Wednesday, 14 September 2011. The first day

9:00 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 10:00 Welcoming Session

Session 1
10:00 – 10:45 Physical Layer Network Coding for Next Generation Wireless Broadband, Alister Burr, University of York, UK (Keynote)
10:45 – 11:15 Decentralized Femtocell Transmission Regulation in Spectrum-Sharing Macro and Femto Networks, Xiaoli Chu, KCL, UK (Invited)
11:15 – 11:45 Analytical Approximations of EESM Effective SNR Distribution using Pearson System, Hui Song, Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd., UK (Invited)
11:45 – 12:15 Blind Beamforming for Multi-path Wideband Signals, Wei Liu,  Sheffield University (Invited)

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch

Session 2
13:30 – 14:15 Understanding Cell Load Coupling for Efficient Performance Engineering of LTE, Di Yuan, Linkoping University, Sweden (Keynote)
14:15-14:45 RRPS: Ranplan Radiowave Propagation Simulator, Zhihua Lai, Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd., UK (Invited)
14:45-15:15 Multipath scattering modeling and antenna diversity performance in wireless channels, Petors Karadimas, University of Bedfordshire, UK (Invited)

15:15-15:30 Tea break

Session 3
15:30-16:00 iBuildNet - Enabling Efficient Small Cell Deployment for In-Building Coverage, Jimin Liu,Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd., UK (Invited)
16:00-16:30 Overview for femtocell-macrocell two-tier networks,  Zhu Xiao, University of Bedfordshire, UK (Invited)
16:30-17:00 Network Assisted Power Control in Virtually Clustered Femtocell Network, Faisal Tariq, Open University, UK

Conference Dinner at 19:00

Thursday, 15 September 2011. The second day

Session 4
10: 00 – 10:45 Green Communications- where we are and where we are going, Tim O'Farrell, Sheffield University (Keynote)
10:45-11:15  Coordinated Multi Cell Processing (CoMP): capacity distribution, fairness and trade off, Nikolai Lebedev (CPE Lyon), Lyon, France (Invited)
11:15-11:45 Introduction of LTE/LTE-Advanced system simulation, Jiming Chen, Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd., UK (Invited)
11:45-12:15 Inter-Cell Interference Coordination in Heterogeneous LTE-Advanced Access Networks, Jie Zhang, Sheffield University, UK

12:15-13:30 Lunch

Session 5
13:30-14:00   Cognitive Radio: Spectrum sensing and Spectrum Access,
Ghazanfar Safdar, University of Bedfordshire, UK (Invited)
14:00-14:30  Spectrum Sharing via Cell Zoning and Zooming Techniques in Cognitive Cellular Networks, ATM Shafiul Alam, Laurence S. Dooley,  Adrian S. Poulton, Open University, UK
14:30-15:00  Reinforcement learning based radio resource scheduling in LTE Advanced, Mehmet Aydin, University of Bedfordshire, UK
15:00-15:30  A Fault Tolerant Protocol for wireless sensor networks, Mohammad Mehdi Afsar
15:30-16:00  Closing Session

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