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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>CALL for PAPERS and PARTICIPATION</b></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://www.icwdn.org/"><font face="Arial" color="blue"><b><u>The 7th International WDN Workshop on Cooperative and Heterogeneous Cellular Networks </u></b></font></a><a href="http://www.icwdn.org/"><font face="Arial" color="blue"><b><u>(WDN-CN
2014)</u></b></font></a></span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Sept 2, 2014, Washington DC</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">To be held in conjunction with PIMRC 2014</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><b>SCOPE</b></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">The enormous increase in the mobile connected equipment and mobile subscribers number, in addition to the emergence of data-centric standards such as 3GPP’s LTE-A raises an urgent call to find sustainable solution that permits to fulfil
data rate, spectrum, and coverage requirements. However, resources are scarce and the frequency spectrum availability is limited. To address these issues, coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission/reception and heterogeneous networks (HetNet) play a key role
for future cellular networks. In the HetNet, low power base stations of smaller coverage are deployed inside the conventional macrocells for traffic offloading. Furthermore, base stations clustering and coordination has been studied as a mean for improving
the network energy efficiency, users’ quality of experience, and for delivering cloud services by pooling computational and communication resources. Regarding CoMP, HetNet, beside researches activities in academia, there are considerable industry-wide standardization
efforts in 3GPP RAN working groups and IEEE. While industry efforts have also targeted efficient operation of CoMP and HetNet, fundamental research on the cost-performance tradeoffs of each of these deployments are certainly desirable for both academia and
industry. This workshop is co-located with the IEEE Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Conference 2014 (<a href="http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/"><font color="#0563C1"><u>http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/</u></font></a>). The main objective of the workshop
is to offer an opportunity for academic and industrial researches for spreading and sharing the latest results and understanding for making communication networks more energy efficient and more area spectrally efficient.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>TOPIC AREAS</b></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNet)</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Cloud radio access networks (C-RAN)</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Cloud services integration in HetNet</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Energy efficiency vs. QoS tradeoffs in HetNet</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Small cell clustering for services delivery</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Resource allocation techniques for HetNet </font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Cell range expansion (CRE) and traffic off-loading</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Enhanced inter-cell interference coordination techniques (eICIC)</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Self-organizing networks (SON) and reinforcement learning</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Phantom cell, soft cell, and multi-flow carrier aggregation </font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">3GPP, WiFi, and WiGig interworking</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Open and closed access operation modes</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Game theoretic techniques for future HetNet</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Coordinated multi-point transmission (CoMP) techniques</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Distributed antenna systems (DAS)</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Limited feedback techniques for CoMP</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Cell planing and antenna design for CoMP</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Large scale CoMP for HetNet and dense small cells networks</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Massive MIMO, active antenna systems and dynamic cell structuring</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Enhanced channel models for CoMP</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Backhaul (wired, wireless, millimeter wave, etc.) and networking</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Cellular topology considering Remote Radio Head (RRH)</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Cloud-based support for HetNet</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Splitting of user- and control-planes for HetNet</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Mobility management and handoffs for HetNet</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Energy efficient algorithms and green wireless for HetNet</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Network load balancing and smart information storage for C-RAN</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Cognitive, cooperative, and reconfigurable networks</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Analysis of future trends for HetNet</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Low electromagnetic exposure in cellular networks</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Regulation and standardization for cooperative HetNet</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri">Storage and computation capability of small cells</font></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:</b></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri"><b>General Co-Chairs</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Emilio Calvanese Strinati, CEA-LETI, France (emilio.calvanese-strinati at <a href="http://cea.fr/"><font color="blue"><u>cea.fr</u></font></a>)</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulou, Finland (bennis at <a href="http://ee.oulu.fi/"><font color="blue"><u>ee.oulu.fi</u></font></a>)<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Kei Sakaguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (sakaguchi at <a href="http://comm.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/"><font color="blue"><u>comm.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp</u></font></a>)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:</b></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">The manuscript must follow IEEE two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is five (5) pages. All figures, tables, references, etc. are included in the page limit. Papers need to
be uploaded through <a href="https://edas.info/N18073?c=18073"><font color="blue"><u>EDAS</u></font></a>. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore if presented at the workshop. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>IMPORTANT DATES:</b></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Full paper submission: 20<font size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt;"><sup>th</sup></span></font> May 2014</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Notification of acceptance: 10<font size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt;"><sup>th</sup></span></font> June 2014</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Final camera ready copy: 27<font size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt;"><sup>th</sup></span></font> June 2014</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Workshop: <a name="145d389397ce0042__GoBack"></a>2<font size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt;"><sup>nd</sup></span></font> September 2014 </font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Please visit </b><a href="http://www.icwdn.org/"><font color="#0563C1"><b><u>http://www.icwdn.org/</u></b></font></a></span></font></div>
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