EURASIP Journal Special Issue on Femtocells in 4G Systems

(Call for Papers) CLOSED

Special Issue on Femtocells in 4G Systems
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Important Dates

Paper Submission: CLOSED

Author Notification: December 2011
Publication: Spring 2011
Instructions for authors: jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/authors/instructions
Call for papers: jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/sites/10234/pdf/H3863b_DF_CFP_SO_Eurasip_JWCN_FC4G_final.pdf

Description

Recent years have witnessed an increasing demand for mobile wireless traffic due to the new types of user terminal and applications. The delivery of high throughput at cell edge, indoor and dead-spots is still a challenge. This has motivated the introduction of femtocells in 3G, LTE and WiMAX networks, initially targeting deployments in residential and corporate environment, to get better indoor voice and data coverage, whilst offloading at the same time macrocell traffic and promising to be a cost-effective solution. Femtocells are called to be an integral part of high-performance next-generation wireless systems, while keeping the seamless connectivity and mobility of conventional cellular networks. This publication aims at covering the different technical challenges to which femtocell deployments are confronted.

Topics of Interest

This special issue is organized thanks to the joint efforts and collaboration of the FP7 European research projects FREEDOM and BeFEMTO, both conducting edge research on femtocell-related technologies. Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Interference management and coordination
- PHY/MAC layer enhancement techniques
- Cognitive femtocell networks
- Channel and interference models
- Self-organising networks (SON), self-configuration and optimization techniques
- Resource allocation techniques
- Backhaul and networking issues, including routing
- Mobility support
- Network architectures and features (e.g. LIPA, SIPTO, IFOM)
- Trade-offs and benchmarking between femtocells, picocells and relay networks
- Regulatory aspects (e.g. co-existence, new spectrum, lawful interception)

Guest Editors

Prof. Josep Vidal, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Prof. Sergio Barbarossa, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Dr. Thierry Lestable, SAGECOM, France
Dr. Stefan Kaiser, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany