Call for Papers for Communication Theory Symposium Scope and Motivation: The mission of the Communication Theory Symposium is to explore the technical fundamentals of communication systems. The symposium features original and innovative research in technical areas focusing on the physical layer and its interactions with higher layers. Sample topics are listed below. Main Topics of Interest: The Communication Theory Symposium seeks original contributions in the following topical areas, plus others that are not explicitly listed but are closely related: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Adaptive Modulation and Coding CDMA and Spread Spectrum Channel Estimation and Synchronization Coding Theory and Practice Communication Theory Aspects of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Compressed Sensing Theoretical Aspects of Cognitive Radio Cooperative Communications Theoretical Aspects of Cross Layer Design Detection and Estimation Theory Distributed Coding and Processing Diversity and Fading Countermeasures Dynamic Spectrum Management Feedback in Communication Systems Fundamentals of Femtocell and Picocell-Enhanced Cellular Networks Fiber Optical Communications and Free-Space Optical Communications Heterogeneous Networks Information Theory and Channel Capacity Interference Management, Cancellation, Alignment, and Avoidance Iterative Techniques, Detection and Decoding Joint Source/Channel Coding Multiple Access Techniques Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Systems Design and Analysis Multiuser Diversity Network Coding • • • • • • • Network and Multiuser Information Theory Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and Multi-Carrier Systems Powerline Communications Radio Resource Management and Scheduling Source Coding and Data Compression Space-time Coding and Processing Ultra-Wideband, 60 GHz, and Sub-Terahertz Communication Theory Sponsoring Technical Committees: • • • Communication Theory Signal Processing and Communications Electronics Vehicular Networks and Telematics Applications (sub-committee) How to Submit a Paper: The IEEE Globecom 2015 website provides full instructions on how to submit papers. You will select the desired symposium when submitting. The paper submission deadline is April 1, 2015. Unlike recent ICC’s and Globecom’s, this is a hard deadline that will not be extended. Symposium Co-Chairs: • • Octavia Dobre, Memorial University, Canada, odobre@mun.ca Xiang Cheng, Peking University, China, xiangcheng@pku.edu.cn • Kaushik Chakraborty, Qualcomm Inc., kaushikc@qti.qualcomm.com Biographies: Octavia A. Dobre is an Associate Professor with Memorial University (MUN), Canada, which she joined in 2005. Previously she was with New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, and Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania. She received the Dipl. Ing. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest in 1991 and 2000, respectively. In 2000 she was the recipient of a Royal Society scholarship at Westminster University, UK, and in 2001 she held a Fulbright fellowship at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. In 2013, she was a Visiting Professor with University of Brest, France, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Also in 2013, she received the first award for excellence in research from the Faculty of Engineering at Memorial University. Dr. Dobre’s research interests include cognitive radio systems, spectrum sensing techniques, blind signal recognition and parameter estimation techniques, transceiver optimization algorithms, dynamic spectrum access, cooperative wireless communications, resource allocation, and optical communications. She published over 100 referred journal and conference papers in these areas. Dr. Dobre is a senior editor for the IEEE Communications Letters, as well as an editor for the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and ELSEVIER PHYCOM. She served as an editor for the IEEE Communications Letters, guest editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics on Signal Processing and IEEE Communications Magazine, and lead guest editor of the ELSEVIER PHYCOM ”Cognitive Radio: The Road for its Second Decade” special issue. She has been the General Chair of the IEEE CWIT 2015, Co-Chair for the IEEE CrownCom 2015 (Emerging Applications for Cognitive Networks Track), IEEE WCNC (PHY and Fundamentals Track), IEEE VTC Fall 2014 (Spectrum Sensing and Cognitive Radio Track), IEEE ICC 2013 and IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 (Signal Processing for Communications Symposium), IEEE VTC Spring 2013 (Multiple Antenna Systems and Services Track), ICNC 2012 (Signal Processing for Communications Symposium), and IEEE CCECE 2009 (Signal and Multimedia Processing Track). She currently serves as the Chair of the IEEE Communications Society’s Women in Communications Engineering Committee. She is a registered Professional Engineer in Newfoundland. Xiang Cheng received the Ph.D. degree from Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K., in 2009, where he received the Postgraduate Research Thesis Prize. He has been with Peking University, Bejing, China, since 2010, first as a Lecturer, and then as an Associate Professor since 2012. His current research interests include mobile propagation channel modeling and simulation, next generation mobile cellular systems, intelligent transportation systems, and hardware prototype development. He has published more than 100 research papers in journals and conference proceedings. He received the best paper award from the IEEE International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST 2012) and the IEEE International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC 2013). Dr. Cheng received the ”2009 Chinese National Award for Outstanding Overseas PhD Student” for his academic excellence and outstanding performance. He has served as Symposium Leading-Chair, Co-Chair, and a Member of the Technical Program Committee for several international conferences. He is now an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Kaushik Chakraborty received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and electrical communication engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. Since 2008, Kaushik has been working at Qualcomm Inc., where he is currently a Staff Systems Engineer at the Office of the Chief Scientist. Prior to joining Qualcomm, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2), University of California, San Diego. His research interests are in the areas of cooperative and intelligent communication systems for next generation mobile communication networks. 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