Science in China: Information Sciences
Special Issue on Mobile Communications
Call for Papers
With the gradual success of the 3rd generation (3G) mobile communication technology, the R&D of the 4th generation (4G) mobile communication has been initiated worldwide. The 4G mobile communication system was formally nominated as IMT Advanced by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the spectrum allocation for the 4G was specified by the World Radio Congress in 2007. According to the plan of ITU, the 4G standardization will be started in 2009 and be finished in 2011, and the 4G mobile communication system will be accordingly in commercial use step by step thereafter. It has become the general consensus that the 4G should be an enhanced version of the 3G with its performance significantly better than that of the current 3G, i.e., the 4G system should provide the user with its transmission rate up to 100Mbps for high mobility usage, and with its transmission rate up to 1Gbps for nomadic and local wireless usage.
The Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) combined with the Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technique and some of its variations would be undoubtedly adopted by the 4G radio network. However, there are a number of important challenges that arise in the design of 4G wireless networks. To reach the technique target of the 4G system, some improvements should be made on the multiple user or multiple cell level, e.g., multiple user/cell interference suppression and coordination, multiple user diversity and radio resource scheduling, and cross layer design and link adaptation. Furthermore, the room for system performance enhancement would be in the area of radio network, with some new techniques probably to be introduced. The relay or distributed antenna techniques can be used to greatly improve the cell edge performance. The self-optimization of radio network and environmental adaptation can be introduced in order to simplify the network deployment. The multi-band coordination can be introduced in order to improve the radio coverage， spectrum utility, etc.
Therefore, the study of the 4G wireless links and radio network design is important and urgent. To realize the target of the 4G system, recent technological developments and advancements have to be incorporated. The challenge of optimally designing the radio links and radio network for the 4G system is still to be solved.
The goal of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions that describe original and unpublished work addressing wireless transmission and radio networking. Specific topics of interest for the issue include:
l Enhanced MIMO-OFDM transmission
l Channel coding/decoding with lower latency
l Channel estimation and advanced receiver techniques
l Relay and coordinated MIMO
l Distributed antenna system and networking
l Frequency aggregation and multiple band reuse techniques
l Cross-layer design and its applications
l Multiple cell and multiple user coordination
Prospective authors should prepare their manuscripts in accordance with the Science in China: Information Sciences format and submit the PDF version of their complete manuscripts online according to the instructions given at http://info.SciChina.com.
Important Dates
l Manuscript submission deadline: May 15, 2009
l Acceptance notification: August 1, 2009
l Final manuscript due: September 1, 2009
l Publication: November 5, 2009
Guest Editor
YOU Xiaohu <xhyu@seu.edu.cn>, Southeast University, China
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