CONFERENCE PROGRAM REGISTRATION VENUE VISA

SYMPOSIUM ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS
COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKS

Symposium Chair
Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida (mainak@eecs.ucf.edu)

Sponsoring Technical Committee
Cognitive Networks

Scope
Cognitive networks, systems, and devices constantly sense the operating environment and adapt their operation by intelligently accessing the spectrum/channels in a decentralized manner. For example, these networks can enable opportunistic dynamic spectrum access that try to avoid interference with the primary users of the spectrum. This includes techniques such as software defined radio, cognitive radio, dynamic spectrum access, and adaptive systems that take into consideration technological breakthroughs, policy regulations, legal and economic issues.

The Cognitive Networks track solicits original and unpublished work not currently under review by any other conference or journal. The focus of this track is to address the overwhelming demand for radio spectrum and the ways to harness under-utilized parts of the spectrum in a cognitive manner. The topic areas cover all aspects of networks, systems and devices that participate in spectrum sensing/accessing in a cooperative/non-cooperative manner. This includes algorithmic and architectural support for cognitive networks, efficient usage of licensed/unlicensed bands, interference avoidance with primary incumbents, policy and regulatory issues, application platforms, experimental testbeds, economic models such as games and auctions for distributed decision making, and emerging standards. Papers offering novel research contributions in all aspects of cognitive networks are solicited.

Topics of Interest

  • Spectrum policy reform and regulatory issues
  • Standardization efforts (e.g., IEEE 802.22, IEEE SCC 41)
  • Spectrum etiquettes for dynamic spectrum access
  • Inter-operability and co-existence of diverse wireless networks
  • Fundamental performance limits of cognitive networks
  • Platforms to implement cognitive networks (e.g., software defined radios)
  • Cognitive MAC, routing and application layer protocols
  • Distributed detection of spectrum holes
  • Coding for QoS support
  • Simulation and modeling of cognitive radio networks
  • Security issues in secondary spectrum sharing in cognitive radio networks
  • Testbeds
  • Primary and secondary spectrum markets
  • Applications of cognitive networks (e.g., emergency networks)

Technical Program Committee

Alagan Anpalagan, Ryerson University
Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center
Edward Au, Huawei Technologies
Lichun Bao, University of Califonia, Irvine, USA
Milind Buddhikot, Alcatel-Lucent
Dave Cavalcanti, Philips Research North America
Vasu Chakravarthy, Air Force Research Laboratory
Kiran Challapali, Philips Research
Cristina Comaniciu, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Carlos Cordeiro, Intel
Neiyer Correal, Motorola
Babak Daneshrad, University of  California, Los Angeles
Natasha Devroye, University of Illinois at Chicago
Christian Doerr, Delft University of Technology
Joseph Evans, University of Kansas
Saeed Ghassemzadeh, AT&T Research Labs, USA
Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado
Cynthia Hood, Illinois Institute of Technology
Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba Winnipeg
Friedrich Jondral, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Xin Liu, University of Califonia, Davis, USA
Sudharman Jayaweera, University of New Mexico
Supeng Leng, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Ying-Chang Liang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Allen B. MacKenzie, Virginia Tech
Stefan Mangold, Swisscom
Gary J. Minden, University of Kansas
Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba
Joseph Mitola, Mitre Corp.
Patrick Mitran, University of Waterloo
Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Kamesh Namuduri, University of North Texas
Saishankar Nandagopalan, Broadcom Inc.
James Neel, Cognitive Radio Technologies
Timothy Newman, Virginia Tech
Keith Nolan, Trinity College Dublin
Nikos Passas, University of Athens
Filip Perich, Shared Spectrum Company
R Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology
Jeffrey Reed, Virginia Tech
Dennis Roberson, Illinois Institute of Technology
Shamik Sengupta, Stevens Institute of Technology
Tod Sizer, Alcatel-Lucent
John Stine, The MITRE Corportation
K.P. Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Ananthram Swami, Army Research Lab.
Vahid Tarokh, Harvard University
Uf Tureli, West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida
Sriram Vishwanath, University of Texas Austin
Harish Viswanathan, Alcatel-Lucent
Mai Vu,  McGill University
Xin Wang, Florida Atlantic University
Alexander M. Wyglinski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jens Zander, Royal Inst Tech, Stockholm
Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University
Youping Zhao, Shared Spectrum Company

Presentation Style
The IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 Technical Program Committee will go through a rigorous process to review all the papers submitted and select the best ones among them. The accepted papers will be presented in the conference either in a lecture style or in a poster style format. This distinction has no relationship with the quality of the accepted papers whatsoever. It is purely due to the limitations of the conference rooms available for lecture style presentations. Papers will be selected for lecture-style or poster-style presentation, solely based on the need to ensure topic homogeneity in lecture-style sessions.   All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and IEEExplore without any indication of the presentation mode.