Scope

2015 marks the 10th anniversary of the International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (Crowncom 2015). Crowncom 2015 will be hosted by Texas A&M University at Qatar 21-23 April, 2015. The event will be a special occasion to look back at the contribution of the Crowncom 2015 toward the advancements of cognitive radio technology since its inaugural conference in Mykonos Island, Greece, in 2006 — as well as to look forward to the decades ahead, the ways that cognitive radio technology would like to evolve, and the ways its emerging applications and services can ensure everyone is connected everywhere.

Crowncom 2015 will feature a comprehensive technical program including seven technical tracks and a number of tutorial and special sessions. Crowncom 2015 will also include Demo and Exhibition program, panels of regional and international experts, and keynote speakers. The conference will bring together academic and industry researchers to identify and discuss the recent development, highlight the challenging gaps and forecast the future trends of Cognitive Radio Technology toward their integration with the fifth generation (5G) of networks.

Crowncom 2015 invites you to submit your technical regular research and position papers, tutorial, special session and panel proposals on the following topics of interest, but not limited to:

Topics � Track 1 – Dynamic Spectrum Access/

Management Track Chair: Mohammad Shaqfeh, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar

� Track 2 – Networking Protocols for Cognitive Radio Track Chairs: Tamer Khattab, Qatar University, Qatar, Amr Mohamed, Qatar University, Qatar

� Track 3 – Modeling and Theory Track Chairs: Zouheir Rezki, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, Syed Ali Raza Zaidi, University of Leeds, UK

� Track 4 – Hardware Architecture and Implementations Track Chairs: Ahmed El-Tawil, University of California, Irvine, USA, Fadi Kurdahi, University of California, Irvine, USA

� Track 5 – Next Generation of Cognitive Networks Track Chairs: Muhammad Ali Imran, CCSR/5G Innovation Centre University of Surrey, UK, Richard Demo Souza, Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR), Curitiba - PR - Brazil

� Track 6 – Standards and Business Models Track Chairs: Stanislav Fillin, NICT, Japan, Stephen J. Shellhammer, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA, Markus Dominik Mueck, INTEL Mobile Communications, Germany

� Track 7 – Emerging Applications for Cognitive Networks Track Chairs: Octavia A. Dobre, Memorial University, Canada, Hai Lin, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

Publications

Conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases including Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex etc.

Selected papers may be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cognitive Communications.

Paper submission

Information about paper submissions (including guidelines) can be found under Author Instructions. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the Crowncom 2015 Conference Proceedings, published in IEEE Xplore.

Important dates � Paper submission deadline:

December 15, 2014, 10 a.m. CET � Acceptance notifications:

February 10, 2015 � Camera-ready submissions:

March 1, 2015 � Tutorial, panel and special session

proposal submission: November 1, 2014.

Technical sponsors

CALL FOR PAPERSDoha, Qatar

21 – 23 April, 2015www.crowncom.org

Organizing Committees

General Chair

Mark Weichold, Texas A&M University at Qatar, QatarMounir Hamdi, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

Technical Program Chair

Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, Texas A&M University at Qatar, QatarMohamed Abdallah, Texas A&M University at Qatar, QatarGeorge Karagiannidis, Khalifa University of Science Technology and Research, KUSTAR, UAE

Conference Coordinator

Erica Polini, EAI

Special Session Chair

Alhussein Abouzeid, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Panel Chair

Maziar Nekovee, Samsung, UK

Publication Chair

Muhammad Ismail, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar

Tutorial Chair

Mohamed Nafie, Nile University, Egypt

Exhibitions and Demos Chair

Majid Butt, Qatar University, Qatar

Web Chair

Islam Safak Bayram, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar

Local Arrangements

Carol Nader, Texas A&M University at Qatar, QatarMohamed Kashef, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar

Advisory Board

Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Kuwait University, KuwaitJinsong Wu, Bell Labs, ChinaKhalid A. Qaraqe, Texas A&M University at Qatar, QatarDavid Grace, University of York, UKNaofal Al-Dhahir, University of Texas, Dallas

Endorsed and organized byDoha, Qatar

April 21-23, 2015

www.crowncom.org

CROWNCOM 2015 Workshop

Cognitive Radio for 5G Networks

OverviewThe exponential growth of wireless data traffic urged the international wireless industries andacademia to layout a new wireless network standard which is 5G. It is generally believed that thefuture 5G network may need to be engineered to meet a multitude of stringent requirements interms of cost, energy and spectral efficiency, number of connected devices and latency. CognitiveRadio (CR) is one of the promising techniques to meet these requirements by exploiting under-utilized spectrum bands especially at microwave frequencies where there is a spectrum crunch.CR has applications ranging from the traditional cellular to device-to-device (D2D) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication systems via interweave, underlay and overlay dynamic spectrumaccess. In cellular systems, CR can enhance the overall efficiency of the network by allowing op-portunistic and shared spectrum access. And for the D2D systems, massive short range connec-tivity which facilitates efficient data transfer is realized using CR. On the other hand, networkassisted CR techniques can be leveraged in vehicular applications, such as driverless cars, learn-ing the road traffic which consequently contribute in achieving the zero accident goal of the futureintelligent transport systems (ITS). Furthermore, for multi-tier heterogeneous network (HetNet),CR can be utilized to opportunistically offload delay tolerant data traffic to different tiers and ra-dio access technologies (RATs) which is one of the effective means to alleviate traffic congestion.

ScopeandObjectivesGiven the above promising potentials of CR technology, still a number of challenges arise includ-ing how to enable autonomous CR transmission without creating significant interference to theprimary networks for Machine to Machine (M2M), D2D and HetNet communication systems.This workshop aims to gather researchers, academia, industry and regulators to present and dis-cuss their research findings on the CR technology and, to highlight the opportunities, challengesand potentials of CR for realizing the future 5G network. The topics of interest include but arenot limited to:

• Dynamic spectrum sharing and access

• Massive/multiple antenna and cooperative spectrum sensing

• Energy and spectral efficient CR network

• Resource allocation, power/interference control and management for CR network

• Algorithm, signaling and protocol design for CR network

• Carrier aggregation, traffic/data offloading and load balancing in shared spectrum access

• Cognitive HetNet, D2D, M2M and V2V networks

• Mobile, ad-hoc and multi-hop CR network

• Self-powered and context aware CR network

• Experimental, link and system level simulation, field trail and prototype results

Organizing Committee

• Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale

Univ. Quebec, INRS, Canada

• Zaheer Khan

University of Oulu, Finland

• Batu Krishna Chalise

ArrayComm LLC, USA

• Syed Ali Hassan

Nat. Univ. Sc. Tech. (NUST)

Pakistan

Contributions

Submitted papers must present original materials which are not currently under review in any other conference or journal and have notbeen previously published. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum of 6 printed double column pages (minimum10-point font) including figures and references. Papers exceeding 6 double column pages will not be reviewed at all. Authors should usethe CROWNCOM Author’s Kit template, ensuring IEEE Explore compatible PDF-format. More detailed information about the work-shop and submission policy can be found at http://crowncom.org/2015/show/initial-submission. Workshop papers will be submittedfor inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

TPC Members

• Zhen Gao

Tianjin University, China

• Sajid Saleem

SEECS, NUST, Pakistan

• Rafael Aguilar Gonzalez

University of Oulu, Finland

• Shahriar Shahabuddin

University of Oulu, Finland

• Shree Krishna Sharma

University of Luxembourg

• Daniel Benevides da Costa

Federal Univ. of Cear (UFC)

• Joel Grotz

Technology Labs, Newtec Cy

• Eva Lagunas Targarona

University of Luxembourg

• Satish Chandra Jha

Intel USA

• Le Thanh Tan

Univ. Quebec, INRS, Canada

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline

March 07, 2015 (FIRM)

• Acceptance Notification

March 15, 2015

• Camera ready

March 18, 2015