PLANNET 2009 - First International Workshop on Planning and Optimization of Wireless Communication Networks (PlanNet2009)

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Category PLANNET 2009

Deadline: January 20, 2009 | Date: June 21, 2009

Venue/Country: Leipzig, Germany

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

Call For Papers - CFP

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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

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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, 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://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6827&.

*Important Dates*

Paper Submission Deadline: 20 December 2008

Paper Acceptance Notification: 25 March 2009

Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 15 April 2009

Registration Deadline for Authors: 15 April 2009

*Workshop General Chairs*

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Jie Zhang, CWiND <http://www.beds.ac.uk/research/irac/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*

Manav Bhatnagar, UNIK, Norway

Alister Burr, University of York, UK

Andreas Eisenblaetter, Atesio GmbH, Germany

Frank H.P. Fitzek, Aalborg University, Denmark

David Gesbert, Institut Eur?com, 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

Yves Lostanlen, SIRADEL, France

Konstantinos Ntagkounakis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Patrick Marsch, Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany

Maciej Nawrocki, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Mugen Peng, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China

Guillaume de la Roche, University of Bedfordshire, UK

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

Shengbing Yu, ZTE, China

Di Yuan, Link?ping University, Sweden

Liqiang Zhao, Xidian University, China

Fuchun Zheng, Reading University, UK

*Contact Information*

Dr. Lingyang Song

Philips Research, Cambridge, UK

Email: *Lingyang.songphilips.com*