1st International Workshop on Optimization and Network Planning (ONPlan 2010)

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First International Workshop on Optimization and Network Planning (ONPlan
2010)
IWCMC2010, Caen, France, 28 June - 2 July, 2010.
http://www.iwcmc.com/


==== Scope and Motivation
Next generation networks are expected to provide diverse services with
enhanced QoS (e.g. seamless coverage and higher data rate) at affordable
cost. Network planning and optimization will face many new
challenges arising from increased network scale, diverse services with
different levels of QoS requirements, coexistence of heterogeneous networks,
adoption of new communication and networking technologies. The purpose of
ONPlan is to bring together researchers and engineers addressing all aspects
of challenges in the network planning and optimization. ONPlan seeks papers
dealing with architectural issues, theoretical and simulation studies, new
paradigms, enabling technologies and practical implementations for network
planning and optimization.


==== Topics of interests
The areas of interest for ONPlan include, but are not limited to, the
following:

- Single-technology radio networks
+ Architecture & services (B3G/4G, WiMAX, WRAN, WPAN, VANET)
+ Radio resource management
+ Quality of services provisioning and energy efficiency
+ Cross-layer, scalability, automation and self-healing

- Heterogeneous networks
+ Multi-vendor, multi-technology radio networks
+ Coexistence and cooperation of radio networks
+ Convergent fixed and mobile networks and services
+ Scalability, reliability and robustness

- Indoor radio network
+ Repeaters, picocells and femtocells
+ Automatic configuration algorithms of femtocells
+ Resource, interference and mobility management in femto/macrocell

- Networks with advanced technologies
+ Smart antennas and distributed antenna systems
+ Cooperative relaying in UMTS/HSPA/LTE and WiMAX networks
+ Cognitive radio, dynamic frequency allocation
+ Network coding, delay tolerant network

- System level performance evaluation
+ Traffic modelling and real network traffic scenarios
+ System modelling and simulation
+ Testbed and experimental platform
+ Integration of simulation and field measurement


==== Submission Guidelines
- Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers not exceeding
six pages, including text, figures, tables, and references. Papers must be
written in English and in standard IEEE conference format. All submissions
will be handled electronically through the EDAS system (http://edas.info),
and must be in PDF format.

- Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be
included in ACM/IEEE Digital Library (pending approval). There will be one
best paper award for ONPlan2010. Selected papers will be further considered
for possible publication in two special issues of Wiley Journal of Wireless
Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) and International Journal of
Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS).


==== Important Dates
- Paper Submission Deadline: December 15 2009
- Paper Acceptance Notification:  March 15 2010
- Camera-ready Paper Submissions: April 1 2010


==== ONPlan Chairs
- Dr Jianhua He, Swansea University, UK. Email: j.he at swansea.ac.uk
- Dr Hongfei Du, Bell Laboratories, Canada. Email: hongfei.du at ieee.org


==== Technical Program Committee
- Alister Burr, University of York
- Chen Chen, Peking University
- Tao Chen, VTT
- Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales
- Zhong Fan, Toshiba Research Europe
- Raj Jain, Washington University in St. Louis
- Sithamparanathan Kandeepan, Create-Net International Research Centre
- Merkourios Karaliopoulos, ETH Zurich
- Jie Liang, Simon Fraser University
- Zhili Sun, University of Surrey
- Zuoyin Tang, Bedfordshire Unviersity
- John Thompson, University of Edinburgh
- Ping Wang, Nanyang Technological University
- Wenbing Yao, Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd.
- Di Yuan, Linköping University
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