Background and Goals

In recent years, the demand for high speed wireless data communications has significantly increased and new technologies must be developed to enhance the spectral efficiency of wireless network. One of the most promising approaches is to employ cooperative communications that is normally realized by deploying relays within the wireless transmission. While some fundamental results on relay aided transmission have reached maturity, theories related to high mobility transmission background remains largely unexploited. In high mobility scenarios, there exist a number of communication challenges, i.e. fast handover, location update, channel modeling, estimation and equalization, fast power control, etc. There is also a lack of solid understanding on where theory meets practice. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together Chinese and international researchers and practitioners in High Mobility Cooperative Communications under one roof, building a showcase of these fields in China.

Call for Papers

Cooperative communication networks have drawn tremendous attentions from both academic and industry communities due to their capability of providing spatial diversity and enhancing the system throughput. It is also recognized as one of the key underlying infrastructure for realizing next generation networking and computing. Theories of PHY layer aspects and signal processing related to high mobility cooperative communications are of interest to this call, including but not limited to:

Transmission cooperation strategy

Doubly selective channel modeling

Fast handover issues

Relay positioning

Estimation and equalization

Signal processing for synchronization errors

Performance analysis

Space-time code design

Coordinated beamforming

Relay selection methods

Relay aided resource allocations

Communication with limited feedback and feedback delay

OFDM/MIMO relays

Power control and energy efficient design

Important Date:

Submission due:     Apr. 15, 2012

Notification date:    May 15, 2012

Camera-ready due:   Jun. 22, 2012

Workshop date:     Aug. 7, 2012

Paper submission

Paper submission should be complied with the policy of ChinaCom 2012. See instruction at http://chinacom.org/show/initial-submission.

Submission guidelines

Papers should be in English.

Papers should be up to 6 pages in length.

Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. Such papers will be rejected without review.

The paper submissions must follow the IEEE formatting guidelines (see Author’s kit section http://chinacom.org/show/authors-kit).

Workshop Co-Chairs

Feifei Gao, Tsinghua University feifeigao@tsinghua.edu.cn

Han Zhang, South China Normal University, zhanghan@scnu.edu.cn

Gongpu Wang, Beijing Jiaotong University, gongpuwang@hotmail.com

Technical Program Committee Members

Yindi Jing, University of Alberta, Canada

Xuewen Liao, Xi’an Jiaotong University

Yue Xiao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Chengwen Xing, Beijing Institute of Technology

Wen Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University

Rong Chai, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Xianfu Lei, Southwest Jiaotong University

Jian-kang Zhang, McMaster University, Canada

Lingjia Liu, The University of Kansas, USA

Hongzheng Wang, Delaware University, USA

Wei Wang, South Dakota State University, USA

Gan Zheng, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Caijun Zhong, Zhejiang University

Lisheng Fan, Shantou University

Liang Xiao, Xiamen University

Xiao Li, University of California, Davis, USA

Jinhua Jiang, Qualcomm Inc, Santa Clara, USA

Xin Kang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Changchuan Yin, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Bin Jiang, Southeast University

Qinghai Yang, Xidian University

James C. F. Li, NEC Beijing China