[Mycolleagues] CFP: IJDMB, Special Issue: Multicell Cooperation and MIMO Technologies for Broadcasting and Broadband Communications

Second Call for Papers
International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
Special Issue: Multicell Cooperation and MIMO Technologies for
Broadcasting and Broadband Communications

This call for papers can also be found at:
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/si/mimo.html

The wireless industry is experiencing an unprecedented increase in
number and sophistication of broadcasting and broadband communication
systems. The growing diffusion of new services, like mobile television
and multimedia communications, emphasizes the need of advanced
transmission techniques that can fundamentally increase the system
capacity. In this context, the multi-cell collaborative transmission
is becoming one of a major subject of research in the wireless
communication community as it has been identified as one of the
underlying principles for future wireless communication systems.
Further, if perfect cooperation is assumed, it allows the entire
network to be viewed as a single cell MIMO system with a distributed
antenna array at the base station.
This special issue aims at promoting state-of-the-art research
contributions from all research areas either directly involved in or
contributing to improving the issues related to multi-cell cooperation
and MIMO technologies for broadcasting and broadband communications.
Topics of interest of this special issue include but are not limited
to:
•       Information theoretic aspects of cooperative communication systems
•       Cooperative broadcasting with uninformed transmitter
•       Effects of partial and incomplete channel state information in
cooperative/MIMO systems
•       Advances in MIMO and MISO algorithms and applications
•       Physical and MAC layer issues in Cooperative/MIMO communications
•       Performance analysis of distributed MIMO techniques
•       Space-time diversity technologies and space-time coding
•       Practical implementations, test-beds and demonstrations
•       Standardization and deployment in 3G+, 4G and beyond

Authors should follow the International Journal of Digital Multimedia
Broadcasting manuscript format described at the journal site
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/. Prospective authors should
submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the
journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/
according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due: July 1, 2009
First Round of Reviews: October 1, 2009
Publication Date:       January 1, 2010

Guest Editors
•       Hongxiang Li, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58103, USA
(hongxiang.li@ndsu.edu)
•       Jinyun Zhang, Mitsubishi Electrical Research Labs (MERL), Cambridge,
MA 02139, USA (jzhang@merl.com)
•       Lingjia Liu, Samsung Electronics, Richardson, TX 75082, USA
(lliu@sta.samsung.com)
•       Guoqing Li, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR 97124, USA
(guoqing.c.li@intel.com)
•       Younsun Kim, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
(younsun@u.washington.edu)