Workshop Program

9H: Registration and Coffee

9H30: Oral Session 1

9H30: Jie Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK “Opening session”
10H00: David Chambers, Thinkfemtocell, UK “Worldwide Femtocell Market Status: An industry set for takeoff"
10H30: Yves Lostanlen, Siradel, Canada, "Radio wave propagation prediction models and wireless channel models for Femto-cell topologies investigated in the EU-funded Freedom project"

11H00: Coffee Break

11H30: Oral Session 2

11H30: Neil Wiffen, Red-Banana Wireless, UK, “Femtocells – LTE Protocol Integration"
12H00: Lorenza Giupponi, CTTC, Spain, "Self-organized femtocells for broadband services"

12H30: Lunch

14H00: Poster Session

P1: K.V. Srinivas, Raviraj S. Adve, Andrew W. Eckford and Y. Lostanlen,
University of Toronto and Siradel, Canada,
"Towards Fractional Cooperation in Femtocells"
P2: J.Peng, L. Zhang and D.McLernon,
University of Leeds, UK,
"MS-Assisted Receiver-Receiver Time Synchronization Strategy for Femtocells"
P3: D. Lopez-Perez,
King's College London, UK,
"On the Distributed and Self-organized Resource Allocation of OFDMA Cells Through Power Minimization"
P4: X. Zhang et al,
University of Bedfordshire, UK,
"title to be updated"

14H30: Demo Session

Equipment and software demos from:
- Benetel
- Rohde and Schwarz
- Ranplan Wireless Network Design

15H00: Coffee Break

15H30: Oral Session 3

15H30: David Lopez-Perez, King's College London, UK, "On the Search for Self-organizing Rules for the Distributed Resource Allocation of OFDMA Femtocells"
16H00: Marios Kountouris, Supelec, France, "Understanding Femtocell Deployments via Stochastic Geometry"

16H30: Discussions

17H00: Closure



Programs of the previous editions: 2009 [pdf], 2010 [pdf].