2008 International Workshop on Cognitive Networks and Communications (COGCOM2008) will be held in conjunction with CHINACOM'08 in Hangzhou, China, 28 August 2008.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together a highly qualified group of people with the state-of-art research and development in cognitive wireless networks. Cognitive techniques are becoming major subjects of research in the wireless communication community as they have been identified as some of the underlying principles for future wireless communication systems. Cognition is exploited as a means to use the wireless communication systems more efficiently and is widely applicable to aspects at all layers of the protocol stack including: adaptive signal processing, pooled spectrum management and sensing, and dynamic routing. The workshop will highlight the newest trends in this emerging area, complementing it with first practical implementations and demonstrations in this field. COGCOM seeks papers dealing with architectural issues, theoretical studies, new paradigms, but also contributions on enabling technologies for cognitive radio and cognitive wireless networks, practical implementations, and policy issues. Besides the technical insights, the workshop will encourage the participants to discuss among each other.

This workshop intends to bring together researchers, engineers, and students to present new results, describe work in progress, and explore relationships among their diverse approaches. 

Topics (not limited to)

    * Hardware architectures and platforms for Cognitive Radio
    * Network architectures and platforms
    * Signal processing for Cognitive Radio
    * Physical layer transmission schemes
    * Modeling of cognitive access techniques, including regulatory and business cases
    * Fast and wideband spectrum sensing
    * Protocols for spectrum agile communications
    * Measurements on the spectrum usage
    * Spectrum management policy and strategy
    * Novel dynamic/opportunistic access techniques
    * Standards and regulatory developments for Cognitive Radio
    * Spectrum pooling for heterogeneous nodes and systems, including QoS performance
    * Cognition techniques and methodologies for Cognitive Radio
    * Peer-to-peer technologies
    * Cross-layer optimization
    * Security issues
    * Sensor aided cognitive networks
    * Self-organizing mesh and ad hoc networks and autonomic communications
    * Cognitive Networking, including new routing metrics and protocols
    * Testbed experiments, applications and new advances

Publication of Proceedings

COGCOM 2008 accepted and registered paper will be published in the CHINACOM 2008 proceedings and available through IEEE Xplore digital library.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: 31 March, 2008 17 April, 2008
Acceptance notification: 15 May, 2008
Camera ready version due: 31 May, 2008
Conference date: 28 August, 2008