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

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Category COGCOM 2009

Deadline: March 22, 2009 | Date: August 02, 2009

Venue/Country: U.S.A

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

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CALL FOR PAPERS (COGCOM2009)

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

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: yanzhangieee.org

Dr. Lingyang Song

Philips Research, Cambridge, UK

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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: honggangzhangzju.edu.cn