[Tccc] CFP: First International Workshop on Optimization and Network Planning (ONPlan 2010), France

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CALL FOR PAPERS

First International Workshop on Optimization and Network Planning (ONPlan 2010)
IWCMC2010, Caen, France, 28 June - 2 July, 2010.  http://www.iwcmc.com/

==== Scope and Motivation
Next generation networks are expected to provide diverse services with
enhanced QoS (e.g. seamless coverage and higher data rate) at
affordable cost. Network planning and optimization will face many new
challenges arising from increased network scale, diverse services with
different levels of QoS requirements, coexistence of heterogeneous
networks, adoption of new communication and networking technologies.
The purpose of ONPlan is to bring together researchers and engineers
addressing all aspects of challenges in the network planning and
optimization. ONPlan seeks papers dealing with architectural issues,
theoretical and simulation studies, new paradigms, enabling
technologies and practical implementations for network planning and
optimization.

==== Topics of interests
The areas of interest for ONPlan include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Single-technology radio networks
+ Architecture & services (B3G/4G, WiMAX, WRAN, WPAN, VANET)
+ Radio resource management
+ Quality of services provisioning and energy efficiency
+ Cross-layer, scalability, automation and self-healing

- Heterogeneous networks
+ Multi-vendor, multi-technology radio networks
+ Coexistence and cooperation of radio networks
+ Convergent fixed and mobile networks and services
+ Scalability, reliability and robustness

- Indoor radio network
+ Repeaters, picocells and femtocells
+ Automatic configuration algorithms of femtocells
+ Resource, interference and mobility management in femto/macrocell

- Networks with advanced technologies
+ Smart antennas and distributed antenna systems
+ Cooperative relaying in UMTS/HSPA/LTE and WiMAX networks
+ Cognitive radio, dynamic frequency allocation
+ Network coding, delay tolerant network

- System level performance evaluation
+ Traffic modelling and real network traffic scenarios
+ System modelling and simulation
+ Testbed and experimental platform
+ Integration of simulation and field measurement

==== Submission Guidelines
- Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers not
exceeding six pages, including text, figures, tables, and references.
Papers must be written in English and in standard IEEE conference
format.
All submissions will be handled electronically through the EDAS system
(http://edas.info), and must be in PDF format.
- Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings to
be included in ACM/IEEE Digital Library (pending approval). There will
be one best paper award for ONPlan2010. Selected papers will be
further considered for possible publication in two special issues of
Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC)
and International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications
Systems (IJAACS).

==== Important Dates
- Paper Submission Deadline: January 15 2009
- Paper Acceptance Notification:  March 15 2010
- Camera-ready Paper Submissions: April 1 2010

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