX networks
• Wireless mesh network planning and optimization methods and tools
• Transmission and core network dimensioning to account for HSPA and
femtocell traffic
• Traffic modeling and real network traffic scenarios
Future Wireless Communication
• HSPA/HSPA+/LTE and LTE advanced
• WiMAX and Wireless MAN
• Relay and cooperative communications
• Heterogeneous wireless networks
• Femtocells
• MIMO and smart antennas
• Cognitive radios
• Wireless mesh networks
Submission Guidelines
PlanNet2009 accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers in the
area of future wireless communications and network planning and
optimization. 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
IWCMC2009 main conference, and will be also included by ACM/IEEE
Digital Library. Selected papers will be further considered for
possible publication in the book: "Evolved Cellular Network Planning
and Optimisation for UMTS and LTE" (to be published by Auerbach
Publications, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009)
https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/tccc/2008-October/009527.html.
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://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6827&.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: 20 January 2009
Paper Acceptance Notification: 25 March 2009
Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 15 April 2009
Registration Deadline for Authors: 15 April 2009
Workshop General Chairs
Jie Zhang, CWiND, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Richard Harris, Massey University, New Zealand
Workshop TPC Chairs
Lingyang Song, Philips Research, UK
Jijun Luo, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Petri Mahonen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Technical Program Committee
Mehmet Aydin, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Manav Bhatnagar, UNIK, Norway
Alister Burr, University of York, UK
Narcis Cardona, Universidad Politecnica Valencia, Spain
Guillaume de la Roche, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Andreas Eisenblaetter, Atesio GmbH, Germany
Frank H.P. Fitzek, Aalborg University, Denmark
David Gesbert, Institut Eurécom, France
Jean-Marie Gorce, INSA-Lyon, France
Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
Jianhua He, Swansea University, UK
Raj Jain, Washington University in St. Louis, US
Bingli Jiao, Peking University, China
Alpár Jüttner, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Yves Lostanlen, SIRADEL, France
Patrick Marsch, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Melody Moh, San Jose State University, US
Maciej Nawrocki, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Konstantinos Ntagkounakis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Mugen Peng, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China
Charalabos Skianis, Aegean University, Greece
Yong Sun, Toshiba Research, UK
Jiangzhou Wang, University of Kent, UK
Roger Whitaker, Cardiff University, UK
Joerg Widmer, DOCOMO Communications Laboratories, Germany
Wenbing Yao, Huawei Technologies, China
Shengbing Yu, ZTE, China
Di Yuan, Linköping University, Sweden
Liqiang Zhao, Xidian University, China
Fuchun Zheng, Reading University, UK
Contact Information
Dr. Lingyang Song
Philips Research, Cambridge, UK
Email: Lingyang.song@philips.com
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