VTC2015-Spring Workshops 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. VTC attendees will be able to attend a workshop for a nominal additional fee. Registration packages for individual workshops without VTC will also be available.
The full paper version of accepted workshop papers will be published in the VTC2015-Spring conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore (conditional on presentation by one of the authors at the workshop).
Important dates for all Workshops:
Acceptance notices sent: 26 January 2015
Final papers due: 16 February 2015
Early conference registration ends: 13 April 2015
W1: 3rd International Workshop on 5G Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems for 2020 and Beyond (MWC2020)
Organized by Prof. Jose F. Monserrat, Polytechnic University of Valencia
Call for Papers
Abstract: The purpose of the workshop is to gather researchers and industry to share views on requirements and technical enablers for the coming 5G mobile and wireless system. These enablers may be components of the protocol stack (PHY, MAC or upper layers), or new architectural models.
It is widely accepted that the future mobile infrastructure will have to cope not only with a quantitative growth of the requirements we are facing today (higher capacity, data rate, number of connected devices) but also with qualitatively new requirements (higher reliability, larger versatility, application domain specific topologies) resulting from a broader scope of application domains to be supported.
In 2020, mobile and wireless traffic volume is expected to increase thousand-fold over 2010 figures. Moreover, an increase in the number of wirelessly connected devices in the tens of billions will have a profound impact on society. Massive machine communication, forming the basis for the Internet of Things, will make our everyday life more efficient, comfortable and safer, through a wide range of applications including traffic safety and medical services. The variety of applications and traffic types originating from or reaching mobile, WLAN, and sensor networks, will be significantly larger than today, and will result in more diverse requirements on services, devices and networks.
To meet the demands beyond 2020, a system that broadens the use of today’s wireless networks is needed. Fundamentally new concepts and design approaches are needed, and these must be integrated into systems that provide the necessary flexibility, versatility and scalability at low cost and low energy consumption. This workshop presents a forum for exchange of ideas between all stakeholders.
Topics
We invite researchers to submit original papers in the following areas:
- Device-2-device communication
- Machine-Type Communication/Massive Machine Communication
- Ultra-reliable networks and NSPS communication
- Moving networks and Vehicular-to-anything communication
- Ultra-dense deployments
- Millimeter-wave communication
- Network and Massive MIMO
- Radio network architectures including beyond cellular
- Self-organizing networks and distributed features
- Energy efficient networks
- Network coding
- Efficient air interfaces (low signaling overhead, energy consumption,…)
- Interference metrics, measurements and management
- Spectrum measurement and models
- Spectrum use and new spectrum sharing models
- Trust and security
- Advanced channel models for 5G characterization
- Demonstration of 5G systems
- Experimental prototypes and results related to the topics above
Workshop home: https://www.metis2020.com/event/3rd-mwc2020/
Submit a paper: https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1373
W2: Emerging MIMO Technologies and Millimeter-waves for 5G Networks Workshop
Organized by Mathini Sellathurai (Heriot-Watt University), Laurent Dussopt (CEA-Leti), Bruno Clerckx (Imperial College London), and Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (The University of Edinburgh)
Abstract: Massive MIMO and millimetre-waves (mmW) are seen as key technology enablers for future 5G wireless mobile networks. In fact, only taking advantages of multiple radio access technologies will allow achieving higher capacities and bandwidths, reduced system power consumption and lower electromagnetic field exposure. The lack of un-fragmented available spectrum resources below 6 GHz and the considerable progress of mmW radio technologies over the last few years have triggered a strong interest for the exploitation of mmW bands in future wireless cellular networks for both backhauling and access. Massive MIMO is also considered among the most promising technologies to achieve the challenging 5G system KPI and to take full advantage of those in such new scenarios. This workshop will bring together academic researchers and industrial professionals to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to mmW and massive MIMO in the context of future 5G mobile wireless networks. The workshop will also cover a wide range of key issues on MIMO technologies spanning from emerging massive MIMO, highly distributed MIMO technologies with low capital and operational costs to technologies for remote radio heads and smart antenna design for MIMO systems, from signal processing techniques for user-centric distributed antenna systems to signaling techniques for channel state acquisition, from energy-efficient MIMO systems to interference coordination in 5G networks, from heterogeneous and small networks to new wireless backhaul architectures.
Topics
- Millimeter-wave communications architectures
- Millimeter-wave Heterogeneous and Small cell Networks (HetSNets)
- Millimeter-wave access networks
- Control plane – Data plane splitting
- Radio Resource Management for dense populated areas
- Standardisation of millimeter-wave communications
- Security and privacy for millimeter-wave communications
- Massive MIMO base station and terminal antennas
- Experiments and measurements for massive MIMO
- Highly distributed MIMO technologies
- Technologies for remote radio heads with low capital and operational costs
- Signal processing techniques for user-centric distributed antenna systems
- Signaling techniques for channel state acquisition
- Energy efficient MIMO systems
- Novel antenna design for MIMO communication systems
- Mobile back/front haul using millimeter-wave technologies
- Single-carrier vs. multi-carrier in the millimeter-wave bands
- Interference management techniques for millimeter-waves
- Millimeter-wave propagation measurement and channel modeling
- Beamforming millimeter-wave algorithm and antenna array
- Multi-UE and moving cells millimeter-wave tracking technique
- Millimeter-wave EMF exposure and human being effects
- Millimeter-waves communication systems demonstration
- Measurement techniques and test equipment for millimeter-waves
Workshop home: http://www.miwaves.eu/mmW5G-WS.html
W4: First International Workshop on 5G Architecture (5GArch 2015)
Organized by Dr. Simone Redana, Nokia, Germany
Call for Papers
Abstract: Today's radio and core network architectures do not provide the required flexibility to cope with requirements from new 5G applications like low latency, high reliability, or deep indoor coverage. The ability to efficiently adapt to these extreme requirements locally is expected to be key for the success of 5G. Furthermore, applications like machine type, public safety, ultra dense networks can be supported by today´s architectures or their evolutions in suboptimal ways because of the backward compatibility. To address these challenges calls for new architectural designs based on flexible allocations of functions, Network Function Virtualization and software-defined implementations. Novel Architecture designs are gaining a lot of attention in 5G for the above reasons, and hence research work in ongoing in industry and academia.
Topics
This workshop explores, among others, the following novel concepts in the context of novel 5G mobile architectures:
- Flexible centralized RAN architectures and C-RAN
- Functional split and function placement
- Multi-service architectures
- 5G wireless technologies
- Cloud-based 5G mobile architectures
- Network Function Virtualization NFV
- Multi-tenancy architectures
- Convergence of CN and RAN
- SDN for radio access
- Novel mobility management
- Edge computing
Workshop home: http://www.eit.uni-kl.de/fileadmin/funknavi/HTML/5G_Arch/index.html
Submit a paper: https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1377
W5: WWRF Workshop on 5G Services and Applications
Organized by Prof Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University
Call for Papers
Abstract: The growing research in and discussions of 5G connectivity is already changing many perspectives in the communications landscape. It changes the way we view Internet services and introduces the world of pervasive and always-connected mobile services. This will includes services that are ubiquitous and available to everyone at almost every point in a given area, indoor or outdoor and dominated by machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity with communications feature integrated into every-day devices.
With this rapid proliferation of advanced services and applications, the users are being drowned by the sheer number of digital online services and applications. The user base has exploded, and with ever more services are moved to the digital world a new digital ecosystem is emerging with still uncertain business models associated. The Wireless World Research Forum has been leading global 5G development and has already run multiple workshops on 5G technologies. This workshop continues the 5G workshop series by looking at the 5G development from the user perspective. The challenge of this workshop is to look at the interfaces between technology, services and users and to identify the requirements and expectations for future services and business models. As an outcome, this workshop will produce a state-of-the-art vision of how 5G applications and services may develop beyond 2020.
The workshop is organized by the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) (www.wwrf.ch). WWRF is a global collaboration between industry and academia whose goal is to encourage global research that will achieve unbounded communications to address key societal challenges for the future.
Topics
Topics of the workshop will include:
- Application areas of 5G
- Users in a 5G context
- Use cases
- Needs and requirements
- The emerging 5G ecosystem
Workshop home: http://www.wwrf-vtc2015.ch/
Submit a paper: https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1378
W6: Emerging Device Centric Communications in 5G
Organized by Dr. Shahid Mumtaz, IT Aveiro
Abstract: 2G to 4G systems are based on network centric approach, but 5G will drop this assumption and move towards Device Centric Systems (DCS). The main drivers of Device Centric Systems are Internet of Things (IoT) and BigData applications, which will exploit the intelligence at the device side to support device to device (D2D) connectivity. Proceedings of this debut workshop will be a collection of outstanding technical research/position and industrial papers covering novel solutions and recent research results with wide range of ingredients within the 5G framework (with specific focus on DCS). This workshop, inspired by the recent advances in IoT and Big Data towards 5G research initiative, envisions contributions including different aspects ranging from radio protocols to energy efficient networking topologies, and lightweight security.
Topics
This workshop will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to DCS communication. Specific topics include, but are not limited to:
- Integration of DCS into 5G cellular networks
- DCS for person-centered healthcare
- Big Data and Internet of Things for DCS
- Benefits of DCS for 5G (e.g., backhaul relaxation, operational expenses, etc.)
- Efficient interference management for DCS
- Proximity-based detection and offloading
- Cognitive and cooperative DCS communication
- Energy efficiency perspectives of DCS
- Quality of protection and privacy in DCS
- Novel waveforms for DCS
- Super Frame for DCS
- Massive MIMO for DCS
- DCS in HetNet architecture
- Backhaul for DCS communications
- Multimedia traffic in DCS
- M2M communication for DCS
- V2V communications for DCS
- Lightweight security for DCS
- Mobility in device-centric communications
- Standardization Activities in the DCS
- Business models for DCS
Workshop home: http://www.ieeedcsworkshop.tk/
Submit a paper: https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1379
W7: 5th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Networks (IWSON)
Organized by Frederick Gunnarsson, Ericsson, Sweden
Call for Papers
Abstract: In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the Self-Organizing Network (SON) paradigm applied to wireless communications networks. Approaching the challenges in radio network SON is a focus area in both industry and academia research. Currently, we note rising interest in SON for future radio access technologies beyond LTE and LTE-Advanced, but also field experience from LTE SON deployments, SON coordination approaches and techniques, SON features tailored to the needs of multi-radio access technology, multi-layer and multi-vendor networks, end-to-end SON solutions, impact of SDN/NFV advancements on SON and enhancement of SON with cognition and learning capabilities.
Topics
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
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SON use cases and functions in future radio networks
- Broad view of heterogeneous networks (3GPP and non-3GPP): multi-layer, multi-vendor, multi-technology (incluing WiFi), and small cell scenarios
- SON in evolved radio networks, such as 5G concepts and LTE beyond Rel. 12
- Load balancing, traffic steering, end-to-end traffic steering, mobility management
- Interference and spectrum management
- Energy Saving Management (ESM) in heterogeneous networks
- RAN / network / user equipment support for SON
- SON for adaptive antenna systems SON management and coordination
- SON workflow definition and management
- Policy and objective driven SON deployment, management and enforcement
- Coordination between network layers, vendors, technologies, RAN and backhaul
- Different coordination approaches, e.g., design vs. runtime, distributed vs. centralized, layered vs. monolithic, implicit vs. explicit, etc.
- SON workflow definition and management
- Policy and objective driven SON deployment, management and enforcement
- Coordination between SON functions, network layers, vendors, technologies, RAN and backhaul
- Monitoring stability and performance of SON operation
- End-to-End SON solutions, e.g. RAN and backhaul, RAN and CN, RAN and CDN
- SDN and NFV evolutions for managing SON SON in the field
- Test bed activities and experience from field trials
- Experiences and field performance of SON features implemented in LTE deployments SON evolution and cognitive networking
- Automation techniques and technologies beyond SON
- Cognitive and self-learning mechanisms
- Context based SON
- Scenario and application-specific SON, e.g., smart cities, telematics applications, disaster handling, car-to-machine communications
Workshop home: http://tns.ds.unipi.gr/iwson2015/
Submit a paper: https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1365
W8: First International Workshop on Intelligent Design and performance evaluation of LTE-Advanced Networks
Organized by Dr Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu
Call for Papers
Abstract: Although 4G network deployments are still incipient, the first upgrades towards LTE-A solutions are already planned by operators and further LTE-A features are defined in the standards. In parallel to these LTE-A standardization efforts, important research activities on 5G networks are currently getting under way. However, before post-LTE systems will be deployed, network operators need to achieve a satisfactory return on investment. To do so, the performance of LTE-A systems must be enhanced by means of intelligent design of LTE-A features and the fine tuning of the corresponding parameters. In particular, interference management is a key issue for the HetNet paradigm to achieve its promised capacity gains and multi-node cooperation, with its inherent interference mitigation capability is an ideal candidate for this challenge. Energy efficiency is another essential component of LTE-A, compelling energy saving mechanisms to be incorporated. Last but not least, techniques for offloading traffic from the macro-cell network to the small cells are seen as important solutions for increasing capacity and thus increasing user QoS. The workshop will focus on these aspects from a design and a performance evaluation points of view.
Topics
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LTE-Advanced features design
- Multi-node cooperation techniques in LTE-A
- Advanced multi-antenna techniques
- HetNets
- Intra-RAT (e.g. eICIC) and inter-RAT offloading (3GPP-WLAN)
- Device-to-device communications and advanced relaying techniques
- Analytical performance evaluation tools
- New Erlang formulas for LTE-A
- Queuing theory models for service mixes
- Advanced system level simulation techniques
- Mobility models and their application to LTE-A
- Mobility Management in LTE-A
- Self Organizing features for LTE-A
- Game theory tools for LTE-A network control
- Energy efficient design of LTE-A
- Economic models (profit sharing, multi-operator relationships)
- LTE-Advanced enablers for 5G
Performance evaluation of LTE-A features
Network design and control
Workshop home: http://lia.univ-avignon.fr/idefix/workshop-LTE-A-Design
Submit a paper: https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1380
W9: International Workshop on Data Analytics for Dynamic Environments (DADE2015)
Organized by Dr Maria Bermudez, University of Surrey
Call for Papers
Abstract: The volume of data produced on the Internet has increased exponentially in recent years. The Internet of Things and sensory devices are among the resources that have contributed to this rapid growth of data on the Internet. The data driven services and applications look for transforming this massive data into actionable information and insights to support decision-making process and to create situation-awareness. However, management and analysis of large volumes of data are still less developed than our capacity to collect information. We face relevant challenges to answer questions such as: How to use all this data? How to extract actionable information from it? How to deal with dynamicity of data and how to extract reliable information from data with variable qualities? This actionable information will be used in future services and applications, and vehicular communications to provide (near) real time intelligence about the environment and provide context-aware and situation-aware services. This workshop seeks innovative contributions to stream data analytics, context/location aware solutions, and spatio-temporal systems to assist in the extraction of actionable information from dynamic data sources. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Dynamic semantics and scalable semantic annotation methods
- Stream processing and reasoning on dynamic data; real-time feedback control and response systems; event-centred views of data streams
- Adaptable and reconfigurable learning methods
- Pattern recognition, trend detection, anomaly and event detection, semantic event processing, and inferring actionable knowledge techniques with dynamic data
- Spatio-temporal data analytics
- QoI and QoS annotation and analytics for data streams
- Context-aware and situation-aware analytics
- Dynamic solutions for IoT security, privacy and trust
- Co-occurrence and causation detection and analysis in real world data streams
- Smart city uses cases and applications in traffic management, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and intelligent transport systems
Workshop home: http://kat.ee.surrey.ac.uk/DADE2015/index.html
Submit a paper: https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1381
W10: IEEE International Workshop on Global and Social Resource Sharing in/through
Wireless Networks (ResourceWirelessNet 2015)
Organized by Dr. Shao-Yu Lien, National Formosa University
Call for Papers
Abstract: It is predicted that in 2020 and beyond there will be hundred billions of heterogeneous devices relying on cellular networks for data exchanges. The number of devices and traffic volume are expected to increase a thousand-fold (e.g., 100 Gbps/km2 and 500 Gb/user/month according to the fifth generation (5G) flagship project METIS). The capabilities offered by fourth generation (4G) networks, currently being deployed worldwide, where each device is capable of achieving data rates from the order of hundreds Mbps to several Gbps, will not be enough to service the projected amount of connected devices and traffic volume in future wireless networks. The transmission capacity is largely limited by the offered bandwidth, enjoyed signal strength, and suffered interference. Hence, to to substantially enhance the spectrum efficiency, diverse technologies have been widely discussed for co-channel/cooperative deployment including heterogeneous small cells, device-to-device (D2D) communications, machine-to-machine (LTE-M) communications, unlicensed LTE access (LTE-U), IEEE 802.11af, IEEE 802.11u, and cloud radio access networks (C-RAN). Nevertheless, enhancing the spectrum efficiency is only one of the core requirements in the future system design. To suggest equal enhancements in network efficiency, energy efficiency, information management capability, universal service, and user experiences, it is challenged to develop technologies of ubiquitous "resource sharing" including energy, computing/processing capability, memory/storage, and information/database, required to be shared among devices and networks globally and socially. To be able to address above unprecedented challenges for future wireless networks, we should explore all the frontiers of human knowledge and potential technologies. This is the motivation to envision the next generation paradigms of communications, networks, computing, information dissemination, data storage/processing, and energy harvesting in terms of fundamental theories, emerging technologies, innovative system architecture/protocol/algorithm designs. Considering the limited time left to tackle these critical challenges, it is now time to move forward. The purpose of this workshop is consequently to bring together state-of-the-art innovations, research activities (both in academia and industry), and the corresponding standardization impacts, so to understand the inspirations, requirements, and the promising technical options to boost and enrich human's activities in future wireless networks.
Topics
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Protocols, architectures, and algorithms for system designs of heterogeneous networks, D2D communications, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, unlicensed LTE access (LTE-U), IEEE 802.11af, cyber-physical systems
- C-RAN supported processing and resource sharing technologies
- Energy-harvesting, wireless charging, and energy management technologies in/through wireless networks
- Cooperative networks, cognitive radio, and software-defined network (SDN) technologies
- Frameworks and designs for cache in wireless networks
- Distributed antennas, network coding, and advanced multiple access technologies for resource sharing
- Resilience, self-organization, and reconfigurable designs for resource sharing in wireless networks
- Navigation, positioning, mobility tracking, and social connection for resource sharing in wireless networks
- Standardizations for the next generation networks with resource sharing
- Impacts of innovative technologies (e.g., wearable devices, unmanned vehicles, augmented reality, kinesthetic/sensory/virtual reality)
- Statistical physics/economics/biological aware technologies for resource sharing
- Social networks-aware technologies for resource sharing
- Secure communication with shared resources
Workshop home: http://faculty.csie.ntust.edu.tw/~smcheng/ResourceWirelessNet2015/
Submit a paper: https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1382
W11: Workshop on Heterogeneous Networking for the Internet of Things
Organized by Prof. Angelis Angelakis, Linköping universitet
Call for Papers
Abstract: The Internet of Things will span from WSAN (Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks), and M2M communication, to security frameworks and service models, while next generation wireless access networks will be composed of flexible, multi-tier, and scalable heterogeneous architectures, incorporating small cells, offloading techniques, and optimized protocols for cellular IoT. Thus, an important challenge in future wireless communications is how to design and run cost efficient networks that optimize the key performance indicators to support the requirements of these services. The Workshop on Heterogeneous Networking for the Internet of Things brings together researchers focusing on resource management and optimization within the context of heterogeneous wireless networking. The scope of the workshop lies in the communication aspects, key technologies, algorithms, and protocols in HetNets enabling IoT, with a focus on M2M communications and offloading, as well as IoT enabled applications, with a special interest on Intelligent Transportation System (ITS).
The technical topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Architectures and protocols optimization for IoT
- Cellular IoT
- Performance modeling of future networks
- Resource management mechanisms for heterogeneous networks
- Quality of service in future heterogeneous wireless networks
- Optimized and robust dynamic spectrum access
- Scalability, robustness and energy efficiency
- Co-existence issues of future heterogeneous networks
- Heterogeneous network simulation models and techniques
- Data processing, mining, fusion, storage, and management techniques
- Case studies, prototypes, and test-beds of on smart services and applications, including:
- Smart Cities
- Intelligent Building Management
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Smart metering, and multiservice metering
Workshop home: http://mesh-wise.eu/VTC15HNIoT/
Submit a paper: https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1383
W12: International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing in Disconnected, Intermittent and Limited (DIL) Networks (SOC-DIL)
Organized by Dr Qi Wang, University of the West of Scotland
Call for Papers
Abstract: Service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged in recent years as a promising approach to facilitating the interoperability of various, generally heterogeneous networking systems. After successful deployment in the Internet and broadband networks, the latest trend is to introduce SOC into Disconnected, Intermittent and Limited (DIL) wireless/mobile networking environments, which are typical scenarios for rural area networks, vehicular networks, battlefield networks and other resource-constrained or disadvantaged networks. Efficient and effective interoperability in these networks is highly demanded for various mission-critical application scenarios such as disaster relief in ravaged regions, search and rescue in remote areas and military/tactical operations in hostile environments. The workshop is therefore primarily concerned with latest research advances in improving the performance of SOC-based services and applications in DIL networks. We welcome papers concerned with all aspects of innovative design, implementation, deployment, evaluation and recommendation of SOC-based systems in DIL environments. In particular, the workshop solicits papers addressing the following topics:
- Architecture, design, implementation and evaluation of SOC-based systems for DIL environments
- Case studies involving DIL environments utilising SOC in various stages of development or use cases
- Analysis, modelling and characterisation of DIL networks, and their impact on SOC-based services
- SOC service composition, deployment, discovery and life cycle management in DIL environments such as vehicular networks, disaster relief, military tactical networks, emergency management
- Adaptive, collaborative, location-aware, mission-critical and other smart applications in DIL environments
- Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) in DIL environments
- Quality of Information (QoI) and Value of Information (VoI) in DIL environments
- Security, mobility, network virtualisation, connectivity/routing, energy and medium access control solutions in DIL environments to enable improved SOC
- Cross-layer optimisations in DIL environments for enhanced SOC performance
- Emulation or simulation tools, and test beds for evaluating SOC interoperability in DIL environments
- Standardisation and recommendations
Submit a paper: https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1384
W13: First International Workshop on Integrating Communications, Control, Computing Technologies for Smart Grid (ICT4SG)
Organized by Dr Hongjian Sun, Durham University
Call for Papers
Abstract: The electricity grid is facing four major challenges — increasing electricity demand, ageing grid infrastructure, ever-increasing penetration of renewables, and significant uptake of electric vehicles. To address these challenges, it is of vital importance to integrate modern control, communication, and computing technologies into one of the most complicated systems on earth, the electricity grid, for building a self-directed and self-healing smart grid.
The realization of the smart grid will require collaborative and sustained efforts from the Societies of Power Electronics, Power & Energy, Control, Communication, and Computing over the years to come. This workshop aims to facilitate this sustained effort and enhance international collaborations by disseminating cutting-edge research results spanning multiple disciplines. Participants will be able to share perspectives and the newest findings from research and ongoing projects relevant to smart grid. This will include a variety of smart grid applications and technologies, such as smart metering, demand side management, renewable energy integration, advanced control, communication, and computing technologies.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Smart grid communication and networking
- Energy harvesting communications
- Machine-to-machine communications
- Internet of Things
- Cyber-power system modeling
- Demand side management and demand response
- Smart electricity pricing
- Renewable energy integration
- Smart metering (or advanced metering system)
- Home energy management
- Electric vehicle management
- Wireless power transfer
- Smart grid cyber security
- Smart grid privacy
- Smart grid optimization
- Distributed and autonomous control
- Big data for smart grid
- Cloud computing
Workshop home: https://www.dur.ac.uk/ecs/ict4sg/
Submit a paper: https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1385
W14: DUPLO Workshop on Full-Duplex Radios and Systems
Organized by Bram Nauta, University of Twente
Call for Papers
Abstract: The foreseen huge growth in mobile and wireless traffic volume and number of wirelessly connected devices by 2020 call for new innovative solutions to provide fundamental improvements to wireless networks operation in terms of spectrum efficiency. In-band full-duplex wireless transmission, where a node can send and receive at the same time in the same frequency band, opens new possibilities for improving wireless communication system performance. The full-duplex transmission paradigm has several potential use cases in wireless networks, including e.g., backhaul connections, relays, and connections between base stations and devices. However, the paradigm sets challenges to wireless transceiver implementation due to very large self-interference cancellation requirement in the full-duplex transceiver. Successful solving of the implementation challenges paves path for introducing full-duplex transmission paradigm to evolved 4G and future 5G wireless networks.
Topics
This workshop will look at latest advances in research and development of novel full-duplex transceiver solutions and system applications and discuss applicability of the technology for future evolution of wireless communications systems.
Topics of the workshop include:
- Novel designs and concepts for full-duplex radio transceivers
- Analysis of novel self-interference cancellation/reduction schemes (digital baseband, analog baseband, RF and antenna) and their performance
- Full duplex transceiver solutions for SISO/MIMO and different equipment types (base station, relay, handheld device, sensor)
- Full-duplex technology application areas in evolved 4G and future 5G systems
- Achievable system performance of full duplex radio communication in different wireless system topologies (point-to-point, multi-user, relay, multi-hop, SISO, MIMO)
- Co-existence of full-duplex and half-duplex systems
- Radio resource management and protocol solutions for full duplex
- Experimental evaluation of full duplex system implementations
Workshop home: http://www.fp7-duplo.eu/index.php/dissemination/78-noticias/115-second-workshop
Submit a paper: https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1386
W15: CANCELLED—FABRIC International Workshop on Wireless Dynamic Charging for FEVs: Challenges and concepts
Organized by Angelos Amditis, ICCS
Abstract: Electro-mobility is an essential component in the pursuit of the decarbonisation of road transportation and mobility. Still, one of the most serious obstacles in the wide acceptance of FEVs relates to the relatively low energy densities of batteries resulting in short range and long recharging times, thus on FEV users’ “range anxiety”. One prominent and promising solution for enabling the wide deployment of Electro-mobility is wireless charging, which would allow practically the main drawbacks of on-board battery packs to be avoided, extending drastically the FEV operational range. The benefits are many but so are the challenges for the large scale implementation of this technology.
The purpose of the workshop is to examine the state of the art in R&D areas that are expected to play a major role in the development of robust, efficient and user friendly wireless charging technology, and also disseminate the lessons learnt from the development of wireless dynamic or stationary charging prototypes. In the framework of this workshop key experts will have the chance to discuss recent advances as well as the issues that hinder or delay wide market deployment.
This workshop is organised by FABRIC, a 7th framework funded Integrated Project, which aims to perform a feasibility analysis and implementation of on-road charging solutions for future electric vehicles (http://www.fabric-project.eu/).
Topics
Workshop topics include but are not limited to:
- Topologies of charging systems.
- High speed short range communications for dynamic charging management and monitoring
- Grid stability effects of large scale implementation of dynamic charging infrastructures
- EMI and safety considerations: standards, magnetic flux shaping concepts
- Ensuring optimal alignment and power transfer on the move
- Real-time custom charging profiling for load balancing
- Unobtrusive user interface concepts for very volatile driving environments (dynamic charging)
Papers focusing on results from research activities, demonstrations, test-bed and prototype testing are encouraged. Joint papers from different institutions/organisations are also welcome!
Workshop home: http://www.fabric-project.eu/WDCh_IEEEVTC15/
W16: Workshop on 5G New Air Interface
Organized by Frank Schaich (ALCATEL-LUCENT, Germany), Berna Sayrac (ORANGE, France), Martin Schubert (HUAWEI, Germany) and Gerhard Wunder (HHI, Germany)
Call for Papers
Abstract: The next generation (5G) cellular technology is expected to arrive in 2020. There are four trends indicating the need for a new generation of cellular technology including new air interface:
- The demand for wireless data is predicted to increase significantly, resulting in 1000x higher mobile data volumes and 10-100x higher end user data rates
- The number of connected devices is predicted to increase by a factor of 10-100, which means that up to 300,000 devices need to be served per access point
- Wireless connectivity will be applied to new use cases that require very reliable connections and mission-critical communication, such as vehicle-to-vehicle coordination, critical control of the power grid, etc.
- Remote presence and tactile Internet that impose stringent latency constraints on the overall connection, including the wireless part of it. Forecasts imply that the latency should be decreased for a factor of 5 in order to enable such services
The air interfaces for 2G, 3G, and 4G were all designed for specific use cases (limited only to to voice and data communications) with a certain number of limited KPIs in mind (throughput, capacity, dropped/blocked call rates etc.). However, as outlined above, 5G requires the support of a much broader class of services and consequently a very diverse family of devices and traffic characteristics.
The scope of the workshop is to contribute to the design of a new 5G air interface taking specifically the above application constraints into account. An important subject of the workshop is the feasibility of a single “golden air interface” able to support these requirements in a highly flexible manner.
Topics
Solutions on PHY/MAC layer with respect to the following topics shall be addressed:
- Unified frame structure concepts
- Gigabit wireless connectivity
- Enabling scalable MTC for massive machine-type traffic
- Ensuring reliability in mission-critical communication and V2V coordination
- Transmission with very low delay
- Advanced waveform design such as UFMC, FBMC, GFDM or any other competing approach particularly MIMO
- Advanced signal processing solutions such as compressed sensing for scalable MTC
- Low-complex massive MIMO solutions (TDD/FDD, pilot contamination, antenna correlations etc)
- Control signaling architecture for support of small cell architecture
- Interference management and co-channel interference mitigation
- Control signaling architecture for support of heterogeneous networks
- Advances in synchronization and channel estimation & equalization for multicarrier waveforms and wideband single-carrier transmission
- Peak to average power ratio (PAPR) reduction techniques, efficient techniques for out-of-band radiation reduction
- Relaying and range extension techniques
- New coding solutions for small resource blocks
- Cross-layer aspects such as coded random access for contention-based access vs scheduled access
- Regulatory and standardization aspects
Workshop home: http://workshop.fantastic5g.com/
Submit a paper: https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1394
W99: Massive MIMO and Millimeter-waves for 5G Networks Workshop (mmW5G-WS)
Organized by Laurent Dussopt, CEA-Leti
Call for Papers
Abstract: Massive MIMO and millimetre-waves (mmW) are seen as key technology enablers for future 5G wireless mobile networks. In fact, only taking advantages of multiple radio access technologies will allow achieving higher capacities and bandwidths, reduced system power consumption and lower electromagnetic field exposure. The lack of un-fragmented available spectrum resources below 6 GHz and the considerable progress of mmW radio technologies over the last few years have triggered a strong interest for the exploitation of mmW bands in future wireless cellular networks for both backhauling and access. Massive MIMO is also considered among the most promising technologies to achieve the challenging 5G system KPI and to take full advantage of those in such new scenarios. This workshop will bring together academic researchers and industrial professionals to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to mmW and massive MIMO in the context of future 5G mobile wireless networks.
Topics
- Millimeter-wave communications architectures
- Millimeter-wave Heterogeneous and Small cell Networks (HetSNets)
- Millimeter-wave access networks
- Control plane – Data plane splitting
- Radio Resource Management for dense populated areas
- Standardisation of millimeter-wave communications
- Security and privacy for millimeter-wave communications
- Massive MIMO base station and terminal antennas
- Experiments and measurements for massive MIMO
- Mobile back/front haul using millimeter-wave technologies
- Single-carrier vs. multi-carrier in the millimeter-wave bands
- Interference management techniques for millimeter-waves
- Millimeter-wave propagation measurement and channel modeling
- Beamforming millimeter-wave algorithm and antenna array
- Multi-UE and moving cells millimeter-wave tracking technique
- Millimeter-wave EMF exposure and human being effects
- Millimeter-waves communication systems demonstration
- Measurement techniques and test equipment for millimeter-waves
Submit a paper: https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1374
W99: 2015 IEEE VTC Workshop on Emerging MIMO Technologies in 5G Wireless Cellular Networks (EMT5G)
Organized by Bruno Clerckx (Imperial College London), Constantinos Papadias (Athens Information Technology) and Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (The University of Edinburgh)
Call for Papers
Abstract: The workshop will cover a wide range of key issues on MIMO technologies spanning from emerging massive MIMO, highly distributed MIMO technologies with low capital and operational costs to technologies for remote radio heads and smart antenna design for MIMO systems, from signal processing techniques for user-centric distributed antenna systems to signaling techniques for channel state acquisition, from energy-efficient MIMO systems to interference coordination in 5G networks, from heterogeneous and small networks to new wireless backhaul architectures.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring academic and industrial researchers together to identify and discuss the major technical challenges and recent results associated with emerging MIMO technologies in 5G wireless cellular networks. The progress of EU FP7 project HARP (High capacity network Architecture with Remote radio heads and Parasitic antenna arrays) will be presented to disseminate project research outputs.
Topics
The workshop will cover a wide range of key topics including:
- Massive MIMO technologies
- Highly distributed MIMO technologies
- Technologies for remote radio heads with low capital and operational costs
- Signal processing techniques for user-centric distributed antenna systems
- Signaling techniques for channel state acquisition
- Energy efficient MIMO systems
- Novel antenna design for MIMO communication systems
- Interference coordination in 5G wireless communications
- Small cell networks
- Heterogeneous networks (HetNets)
- New wireless backhaul architectures
Workshop home: http://www.fp7-harp.eu/vtc-spring-2015emt5g.html
Submit a paper: https://vtc2015sp-wksp.trackchair.com/track/1376