Wireless Communications and
Call
for Papers:
Cognitive Radio, Software Defined Radio,
and Adaptive Wireless Systems
Today’s wireless services
have come a long way since the roll out of the conventional voice-centric
cellular systems. The demand for
wireless access in voice and high rate data multi-media applications has been
increasing. New generation wireless communication systems are aimed at
accommodating this demand through better resource management and improved
transmission technologies. The interest in increasing Spectrum Access and
improving Spectrum Efficiency combined with both the introduction of Software
Defined Radios and the realization that machine learning can be applied to
radios has created new intriguing possibilities for wireless radio
researchers. This special issue is aimed
to discuss the cognitive radio, software defined radio, and adaptive radio
concepts from several aspects. The scope will include application of SDR in
advanced communication systems, challenges and issues for application of SDR,
adaptive wireless communication systems, parameter estimation for adaptation of
wireless communication systems (learning environment an other factors), SDR and
cognitive radio architecture, spectrum efficiency and soft spectrum.
The goal of this special issue is to assemble both
original research papers and review articles that address these questions, and
enhance the state-of-the-art Cognitive Radio systems. Papers on practical as
well as on theoretical topics and problems are invited.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
|
· Spectrum Issues o
Current
spectral usage and issues o
Regulations,
regulation changes · XG o
Spectral
awareness o Spectrum adaptation, Dynamic freq. selection o
Spectrum
Sharing (secondary users in licensed spectrum), priority allocation o
Adaptive
bandwidth control · Policies · Adaptation and optimization · SDR o
Hardware
limitations, A/D, filters, antennas, AGC o
Processing,
programmability vs power efficiency o
Digital signal
processing role in SDR o
FPGA/DSP and
mixed programming platforms |
· Role of Geolocation
in Cognitive and adaptive radio · Cross-layer optimization (adaptation), and cross
layer issues · Role of UWB and OFDM in Cognitive radio · Coexistence of UWB and traditional narrowband
systems · Interference Issues in Cognitive radio and
interference measurements · Role of MIMO in Cognitive radio · Interoperability and coexistence issues · Applications of Cognitive radio · Sensing (internal and external) and awareness · Spectral awareness o
Power
efficiency, energy/battery awareness o
Device
capability awareness, RF Awareness o
Interference/noise
temperature o
Channel
(medium, radio channel) |
Guest Editors
|
Hüseyin Arslan arslan@eng.usf.edu |
Joseph Mitola III Mitre Corporation jmitola@mitre.org |
Schedule:
Manuscript
submission deadline: May
1, 2006
Notification
of acceptance: September
1, 2006
Final
manuscript due: October
1, 2006
Publication
of special issue: First
half of 2007
Submission Procedure:
Papers may be submitted
electronically (Postscript or PDF files only) to Prof. Hüseyin Arslan
(arslan@eng.usf.edu). Authors are also requested to submit a separate cover
letter via email, which contains the paper title, the authors’ names and
affiliations, and a 200 word abstract.