Call for papers


ICARUS

Distributed Wireless Networking Experimental Infrastructure for Optimization and Convergence

10-12 May 2010 | Barcelona, Spain

SCOPE:

The main objectives in this Special Session are to address novel research results in the areas of Virtual Distributed Testbed Platform thus enabling the delivery of new testbed platforms that allow investigating, design and evaluate new protocols and algorithms for cross-system and cross-layer optimization outside the operator network in order that they do not disturb the normal functionality of these networks. This Special Session allows us to define new business model, opportunities and solutions in the wireless communication area, defining testbed architecture to allow a rapid development of new optimization algorithms. It is also important to mention that the main focused target of this Special Session will be the information exchange and cross-fertilization between academia, research centers and industry partners related with this tracks.

The future leads towards an ambient environment where wireless communications will exist in every scenario of life to provide the end user the “flexibility and choice”, to enhance the quality of life of the individual. The vision is beyond 3G (B3G) communications, which is tending towards a diverse wireless networking world, where the user will be able to attain any service, at any time on effectively any network that is optimized for the application at hand. Thus, creating a future global infrastructure, where several systems can coexist to support transparent end-to-end communications, in an efficient, cost-effective manner; this is also commonly referred to as the so-called ABCS (Always Best Connected Systems) philosophy. An important architectural issue is that of defining a next-generation wireless system, which acts as a “network-of-wireless-networks” accommodating a variety of radio technologies and mobile service requirements in a seamless manner.

To achieve these goals two major technological challenges need to be tackled. First, a general solution for a heterogeneous system evaluation platform must be implemented. Such platform will allows us to exploit in an efficient way the available wireless system resources through new applications, which resolves the development of highly expensive physical test-beds with reduced flexibility and legal challenges and reluctant to open network to public experimentation. Furthermore, although simulators have been around and used by the wireless R&D community for years, no integrated tool that considers all the aspects relevant for the analysis and dimensioning of a wireless network still exists either in the commercial or research arena. Therefore, the development of a virtual testbed covering the radio access network layers will be a very powerful tool for researchers to design and evaluate next generation wireless networks.

The second goals taking into consideration is the needed of simulation tools that enable a rich transfer of information between layers and systems. It will be essential for the design and evaluation of new algorithms and simulator architecture due to the fact that future wireless systems with several technologies not specified yet will be used. Finally, it is important that some adequate interfaces will be used to manage real interface devices in order to test the proposed algorithms over real equipment and use real data in the simulations. The Special Session is organized by the ICARUS European CELTIC project.

The proposed topics take into consideration within this Special Session are showed in the following tracks:

 

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ORGANIZER(S)

Fernando López Aguilar
Telefónica I+D
Emilio Vargas, 6, 28043 Madrid (Spain)
Phone: +34 913379358
E-mail:fla@tid.es