W1: 5th International Workshop on High Mobility Wireless Communications (HMWC) 2016

Organized by Xiao Ma and Li Chen, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Abstract: The aim of the workshop is to foster fruitful interactions among communication engineers, information theorists, and system designers interested in high mobility wireless communications, from all over the world. This workshop aims at soliciting high quality, original and unpublished work in this field.

Topics

• Rapidly time-varying channel modeling, estimation and equalization
• Fast synchronization
• Doppler shift estimation & compensation
• Doppler diversity and anti-Doppler techniques
• Efficient modulation and detection techniques employed in high speed vehicles
• Fast power control
• Fast handover and group handover
• Fast location update
• Highly dynamic radio resource allocation
• Theoretical performance limits of HMWC systems
• Coding and network capacity for HMWC systems
• Interference utilization and capacity approaching techniques
• Multiple access schemes for very high speed radio systems
• Relay, distributive multi-antenna and cooperative techniques for HMWC systems
• High-speed vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) radio systems
• Dedicated high speed radio network architectures

Workshop home: http://sist.sysu.edu.cn/hmwc2016/

Submit a paper: https://vtc2016sp-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1499

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W2: 2nd International Workshop on Wireless Communications for High Speed Railways (HSRCom2016)

Organized by Ruisi HE, Beijing

Abstract: This workshop is affiliated with the 2016 IEEE 83rd Vehicular Technology Conference which will be held in Nanjing, China. Prospective authors are welcome to submit 5-page original and unpublished full papers on the topics listed below.

Topics

• Dynamic channel simulation, measurement and modeling for HSRs
• Space-time coding, beamforming, MIMO, massive-MIMO forHSRs
• Dynamic interference modeling, management, cancellation, and alignment for HSRs
• Physical layer and fundamentals for wireless communication with high mobility
• Fast power control, handover, localization for HSRs
• Relay and cooperative techniques for HSR systems
• Mobile, wireless, and green networking for HSRs
• Signal processing for wireless communications with high mobility
• Performance limits and system capacity for HSR wireless communications
• 4G/5G key technologies and their applications for HSRs
• Future intelligent transportation systems and applications for HSRs
• Dedicated HSR radio network and system architectures
• Other related topics

Workshop home: http://maxxx437.github.io/hsrcom2016/

Submit a paper: https://vtc2016sp-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1500

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W3: International Workshop on Connecting All Things for Enabling Smart Cities (CONTEST)

Organized by Hongjian Sun, University of Durham, UK

Abstract: As a key initiative for promoting the quality of living and resource efficient economy, the smart city concept has attracted much attention in both academia and industry. Information and communication technologies (ICT), particularly advanced communication techniques, play a critical role in facilitating intelligent collection and utilization of heterogeneous data from deployed equipment throughout cities. The major challenges in this area have included: low energy consumption requirement, limited radio frequency bandwidth, low-latency requirement and cost-effective requirement. To address these challenges, it is of vital importance to sustainably develop a set of new concepts and theories for improving the energy efficiency, the spectral efficiency and the network design, such as cognitive radio, interference alignment, energy harvesting communications and ultra-dense network technologies. This workshop aims to facilitate this sustained effort and enhance international collaborations by disseminating cutting-edge research results. Participants will be able to share perspectives and newest research findings, and further identify collaboration opportunities in the emerging research areas of smart cities.

Topics

• Green cities and smart cities
• 5G oriented smart cities
• Big data and cloud computing in smart cities
• Internet of things in smart cities
• Cognitive radio in smart cities
• Spectrum sensing and spectrum sharing
• Ultra-dense network
• Interference management and alignment
• Energy-efficiency and spectral-efficiency
• Energy harvesting technologies and communications
• Wireless power and information transfer
• Smart grid communications
• Green communications and computing
• Novel network architecture design
• Resource-efficient cross-layer optimization
• Cooperative communications
• Antennas design and channel modelling
• Duplexing methods
• Machine-to-machine communications
• Safety, security, and privacy for smart Cities
• Intelligent transportation systems

Workshop home: https://www.dur.ac.uk/ecs/smart.grid/contest/

Submit a paper: https://vtc2016sp-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1501

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W4: Second International Workshop on Advances in Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (AINIS 2016)

Organized by Prof. Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China

Abstract: With the development of wireless communication technologies, e.g., wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, large scale industrial plants slowly get the opportunities to adapt their advantages. Traditional industrial fieldbus can be replaced by wireless networks, which give more flexibility with lower cost and risk of single point of failure. Thousands of industrial equipment can also be monitored by using wireless sensors to detect their health status and even diagnose the type/location of fault based on extracted features. We see a huge potential of applying wireless technologies and artificial intelligences to make the existing large scale industrial plants smarter. We also see a huge amount of effort should be made to realize this beautiful computing vision. Thus, in this workshop, we are interested in exploring recent emerging technologies and research developments on industrial networks and intelligent systems to advance the step towards the smarter plants in conjugation with this semi-annual flagship conference of IEEE VTS.

Topics

• State-of-the-art technologies in industrial networks and intelligent systems
• Wireless industrial networks development
• Industrial wireless sensor networks and its applications
• Large scale industrial plants monitoring and security
• Automated manufacturing systems
• Design of intelligent industrial systems
• Computational intelligence in automation
• Opportunistic networks in the industry
• Security of wireless industrial networks
• Fault diagnosis on large scale industrial equipment
• Intelligent energy harvesting technologies for industrial networks
• Cloud computing for intelligent industrial processing management
• Big data analysis and processing in various industries and services
• Intelligent middleware for industrial networks and systems integration
• Low emission energy and efficient resources use for a sustainable city
• Hardware and software design and development for intelligent systems
• Simulation and testbed of current industrial networks and intelligent systems
• Applications of intelligent systems in smart cities and various industries

Workshop home: http://www.iswsnlab.cn/AINIS2016/

Submit a paper: https://vtc2016sp-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1502

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W5: Second Workshop on Mobile and Context Aware Services (MOCS2016)

Organized by Prof. Dr. Klaus David, University of Kassel, Germany

Abstract: To follow.

Submit a paper: https://vtc2016sp-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1503

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W6: FANTASTIC-5G International Workshop on 5G New Air Interface

Organized by Frank Schaich (ALCATEL-LUCENT, Germany), Berna Sayrac (ORANGE, France), Martin Schubert (HUAWEI, Germany), Gerhard Wunder (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany), Hao Lin (ORANGE, France), Klaus Pederson (Nokia Networks, Denmark) and Musbah Shaat (CTTC, Spain)

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 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

• New Air Interface solutions on PHY/MAC layer with respect to:
  
  
• 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 or any other competing approach including 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://workshop2016.fantastic5g.com/

Submit a paper: https://vtc2016sp-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1504

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W7: mmWave Massive MIMO Communication for 5G

Organized by Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunica??es ,Portugal), AI Bo (Beijing Jiaotong University, China), Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University, China), and Jian Luo (Huawei, Germany)

Abstract: To follow.

Topics

• Information theoretic issues of mmWave Massive MIMO
• Novel waveform for mmWave Massive MIMO
• 3D Models for mmWave Massive MIMO Networks
• Channel Estimation techniques for mmWave Massive MIMO
• Coherent and non-coherent detection for mmWave Massive MIMO
• Modulation and Energy Efficiency for mmWave Massive MIMO
• MAC layer design for mmWave Massive MIMO
• Interference Management for mmWave Massive MIMO
• New Correlation sources for MmWave Massive MIMO Networks
• Mobility Management in mmWave Massive MIMO Networks
• Random matrix theory and mmWave Massive MIMO analysis of wireless communication systems
• Beamforming, precoding and space-time coding schemes
• Backhaul Transmissions for mmWave Massive MIMO
• System-Level Modeling in mmWave Massive MIMO Cellular Networks
• Antenna and RF Transceiver
• Architecture Experimental demonstrations, tests and performance characterization of large-scale wireless systems
• Standardization and Business model for mmWave Massive MIMO

Workshop home: http://shmu04.wix.com/mmwavemassivemimo

Submit a paper: https://vtc2016sp-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1505

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W8: First IEEE International Workshop on User-Centric Networking for 5G and Beyond

Organized by Prof. Pinyi Ren (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China) and Prof. Bijan Jabbari (George Mason University, USA)

Topics

• User-centric protocol stack design in 5G networks and beyond
• Cross-layer design for user-centric networking in 5G networks and beyond
• User-centric QoE/QoS provisioning in 5G networks and beyond
• Mixed centralized and autonomous networking for 5G and beyond
• User-centric D2D networking for 5G and beyond
• Game-theoretical approach for user-centric design in 5G networks and beyond
• User-centric design for security assurance in 5G networks and beyond
• User-centric network selection and interference management for 5G and beyond
• User-centric design for Machine Type Communications
• Joint optimization of SE-EE over user-centric networks
• Simulations, evaluation and testing for user-centric networking technologies

Workshop home: https://sites.google.com/site/ucn5gvtcspring2016/

Submit a paper: https://vtc2016sp-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1506

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W9: International Workshop on Emerging Technology on Massive MIMO System (E-MIMO 2016)

Organized by Dr. Yingmin Wang (China Academy of Telecommunications Technology, China), Prof. David J. Love, (Purdue University, USA) and Dr. Runhua Chen (China Academy of Telecommunications Technology)

Abstract: The exponential growth of mobile broadband communication is expected to result in a spectral efficiency requirement in the range of hundreds of bits per second in future 5G wireless systems. To meet such high data rate requirement, massive MIMO with a very large number of active antennas is expected to play a critical role. As opposed to traditional passive MIMO system where antenna components are arranged as a 1-D array that can only steer the beam direction in the horizontal domain, massive MIMO arrays are often designed as a 2-D planar array, which can flexibly adjust the beam waveform and steering angles in both horizontal and vertical domains. This extra degree of beam steering capability, together with increased array gain, opens a new horizon for advanced beamforming technologies in future 5G systems. For future 5G scenarios with data bandwidth of several GHz and carrier frequency in the range of millimeter wave range, massive MIMO system is expected to be even more promising due to the reduced wavelength and antenna array size. It is widely acknowledged that massive MIMO will be an essential driver for satisfying the spectral efficiency requirement of future 5G communication systems, especially in the 6 – 100GHz spectrum. The performance potential of massive MIMO, however, comes at the expense of increased system design challenges including reference signal, channel quantization and feedback, power consumption, as well as hardware complexity. To address these challenges, the goal of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers in both academia and industry to share their views on these issues, discuss recent progress in both theoretical and implementation aspects, and identify promising concepts and technologies that enable successful rollout of massive MIMO as a path toward the future 5G society.

Topics

• Theoretical results for massive MIMO
• 3D MIMO spatial channel model
• Multiuser MIMO
• Higher-order MIMO
• Beamforming
• Pilot design for massive MIMO
• Quantization and channel feedback for massive MIMO
• Codebook design
• Scheduling and link adaption
• Initial cell search and association
• Inter-cell coordination
• Enhancement in radio-resource management (RRM)
• Massive MIMO for existing cellular frequency bands

Workshop home: http://www.datanggroup.cn/templates/T_Second_sys/conference/EMIMO2016/

Submit a paper: https://vtc2016sp-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/1507

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