CALL FOR
PAPERS
IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
Special Issue
on
Multicell Cooperation
It is well
recognized that the conventional cellular networks can no longer meet
the performance requirement in terms of throughput and coverage. This
is due to the significant increase of mobile users and the limited
spectrum resource. It has stimulated the search for new approaches to
alleviate this problem. Recently, cooperative communications has been
proposed as a key technology to address this problem, which relates
to either the base station (BS) or mobile station (MS) level.
Multicell cooperation is a new and emerging communication paradigm
promising significant system capacity targeting at intercell
interference elimination. It has been shown recently that, with the
aid of multicell cooperation, a significant improvement of cellular
systems' performance can be achieved and the increase in throughput
can be as large as an order of magnitude.
Although the
advantages of multicell cooperation have been demonstrated, many
problems related to the research and developing practical and
effective schemes have emerged. They have attracted considerable
research attentions and remain open. This special issue is intended
to foster state-of-the-art research in the area of multicell
cooperation. Potential topics include, but not limited to:
- Downlink and uplink PHY/MAC/Cross layer design
for multicell cooperation
- Resource allocation and
optimization for cooperative communications
- Cooperative or coordinated beamforming
- Multicell cooperation architecture and protocol design
- Multiuser MIMO with multicell cooperation
- Cognitive radio for multicell coopeation
- Coordinated/cooperative interference management,
cancellation, and mitigation
- Theoretical performance
bounds and outage probability
- Experimental testbeds and
field trial results
Authors must follow the IEEE
Wireless Communications Magazine guidelines for preparation of the
manuscript. The SI will only consider novel, previously unpublished
papers for possible publication. Prospective authors are encouraged
to submit a standard IEEE Wireless Communications paper to this SI
(including all text, figures, and references) through the Manuscript
Central at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm.
Important Dates
Submission due: May 25, 2012
The
first round review result: July 2, 2012
The second round review
result: Sept. 2, 2012
Decision notification: Oct. 13, 2012
Final paper submission: Nov. 31, 2012
Publication:
February, 2013
Guest-editors
Dr. Zander (Zhongding)
Lei
Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Email: leizd@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Prof. Ekram
Hossain
University of Manitoba, Canada
Email: ekram@ee.umanitoba.ca