Workshops

Additionally to its high quality technical programme, ICC 2009 hosts overall 10 workshops on different topics from communications. More specifically, the following workshops take place on Sunday, 14 June 2009:

• Second International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications
• First International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking
• 2009 IEEE Vehicular Networking & Applications Workshop
• Workshop on Cooperative Mobile Networks 2009
• 2009 Joint Workshop on Cognitive Wireless Networks and Systems

Thursday, 18 June 2009:

• First International Workshop on Green Communications
• International Workshop on LTE Evolution
• Next Generation Public Safety Communication Networks and Technologies
• International Workshop on Synergies in Communications and Localization
• International Workshop on the Network of the Future 2009

Organizers

• Alexey Vinel, Russian Academy of Science
• Adolf Finger, Technische Universität Dresden
• Vladimir Vishnevsky, RUssian Academy of Science
• Felix Taubin, Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation

Date

Sunday, 14 June 2009

Description

Claude Shannon established the foundation for the discipline now known as "multi-user information theory" in his pioneering paper "Two-way Communication Channels" in 1961 and later Norman Abramson published his paper "The Aloha System - Another Alternative for Computer Communications" in 1970 which introduced the concept of multiple access using a shared common channel. Thereafter for more than 40 years of study, numerous elegant theories and algorithms have been developed for multiple access techniques.

In recent years, broadband wireless data networks (for instance, IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.16 WiMAX) are driving the development of telecommunication industry and beyond 3G (B3G) wireless systems are expected to provide a variety of multimedia services in a wide range of wireless and mobile environments. To use the scarce bandwidth resource of the wireless channel, it is necessary to design channel access control techniques for a large population of users (potentially hundreds of mobile stations).

The aim of this workshop is to discuss both multi-user communications theory and multiple access techniques and standardization activities in areas related to PHY and MAC layer protocols for contemporary networks and their interactions. We intend to provide the experts from both the academic institutes and industry with an opportunity to present their art-of-the-state results and exchange the ideas on multiple access techniques and related areas.

Topics of Interest

We invite you to submit your original full papers on the most recent results and technology trends in the fields of:

• multi-user information theory;
• multiple access techniques, queuing theory methods and polling systems analysis;
• MAC protocols development and analysis;
• PHY/MAC cross-layer techniques.

Website

Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website www.csit-spb.ru/macom2009.html.

Organizers

• Joel Rodrigues, Institute of Telecommunications & University of Beira Interior
• Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace
• Tsong-Ho Wu, Telcordia Technologies

Date

Sunday, 14 June 2009

Description

The International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking (MAN) provides a forum for discussion of recent developments, bringing together researchers, scientists, engineers, academicians and students all around the world to share the latest updates on new technologies and applications that would shape the next generation of networks and systems related with medicine and healthcare. Communications and network technologies play an important role in medical solutions and healthcare. New solutions continue to be developed to create safer health care environments. The rapid growth of using such devices and technologies in medical fields has created new opportunities and applications. However, enormous challenges still remain to be resolved in order to develop flexible, reliable, secure, and power-efficient networks suitable for medical needs. MAN 2009 will be held in conjunction with ICC 2009, Dresden, Germany.

Topics of Interest

The Workshop is soliciting papers describing original work, unpublished and not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, on topics, including but not limited to, the following:

• Body sensor networks
• Clinical Biofeedback
• Communications protocols and applications
• E-Health
• Health and healthcare applications
• Medical signal acquisition, analysis and processing
• Mobile applications
• Modeling, simulation, and performance evaluation
• Real-time Systems
• Security and privacy
• Telemedicine
• Image and video processing
• Wearable sensors and systems
• Wireless sensor networks

Website

Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website http://man.it.ubi.pt.

Organizers

• Russell Hsing, Telcordia Technologies
• C.K. Toh, University of Hong Kong
• Daniel Wong, 3G Wireless and Software

Date

Sunday, 14 June 2009

Description

Car-to-car (C2C) communication networks have now gain popularity and importance. New technical challenges have evolved that demand research and investigations. Globally, automobiles are indispensable for connecting people, delivering goods and services and commuting from one place to another. Car industries are of great importance in Asia, Europe, USA and the rest of the world. Car markers will be key players in car telematics. Much research remain to be done to bring alive the vision of future intelligent inter-vehicular applications, which will be supported by C2C. This workshop is intended to serve as a forum and bring together the researchers and engineers in both academia and industry to exchange ideas, share experiences, and report original works about all aspects of service discovery and composition in ubiquitous and pervasive environments. The main purpose is to promote discussions of research and relevant activities in the design of architectures, algorithms, and applications for inter-vehicular communication environments. This workshop will also address some leading standardization efforts (802.11p, p1609, TIA TR48, etc.).

Topics of Interest

The Workshop is soliciting papers describing original work, unpublished and not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, on topics, including but not limited to, the following:

• ITS car-2-car networks
• ITS car-2-roadside communications
• MAC, routing, QoS, addressing, multicast, TCP protocols
• Congestion Control and Cooperative VANETs
• New application scenarios of ITS vehicular networks
• Mobility and handoff issues
• Sensors & Data Collection
• Content Distribution
• C2C communications
• Intra-car communications
• Traffic and flow control issues
• Info Dissemination; Data organization
• Security issues, architectures and solutions
• Privacy issues and solutions
• Data replication protocols in network partitions
• Different technologies (DSRC, WiMAX, WiFi, 3G/4G, cell phone)
• Application innovation
• 802.11p WAVE ; 802.11s MESH; DSRC
• Implementation/deployment status
• Network Management for C2C

Organizers

• F. Fitzek, Aalborg University
• M. Katz, VTT

Date

Sunday, 14 June 2009

Description

The scope of the workshop is to bring together a highly qualified group of people with interest in cognitive and cooperative wireless networks. Both, cognition and cooperation are becoming major subjects of research in the wireless communication community as they have been identified as some of the underlying principles for future wireless communication systems. Cognition is exploited as a mean to use the wireless communication systems more efficiently and not limited to spectrum sensing and management only. Cooperation, altruistic or non-altruistic, is the basis to break up the cellular concept and enrich it by multi hop, peer-to-peer, or grid functionalities. The workshop will highlight the newest trends in this emerging area, complementing it with first practical implementations and demonstrations in this field. Besides the technical insights, the workshop will encourage the participants to discuss among each other.

Topics of Interest

The workshop welcomes submissions from both researchers and practitioners but fresh ideas in the form of early results, position papers and systems papers are particularly welcome. Areas of interest include but are not limited to

• Architectures of Cognitive and Cooperative Wireless Networks (CCWN)
• Pricing and Billing Models for Cooperative Networking
• Spectrum management policy and strategy for cognitive networks
• Protocol Design for CCWN
• Physical and MAC Layer Issues regarding CCWN
• Software Defined Radio for CCWN
• New advances in Cognitive Radio
• Peer-to-Peer Technologies for CCWN
• Cross-layer optimization in CCWN
• Security in Cooperative Wireless Networks
• Mobile Applications for CCWN
• Sensor Networks for CCWN
• Wireless Grids
• Network Coding
• Game Theory for CCWN
• Practical implementations, test-beds and demonstrations.

Website

Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website kom.aau.dk/project/coconet/.

Organizers

• Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus
• Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology
• Joseph Evans, University of Kansas
• Matthias Siebert, T-Mobile International
• Didier Bourse, Motorola
• Victor Leung, University of British Columbia
• Hiroshi Harada, NICT
• Przemyslaw Pawelczak, Delft University of Technology
• R. Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology
• Petri Mahonen, RWTH Aachen
• Ingo Gaspard, Deutsche Telekom/T-Systems

Date

Sunday, 14 June 2009

Description

The International Joint Workshop “Cognitive Wireless Networks and Systems – Cognitive Radio Networking” is the juxtaposition of many initiatives, from around the world, which strive in parallel to contribute to the development of cognitive networking technologies, and wireless communications and networks. The Workshop provides a forum for discussion of all these developments, bringing together industry and academia, engineers, scientists and researchers. The discussions will cover achievements and open issues in research, standards, regulation, business models and products. The attribution of cognition in the wireless world is one of the most exciting areas in modern telecommunications. Targets are to increase efficiency and to address the complexity in the wireless world. Technical approach includes the development of intelligent management functionality and reconfigurable infrastructure. Reconfigurable infrastructures cover terminals, devices, access points and fixed-network elements. Management includes context acquisition mechanisms, decision making strategies and decision enforcements means.

Topics of Interest

In the light of the aspects identified above, the Workshop invites submissions on the most recent results and technology trends in the fields of:

• Context management, sensing, reasoning and context acquisition
• Policy based management of B3G wireless infrastructures
• Collaborative radio resource, spectrum, power management, resource optimisation
• Autonomic computing, self-x functionalities for cognitive elements and terminals for managing elements of wireless infrastructures
• Flexible spectrum management
• Negotiation strategies
• Profiles of user applications, elements, learning user preferences
• Pilot channels, radio enablers in support of cognitive infrastructures
• Cognitive 2.5G/3G/3.5G, wireless wide area infrastructures, short range networks, mesh topologies
• Cognitive radio devices, reconfigurable elements, evolution from software defined radio to cognitive infrastructures
• Demonstrations, proof-of-concept of reconfigurable and cognitive infrastructures
• Business models, standardisation and regulation aspects
• Applications of cognitive wireless networks
• Initial experiences with cognitive radio pilot implementations
• Architectures for hardware and software defined cognitive radio
• Regulatory policies for non-centralized spectrum management
• Enforcement of policies for cognitive radio devices
• Pricing and billing for cognitive radio devices
• Authorization and authentication of cognitive radio devices
• Novel dynamic/opportunistic spectrum access techniques
• Cross-layer optimization of cognitive radio wireless networking
• End-to-End modelling of cognitive radio wireless networking
• Security of cognitive radio wireless networking
• Signal processing for cognitive radio wireless networking

Website

Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website www.ieee-cogwinets.org.

Organizers

• Jürgen Quittek, NEC Europe Ltd.
• Robert Saracco, Telecom Italia
• Ken Christensen, University of South Florida
• Ernesto Zimmermann, Technische Universität Dresden

Date

Thursday, 18 June 2009

Description

The steadily rising energy cost and the need to reduce the global CO2 emission to protect our environment are today’s economical and ecological drivers for the emerging consideration of energy consumption in all fields of communications. Triggered by network operators experiencing energy cost as a significant new factor of their calculation, researchers have started to investigate approaches for reducing power consumption and manufacturers have started offering energyefficient network components. Also standards bodies, such as the IEEE, are already processing standards for energy-efficient protocols. However, research and development in these areas is still at an early stage and the space of potential solutions is far from being explored. The First International Workshop on Green Communications (GreenComm’09) will bring together academic and industrial researchers for discussing energy-efficient communications. It will close the gap between the already established conferences and workshops covering energy-efficiency for IT on one side and for wireless sensor networks on the other side.

Topics of Interest

We solicit contributions that report recent results, share experiences, or address research challenges in energy-efficient network protocols and devices and in energy management. Particularly, we want to identify and address issues with a very high potential for significant energy saving including access network infrastructure, home networks, and terminals. Areas of interest include but are not limited to

• Energy-efficient protocols and protocol extensions
  • Energy-efficient transmission technologies
  • Cross-layer optimizations
• Energy-efficient network device technology
  • Energy-efficient switch and base station architectures
  • Zero-power sleep mode
  • Exploitation of passive network elements
• Energy management in communication networks
  • Architectures and frameworks
  • Hierarchical and distributed techniques
  • Remote power management for terminals
  • Harvesting distributed energy generation
• Measurement and profiling of energy consumption
  • Instrumentation for energy consumption measurement
  • Operator experiences
• Energy-efficiency in specific networks
  • Mobile and wireless access networks
  • Broadband access networks
  • Appliances management in home and office networks

Website

Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website www.greencomm09.org.

Organizers

• Holger Boche, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut
• Zhongrong Liu, T-Mobile
• Ralf Irmer, Vodafone R&D
• Patrick Marsch, Technische Universität Dresden

Date

Thursday, 18 June 2009

Description

As the mobile Internet is becoming reality, the demand for a ubiquitous, high-bandwidth Internet access anytime, anywhere is continuously increasing. As spectrum is limited, this means that future mobile communications systems have to support significantly higher spectral efficiencies than today's systems. The main requirements towards next generation networks are high spectral efficiency, fairness, low capital and operational cost per bit, and low latency. The LTE standardization process within 3GPP already aims on fulfilling the requirements in next generation networks. First results indicate that the proposed techniques won’t be able to achieve the required long-term demands of mobile communications systems. Hence, there are activities to start the development and evaluation of techniques for systems beyond LTE such as multi-cell transmission and detection as well as relaying. A prominent example of these activities is the German project EASY-C. This project investigates inter-cell cooperation techniques (multi-cell transmission/detection) and intra-cell cooperation techniques (relaying, multi-antenna transmission). Within EASY-C, these techniques are improved through theoretical analyses and testbed implementation (downtown Dresden and Berlin, respectively). The “International Workshop on Systems Beyond LTE” complements the high-quality technical papers and exhibition at ICC 2009 by providing an up-to-date workshop on recent advancements and developments of systems beyond LTE. It gives an overview on demands for those systems, recent achievements in implementing demonstrations as well as gives an outlook on the roadmap for systems after LTE.

Topics of Interest

We solicit contributions which concentrate on the development of LTE and techniques for systems beyond LTE, in particular. This includes theoretical analyses, simulation results as well as experiences with demonstrations of LTE and “beyond LTE” systems. Areas of interest include

• Inter-cell cooperation techniques
  • Multi-cell joint transmission for interference mitigation
  • Multi-cell joint detection for interference cancellation
  • Multi-cell interference coordination
  • Practical constraints on inter-cell cooperation
• Intra-cell cooperation techniques
  • Multi-antenna transmission and detection
  • Relaying based systems
  • Coding for multi-antenna systems
• LTE
  • Performance assessment results
  • Experiences with testbed implementations
  • Recent advances in the standardization process
• Protocols and Architecture
  • Service demands in “beyond LTE” systems
  • Interoperability and legacy issues
  • Internet integration
• Any other topic closely related to the described scope of this workshop

Website

Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website www.lte-evolution-2009.org/.

Organizers

• Thomas Engel, Universite du Luxembourg
• Latif Ladid, President IPv6 Forum
• Adrian Boukalov, Universite du Luxembourg

Date

Thursday, 18 June 2009

Description

The Workshop will address the issues of future Public Safety Communication Systems (PSC) and Technologies. The Public Safety Communication user requirements are at some extend different from the requirements of public communication systems. They are occupying space between the domains of public and military communication systems requirements and applicable technologies. To increase reliability, resilience and performance of PS communications new technological solutions are often required. The market of PSC is relatively small and depends on funding decisions and policies of national authorities. There are several standards of PMR narrow band public safety systems in the world such as TETRA, TETRAPOL, P25. The introduction of wideband and narrowband features and new technologies into existing systems and new standards is an important issue for PSC. It requires close cooperation and collaboration with research community. There are considerable ongoing efforts on integration and modification of existing WLAN and WiMax standards for public safety. The integration of different networks such as UMTS, WLAN, PMR, deployable networks and developing heterogeneous networks are the key research topic for future public safety. The current trends in PSC technology development include the deployable networks, broadband services and technologies, localization techniques. Other important areas of collaboration with research community are in technologies and techniques for upgrade and modification of existing communication networks.

Topics of Interest

The topic of the workshop will be closely linked with the ICC topics such as:

• Wireless Communications and Networks
• Vehicular Communications
• Cognitive Networks
• Signal Processing for Communications
• Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling
• Next Generation Networks
• Adhoc and Sensor Networking
• New Security Paradigm
• Standards, Emerging Technologies and Applications (IPTV, IMS, FMC, 3G LTE, 4G, AIPN, OFDM, MIMO, SDR, SIP, IPv6 ……)

Website

Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website u2010.eu/ngsafe09/home.html.

Organizers

• Simon Plass, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Marco Luise, University of Pisa

Date

Thursday, 18 June 2009

Description

The main objective of this Workshop is to show how wireless communications and navigation/localization techniques can benefit from each other. With respect to these synergies the Workshop aims at the following fundamental questions:

• How can navigation systems benefit from existing communications systems?
• How can communications systems benefit from positioning information of mobile terminals?

Topics of Interest

We invite you to submit your original full papers on the most recent results and technology trends in the fields of:

• Hybrid positioning using both wireless communications and satellite navigation systems;
• Resource management with positioning information;
• Location-aware PHY/MAC algorithms/procedures;
• Indoor positioning combined with short range communications;
• Signal Processing techniques for (seamless) indoor/outdoor localization.

Website

Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website www.sycolo2009.org.

Organizers

• N. Niebert, Ericsson
• R. Winter, NEC
• M. Presser, University of Surrey

Date

Thursday, 18 June 2009

Description

Today’s Internet architecture is stifling innovation, restricting it mostly to the application layer. But even there innovation is becoming more difficult making the need for structural change increasingly evident. The things that make innovation difficult stem from changing once valid assumptions such as the end to end principle by introducing middleboxes or from the lack of adequate mechanisms to properly account for network resource consumption to name just two. Also the environment of the network layer has changed fundamentally as the nowadays dominant optical and wireless links demand special attention and new information centric devices and services pose new requirements on the network itself. From a number of angles it appears that we have reached a point in the impressive development cycle of the Internet that now requires some major change. However, research and development in these areas is still at an early stage and the space of potential solutions is far from being explored.

The International Workshop on the Network of the Future (Future-Network’09) is a platform for both clean-slate as well as evolutionary approaches for a redesign of the Internet. It will uniquely bring together approaches driven from mobile and wireless demands, network virtualization, network self-management, content and sensor networking and discuss these from both a technical as well as socio-economic perspective.

Topics of Interest

We solicit contributions that report early results addressing research challenges in topics related to the network of the future. Particularly, we want to identify and address issues with a very high potential for significant impacts on the way the network is functioning and being used. The workshop welcomes submissions from both researchers and practitioners but fresh ideas in the form of early results, position papers and systems papers are particularly welcome. Areas of interest include but are not limited to

• Fundamental re-designs of key Internet components
  • Alternatives to the established routing technologies
  • New design flows for the network architecture
  • End-to-end virtualization of the network
• Technology to introduce vital but missing functionality
  • Accountability of the network resource usage
  • Self-management of network services
  • New media-aware transport services (suitable for low bandwidth sensor to high bandwidth multi-media)
  • New approaches to network security
  • Multi-level gateways/folding points to interconnect heterogeneous edge networks (sensor/actuator, mobile, fixed, etc)
• Technology based on new communication paradigms
  • Information centric networking
  • Wide-scale Internets of Things
  • Machine to machine networking
• Socio-economic drivers
  • Business models for the Internet of Things
  • Business drivers for radical changes in the network
  • Regulatory frame for a new networking layer

Website

Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website www.future-network09.org/.