CALL FOR PAPERS

1^st Workshop on New Applications and Performance of Cognitive Radio Networks in TV White Spaces in conjunction with IEEE IPCCC 2010

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, December 9^th-11^th 2010,

The recent ruling by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opening up portions of the TV bands, also known as TV White Spaces (TVWS), for opportunistic transmission has spurred significant interest in the academia and industry to develop theory, prototypes and standards that leverage this new spectrum opportunity. Cognitive Radio (CR) is an enabling technology that will allow adapting the radio’s operating characteristics to the real-time conditions of the environment and make effective use of the TVWS while protecting incumbents. As CR research gains further traction, new and innovative application scenarios are being envisaged that merit the attention of the community. As an example, energy efficient “green” communications may be realized by regulating transmit power and identifying frequencies with greater propagation distances. Similarly, wireless devices for electric utility metering and medical implantable sensors may identify and utilize TVWS for enhanced coverage, more robust and collision-free operation. Such novel applications require re-visiting several classical networking paradigms of spectrum-agile communication, and merging inter-disciplinary research from a practical viewpoint.

This workshop will focus on key research challenges related to the dynamic spectrum access paradigm and cognitive radio networks, and it is intended to be a forum for collaboration across multiple communities, ranging from academic to government to industry. Original papers are invited on protocol/algorithm design, experimental results, analytical modeling in the area of dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio networks covering but not limited to following topics:

• Utility networks (e.g. electricity metering, gas, water) based on CRs and TVWS

• Wireless sensor and actuator networks based on CRs and TVWS

• CR networks for building and home automation

• Public safety and emergency services using TVWS

• Healthcare and medical applications of CR networks using TVWS

• Medical body area Networks based on CR technology

• Energy-aware CR-based PHY, MAC and Network protocols

• Energy harvesting, optimization and adaptation schemes using CR

• Performance evaluation of PHY, MAC, Network and Application protocols for CR networks

• Economic models of joint energy and spectrum-aware operation

• Spectrum sensing and cognitive radio test-beds and prototypes

• Standardization of CRNs for fixed and personal/portable devices in TVWS, such as IEEE 802.22, 802.19, 802.11 and ECMA 392

• Coexistence of heterogeneous applications and CRNs in TVWS

• Multimedia delivery using CR networks

Paper submission

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed 6 pages formatted in IEEE conference style, including the abstract, figures and references. Papers should be submitted in pdf format through the EDAS paper submission. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate.

Important Dates

Workshop Papers submissions due: September 14^th, 2010 Exteneded

Acceptance notification: October 1^st, 2010

Camera-ready version due: October 8, 2010

Workshop Chairs

Dave Cavalcanti (Philips Research North America)

dave.cavalcanti@philips.com

Kaushik R. Chowdhury (Northeastern University)

krc@ece.neu.edu

Program Committee

Tommaso Melodia
Asst. Professor, SUNY Buffalo

Çağrı Güngör
Asst. Professor, Bahcesehir University

Chitta Ghosh
Postdoctoral Researcher, Univ. Washington- Seattle

Aravind Kailas
Research Scientist, Docomo Labs

Marco Di Felice
Research Associate, Univ. of Bologna

Can Vuran
Asst. Professor, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dusit Niyato
Asst. Professor, Nanyang Technological University

Hongqiang Zhai
Philips Research North America

Kelvin Dias
Professor, Federal University of Pará

RangaRao Venkatesha Prasad
Senior Researcher, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

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