IEEE Workshop on Cognitive Radio Networks (CRN)

CCNC 2007 - Satellite Workshop

11 January 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society

Technical Sponsorship: IEEE Technical Sub-committee on Cognitive Networks

Workshop Theme

Cognitive radio networks are intelligent networks that can automatically
sense the environment and adapt the communication parameters accordingly.
These types of networks have applications in dynamic spectrum access,
co-existence of different wireless networks, interference management, etc.
They are touted to drive the next generation of devices, protocols and
applications. Clearly, the cognitive radio network paradigm poses many new
technical challenges in protocol design, power efficiency, spectrum
management, spectrum detection, environment awareness, new distributed
algorithm design, distributed spectrum measurements, QoS guarantees, and
security. Overcoming these issues becomes even more challenging due to
non-uniform spectrum and other radio resource allocation policies, economic
considerations, the inherent transmission impairments of wireless links, and
user mobility.

Topics of Interests

Papers offering novel research contributions in all aspects of cognitive
radio networks are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

- Spectrum etiquette and dynamic spectrum sharing techniques
- Fundamental performance limits of cognitive radio communications
- Wideband sensing and multiband agile wireless networks
- Platforms for the support of adaptive, spectrum agile, and cognitive networks (e.g., software defined radios, reconfigurable radios)
- Cognitive protocols and algorithms from PHY to Application layers
- Interference measurements and metrics
- Cross-layer cognitive algorithms
- QoS provisioning in adaptive, spectrum agile, and cognitive networks
- Interoperability, interference and co-existence of dissimilar wireless networks
- Simulation of cognitive wireless networks
- Support for multimedia applications
- Security issues
- Spectrum policy reform issues
- Economics of spectrum policy reform
- Standardization

Guidelines for Submission

--Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under
   review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published.
--Paper length should not exceed five-page technical paper manuscript. Please see
   author information page for submission guidelines at CCNC'07 website
   (http://www.ieee-ccnc.org). The paper should be used as the basis for a
   20-30 minute Workshop presentation.
--Papers should be submitted in a .pdf or .ps format by selecting CCNC'07
   at the EDAS paper submission website ( http://www.edas.info) and then
   selecting the workshop submission link.
--A separate cover sheet should show the title of the paper,
   the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address
   (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which the correspondence
   should be sent.
--All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
--At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the
   full registration rate.





Important Dates:

- Paper submission deadline: 4th September 2006
- Author notification: 2nd October 2006
- Final camera ready paper submission deadline: 10 October 2006
- Author registration deadline: 8 October, 2006
- Workshop date: 11 January 2007


Workshop Organizing Committee

Symposium Co-chairs:

Huseyin Arslan, University of South Florida, USA
Cynthia Hood, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Publicity Co-chairs:

Yiping Xing, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Tevfik Yucek, University of South Florida, USA

Steering Committee:

R. Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Joseph Mitola III, MITRE, USA


Technical Program Committee

Randall Berry, Northwestern University, USA
Saad Biaz, Auburn University, USA
Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
Carlos Cordeiro, Philips Research, USA
Linda Doyle, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Joseph Evans, University of Kansas, USA
Amer Hassan, Microsoft Co., USA
Nancy Jesuale, NetCity Engineering, USA
Alexe Leu, Shared Spectrum Company, USA
Kyutae Lim, Georgia Institute of Technology,USA
Liangping Ma, San Diego Research Center, Inc. USA
Allen MacKenzie, Virginia Tech, USA
Stefan Mangold, Swisscom Innovations, Switzerland
Kamesh Namuduri, Wichita State University, USA
Balasubramaniam Natarajan, Kansas State University, USA
Keith Nolan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Ashish Pandharipande, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
Sumit Roy, University of Washington, USA
Chien-Chung Shen, University of Delaware, USA
K.P. Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Vahid Tarokh, Harvard University, USA
Alexander Wyglinski, The University of Kansas, USA
Linda Jiang Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Honggang Zhang, Create-Net, Italy
Haitao Zheng, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, USA