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The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Cognitive Radio COCORA 2014 February 23 - 27, 2014 - Nice, France |
| Call for Papers |
Most of the national and cross-national boards (FCC, European Commission) had/have a series of activities in the technical, economic, and regulatory domains in searching for better spectrum management policies and techniques, due to spectrum scarcity and spectrum underutilization issues. Therefore, dynamic spectrum management via cognition capability can make opportunistic spectrum access possible (either by knowledge management mechanisms or by spectrum sensing functionality). The main challenge for a cognitive radio is to detect the existence of primary users reliably in order to minimize the interference to licensed communications. Optimized collaborative spectrum sensing schemes give better spectrum sensing performance. Effects as hidden node, shadowing, fading lead to uncertainties in a channel; collaboration has been proposed as a solution. However, traffic overhead and other management aspects require enhanced collaboration techniques and mechanisms for a more realistic cognitive radio networking.
COCORA 2014 follows the previous editions dealing with various aspects, advanced solutions and challenges in cognitive (and collaborative) radio networks. It covers fundamentals on cognitive and collaborative radio, specific mechanism and protocols, signal processing (including software defined radio) and dedicated devices, measurements and applications.
We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.
Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.
Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.
Fundamentals
Cognitive radio and network architectures
Collaborative radio networks
Information theory and performance limits of dynamic spectrum access
Agile spectrum and dynamic spectrum sharing techniques
Cognitive spectrum sharing, coexistence, and interoperability
Cross-layer algorithms based on spectrum sensing techniques
Cognitive radio sensing in the large and feature detection
Collaboration optimization and refinement
Collaborative spectrum sensing schemes with weighted user contributions
Connectivity, capacity, and scalability of heterogeneous systems via cognitive networking
Auction and pricing models for dynamic spectrum sharing
Mechanisms and protocols
Interoperability, interference and co-existence of dissimilar wireless networks
Distributed algorithms for spectrum detection and cooperative spectrum sensing
Models and fundamental limits of cognitive networking
Transient behavior and stability analysis in cognitive networking
Cognitive MAC, multicast, and routing protocols for heterogeneous networks with highly dynamic topology
Software radio and radio resource allocation
Spectrum policy reform issues and standardization
Processing and devices
Propagation channel modeling and utilization
Cognitive and collaborative radio architecture for equipments
Transceivers and front-end technologies, SOC and SiP
MIMO, advanced signal processing, and smart antennas
Primary transmitter shadowing and fading
High-speed and broadband wireless technologies
Software defined radios and cognitive radios
Hardware reconfigurability
Smart antennas
Passive antennas
Measurement and management
Software radio and cognitive radio management
Interference measurements and metrics
Spectrum and performance management in cognitive radio networks
Security and robustness issues in cognitive networking
Cooperative resource management and optimization
QoS provisioning in adaptive, spectrum agile, and cognitive networks
Context management, sensing, reasoning and context acquisition
Traffic patterns, topology, mobility, and interference tolerance in cognitive networking
Statistical inference and cognition with from measurements that are inaccurate, incomplete, inconsistent, and delayed measurements
Sensing and feedback mechanism in cognitive networking and the associated cost
Cognitive radio with reinforcement learning
Applications
Cognitive radio applications
Wideband sensing and multiband agile wireless networks
Future Internet with cognitive technologies
Flexible and opportunistic wireless access
Multimedia communications through cognitive networks
Simulation of cognitive wireless networks
Cognitive radio test-beds and hardware prototypes
INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.
Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.
Important deadlines:
| Submission (full paper) | |
| Notification | |
| Registration | December 10, 2013 |
| Camera ready | December 22, 2013 |
Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.
Regular Papers (up to 6-10 page article)
Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here. Latex templates are also available.
Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.
Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.
We would recommend that you not use too many extra pages, even if you can afford the extra fees. No more than 2 papers per event are recommended, as each paper must be separately registered and paid for. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to ensure that the paper will be included in the conference proceedings.
Work in Progress (short paper up to 4 pages long)
Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as work in progress. Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.
For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page
Posters (poster or collection of 6 to 8 slides)
Posters are intended for ongoing research projects, concrete realizations, or industrial applications/projects presentations. Acceptance will be decided based on a 1-2 page abstract and/or 6-8 .pdf slide deck submitted through the conference submission website. The poster may be presented during sessions reserved for posters, or mixed with presentation of articles of similar topic. The slides must have comprehensive comments. One big Poster and/or the associated slides should be used for discussions, once on the conference site.
For more details, see the Posters explanation page.
Ideas (2 page proposal of novel idea)
This category is dedicated to new ideas in their early stage. Contributions might refer to PhD dissertation, testing new approaches, provocative and innovative ideas, out-of-the-box, and out-of-the-book thinking, etc. Acceptance will be decided based on a maximum 2 page submission through the conference submission website. The contributions for Ideas will be presented in special sessions, where more debate is intended. The Idea contribution must be comprehensive, focused, very well supported (details might miss, obviously). A 6-8 slide deck should be used for discussions, once on the conference site.
For more details, see the Ideas explanation page.
Technical marketing/industrial/business/positioning presentations
The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be published in the conference’s CD Proceedings. Presentations' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your presentations to petre@iaria.org.
Tutorials
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals should be for three hour tutorials. Proposals must contain the title, the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org
Panel proposals
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be posted on the IARIA's site.
For more information, petre@iaria.org
Workshop proposals
We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre@iaria.org.
