IEEE 1st International Workshop on Femtocell Networks (FEMnet) 2010

Aims and Scope Conventional cellular architectures are designed to provide coverage over large areas and support many users. Unfortunately, the conventional cellular architecture has yet to provide the expected throughputs at the cell edge, where users are far from the base station and experience significant interference. This problem is most acute on the uplink, due to constraints on the transmit power of the mobile devices and deployment of aggressive frequency reuse. Another limitation of the macrocell approach is the poor indoor penetration and the presence of dead-spots due to shadowing. Femtocells, small cellular access points in residential homes and offices, are one solution to the problem of improving area spectral efficiency in cellular systems. Femtocell networks can potentially improve spatial reuse by allowing future cellular systems to achieve data rates comparable to wireless local area networks while retaining the seamless connectivity and mobility of cellular networks. The International Workshop on Femtocell Network will be held in conjunction with Globecom 2010. This workshop will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to femtocell networks.

Keynote speakers The FEMnet 2010 program will feature keynote addresses by Jeffrey G. Andrews (UT Austin), Giuseppe Caire (USC), and Merouane Debbah (Supelec).

Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 2 July 2010 Paper Acceptance Notification: 13 August 2010 Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 31 August 2010 Workshop (tentative): 6 December 2010

Workshop Organizing Committee Tony Q.S. Quek, Institute for Infocomm Research Ismail Guvenc, DOCOMO USA Labs Marios Kountouris, Supelec

Workshop Steering Committee Robert W. Heath Jr., The University of Texas, Austin Jie Zhang, University of Bedfordshire Holger Claussen, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Ireland

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