7th IEEE Broadband wireless access workshop (BWA2011) 9 Dec. 2011, Houston, Texas, US colocated with IEEE GLOBECOM 2011

Broadband Wireless Access Workshop - IEEE GLOBECOM 2011

08:30 - 08:40 Welcome

08:40 - 09:30 Keynote

Femtocells and Games: Towards self-organizing small-cell networks
Walid Saad, University of Miami, USA

Abstract:

The deployment of small cells serviced by low-cost, low-power femtocell access point is envisioned to significantly improve the performance of next-generation wireless networks. The key to a successful deployment of femtocells lies in the design of novel algorithms and techniques that ensure an efficient co-existence between the femtocell tier and the existing macro-cell wireless infrastructure. In this talk, we study the potential of applying game-theoretic techniques for addressing various challenges in femtocell networks such as interference management and self-organization. In particular, we focus on three important problems:
(i) Noncooperative games for strategic access policies,(ii)- Cooperative games for spectrum leasing and interference management, and (iii)- Matching games for user-to-access point association. For each problem, we present the key concepts, discuss the proposed solutions, and shed a light on future opportunities.

Biography:

Walid Saad received his B.E. degree in Computer and Communications Engineering from the Lebanese University, Faculty of Engineering, in 2004, his M.E. in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2007, and his Ph.D degree from the University of Oslo in 2010.  From August 2008 till July 2009 he was a visiting scholar in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.  From January 2011 till July 2011, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Princeton University.

Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Miami. His research interests include applications of game theory in wireless networks, small cell networks, cognitive radio, wireless communication systems (UMTS, WiMAX, LTE, etc), and smart grids. He was the first author of the papers that received the Best Paper Award at the 7th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), in June 2009 and  at the 5th International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP) in May 2010.

09:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break

10:00 -10:40 Session 1: WiMAX and LTE

WiMAX Non-Saturated Analysis
Giovanni Giambene (University of Siena, Italy), Snezana Hadzic (University of Siena, Italy)

A New Approach for Improving Indoor LTE Coverage
Carlos Gandarillas (Telefonica Research and Development, Spain), Victor Iglesias (Telefonica Research and Development, Spain), Maria Teresa Aparicio (Telefonica Research and Development, Spain), Emilio Mino (Telefonica Research and Development, Spain), Pedro Olmos (Telefonica Research and Development, Spain)


10:40 -12:00 Session 2: Relaying

Generalized Multiplicative Network Coding for the Broadcast Phase of Bidirectional Relaying
Jawad Manssour (Ericsson AB, Sweden), Islam Alyafawi (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Slimane Ben Slimane (KTH, Sweden)

Effects of Outdated Channel State Information in Partial Relay Selection Systems with Multiple Antennas At the Destination
Fangxiang Wang (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, P.R. China), Guodong Xie (Peking University, P.R. China), Hang Long (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China), Ding Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Distributed Beamforming with Relay-Aided Interference Alignment in Fully Connected Interference Network
Yunchuan Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China), Hui Zhao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China), Cong Sun (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China), Hua Sun (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China), Wenbo Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Single-Carrier Frequency-Domain Equalization for Multi-Relay Cooperative Systems with Relay Selection
Homa Eghbali (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Sami Muhaidat (Simon Fraser University, Canada)


12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 -15:00 Session 3: MIMO and Interference Cancellation

Time-domain ML Channel Estimation Considering Antenna Switching Time for RF-MIMO-OFDM
Masahiro Yasukawa (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan), Takahiko Saba (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)

On Eigenvalue and Capacity Distributions of Cooperative Multi-Keyhole Propagation Channels
Yi Zhou (Tongji University, P.R. China), Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan), Weidong Xiang (University of Michigan, Dearborn, USA), Sateesh Addepalli (Cisco, USA), Aihuang Guo (Tongji University, P.R. China), Fuqiang Liu (Tongji University, P.R. China)

Joint Compressed Estimation of Delay-AOA Information for MIMO Channel
Xiaofeng Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China), Victor Peng (Beijing U. Posts & Telecoms, P.R. China), Fansheng Zeng (China, P.R. China), Wenbo Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)

Performance of WH-Spread CI/MC-CDMA System with Interference Cancellation Receiver
Mithun Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India), Preetam Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India)

Joint ICI Cancellation and Channel Estimation with Real-Time Channel Adaptation for High-Mobility OFDM Systems
Chun-Hao Liu (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Gene C. H. Chuang (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan)


15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30 Session 4: Power Efficiency and Scheduling

On Pilot Dimensioning in Multicell Single Input Multiple Output Systems
Pablo Soldati (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Mikael Johansson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Gabor Fodor (Ericsson Research, Sweden), Stefano Sorrentino (Ericsson AB, Sweden)

A Peak Power Efficient Cooperative Diversity Using Star-QAM
Koji Ishibashi (Harvard University, USA), Won-Yong Shin (Harvard University, USA), Hyo Seok Yi (Harvard University, USA), Hideki Ochiai (Yokohama National University, Japan)

Consumption Factor: A Figure of Merit for Power Consumption and Energy Efficiency in Broadband Wireless Communications
James Murdock (The University of Texas at Austin, USA), Theodore Rappaport (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

An Exact Outage Analysis of Zero-Forcing V-BLAST with Greedy Ordering
Serdar Ozyurt (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Murat Torlak (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

A Reduced Feedback Proportional Fair Multiuser Scheduling Scheme
Mohammad Shaqfeh (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar), Hussein Alnuweiri (Texas A&M University, Qatar)","Mohamed-Slim Alouini (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)

Poster Session:

Blind and Semiblind Detection of OFDM Signals by CIR Model in the Multipath Fading Channel
Ren-Shian Chen (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan), Ming-Xian Chang (Nation Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

D-BLAST with Group Zero-Forcing Detection: Diversity and Multiplexing Tradeoff Analysis
Yi Lu (The University of New South Wales, Australia), Wei Zhang (University of New South Wales, Australia), Xiang-Gen Xia (University of Delaware, USA)

Resource Allocation for Multiuser Cognitive Radio with Primary User's Cooperation
Ding Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China), Yizhe Li (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China), Zhiyong Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China), Ping Zhang (WTI-BUPT, P.R. China)

Analysis of the Capacity Enhancement of Cellular Systems Using Multiuser Receivers and Multiple Power Zones
Bathiya Senanayake (Australian National University, Australia), Mark Reed (Australian National University, Australia)

An Analysis of the Received Signal Strength Accuracy in 802.11A Networks Using Atheros Chipsets: A Solution Towards Self Configuration
Sebastian Robitzsch (University College Dublin, Ireland), Liam Murphy (University College Dublin, Ireland), John Fitzpatrick (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany)