First Day Agenda (Wed 21th March)

08.30h   Breakfast and Registration

09.00h   Opening (Prof. Jie Zhang, U of Sheffield) 

9.15h     Oral Session 1

                          Li-Ke Huang, Aeroflex, UK (KEYNOTE)

                          "Radio access network evolution and management for LTE-Advanced and beyond" 

                          Yuan Zhang, Aeroflex, UK

                          "LTE-Advanced network interference management and cancellation"

10.30h   Coffee Break

                          Jimin Liu, Ranplan, UK

                          "Small Cell Deployment in Heterogeneous LTE Networks" 

                          Mounir Arioua, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco

                          "Optimized 256-point FFT/IFFT architecture applied for OFDM wireless broadband communication" 

12.30h   Lunch 

13.30h  Oral Session 2

                          Tim O'Farrell, University of Sheffield, UK (KEYNOTE)

                          "Energy Efficiency in Relay Assisted Cellular Radio Access Networks"

                           Zhiguo Ding, University of Newcastle, UK

                           "Network coding in cooperative diversity" 

                           Lei Chen, Linkoping University, Sweden

                          "On Optimal Link Activation with Multiuser Decoding in Wireless Networking"

                            Zhu Xiao, University of Bedfordshire, UK

                          "Femtocell Status Prediction by using Hidden Markov Model"  

15.30h   Coffee Break 

16.00h  Oral Session 3

                           Xiaoyan Lin, NEC, UK

                          "Femtocell Operation and Marketing Strategies - A General Study" 

                          Mohammad Hammoudeh,Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

                          "Applications-customisable Load-balanced Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks"

                          Xu Zhu, Liverpool University, UK

                         "Dynamic Resource Management for Next Generation Broadband Wireless Communication Systems"

Second Day Agenda (Thurs 22th March)

09.00h Breakfast

09.10h  Oral Session 1

                          Sana Salous, University of Durham, UK (KEYNOTE)

                          "MIMO Channel Modelling and Measurement: Part I"

                          "MIMO Channel Modelling and Measurement: Part II" 

10.30h   Coffee Break

               Cheng-Xiang Wang, Heriot-Watt University, UK (KEYNOTE)

                          "Recent Developments on Realistic MIMO Channel Models"

                           Luca Reggiani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

                          "Improving energy efficiency in multi-cell OFDMA networks" 

12.30h   Lunch 

13.30h  Oral Session 2

                           Zhihua Lai, Ranplan, UK

              “Radio Propagation in the Built Environments”              

                           Yunfei Chen, Warwick University, UK

                          "Spectrum Sensing Based on Practical Recovered Secondary Frames" 

                           Faisal Qureshi, University of Bedfordshire, UK

                          "Energy Efficient Cognitive Radio MAC Protocol with  Adaptive Frame Aggregation for Adhoc Networks" 

15.30h   Coffee Break 

16.00h  Oral Session 3

                          Daniel Ka Chun So, The University of Manchester, UK

                          "Spectrum Sensing Techniques with Intermittent Primary System"

                          Fayez Alfayez, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

                          "Linear Structure-based Optimization for Wireless Sensor Networks "

                          Tariq Alsboui, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

                          "An Integrated Framework of Hybrid Approaches for Information Extraction in Wireless Sensor Networks"

                          Abdelrahman Abuarqoub, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

                          "An Energy-aware Framework for Extracting High-quality Information from Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks"

Third Day Agenda (Fri 23th March)

09.00h   Breakfast

9.10h     Oral Session 1

                          Jie Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK (KEYNOTE)

                          "From Smart Meters to Smart Buildings onto Smart Cities" 

                          Tran The Son,  Nauman Aslam, Hoa Le Minh, Graham Sexton, Northumbria University, UK

                          "A Bayesian Network based Schemes for QoS Aware Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Networks"

                          Hui Song, Ranplan, UK

                          "An Optimization Model for WLAN Network Deployment" 

10.30h   Coffee Break 

11.00h  Oral Session 2

                           David Lopez, King's College London, UK 

                          "Mobility Management in Heterogeneous and Small Cell Networks" 

                           Alvaro Valcarce, TriaGnoSys GmbH, Germany

                          "Architectures for emergency & aeronautical communications" 

                           Lorenzo Galati Giordano, Azcom Technology S.R.l., Italy

                         "Performance of Cross-Layer and QoS-Aware Scheduling in LTE Small Cell Environment"                          

12.30h   Lunch                              

13.30h  Oral Session 3

                           Alpar Juttner, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

                          "Using Generic Optimization Technique in Wireless Network planning and optimisation"

                           Panu Lähdekorpi, Magister Solutions Ltd., Finland

                          "Simulation aspects in development of novel radio network technologies"  

                           Abdullahi Mohammed, University of Bedfordshire, UK

                          "Mathematical programming model and optimisation approach for LTE RAN planning"                        

15.30h   Coffee Break