Call for Papers for Communication Theory Symposium

Scope and Motivation:

The mission of the Communication Theory Symposium is to explore the technical fundamentals of communication systems. The symposium features original and innovative research in technical areas focusing on the physical layer and its interactions with higher layers. Sample topics are listed below.

Main Topics of Interest:

The Communication Theory Symposium seeks original contributions in the following topical areas, plus others that are not explicitly listed but are closely related:

• Adaptive Modulation and Coding • CDMA and Spread Spectrum • Channel Estimation and Synchronization • Coding Theory and Practice • Communication Theory Aspects of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks • Compressed Sensing • Theoretical Aspects of Cognitive Radio • Cooperative Communications • Theoretical Aspects of Cross Layer Design • Detection and Estimation Theory • Distributed Coding and Processing • Diversity and Fading Countermeasures • Dynamic Spectrum Management • Feedback in Communication Systems • Fundamentals of Femtocell and Picocell-Enhanced Cellular Networks • Fiber Optical Communications and Free-Space Optical Communications • Heterogeneous Networks • Information Theory and Channel Capacity • Interference Management, Cancellation, Alignment, and Avoidance • Iterative Techniques, Detection and Decoding • Joint Source/Channel Coding • Multiple Access Techniques • Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Systems Design and Analysis • Multiuser Diversity • Network Coding

• Network and Multiuser Information Theory • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and Multi-Carrier Systems • Powerline Communications • Radio Resource Management and Scheduling • Source Coding and Data Compression • Space-time Coding and Processing • Ultra-Wideband, 60 GHz, and Sub-Terahertz Communication Theory

Sponsoring Technical Committees:

• Communication Theory • Signal Processing and Communications Electronics • Vehicular Networks and Telematics Applications (sub-committee)

How to Submit a Paper:

The IEEE Globecom 2015 website provides full instructions on how to submit papers. You will select the desired symposium when submitting. The paper submission deadline is April 1, 2015. Unlike recent ICC’s and Globecom’s, this is a hard deadline that will not be extended.

Symposium Co-Chairs:

• Octavia Dobre, Memorial University, Canada, odobre@mun.ca • Xiang Cheng, Peking University, China, xiangcheng@pku.edu.cn • Kaushik Chakraborty, Qualcomm Inc., kaushikc@qti.qualcomm.com

Biographies:

Octavia A. Dobre is an Associate Professor with Memorial University (MUN), Canada, which she joined in 2005. Previously she was with New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, and Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania. She received the Dipl. Ing. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest in 1991 and 2000, respectively. In 2000 she was the recipient of a Royal Society scholarship at Westminster University, UK, and in 2001 she held a Fulbright fellowship at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. In 2013, she was a Visiting Professor with University of Brest, France, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

USA. Also in 2013, she received the first award for excellence in research from the Faculty of Engineering at Memorial University. Dr. Dobre’s research interests include cognitive radio systems, spectrum sensing techniques, blind signal recognition and parameter estimation techniques, transceiver optimization algorithms, dynamic spectrum

access, cooperative wireless communications, resource allocation, and optical communications. She published over 100 referred journal and conference papers in these areas. Dr. Dobre is a senior editor for the IEEE Communications Letters, as well as an editor for the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and ELSEVIER PHYCOM. She served as an editor for the IEEE Communications Letters, guest editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics on Signal Processing and IEEE Communications Magazine, and lead guest editor of the ELSEVIER PHYCOM ”Cognitive Radio: The Road for its Second Decade” special issue. She has been the General Chair of the IEEE CWIT 2015, Co-Chair for the IEEE CrownCom 2015 (Emerging Applications for Cognitive Networks Track), IEEE WCNC (PHY and Fundamentals Track), IEEE VTC Fall 2014 (Spectrum Sensing and Cognitive Radio Track), IEEE ICC 2013 and IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 (Signal Processing for Communications Symposium), IEEE VTC Spring 2013 (Multiple Antenna Systems and Services Track), ICNC 2012 (Signal Processing for Communications Symposium), and IEEE CCECE 2009 (Signal and Multimedia Processing Track). She currently serves as the Chair of the IEEE Communications Society’s Women in Communications Engineering Committee. She is a registered Professional Engineer in Newfoundland.

Xiang Cheng received the Ph.D. degree from Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K., in 2009, where he received the Postgraduate Research Thesis Prize. He has been with Peking University, Bejing, China, since 2010, first as a Lecturer, and then as an Associate Professor since 2012. His current research interests include mobile propagation channel modeling and simulation, next generation mobile cellular systems, intelligent transportation systems, and hardware prototype development. He has published more than 100 research papers in journals and conference proceedings. He received the best paper award from the IEEE International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST 2012) and the IEEE International

Conference on Communications in China (ICCC 2013). Dr. Cheng received the ”2009 Chinese National Award for Outstanding Overseas PhD Student” for his academic excellence and outstanding performance. He has served as Symposium Leading-Chair, Co-Chair, and a Member of the Technical Program Committee for several international conferences. He is now an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Kaushik Chakraborty received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and electrical communication engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. Since 2008, Kaushik has been working at Qualcomm Inc., where he is currently a Staff Systems Engineer at the Office of the Chief Scientist. Prior to joining Qualcomm, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2), University of California, San Diego.

His research interests are in the areas of cooperative and intelligent communication systems for next generation mobile communication networks. He has authored several journal and conference papers and patents in these areas.  

 

 

TPC Members (Tentative)

1 Marco Chiani University of Bologna Italy 2 Chadi Abou-Rjeily Lebanese American University Lebanon 3 Giuseppe Abreu Jacobs University Bremen Germany 4 Fumiyuki Adachi Tohoku University Japan 5 Koichi Adachi Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Singapore 6 Raviraj Adve University of Toronto Canada 7 Sofiene Affes INRS-EMT Canada 8 George Alexandropoulos Athens Information Technology Greece 9 Mohamed-Slim Alouini KAUST Saudi Arabia 10 Osama Amin KAUST Saudi Arabia 11 Jeffrey Andrews The University of Texas at Austin USA 12 Marc Armand National University of Singapore Singapore 13 Nallanathan Arumugam King's College London UK 14 Tor Aulin Chalmers University of Technology Sweden 15 Salman Avestimehr University of Southern California USA 16 Amir Banihashemi Carleton University Canada 17 Dror Baron North Carolina State University Israel 18 Gerhard Bauch Hamburg University of Technology Germany 19 Norman Beaulieu University of Alberta Canada 20 Ebrahim Bedeer University of British Columbia Canada 21 Randall Berry Northwestern University USA 22 Antoine Berthet Supélec France 23 Matthieu Bloch Georgia Institute of Technology France 24 Steven Blostein Queen's University Canada 25 Deva Borah New Mexico State University USA 26 Viveck Cadambe MIT USA 27 Kui Cai Data Storage Institute Singapore 27 Giuseppe Caire University of Southern California USA 28 Xiang Chen Tsinghua University P. R. China 29 Chao Chen Qualcomm USA 30 Marco Chiani University of Bologna Italy 31 Jinho Choi GIST Korea 32 Wan Choi KAIST Korea 33 Jo Woon Chong MIT USA 34 Bruno Clerckx Imperial College London UK 35 Giulio Colavolpe University of Parma Italy 36 Andrea Conti ENDIF University of Ferrara Italy 37 Daniel Costello University of Notre Dame USA 38 Shuguang Cui Texas A&M University USA 39 Lin Dai City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 40 Davide Dardari University of Bologna Italy 41 Marouane Debbah Supelec France 42 Natasha Devroye University of Illinois at Chicago USA 43 Marco Di Renzo CNRS France 44 Alexandros Dimakis University of Texas at Austin USA 45 Zhiguo Ding Lancaster University UK 46 Tolga Duman Bilkent University Turkey 47 Trung Q. Duong Queen's University Belfast UK

48 Salman Durrani The Australian National University Australia 49 Thomas Eriksson Chalmers University of Technology Sweden 50 Elza Erkip NYU USA 51 Jamie Evans Monash University Australia 52 Gianluigi Ferrari University of Parma Italy 53 Mark Flanagan University College Dublin Ireland 54 Massimo Franceschetti University of California at San Diego USA 55 Hua Fu National University of Singapore Singapore 56 Thomas Fuja University of Notre Dame USA 57 Radha Krishna Ganti IIT Madras India 58 Roland Gautier UBO France 59 Costas Georghiades Texas A&M University USA 60 Wolfgang Gerstacker University of Erlangen-Nuernberg Germany 61 David Gesbert Eurecom Institute France 62 Sinan Gezici Bilkent University Turkey 63 Dennis Goeckel University of Massachusetts USA 64 Alexandre Graell i Amat Chalmers University of Technology Sweden 65 T. Aaron Gulliver University of Victoria Canada 66 Deniz Gündüz Imperial College London UK 67 Dongning Guo Northwestern University USA 68 M. Cenk Gursoy Syracuse University USA 69 Mohan Gurusamy National University of Singapore Singapore 70 Harald Haas The University of Edinburgh UK 71 Martin Haenggi University of Notre Dame USA 72 Stephen Hanly Macquarie University Australia 73 Robert Heath The University of Texas at Austin USA 74 Paul Ho Simon Fraser University Canada 75 Anders Høst-Madsen University of Hawaii USA 76 Rose Qingyang Hu Utah State University USA 77 Chuan Huang Arizona State University USA 78 Kaibin Huang The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 79 Yongming Huang Southeast University P. R. China 80 Brian Hughes North Carolina State University USA 81 Dayoub Iyad UVHC/IEMN-DOAE France 82 Syed Jafar University of California Irvine USA 83 Hamid Jafarkhani University of California, Irvine USA 84 Bingli Jiao Peking University P. R. China 85 Shi Jin Southeast University P. R. China 86 Eduard Jorswieck TU Dresden Germany 87 Markku Juntti University of Oulu Finland 88 Pooi-Yuen Kam National University of Singapore Singapore 89 Wei Kang Southeast University P. R. China 90 Magnus Karlsson Chalmers University of Technology Sweden 91 Onur Kaya Isik University Turkey 92 Ashish Khisti University of Toronto Canada 93 Dong In Kim Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) Korea 94 Il-Min Kim Queen's University Canada 95 Taejoon Kim City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 96 Joerg Kliewer New Jersey Institute of Technology USA 97 Marios Kountouris Supélec France 98 Gerhard Kramer Technische Universität München Germany 99 Witold Krzymień University of Alberta / TRLabs Canada 100 Lutz Lampe University of British Columbia Canada

101 J. Nicholas Laneman University of Notre Dame USA 102 Kwang Bok Lee Seoul National University Korea 103 Jungwon Lee Samsung US R&D Center USA 104 Jie Li University of Tsukuba Japan 105 Kwok Li Nanyang Technological University Singapore 106 Tiffany Jing Li Lehigh University USA 107 Ying-Chang Liang Institute for Infocomm Research Singapore 108 Yingbin Liang Syracuse University USA 109 Hai Lin Osaka Prefecture University Japan 110 Kai Lin Dalian University of Technology P.R. China 111 Lingjia Liu University of Kansas USA 112 Nan Liu Southeast University P.R. China 113 Ruoheng Liu Alcatel-Lucent USA USA 114 Tie Liu Texas A&M University USA 115 David Love Purdue University USA 116 Angel Lozano Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain 117 Changqing Luo Mississippi State University USA 118 Shaodan Ma University of Macau P.R. China 119 Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali Bell Labs, Alcatel Lucent USA 120 Ranjan Mallik Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi India 121 Philippa Martin University of Canterbury New Zealand 122 Rudolf Mathar RWTH Aachen University Germany 123 Michail Matthaiou Queen's University Belfast UK 124 Santiago Mazuelas Qualcomm USA 125 Matthew McKay HKUST Hong Kong 126 Muriel Medard MIT USA 127 Geoffrey Messier University of Calgary Canada 128 Scott Miller Texas A&M University USA 129 Paolo Minero University of Notre Dame USA 130 Hlaing Minn University of Texas at Dallas USA 131 Patrick Mitran University of Waterloo Canada 132 Mehul Motani National University of Singapore Singapore 133 Ralf Müller University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Germany 134 Mohammad Nakhai King's College London UK 135 Krishna Narayanan Texas A&M University USA 136 Bobak Nazer Boston University USA 137 Rohit Negi Carnegie Mellon University USA 138 Telex Ngatched Memorial University Canada 139 Aria Nosratinia University of Texas, Dallas USA 140 Ozgur Oyman Intel Corporation USA 141 Ayfer Özgür Stanford University USA 142 Erik Perrins University of Kansas USA 143 Henry Pfister Duke University USA 144 Petar Popovski Aalborg University Denmark 145 Tony Q. S. Quek SUTD Singapore 146 Alberto Rabbachin MIT USA 147 Emanuel Radoi University of Brest France 148 Vasanthan Raghavan Qualcomm, Inc. USA 148 Riccardo Raheli University of Parma Italy 150 B. Sundar Rajan Indian Institute of Science India 151 Sundeep Rangan New York University USA 152 Lars K. Rasmussen KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden 153 Adeel Razi University College London UK

154 Michael Rice Brigham Young University USA 155 Philippe Rostaing Universite de Bretagne Occidentale France 156 Luca Sanguinetti University of Pisa Italy 157 Seb Savory University College London UK 158 Jossy Sayir University of Cambridge UK 159 Christian Schlegel Dalhousie University Canada 160 Robert Schober University of British Columbia Canada 161 Erchin Serpedin Texas A&M University USA 162 Aydin Sezgin RUB Germany 163 Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei Kings College London UK 164 Osvaldo Simeone New Jersey Institute of Technology USA 165 Mikael Skoglund KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden 166 Daniel K. C. So University of Manchester UK 167 Lingyang Song Peking University P. R. China 168 Alkan Soysal Bahcesehir University Turkey 169 Alex Sprintson Texas A&M University USA 170 Kostas Stamatiou CTTC Spain 171 Hongjian Sun Durham University UK 172 Sumei Sun Institute for Infocomm Research Singapore 173 Himal Suraweera University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka 174 Watcharapan Suwansantisuk KMUTT Thailand 175 Leszek Szczecinski INRS-EMT Canada 176 Chee Wei Tan City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 177 Vincent Tan National University of Singapore Singapore 178 Ravi Tandon Virginia Tech USA 179 Alberto Tarable Politecnico di Torino Italy 180 Wee Peng Tay Nanyang Technological University Singapore 181 Kah Chan Teh Nanyang Technological University Singapore 182 Chintha Tellambura University of Alberta Canada 183 Olav Tirkkonen Aalto University Finland 184 Dimitris Toumpakaris University of Patras Greece 185 Nghi Tran University of Akron USA 186 Daniela Tuninetti University of Illinois at Chicago USA 187 Sennur Ulukus University of Maryland USA 188 Murat Uysal Ozyegin University Turkey 189 Matthew Valenti West Virginia University USA 190 Adriaan van Wijngaarden Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent USA 191 Luc Vandendorpe University of Louvain Belgium 192 Roberto Verdone University of Bologna Italy 193 Emanuele Viterbo Monash University Australia 194 Giorgio M. Vitetta UNIMORE Italy 195 Pascal Vontobel Stanford University USA 196 Mai Vu Tufts University USA 197 Fanggang Wang Beijing Jiaotong University P. R. China 198 Li-Chun Wang National Chiao Tung University Taiwan 199 Xianbin Wang The University of Western Ontario Canada 200 Xiaodong Wang Columbia University USA 201 Fanggang Wang Beijing Jiaotong University China 202 Steven Weber Drexel University USA 203 Ruey-Yi Wei National Central University Taiwan 204 Moe Win Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 205 Armin Wittneben ETH Zurich Switzerland 206 Kai Kit Wong University College London UK

207 Hsiao-Chun Wu Louisiana State University USA 208 Ming-Wei Wu ZUST P. R. China 209 Yik-Chung Wu The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 210 Xiang-Gen Xia University of Delaware USA 211 Jing Yang University of Arkansas USA 212 Roy Yates Rutgers University USA 213 Edmund Yeh Northeastern University USA 214 Aylin Yener Pennsylvania State University USA 215 Wei Yu University of Toronto Canada 216 Haifeng Yuan National University of Singapore Singapore 217 Jinhong Yuan University of New South Wales Australia 218 Guosen Yue NEC Laboratories America, Inc. USA 219 Chau Yuen SUTD Singapore 220 Melda Yuksel TOBB UET Turkey 221 Jun Zhang HKUST Hong Kong 222 Rui Zhang National University of Singapore Singapore 223 Shenqiu Zhang Qualcomm USA 224 Wei Zhang The University of New South Wales Australia 225 Sheng Zhou Tsinghua University P. R. China 226 Xu Zhu University of Liverpool UK 227 Weihua Zhuang University of Waterloo Canada