[RABAN 2011] International Workshop on Recent Advances in Broadband Access Networks

2nd International Workshop on Recent Advances in Broadband Access Networks

http://www.cs.tut.fi/RABAN/

23-25 August, 2011

St. Petersburg, Russia

The rapid proliferation of wireless cellular systems over the last decade has introduced fundamental changes to ”anytime, anywhere” Mobile Internet access, as well as posed new challenges for the research community. The next generation of broadband standards, such as IEEE 802.16m enhancements and LTE-Advanced, target aggressive improvements in all aspects of wireless system design, including system capacity, energy efficiency and quality of service. Promising next generation technologies cover, for example, more advanced antenna technologies on mobile platforms, advanced network topologies, cross-layer and co-operative transmission techniques.

The Workshop aims to bring together the researchers from academia and the experts from industry to address recent advances in the design, modeling, prototyping, implementation, standardization, and deployment of broadband wireless access networks. It is held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Telecommunications for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITST), St. Petersburg, Russia on 23-25th August, 2011.

Topics of the 2nd RABAN Workshop include, but not limited to, the following:

* Cross-layer optimization concepts

* Energy efficiency and power management

* Co-operative techniques and traffic relaying

* Multi-access networks and multi-radio terminals

* Network cognition and self-configuration

* Multi-tier network technologies and architectures

* Mobile broadband traffic support

* Vehicular networks

* Client quality of experience enhancement

* Machine-to-machine communications

* Interference mitigation approaches

* Distributed antenna architectures

* Advanced MIMO techniques

* Channel estimation techniques and channel models

* Spectrum management and regulatory issues

Key dates for the 2nd RABAN Workshop are:

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Paper submission:                       6 June 2011

Notification of acceptance:             27 June 2011

Camera-ready version:                   18 July 2011

Submission Instructions

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The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing cutting-edge, state-of-the-art, previously unpublished and complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal.

Papers in double column IEEE format must be submitted electronically via the EDAS system http://edas.info//N10599 and should not exceed 6 pages. As more information becomes available, it will be posted at the 2nd RABAN Workshop web page http://www.cs.tut.fi/RABAN/. 

Proceedings of the Workshop will be published in IEEE Xplore and indexed in the relevant databases.

TPC Co-Chairs

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Nageen Himayat (Intel Corporation Santa Clara, USA)

Sergey Andreev (Tampere University of Technology, FINLAND)

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Please direct all correspondence to Sergey Andreev, 

Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Email: sergey.andreev@tut.fi

Tel: +358 44 329 4200