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Call for Workshop Paper Submissions
The following workshops are open for paper submissions as described in the individual Call for Papers.
Submissions for all workshops are due November 19, 2012. When submitting papers on EDAS, please take care to submit to the appropriate WCNC 2013 workshop. For more information about specific workshops and topics of interest, click on the titles below.
1. Title: IEEE 2013 WCNC Workshop on Convergence of Broadcasting and Broadband Communications
Organizing Committee:
Prof. Mingqi Li
Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI), Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof. Hui Liu
Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Duration of workshop: Full Day
Abstract: Recently, the Convergence of broadcasting and broadband communications receives much attention to efficiently push contents. Generally, broadcasting system provides public service, such as TV programs, popular radios and videos. In contrast, broadband communication systems, such as 3G and 4G, mainly focus on personalized service in which every subscriber can occupy unique resources (time or frequency). Though subscribers have different demands, some services can be shared in common within a number of subscribers at the same time, which makes broadcasting a more efficient way for content delivery. This workshop is expected to bring together both academic and industrial researchers to study the major challenges related to interworking of broadcasting and mobile communications. This workshop will be held in conjunction with IEEE WCNC 2013 between 7th - 10th April, 2013 in Shanghai, China.
Workshop web link: http://cbbc.csp.escience.cn
Workshop submission link: EDAS
2. Title: The First International Workshop on Communication Systems with Extreme Contexts (xCOM)
Organizing Committee:
Dr. Liang Cheng
Lehigh University, USA
Dr. Ing. Christian Wietfeld, Professor,
TU Dortmund University
Duration of workshop: Half Day
Abstract: With the advances of the hardware/software capabilities and application needs, communication systems are used or expected to be used in extreme situations, such as deep-ground, deep-water, deep-space, or deeply-embedded systems. Such extreme scenarios may require transformative techniques to realize communication systems for them. For example, deep-ground applications may need communication systems working in extremely low frequency channels while the size and the energy consumption of such systems are challenging factors. Another example is that research on satellite communications leads to innovations in Terahertz communication systems. There also exists a good amount of work that focuses on reducing energy consumption of communication systems to extremely-low levels. Recent journal special issues, such as JSAC on “Emerging Technologies in Communications” related to the communication systems in extreme spectrum and extreme energy consumption levels underline the timeliness of the topic.
This workshop will be held in conjunction with IEEE WCNC 2013 between 7th - 10th April, 2013 in Shanghai, China.
Workshop web link: http://www.ieee-xcom.org/
Workshop submission link: EDAS
3. Title: Mobile Internet: Traffic Modeling, Subscriber Perception Analysis and Traffic-aware Network Design
Organizing Committee:
Xing Zhang
School of Information and Communications Engineering (SICE), BUPT
Zhaobiao Lv
Department of Wireless Technology, China Unicom Research Institute
Duration of workshop: Half Day
Abstract: For the past few decades, wireless cellular telecommunication has become an indispensable part of our modern society. More than four billion subscribers around the world depend on their mobile phones for their private and professional lives. With the development of technologies in 3G and LTE/4G telecommunication systems, smart phones such as iPhone/Android and emerging interesting applications such as Weibo (twitter) QQ and Facebook, people's demand for multimedia communication, such as image and video, is increasingly growing, so is the quality requirements for multimedia communication in wireless systems. The era of Mobile Internet has coming. China now is the largest mobile market with more than 1 billion subscribers, and mobile Internet subscribers more than 600 million, even more than PC users. However, mobile Internet has brought many problems – the contradiction of increasing demand for data rate and limited bandwidth of air interface of mobile cellular systems, poor subscriber perception performance or quality of experience (QoE), some Internet apps such as IM/P2P not suitable for transmissions in mobile cellular systems. As a result, mobile Internet traffic analysis, modeling and management and the traffic-aware network architecture design has become a prerequisite for mobile cellular system architecture operation and development for the three major mobile telecom operators in China, including China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom. For example, China Mobile proposes the concept of C-RAN aims at addressing the challenges in the mobile Internet era which is to find a green Radio Access Network evolution path through the exploration of cutting-edge technologies like Centralized processing, Collaborative radio, and real-time Cloud computing. China Unicom proposes the architecture of I-Net which is designed to face face the challenges brought by mobile internet applications with prominent characteristic of interactivity. With controllable direct transmission among base stations, I-Net has capability to offload traffics inside the radio access network (RAN) without the processing of core networks, which is expected to reduce the data processing pressure of both core networks and transport networks, and to some extent, reduce the CAPEX and OPEX to improve bit data income per user. This workshop “Mobile Internet: Traffic Modeling, Subscriber Perception Analysis and Traffic-aware Network Architecture Design for Mobile Cellular Systems” is devoted to recent state-of-the-art advances on the research and study in wireless communications systems and networks. The workshop will be held together with IEEE WCNC 2013 between 7th - 10th April, 2013 in Shanghai, China.
Workshop web link: To be provided
Workshop submission link: EDAS
4. Title: New Advances for Physical Layer Network Coding
Organizing Committee:
Dr. Zhiguo Ding
Newcastle University, UK,
Dr. Tharmalingam Ratnarajah
Edinburgh University, UK
Prof. Zheng Ma
Soutwest Jiaotong Univeristy, China
Dr. Mathini Sellathurai
Herriot-Watt University UK
Duration of workshop: Half Day
Abstract: Communications research is shifting from point-to-point models to networked models. Network coding goes beyond the conventional routing approach to networking in which intermediate nodes simply receive and forward information bits; by encoding bits at intermediate nodes, network coding can significantly increase the network throughput. Wireless interference can be efficiently exploited and the capacity bottleneck of wireless communications due to the scarce bandwidth resource can be overcome, which motivates the application of network coding to various wireless communication scenarios, such as traditional cellular systems and wireless ad-hoc, sensor, and mesh networks.
This workshop is proposed at a time when network coding has been envisioned to bring fundamental changes to the design of communication networks, where spectrum can be more efficiently utilized and interference can be better coped with. While many conferences and workshops provide a venue to present and discuss network coding, two-way relaying transmissions, network protocols and solutions, only few research works systematically addressed issues related to the fundamental limits of network coding and its practical implementation. In addition, there are a few emerging topics in the area of network coding, such as the application of network coding to physical layer security, channel error correct coding, and cross-layer routing, which have not been covered by the past events. The primary objective of this workshop is to discuss the issues related to these themes. Such a workshop will provide a forum for the researchers working in the general area of wireless communications to share new ideas/experiences in all theoretical and experimental aspects of network coding.
This workshop will be held in conjunction with IEEE WCNC 2013 between 7th - 10th April, 2013 in Shanghai, China.
Workshop web link: http://www.swjtu2012.com/WCNC-NAPLNC/
Workshop submission link: EDAS
5. Title: Mobile Cloud Computing and Networking
Organizing Committee:
Professor Kun Yang
University of Essex, UK
PDr. Shumao Ou
Oxford Brookes University, UK
Professor Hai Jin
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
Professor Amiya Nayak
University of Ottawa, Canada
Duration of workshop: Full Day
Abstract: Cloud computing is on the hype but largely confined in wired networks. With the rapid advancement of both wireless network technologies and mobile smart phones, there is an increasing need for cloud services to be equally accessible by mobile users, thus rendering a new research field of mobile cloud computing (MCC). In this workshop, MCC refers to a vision and its associated enabling technologies that facilitate an infrastructure where both the data storage and the data processing happen outside of the mobile device. Current cloud computing architecture, platforms and services need to evolve, by taking into consideration the specific features of mobile networks that are different from these of fixed IP networks, to better serve cloud applications operating over mobile wireless networks. Apart from investigating into mobile IaaS framework, which provides fundamental, infrastructure-level support to
MCC, SaaS (software as a service) is particularly attractive to mobile applications. This is because a SaaS can free resource-constrained mobile devices from having many applications installed and executed on them.
The other side of the mobile cloud story is networking, which is largely neglected by the cloud computing research communities. This can be addressed from two different angles. One angle is how the wireless networks can be engineered to provide better connectivity support to cloud services. For example, discussions have started as to whether and how LTE BBUs can be separated from their frontend radio unit and then put together into a pool (cloud) to increase resource utilization and energy efficiency.
On the other hand, there is also the aspect of how wireless networks can take advantage of the advanced features of cloud computing to solve network problems. Therefore, this workshop will solicit papers that address either aspect or both aspects of the above two issues (i.e., computing and networking) and therefore provide a unique and unified venue for a more holistic discussion of the research issues and outcomes concerning mobile cloud computing.
This workshop will be held in conjunction with IEEE WCNC 2013 between 7th - 10th April, 2013 in Shanghai, China.
Workshop web link: http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/people/shumao.ou/?page_id=106
Workshop submission link: EDAS
6. Title: Future gReen End-to-End wireless Network (FREENET)
Organizing Committee:
Shugong Xu
Huawei Technologies, China
Duration of workshop: Half Day
Abstract: Energy consumption and electromagnetic pollution are societal and economic challenges of prime importance that developed countries have to tackle. The evolution of future communication infrastructures will have to take into consideration both the aforementioned factors. The increasing demand for bandwidth-hungry multimedia and internet-related wireless devices and services has spurred the need towards maximal exploitation of spectral resources. Since 2006, data traffic on wireless networks has grown by approximately 400% and is expected to continue to increase rapidly in the coming years. The widespread use of complex, spectrum efficient techniques to support such high data volumes, the demand for higher data rates and the ever-increasing number of wireless users translate to rapidly rising power consumption. Currently consuming 3% of the energy and causing 2% of the CO2 emissions globally, the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) industries are facing an increase in associated energy consumption of 16-20% per year. Furthermore, the energy costs for mobile operators can be as high as half of their annual operating budgets. The foregoing considerations highlight the urgent need for designing smart and green communications and networks.
This workshop will be held in conjunction with IEEE WCNC 2013 on April 7 - 9th, 2013 in Shanghai, China.
Workshop web link: http://staff.uestc.edu.cn/wugang/?page_id=177
Workshop submission link: EDAS
7. Title: Applications of Delay Tolerant Networking (A-DTN)
Organizing Committee:
Duration of workshop: Half Day
Abstract: Delay tolerant networking (DTN) has become active fields of research during the past decade. They address scenarios where traditional communication protocols fail because of very long-delayed transmissions, or because of the absence of continuous end-to-end connectivity in the network. Such environments reside at the edges of the current Internet infrastructure, such as public and private transport vehicles, underwater, satellite and deep-space networks.
The workshop will be held together with IEEE WCNC 2013 between 7th - 10th April, 2013 in Shanghai, China.
Workshop web link: http://osn.ouc.edu.cn/adtn2013/
Workshop submission link: EDAS
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline:
November 19, 2012 |
Acceptance Notification:
December 17, 2012 |
Final paper (“camera-ready”) deadline:
January 15, 2013 |
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