IEEE International Conference on Communications
20-24 May 2018 // Kansas City, MO, USA
Communications for Connecting Humanity

Call For Papers

Scope and Topics of Interest:

Driven by the development of mobile Internet and smart phones, data traffic grows exponentially in current mobile communication systems. Initial estimations indicate that, different from the evolutionary path of previous cellular generations that was based on spectral efficiency improvements; the most substantial amount of future system performance gains will be obtained by means of network infrastructure densification. The opportunities and challenges of the fifth-generation (5G) rapidly gain great attention from academics, industries, and governments. Ultra dense network (UDN) is a promising technique to meet the requirements of explosive data traffic in 5G mobile communications. Moreover, when overlaid on top of the macrocells, low power small cells (such as femtocell and picocell) can improve the coverage and capacity of cellular networks by exploiting spatial reuse of the spectrum. Dense small cells can also offload the wireless data traffic from macrocells, especially in indoor environments where more than 80% of the data traffic occurs.

This workshop will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to the Ultra Dense Networking techniques for 5G mobile networks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

  • Non-orthogonal multiple access techniques in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • D2D, Cognitive radio in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Channel modeling in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Performance analysis in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Cloud-RAN in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Caching, Fog-RAN in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Small Cells, HetNets in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Game theory in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Software defined networking in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Self-organizing Networks in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Network Function Virtualization in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Backhaul/fronthaul in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Resource (including radio, computing and caching resources) allocation in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Big data in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • IoT, Vehicular networks in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Massive MIMO in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Energy Harvesting in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Radio Resource Management in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Unlicensed Spectrum (LTE-U) in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Network slicing in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Full duplex techniques in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • MmWave techniques in 5G Ultra Dense Networks
  • Other topics (PHY layer, MAC layer, Network layer) in 5G Ultra Dense Networks

DEADLINES:

  • Paper Submission Deadline: January 3, 2018
  • Acceptance Notification: February 21, 2018
  • Final Paper submission: March 5, 2018

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Submission Guideline: see http://icc2018.ieee-icc.org/authors/call-workshop-papers

Submission link: http://edas.info/N24150

Workshop Chairs: 

  • Xiaoli Chu, The University of Sheffield, UK (x.chu@sheffield.ac.uk) 
  • Haijun Zhang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China (haijunzhang@ieee.org) 
  • Zhu Han, University of Houston, USA (zhan2@uh.edu)

Patrons