============== IWCRN 2012 | Call for Papers ===============

IEEE International Workshop on Cognitive Radio Networks
May 10-11, 2012, Tangier, Morocco

General page: http://www.icmcs12.org/IWCRN.html

The submission deadline is set to March 15, 2012.

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After the great success of the first edition Workshop on Next Generation Mobile Networks (WNGMN’09) organized on November 14-15, 2009 in Tangiers, Morocco. Abdelmalek Essaâdi University organizes the second edition workshop dedicated to Cognitive Radio Networks co-located with the 3rd International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS'12) on May 10-11, 2012, Tangier, Morocco.

This workshop is a research meeting opened to all academic, researchers, professional and students, to discuss innovative ideas and diverse topics on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications. The workshop aims to offer the opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange issues, challenges, new technologies and solutions.

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Topics

May include but not limited to:
Advanced access technologies for spectrum sharing
Wideband sensing and multiband agile wireless networks
Cooperative and coordinated multiuser communications
Antenna issues in cognitive radio
Software defined radio and flexible radio
Real-time implementation and testbeds for cognitive radio
Circuits and Architectures for cognitive radio
Network, resource, and interference aware coding and decoding
Fundamental performance limits of cognitive radio communications
Cognitive protocols and algorithms from PHY to Application layers
Platforms for the support of adaptive, spectrum agile, and cognitive networks
QoS provisioning in adaptive, spectrum agile, and cognitive networks
Security issues
Simulation of cognitive wireless networks
Standardization


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Technical Program Committee:

Fransisco Falcone, University of Navarre, Spain
Iyad Dayoub, University of Valenciennes, France
Mohamed Essaaidi, ENSIAS Rabat, Morocco
Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto, University Rome, Italy
Marceau Coupechoux, Telecom ParisTech, France
Ahmed El Oualkadi, ENSA Tangier, Morocco
Mohamed Moussaoui, ENSA Tangier, Morocco
Wenceslas Rahajandraibe, Polytech’Marseille, France
Luay H. Tahat, GUST, Kuwait
Mounir Ghogho, UIR Rabat, Morocco
Lin Chen, University of Paris XI Orsay, France
Mohammed Boulmalf, UIR Rabat, Morocco
Ali Rzaidi, UIR Rabat, Morocco
Aawatif Hayar, GREENTIC/Univ.Hassan II, Morocco
Fethi Choubani, SUP’COM, Tunisia
Zouheir Rezki, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Tara Javidi, University of California, USA
Mohammed Bouhorma, FST, Tangier, Morocco
Faouzi Bader, CTTC, Barcelone, Spain
Youssef Néji, SUP’COM Tunisia
Otman El Mrabet, FS Tetuan, Morocco
Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Mostafa Zaizouni, Alcatel-Lucent Paris, France
Hassan El Ghazi, INPT Rabat, Morocco
Imade Fatani, ENSA Khouribga, Morocco


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Organizing Committee

Mohamed Essaaidi, ENSIAS Rabat, Morocco
Mohamed Moussaoui, ENSA Tangier, Morocco
Ahmed El Oualkadi, ENSA Tangier, Morocco
Youssef Zaz, FS Tetuan, Morocco
Driss El Ouadghiri, FS Meknes, Morocco


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Paper submissions:

In the framework of this workshop, prospective authors are invited to submit their paper. The papers must describe original results on the proposed topics for consideration by the Technical Program Committee. Papers should be submitted in a PDF format to the email address of the workshop. Fax submissions cannot be accepted. All electronic submissions will be acknowledged. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Selected papers from those presented in this workshop will be also published in the IEEE Digital Library and in special issues of international journals.

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Contact:

IWCRN2012@gmail.com
http://www.icmcs12.org/IWCRN.html

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Important dates :
Submission deadline: March 15, 2012
Notification to authors: March 29, 2012
Final version due: April 01, 2012
Workshop: May 10-11, 2012