Special Session at BCFIC 2012 New Trends in Next Generation WLANs: (Research that Goes) One Step Beyond Standards

co-located with 
BCFIC 2012, The Baltic Congress on Future Internet Communications
http://www.bcfic.org/


CALL FOR PAPERS


About the Special Session

The keyword '802.11' gives about 300000 results in Google scholar, 17500 of those are since 2011. These numbers are a clear indicator of the amount of research done around the '802.11' standard. However, the real impact of such huge effort is sometimes unclear or difficult to quantify, as much of the work done may not target the relevant problems or, which is an usual case, it is not properly disseminated.

The goal of this Special Session is to open a forum for the discussion of how the research can push the standardization bodies by effectively producing results that could be considered in the future 802.11 standards, or in their specific implementations by the different manufacturers. In this direction, we ask for papers that advance the State-of-the-art for the most recent and upcoming IEEE 802.11 standards/amendments such as: IEEE 802.11p, IEEE 802.11s, IEEE 802.11ac, IEEE 802.11ad, IEEE 802.11ah, IEEE 802.11af, etc.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• New modulation and channel coding techniques for WLANs operating below 1 GHz, at UHF bands and at 60 GHz.
• Multi-channel PHY/MAC protocols, including Non-contiguous OFDM, cognitive radio techniques and dynamic channel-bonding strategies.
• Single-user / Multi-user MIMO in both uplink and dowlink, including efficient CSI feed-back strategies and protocols.
• Green WLANs: Energy Efficient PHY/MAC protocols.
• Coexistence mechanisms between WLANs and other wireless networks in IMS bands.
• Mesh (multi-hop) Networking and vehicular networks.
• Support for multimedia traffic and QoS Management.

Important Dates

• Deadline for Special Session papers: March 19, 2012 
• Acceptance of Special Session papers: April 2, 2012 
• Camera-ready version (hard): April 16, 2012 

Submission Guidelines

The same guidelines as for regular BCFIC 2012 papers have to be considered.

Special Session Organizers

Boris Bellalta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

Alexey Vinel (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece)