IWCRN'12
International Workshop on Cognitive Radio Networks
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.
Topics
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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
IWCRN Keynotes Speakers
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
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
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.
Contact:
IWCRN2012@gmail.com