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Workshop
Program (Monday, December 6)
8:50 AM - 9:00 AM: Welcome/Opening
address
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Keynote talk
by Prof. Jeffrey G. Andrews,
The University of Texas, Austin
Understanding Femtocell Networks, and the Open vs. Closed Access
Question
Jeffrey G. Andrews received
the B.S. in Engineering with High Distinction from Harvey Mudd College in 1995, and the M.S. and
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
University
in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin,
where he is the Director of the Wireless Networking and Communications
Group (WNCG), UT's wireless research center with over 100 researchers and
10 industrial affiliates. Outside of academia, he developed Code Division
Multiple Access (CDMA) systems as an engineer at Qualcomm from 1995 to
1997, and has consulted for the WiMAX Forum,
Microsoft, Palm, Ricoh, ADC, and NASA.
Dr. Andrews is a Senior
Member of the IEEE, and served as an editor for the IEEE Trans. on Wireless
Communications from 2004-8. He is co-author of the Prentice-Hall book,
Fundamentals of WiMAX. He received the NSF CAREER
award in 2007 and is the Principal Investigator of an eight university team
of 13 faculty in DARPA's
Information Theory for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks program.
9:30 AM - 10:40 AM: System
Analysis of Femtocell Networks (Session #1)
CDMA Uplink Capacity in
both Open and Closed Access Two-tier Femtocell
Networks
Ping Xia (University of Texas
at Austin, USA);
Vikram Chandrasekhar (Texas Instruments, USA); Jeffrey Andrews (The University of Texas
at Austin, USA)
Capacity Comparison for
CSG and OSG OFDMA Femtocells
Ang-Hsun
Tsai (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Jane-Hwa Huang (National Chi Nan University, Taiwan); Li-Chun
Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Ruey-Bing Hwang (National Chiao
Tung University, Taiwan)
On Interference Analysis
of Self-organized Femtocells in Indoor Deployment
Carlos H. M. de Lima (University
of Oulu, Finland); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University
of Oulu, Finland); Kaveh Ghaboosi
(Univeristy of Oulu, Finland); Matti Latva-aho (UoOulu, Finland)
Outage Analysis for WCDMA Femtocell with Uplink Attenuation
He Wang (Australian
National University, Australia);
Ming Zhao (Australian Communication and Media Authority,
Australia); Mark C. Reed
(National ICT Australia,
ANU, Australia)
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM: Coffee Break #1
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Keynote talk by Prof. Giuseppe
Caire, University of Southern California, USA
Talk Title: TBD
Giuseppe Caire
was born in Torino,
Italy, in
1965. He received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Italy), in 1990, the M.Sc. in Electrical
Engineering from Princeton University
in 1992 and the Ph.D. from Politecnico di Torino in 1994. He was a recipient of the AEI G.Someda Scholarship in 1991,
he was with the European Space Agency (ESTEC, Noordwijk,
The Netherlands) in 1994-1995 as research staff and, as research fellow, Princeton University in 1997 and Sydney University
in summer 2000.
Giuseppe Caire has been assistant professor in
Telecommunications at the Politecnico di Torino in 1995-1997, associate professor at the
University of Parma, Italy, in 1997-1998 and professor at the Eurecom Institute, Sophia-Antipolis,
France, in
1998-2005. He joined the EE Department of the Viterbi
School of Engineering, USC, in August 2005. He served as Associate Editor
for the IEEE Transactions on Communications in 1998-2001 and as Associate
Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory in 2001-2003. He
received the Jack Neubauer Best System Paper
Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2003, and the Joint
Information Theory/Communications Society Best Paper Award in 2004. He was
elected in the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society in
2004 and was nominated IEEE Fellow in 2005. His current interests are in
the field of communications theory, information theory and coding theory with
particular focus on wireless applications.
11:30 AM - 12:40 PM: System
Design of Femtocell Networks (Session #2)
Imbalance Issues in
Heterogeneous DO Networks
Kambiz
Azarian (Qualcomm Inc., USA); Christopher Lott (Qualcomm, Inc., USA);
Donna Ghosh (Qualcomm Corp R&D, USA); Rashid
Attar (QUALCOMM Inc., USA)
Self-Organization for LTE Enterprise Femtocells
Guillaume de la Roche (University
of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom); Ákos Ladányi (Budapest University of Technology and
Economics, Hungary); David López-Pérez (King's
College London, United Kingdom); Chia-Chin Chong (DOCOMO USA Labs, USA); Jie
Zhang (University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom)
Hybrid User Access Control
in HSDPA Femtocells
Yang-Yang Li (University of Toronto, Canada);
Leon (Chung-Dai) Yen (University of Toronto, Canada);
Elvino Silveira Sousa (University of Toronto, Canada)
A Non-Cooperative Method
for Path Loss Estimation in Femtocell Networks
Qinliang
Su (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Aiping
Huang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Zhaoyang
Zhang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China); Kai Xu (China Broadband
Communication Research Lab, Applied Research Center, Motorola, P.R. China);
Jin Yang (China Broadband Communication Research Lab, Applied Research
Center, Motorola, P.R. China)
12:40 PM - 1:50 PM: Lunch
Break
1:50 PM - 2:20 PM: Keynote talk by Prof. Merouane Debbah, Supelec, France
Flexible Small Cell Green
Networks: Breaking the Spectral Efficiency Barrier
Mérouane
Debbah was born in Madrid, Spain.
He entered the Ecole Normale
Supérieure de Cachan (France)
in 1996 where he received his M.Sc and Ph.D.
degrees respectively in 1999 and 2002. From 1999 to 2002, he worked for
Motorola Labs on Wireless Local Area Networks and prospective fourth
generation systems. From 2002 until 2003, he was appointed Senior Researcher
at the Vienna Research Center for Telecommunications (FTW) (Vienna,
Austria) working on MIMO wireless channel modeling issues. From 2003 until
2007, he joined the Mobile Communications de-partment
of the Institut Eurecom
(Sophia Antipolis, France) as an Assistant
Professor.
He is presently a Professor
at Supelec (Gif-sur-Yvette, France),
holder of the Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio. His research
interests are in information theory, signal process-ing
and wireless communications. Mérouane Debbah is the recipient of the "Mario Boella" prize award in 2005, the 2007 General
Symposium IEEE GLOBECOM best paper award, the Wi-Opt
2009 best paper award, the 2010 Newcom++ best
paper award as well as the Valuetools
2007,Valuetools 2008 and CrownCom2009 best student paper awards. He is a
WWRF fellow.
2:20 PM - 3:30 PM: Interference Management for Femtocell
Networks (Session #3)
System Level Performance
Evaluation of Inter-cell Interference Coordination Schemes for Heterogeneous
Networks in LTE-A System
Young-Jun Hong (Samsung
Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea); Namyoon Lee (Samsung
Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea); Bruno Clerckx
(Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea)
Femto-Macro
Cellular Interference Control with Subband
Scheduling and Interference Cancelation
Sundeep
Rangan (Polytechnic
University of New York University, USA)
Power Control Based
Interference Mitigation in Multi-tier Network
Shu-ping
Yeh (Intel Corporation, USA); Shilpa Talwar (Intel,
USA); Nageen Himayat (Intel
Corporation, USA); Kerstin Johnsson (Intel, USA)
A Q-learning Based
Approach to Interference Avoidance in Self-Organized Femtocell
Networks
Mehdi Bennis (Centre of
Wireless Communications, University of Oulu,
Finland); Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM: Coffee
Break #2
3:50 PM - 4:45 PM: Advanced Techniques for Femtocell
Networks (Session #4)
Interference Cancelation
Schemes for Uplink Transmission in Femtocells
Chan Dai Truyen
Thai (Aalborg University, Denmark); Petar Popovski (Aalborg
University, Denmark)
LTE Femtocell
System Through Amplify-and-Forward Over Cable Links
Jonathan Gambini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy);
Umberto Spagnolini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Interference Mitigation in Cognitive
Femtocells
Gustavo W. O. Costa (Aalborg University, Denmark);
Andrea F. Cattoni (Aalborg University, Denmark); Víctor Roig (Universitat
Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Preben Mogensen (Nokia Siemens Networks, Aalborg,
Denmark)
4:45 PM - 5:30 PM: Panel Discussion
Chair:
Anthony Soong (Huawei Technologies, USA)
Panelists:
Alex Damnjanovic,
Qualcomm, USA
Nivi
Thadasina, Samsung,
USA
Hany
Fahmy, AT&T, USA
Takeshi Okamoto, NTT DOCOMO, Japan
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