IWSCH 2012 - 6th International Worlshop on Small Cell and HetNet

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Category IWSCH 2012

Deadline: June 21, 2012 | Date: June 28, 2012

Venue/Country: London, U.K.

Updated: 2012-06-16 00:10:17 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Time: 10:40-17:30

Date: Thursday 28th June 2012

Venue: Hilton London Metropole Hotel, London

Workshop Agenda (Thursday 28th June)

10.30h Breakfast and Registration

11.00h Opening (Prof. Jie Zhang, University of Sheffield)

11.10h Oral Session 1¬¬¬¬¬¬

Dr. Yang Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

“Cooperation in Small Cell Networks”

Dr. Hui Song, Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd., UK

“Ways towards Small Cell Solutions”

12.25h Lunch

13.20h Oral Session 2

Dr. Veronique Capdevielle, Bell Labs, France

“ICIC and mobility issues in small cell networks”

Dr. Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu, Finland

“Self-organisation in Small Cell Networks

14.10h Oral Session 3

Prof. Jie Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK

“Small Cell Deployment in Heterogeneous networks”

Dr. Guillaume de la Roche, Mindspeed, USA

“Combination of 2g/3g/4g and WIFI for next generation small cell networks”

15.00h Coffee Break

15.30h Oral Session 4

Dr. Xiaoli Chu, University of Sheffield, UK

“Mobility Enhancements for Small Cells in Heterogeneous Networks through Interference Coordination”

Dr. Raymond Kwan, Ubiquisys Ltd., UK

“TBA”

16.20h Oral Session 5

Dr. Weisi Guo, University of Sheffield, UK

“Green Small Cell Networks”

TBA,TBA

“TBA”

17.10h Closure

Topics of interests

We therefore invite for review submissions of up to 1-page abstracts of technical presentations targeting, but not limited to the following topics:

1. Network Planning and Optimization

Small/femto cell deployment

Self-organising network (SON)

Mobility management in femto/macrocell scenarios

Interference analysis in femto/macrocell scenarios

Automatic planning and optimization methods for UMTS/HSPA/LTE/LTE-A/WiFi/WiMAX and hybrid radio networks

New system simulation and performance evaluation methods

Indoor/outdoor radio propagation models and scenarios

MIMO measurements scenarios

Network performance study using MIMO and smart antennas

Indoor radio network planning and optimization (repeaters, DAS, picocells and femtocells) methods and tools

Radio resource management (RRM)

Dynamic frequency allocation and spectrum sharing techniques

Radio network planning and optimization reference scenarios

Wireless mesh network planning and optimization methods and tools

Transmission and core network dimensioning to account for HSPA/LTE/LTE-A and femtocell traffic

Traffic modeling and real network traffic scenarios

2. Future Wireless Communication

LTE-Advanced and post LTE-A networks

Future network architecture

Relay and cooperative communications

Heterogeneous wireless networks

Femtocells

MIMO and smart antennas

Cognitive radios

Wireless mesh networks

Green Communications

Smart Building

Vehicular communications

Smart-grid communications

Machine-to-machine communications