CrownCom 2008

Third International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications

May 14-17, 2008

Singapore

The conference seeks original and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Policy and Economics Track:

• Regulation for Cognitive Radio
• Business model for dynamic spectrum access
• Market trend for secondary spectrum usage        
• Industrial role for dynamic spectrum access
• Trust and security mechanisms
• Game theory for dynamic spectrum access

Technology Track:

• New architecture and platform for cognitive radio
• Spectrum sensing mechanism and protocol support
• Efficient and multi-resolution channel sensing algorithms
• Multiple access scheme for cognitive radio
• Synchronization and channel estimation for cognitive radio
• Radio resource management and dynamic spectrum sharing
• Cross-layer cognitive algorithms           
• Bio and AI-inspired algorithms
• Wireless network co-existence
• Ultra-Wideband cognitive radio system
• Beamforming and MIMO for interference avoidance
• Anti-jamming channel coding
• QoS provisioning and MAC protocols
• Interference metric modeling
• Self-organizing mesh networks and autonomic communications

Important Due Dates

Full Papers due:                                                                          December 1, 2007
Notification of Acceptance:                                                        February 15, 2008
Camera-ready Manuscripts due:                                                March 15, 2008
Special Session Proposals due:                                                 November 1, 2007
Tutorial Proposals due:                                                               December 1, 2007

More information is available on the website http://www.crowncom.org/cfp.shtml