Additionally to its high quality technical programme, ICC 2009 hosted overall
10 workshops on different topics from communications. More specifically,
the following workshops took place on
Sunday, 14 June 2009:
Thursday, 18 June 2009:
Organizers
- Alexey Vinel, Russian Academy of Science
- Adolf Finger, Technische Universität Dresden
- Vladimir Vishnevsky, Russian Academy of Science
- Felix Taubin, Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation
DateSunday, 14 June 2009
Description
Claude Shannon established the foundation for the discipline now known as "multi-user information theory"
in his pioneering paper "Two-way Communication Channels" in 1961 and later Norman Abramson published his paper
"The Aloha System - Another Alternative for Computer Communications" in 1970 which introduced the concept
of multiple access using a shared common channel. Thereafter for more than 40 years of study, numerous elegant
theories and algorithms have been developed for multiple access techniques.
In recent years, broadband wireless data networks (for instance, IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.16 WiMAX) are driving
the development of telecommunication industry and beyond 3G (B3G) wireless systems are expected to provide a variety
of multimedia services in a wide range of wireless and mobile environments. To use the scarce bandwidth resource of the
wireless channel, it is necessary to design channel access control techniques for a large population of users
(potentially hundreds of mobile stations).
The aim of this workshop is to discuss both multi-user communications theory and multiple access techniques and
standardization activities in areas related to PHY and MAC layer protocols for contemporary networks and their
interactions. We intend to provide the experts from both the academic institutes and industry with an opportunity
to present their art-of-the-state results and exchange the ideas on multiple access techniques and related areas.
Topics of Interest
We invite you to submit your original full papers on the most recent results and technology
trends in the fields of:
- multi-user information theory;
- multiple access techniques, queuing theory methods and polling systems analysis;
- MAC protocols development and analysis;
- PHY/MAC cross-layer techniques.
Website
Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website
www.csit-spb.ru/macom2009.html.
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Organizers
- Joel Rodrigues, Institute of Telecommunications & University of Beira Interior
- Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace
- Tsong-Ho Wu, Telcordia Technologies
DateSunday, 14 June 2009
Description
The International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking (MAN) provides a
forum for discussion of recent developments, bringing together researchers, scientists,
engineers, academicians and students all around the world to share the latest updates on
new technologies and applications that would shape the next generation of networks and
systems related with medicine and healthcare.
Communications and network technologies play an important role in medical solutions
and healthcare. New solutions continue to be developed to create safer health care
environments. The rapid growth of using such devices and technologies in medical fields
has created new opportunities and applications. However, enormous challenges still
remain to be resolved in order to develop flexible, reliable, secure, and power-efficient
networks suitable for medical needs. MAN 2009 will be held in conjunction with ICC 2009, Dresden, Germany.
Topics of Interest
The Workshop is soliciting papers describing original work, unpublished and not currently submitted for
publication elsewhere, on topics, including but not limited to, the following:
- Body sensor networks
- Clinical Biofeed
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- Communications protocols and applications
- E-Health
- Health and healthcare applications
- Medical signal acquisition, analysis and processing
- Mobile applications
- Modeling, simulation, and performance evaluation
- Real-time Systems
- Security and privacy
- Telemedicine
- Image and video processing
- Wearable sensors and systems
- Wireless sensor networks
Website
Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website
http://man.it.ubi.pt.
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Organizers
- Russell Hsing, Telcordia Technologies
- C.K. Toh, University of Hong Kong
- Daniel Wong, 3G Wireless and Software
DateSunday, 14 June 2009
Description
Car-to-car (C2C) communication networks have now gain popularity and importance. New technical
challenges have evolved that demand research and investigations. Globally, automobiles are indispensable
for connecting people, delivering goods and services and commuting from one place to another. Car
industries are of great importance in Asia, Europe, USA and the rest of the world. Car markers will be
key players in car telematics. Much research remain to be done to bring alive the vision of future intelligent
inter-vehicular applications, which will be supported by C2C.
This workshop is intended to serve as a forum and bring together the researchers and engineers in both academia
and industry to exchange ideas, share experiences, and report original works about all aspects of service discovery
and composition in ubiquitous and pervasive environments. The main purpose is to promote discussions of research
and relevant activities in the design of architectures, algorithms, and applications for inter-vehicular communication
environments. This workshop will also address some leading standardization efforts (802.11p, p1609, TIA TR48, etc.).
Topics of Interest
The Workshop is soliciting papers describing original work, unpublished and not currently submitted for
publication elsewhere, on topics, including but not limited to, the following:
- ITS car-2-car networks
- ITS car-2-roadside communications
- MAC, routing, QoS, addressing, multicast, TCP protocols
- Congestion Control and Cooperative VANETs
- New application scenarios of ITS vehicular networks
- Mobility and handoff issues
- Sensors & Data Collection
- Content Distribution
- C2C communications
- Intra-car communications
- Traffic and flow control issues
- Info Dissemination; Data organization
- Security issues, architectures and solutions
- Privacy issues and solutions
- Data replication protocols in network partitions
- Different technologies (DSRC, WiMAX, WiFi, 3G/4G, cell phone)
- Application innovation
- 802.11p WAVE ; 802.11s MESH; DSRC
- Implementation/deployment status
- Network Management for C2C
Website
Further details on the workshop are listed on the website
www.grc.upv.es/vehimobi2009.
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Organizers
- F. Fitzek, Aalborg University
- M. Katz, VTT
DateSunday, 14 June 2009
Description
The scope of the workshop is to bring together a highly qualified group of people with interest in
cognitive and cooperative wireless networks. Both, cognition and cooperation are becoming major
subjects of research in the wireless communication community as they have been identified as some of
the underlying principles for future wireless communication systems. Cognition is exploited as a mean to
use the wireless communication systems more efficiently and not limited to spectrum sensing and
management only. Cooperation, altruistic or non-altruistic, is the basis to break up the cellular concept
and enrich it by multi hop, peer-to-peer, or grid functionalities. The workshop will highlight the newest
trends in this emerging area, complementing it with first practical implementations and
demonstrations in this field. Besides the technical insights, the workshop will encourage the participants
to discuss among each other.
Topics of Interest
The workshop welcomes submissions from both researchers and practitioners
but fresh ideas in the form of early results, position papers and systems papers are particularly welcome.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to
- Architectures of Cognitive and Cooperative Wireless Networks (CCWN)
- Pricing and Billing Models for Cooperative Networking
- Spectrum management policy and strategy for cognitive networks
- Protocol Design for CCWN
- Physical and MAC Layer Issues regarding CCWN
- Software Defined Radio for CCWN
- New advances in Cognitive Radio
- Peer-to-Peer Technologies for CCWN
- Cross-layer optimization in CCWN
- Security in Cooperative Wireless Networks
- Mobile Applications for CCWN
- Sensor Networks for CCWN
- Wireless Grids
- Network Coding
- Game Theory for CCWN
- Practical implementations, test-beds and demonstrations.
Website
Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website
kom.aau.dk/project/coconet/.
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Organizers
- Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus
- Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology
- Joseph Evans, University of Kansas
- Matthias Siebert, T-Mobile International
- Didier Bourse, Motorola
- Victor Leung, University of British Columbia
- Hiroshi Harada, NICT
- Przemyslaw Pawelczak, Delft University of Technology
- R. Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology
- Petri Mahonen, RWTH Aachen
- Ingo Gaspard, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
DateSunday, 14 June 2009
Description
The International Joint Workshop "Cognitive Wireless Networks and Systems - Cognitive Radio Networking" is the
juxtaposition of many initiatives, from around the world, which strive in parallel to contribute to the development
of cognitive networking technologies, and wireless communications and networks. The Workshop provides a forum for discussion
of all these developments, bringing together industry and academia, engineers, scientists and researchers. The discussions
will cover achievements and open issues in research, standards, regulation, business models and products. The attribution of cognition
in the wireless world is one of the most exciting areas in modern telecommunications. Targets are to increase efficiency and to
address the complexity in the wireless world. Technical approach includes the development of intelligent management functionality
and reconfigurable infrastructure. Reconfigurable infrastructures cover terminals, devices, access points and fixed-network
elements. Management includes context acquisition mechanisms, decision making strategies and decision enforcements means.
Topics of Interest
In the light of the aspects identified above, the Workshop invites submissions on the most recent results
and technology trends in the fields of:
- Context management, sensing, reasoning and context acquisition
- Policy based management of B3G wireless infrastructures
- Collaborative radio resource, spectrum, power management, resource optimisation
- Autonomic computing, self-x functionalities for cognitive elements and terminals for managing elements of wireless infrastructures
- Flexible spectrum management
- Negotiation strategies
- Profiles of user applications, elements, learning user preferences
- Pilot channels, radio enablers in support of cognitive infrastructures
- Cognitive 2.5G/3G/3.5G, wireless wide area infrastructures, short range networks, mesh topologies
- Cognitive radio devices, reconfigurable elements, evolution from software defined radio to cognitive infrastructures
- Demonstrations, proof-of-concept of reconfigurable and cognitive infrastructures
- Business models, standardisation and regulation aspects
- Applications of cognitive wireless networks
- Initial experiences with cognitive radio pilot implementations
- Architectures for hardware and software defined cognitive radio
- Regulatory policies for non-centralized spectrum management
- Enforcement of policies for cognitive radio devices
- Pricing and billing for cognitive radio devices
- Authorization and authentication of cognitive radio devices
- Novel dynamic/opportunistic spectrum access techniques
- Cross-layer optimization of cognitive radio wireless networking
- End-to-End modelling of cognitive radio wireless networking
- Security of cognitive radio wireless networking
- Signal processing for cognitive radio wireless networking
Website
Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website
www.ieee-cogwinets.org.
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Organizers
- Jürgen Quittek, NEC Europe Ltd.
- Robert Saracco, Telecom Italia
- Ken Christensen, University of South Florida
- Ernesto Zimmermann, Technische Universität Dresden
DateThursday, 18 June 2009
Description
The steadily rising energy cost and the need to reduce the global CO2 emission to protect our
environment are today's economical and ecological drivers for the emerging consideration of
energy consumption in all fields of communications. Triggered by network operators experiencing
energy cost as a significant new factor of their calculation, researchers have started to investigate
approaches for reducing power consumption and manufacturers have started offering energyefficient
network components. Also standards bodies, such as the IEEE, are already processing
standards for energy-efficient protocols. However, research and development in these areas is still
at an early stage and the space of potential solutions is far from being explored.
The First International Workshop on Green Communications (GreenComm'09) will bring together
academic and industrial researchers for discussing energy-efficient communications. It will close
the gap between the already established conferences and workshops covering energy-efficiency
for IT on one side and for wireless sensor networks on the other side.
Topics of Interest
We solicit contributions that report recent results, share experiences, or address research
challenges in energy-efficient network protocols and devices and in energy management.
Particularly, we want to identify and address issues with a very high potential for significant energy
saving including access network infrastructure, home networks, and terminals.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to
- Energy-efficient protocols and protocol extensions
- Energy-efficient transmission technologies
- Cross-layer optimizations
- Energy-efficient network device technology
- Energy-efficient switch and base station architectures
- Zero-power sleep mode
- Exploitation of passive network elements
- Energy management in communication networks
- Architectures and frameworks
- Hierarchical and distributed techniques
- Remote power management for terminals
- Harvesting distributed energy generation
- Measurement and profiling of energy consumption
- Instrumentation for energy consumption measurement
- Operator experiences
- Energy-efficiency in specific networks
- Mobile and wireless access networks
- Broadband access networks
- Appliances management in home and office networks
Website
Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website
www.greencomm09.org.
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Organizers
- Holger Boche, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut
- Zhongrong Liu, T-Mobile
- Ralf Irmer, Vodafone R&D
- Patrick Marsch, Technische Universität Dresden
DateThursday, 18 June 2009
Description
As the mobile Internet is becoming reality, the demand for a ubiquitous, high-bandwidth
Internet access anytime, anywhere is continuously increasing. As spectrum is limited, this
means that future mobile communications systems have to support significantly higher spectral
efficiencies than today's systems. The main requirements towards next generation networks are high
spectral efficiency, fairness, low capital and operational cost per bit, and low latency.
The LTE standardization process within 3GPP already aims on fulfilling the requirements in next
generation networks. First results indicate that the proposed techniques won't be able to achieve
the required long-term demands of mobile communications systems. Hence, there are activities to start
the development and evaluation of techniques for systems beyond LTE such as multi-cell transmission
and detection as well as relaying.
A prominent example of these activities is the German project EASY-C. This project investigates
inter-cell cooperation techniques (multi-cell transmission/detection) and intra-cell cooperation
techniques (relaying, multi-antenna transmission). Within EASY-C, these techniques are improved
through theoretical analyses and testbed implementation (downtown Dresden and Berlin, respectively).
The "International Workshop on Systems Beyond LTE" complements the high-quality technical papers
and exhibition at ICC 2009 by providing an up-to-date workshop on recent advancements and developments
of systems beyond LTE. It gives an overview on demands for those systems, recent achievements in implementing
demonstrations as well as gives an outlook on the roadmap for systems after LTE.
Topics of Interest
We solicit contributions which concentrate on the development of LTE and techniques for systems
beyond LTE, in particular. This includes theoretical analyses, simulation results as well as experiences
with demonstrations of LTE and "beyond LTE" systems.
Areas of interest include
- Inter-cell cooperation techniques
- Multi-cell joint transmission for interference mitigation
- Multi-cell joint detection for interference cancellation
- Multi-cell interference coordination
- Practical constraints on inter-cell cooperation
- Intra-cell cooperation techniques
- Multi-antenna transmission and detection
- Relaying based systems
- Coding for multi-antenna systems
- LTE
- Performance assessment results
- Experiences with testbed implementations
- Recent advances in the standardization process
- Protocols and Architecture
- Service demands in "beyond LTE" systems
- Interoperability and legacy issues
- Internet integration
- Any other topic closely related to the described scope of this workshop
Website
Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website
www.lte-evolution-2009.org/.
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Organizers
- Thomas Engel, Universite du Luxembourg
- Latif Ladid, President IPv6 Forum
- Adrian Boukalov, Universite du Luxembourg
DateThursday, 18 June 2009
Description
The Workshop will address the issues of future Public Safety Communication Systems (PSC) and Technologies.
The Public Safety Communication user requirements are at some extend different from the requirements of public
communication systems. They are occupying space between the domains of public and military communication systems
requirements and applicable technologies. To increase reliability, resilience and performance of PS communications
new technological solutions are often required. The market of PSC is relatively small and depends on funding
decisions and policies of national authorities. There are several standards of PMR narrow band public safety
systems in the world such as TETRA, TETRAPOL, P25. The introduction of wideband and narrowband features and new
technologies into existing systems and new standards is an important issue for PSC. It requires close cooperation
and collaboration with research community. There are considerable ongoing efforts on integration and modification
of existing WLAN and WiMax standards for public safety. The integration of different networks such as UMTS, WLAN,
PMR, deployable networks and developing heterogeneous networks are the key research topic for future public safety.
The current trends in PSC technology development include the deployable networks, broadband services and technologies,
localization techniques.
Other important areas of collaboration with research community are in technologies and techniques for upgrade and
modification of existing communication networks.
Topics of Interest
The topic of the workshop will be closely linked with the ICC topics such as:
- Wireless Communications and Networks
- Vehicular Communications
- Cognitive Networks
- Signal Processing for Communications
- Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling
- Next Generation Networks
- Adhoc and Sensor Networking
- New Security Paradigm
- Standards, Emerging Technologies and Applications (IPTV, IMS, FMC, 3G LTE, 4G, AIPN, OFDM, MIMO, SDR, SIP, IPv6)
Website
Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website
u2010.eu/ngsafe09/home.html.
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Organizers
- Ronald Raulefs, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- Marco Luise, University of Pisa
- Simon Plass, Xcitec GmbH
DateThursday, 18 June 2009
Description
The main objective of this Workshop is to show how wireless communications and
navigation/localization techniques can benefit from each other. With respect to these
synergies the Workshop aims at the following fundamental questions:
- How can navigation systems benefit from existing communications systems?
- How can communications systems benefit from positioning information of mobile terminals?
This Workshop, whose proposal was jointly generated by the EU Research Projects
WHERE and NEWCOM++, aims at inspiring the development of new position-aware
procedures to enhance the efficiency of communication networks, and of new positioning
algorithms based both on (outdoor or indoor) wireless communications and on
satellite navigation systems.
Topics of Interest
We invite you to submit your original full papers on the most recent results and technology
trends in the fields of:
- Hybrid positioning using both wireless communications and satellite navigation systems;
- Resource management with positioning information;
- Location-aware PHY/MAC algorithms/procedures;
- Indoor positioning combined with short range communications;
- Signal Processing techniques for (seamless) indoor/outdoor localization.
Website
Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website
www.sycolo2009.org.
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Organizers
- N. Niebert, Ericsson
- R. Winter, NEC
- M. Presser, University of Surrey
DateThursday, 18 June 2009
Description
Today's Internet architecture is stifling innovation, restricting it mostly to the application layer.
But even there innovation is becoming more difficult making the need for structural change increasingly evident.
The things that make innovation difficult stem from changing once valid assumptions such as the end to end principle
by introducing middleboxes or from the lack of adequate mechanisms to properly account for network resource
consumption to name just two. Also the environment of the network layer has changed fundamentally as the nowadays
dominant optical and wireless links demand special attention and new information centric devices and services pose new
requirements on the network itself. From a number of angles it appears that we have reached a point in the impressive development
cycle of the Internet that now requires some major change. However, research and development in these areas is still
at an early stage and the space of potential solutions is far from being explored.
The International Workshop on the Network of the Future (Future-Network'09) is a platform for both clean-slate as well
as evolutionary approaches for a redesign of the Internet. It will uniquely bring together approaches driven from mobile
and wireless demands, network virtualization, network self-management, content and sensor networking and discuss these
from both a technical as well as socio-economic perspective.
Topics of Interest
We solicit contributions that report early results addressing research challenges in topics related to the network
of the future. Particularly, we want to identify and address issues with a very high potential for significant impacts on
the way the network is functioning and being used. The workshop welcomes submissions from both researchers and practitioners
but fresh ideas in the form of early results, position papers and systems papers are particularly welcome.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to
- Fundamental re-designs of key Internet components
- Alternatives to the established routing technologies
- New design flows for the network architecture
- End-to-end virtualization of the network
- Technology to introduce vital but missing functionality
- Accountability of the network resource usage
- Self-management of network services
- New media-aware transport services (suitable for low bandwidth sensor to high bandwidth multi-media)
- New approaches to network security
- Multi-level gateways/folding points to interconnect heterogeneous edge networks (sensor/actuator, mobile, fixed, etc)
- Technology based on new communication paradigms
- Information centric networking
- Wide-scale Internets of Things
- Machine to machine networking
- Socio-economic drivers
- Business models for the Internet of Things
- Business drivers for radical changes in the network
- Regulatory frame for a new networking layer
Website
Further details on the workshop and the submission procedure are listed on the website
www.future-network09.org/.
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