First IEEE International Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management: CogART 2008

http://ieee.aau.dk/sb/CogART08

"A cognitive radio is self-aware, user-aware, RF-aware, and incorporates elements of language technology and machine vision" by Joseph Mitola III

Sponsored by:
IEEE Denmark, CTIF and CSDR

Technically sponsored by:
IEEE ComSoc Technical Sub-committee on Cognitive Networks


February 14, 2008, Aalborg, Denmark


:: Scope

Conventional fixed spectrum allocation cannot successfully cope with the scarcity of radio frequency spectrum. Cognitive radio is a novel technology, which improves the spectrum utilization by seeking and opportunistically utilizing radio resources in time, frequency and space domains on a real time basis. The cognitive radio technology poses many new technical challenges, and overcoming these issues becomes even more challenging due to non-uniform spectrum and other radio resource allocation policies, economic considerations, the inherent transmission impairments of wireless links and user mobility. Cognitive radio technology advances are based on interdisciplinary research, including among others: signal processing, information theory, communications engineering, artificial intelligence, game theory and economics. This IEEE Workshop aims at bringing together the latest research results on cognitive radio and its applications. We target academic research as well as application-oriented contributions in cognitive radio technology.


:: Topics of Interest

:: Dynamic spectrum sharing techniques and policies
:: Interoperability, interference and co-existence of dissimilar wireless networks
:: Spectrum measurements and sensing
:: PHY layer design for cognitive radio
:: Cognitive protocols and algorithms from PHY to application layers
:: Cross-layer cognitive algorithms
:: Applied mathematics for cognitive radio
:: Application of machine learning and policy processing to cognitive radio
:: Security issues
:: Business and regulatory aspects of spectrum usage reform
:: Software-defined radio
:: Implementation, standardization, and certification of cognitive radio
:: Cognitive radio prototypes


:: Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit an IEEE conference style paper of maximum 5-pages length (including text, figures, tables and references).

To submit papers, please send a pdf document to: sf@es.aau.dk. All accepted papers will be published online on IEEE Xplore.


:: Important Dates

:: Paper submission deadline: 21/01/2008
:: Author notification: 31/01/2008
:: Camera ready submission deadline: 07/02/2008
:: Author registration deadline: 07/02/2008
:: Workshop date: 14/02/2008


:: Organizing Committee

Simone Frattasi (General Chair), IEEE GOLD, Aalborg University, Denmark
Nicola Marchetti (TPC Chair), IEEE GOLD, Aalborg University, Denmark


:: Keynote Speakers

Ramjee Prasad, CTIF, Denmark


:: Invited Speakers

Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
Vahid Tarokh, Harvard University, USA
fred harris, San Diego State University, USA


:: Technical Program Committee

Lars Berlemann, Swisscom, Switzerland
Ivan Cosovic, DoCoMo, Germany
Hossain Ekram, University of Manitoba, USA
Joseph B. Evans, University of Kansas, USA
Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
Yasushi Takatori, NTT, Japan
Honggang Zhang, Create-Net, Italy
Zhaoyang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China


:: Contact Information

IEEE GOLD AG Denmark, Aalborg University
Niels Jernes Vej 12, 9220, Aalborg, Denmark
Phone / Fax: +45 9635 8688 / 9815 1583
E-mails: sf@es.aau.dk, nm@es.aau.dk
URL: http://ieee.aau.dk/sb/CogART08