Geert Leus (SPCOM TC)
Holger Boche (SPCOM TC)
It is not yet completely clear how 4G wireless systems will look like, but so far "4G" has been used as an umbrella term for a number of recent advances in wireless communications. One of those advances is the cognitive radio concept, where devices will look for holes in the spectrum (a.k.a. spectrum sensing) and dynamically share the free spectrum with other devices (a.k.a. dynamic resource allocation). Combining these ideas with the use of multiple antennas per device opens up another dimension. This extra degree of freedom leads to improved performance, but it complicates the required signal processing algorithms. We feel that it is time to join all these research efforts in a thematic symposium on 4G, which will be of interest to industry as well as to students active in this research area.
PLEN-1: Dynamic Spectrum Management
by John M. Cioffi, Stanford University
OT-1: Signal Processing for 4G Wireless
Chairs: Geert Leus and Holger Boche
Title: Signal Processing Challenges for the Next Cellular Technology Step
Speaker: Gerhard Fettweis, Technical University of Dresden
Title: Cooperation and Coordination in Multiple-Antenna Interference Channels
Speaker: David Gesbert, Eurecom Institute
Title: Networking Cognitive Radios for Dynamic Spectrum Access
Speaker: Qing Zhao, University of California at Davis
T-11: A Unified Design Framework for Non-Linear MIMO Transceivers Using Majorization Theory
Presented by Michael Botros Shenouda, Daniel P. Palomar, Timothy N. Davidson
T-17: Game Theory and Resource Allocation in Wireless Communications
Presented by Marco Luise, Giacomo Bacci
PANEL-1: LTE and WiMAX - What is Next? Challenges for 4G Wireless
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Holger Boche, Technische Universität Berlin and Director, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz-Institut, Berlin, Germany
Panelists
SS-L5: Interference Channels and Spectrum Sharing
SS-L4: Signal Processing Challenges for 4G Wireless Communications
SPCOM-L1: Cognitive Radio and Dynamic Spectrum Management
SPCOM-L2: Resource Allocation, Optimization, and Game Theory
SPCOM-L3: Precoding, Beamforming, and Resource Allocation