VTC 2011 BeFEMTO Workshop Call for Papers

VTC2011-Spring BeFEMTO Workshop provide invaluable opportunities for researchers and industry practitioners to share their state-of-the-art research and development results on specific areas or challenging topics.

Femtocell technologies accelerate the cost effective provision of ubiquitous broadband services by convergence between fixed and wireless broadband. This full day workshop aims to bring together internationally leading academic and industrial perspectives and thinking to highlight and discuss recent progress in femtocell technologies. The list of promising new developments includes cooperative networks of femtocells and extending the classical concept of indoor femtocells to the outdoors, e.g. as fixed relays in macrocells for enhancing coverage and cell-edge capacity or as mobile femtocells in public transports. Self-organising techniques for high capacity and optimum use of transmit power whilst minimising OPEX and simplifying complexity for remote network management are vitally important to cope with expected multiple million femtocells networks.

Scope and Objectives:

In view of current standardization activities in 3GPP and IEEE, changing regulatory landscape and impetus from industrial bodies such as Femto Forum, this workshop focuses on presenting and debating advanced femtocell technologies that have the potential to be considered in future standards such as LTE-A to make the radio access solutions highly efficient with major leapfrog in spectral-efficiency per unit area, while minimizing the transmit power. Specifically, but not exclusively, the workshop proposes to address the following issues:

Optimisation of Radio Access
New generation of baseband and radio frequency techniques
Smart interference management
Self-configuration and self-optimisation techniques
Network management and architecture
Field Trials / Test-beds / Regulatory issues

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Important Dates:

Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: Extended to 30 November 2010
Paper Status Notification: 9 January 2011
Final paper submission deadline: 20 February 2011
Workshop: 15 May 2011

Chairs:

The following people are chairs for this track:

TPC Members:

The following people are TPC members:

6 October 2010

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