Chairs:
Muhammad
Zeeshan Shakir
Carleton
University, Canada
Muhammad
Ali Imran
University
of Surrey, United Kingdom
David J. Love
Purdue University, USA
Steering Committee:Halim YanikomerogluCarleton University, Canada
Mohamed-Slim AlouiniKAUST, Saudi Arabia
Xavier CostaNEC Labs, Germany
Yinggang LiEricsson AB, Sweden
Rahim Tafazolli5GIC, University of Surrey, UK
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News:- Download Arne Alping Keynote talk slides here.
- Photos of Workshop are uploaded here.
- Workshop venue has been confirmed: Meeting Room 408, Level 4, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. More details here.
- Earlier version of Workshop program has been posted.
- Workshop will be organized on Monday Morning, 23 May 2016 from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm. More details to follow.
- A tutorial T09: Back-haul/Front-haul Technologies for Heterogeneous Small Cell Networks will be presented by Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir and Mohamed-Slim Alouini on Monday Afternoon, 23 May 2016, from 14:00 to 17:30. More details to follow.
- Ali Sadri (Intel Corp.) and Arne Alping (Ericsson Research) will be presenting Keynote Talks in the workshop.
- Horizon 2020 project 5G Crosshaul team will organize a Panel. Xavier Costa (NEC labs) will lead the Panel. More details here:
Workshop Scope:
There are considerable
market interests on the development of small cell backhaul/fronthaul solutions
that are an evolution of the existing backhaul/fronthaul
technologies, i.e. SDH, ATM, MPLS and Ethernet. One of the main
considerations the operators are faced with today is how to migrate existing
backhaul/fronthaul infrastructure toward adaptive and smart
backhauling/fronthauling solutions that optimize their operations jointly with
the access network for the next generation of cellular technology. The deployment
availability, cross layer convergence, and economics of smart
backhauling/fronthauling systems are the most important factors in selecting
the appropriate backhaul/fronthaul technologies for multiple networks
(Cellular, WiFi, WiMax, WiGig, etc.); variety of cell sizes (macro, micro,
pico, femto) and multiple technologies (Visible light communications, D2D,
distributed antennas, etc.).
After success of IEEE ICC BackNets 2015, London, UK, the second edition of Workshop on Next Generation
Backhaul/Fonthaul Networks BackNets 2016 will be organized in
conjunction with IEEE ICC’2016, May 23-27, 2016, Kuala Lumpur. Proceedings of
BackNets 2016 will be a collection of outstanding technical
research/position and industrial papers covering novel backhaul/fronthaul
solutions and recent research results with wide range of technologies within
the 5G frameworks. The workshop will examine the technical challenges,
review the economic feasibility, and discuss possible paths to regulatory
solutions for future generation of backhaul/fronthaul communications and
networking. The workshop will provide an opportunity for exchanging ideas
and creating new space for innovative game-changing backhaul/fronthaul
solutions to the challenging problems of designing smart backhauling/fronthauling
for the excessive heterogeneous-types of traffic in heterogeneous 5G networks.
Area/Topics
of interest:
The topics of interest for the workshop
include, but are not limited to:Requirements and limitations for
backhaul/fronthaul communications and networking (data rate, scalability,
latency, cost effectiveness, etc.)
- Backhaul/fronthaul
design and their capabilities for multi-tier ultra-dense heterogeneous small
cell networks
- Hybrid
backhaul/fronthaul solutions (wired/wireless, point-to-point
(PtP)/Point-to-Multi-Point (PtMP), line-of-sight (LOS)/Non-line-of-sight
(NLOS), etc.)
- PtP
wireless backhaul/fronthaul interfaces for high data rate demanding links (LOS communications,
multi-hop communications, e.g., FSO/Microwave based communications)
- Synchronization
approaches and latency issues to combat delays introduced in backhaul/fronthaul
operations
- Backhaul/fronthaul design requirements for rural and sparsely populated
areas
Smart Backhaul/fronthaul solutions for
emerging 5G technologies
- Massive
MIMO based backhaul/fronthaul for ultra-dense small cell deployment
- Backhaul/fronthaul
relaxation in heterogeneous networks including traffic offloading and data
caching
- Unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) based backhaul/fronthaul design for ultra-dense and
sparsely populated areas
- Joint
design and optimization of radio access and backhaul/fronthaul networks
- Green
backhaul/fronthaul solutions and energy consumption models for new backhaul/fronthaul
technologies
- Software-defined
radio/Cognitive radio based backhaul/fronthaul designs
- Migration
to IP based backhaul/fronthaul design for 5G networks
Spectrum
management for Backhaul/fronthaul communications and networking
- Usability
of higher frequency bands for backhaul/fronthaul design (Free Space Optical
(FSO)/mm-wave based communications)
- Scheduling
techniques and radio resource management (RRM) in backhaul/fronthaul networks
- Orchestration
of in-band and out-of-band frequency usage for backhaul/fronthaul
- Fronthaul issues over unlicensed frequency bands (2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, 60 GHz
(WiGig))
- Interference
management in wireless backhaul/fronthaul networks, e.g., Coordinated
Multipoint (CoMP), Cloud Radio Access Networks (CRAN), and Split frame
architectures.
Backhaul/fronthaul
deployment and spectrum policy issues
- Backhaul/fronthaul
convergence and application driven business models for commercial/regulatory deployments
- Comparative case studies with legacy backhaul
networks
- Mobile backhaul/fronthaul standards and its implementation
- Regulatory
and policy issues for backhaul/fronthaul communications
- Backhaul as a Service (BaaS) and self-organised
heterogeneous backhaul
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Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline:
December 4, 2015
December 18, 2015 (Extended)
Acceptance notification:
February 21, 2016
Camera-ready paper:
March 10, 2016
Time: Afternoon 14:00 - 17:30, Day: Monday 23 May, 2016. Visit ICC 2016 website for more details on topics of the tutorial.
Read FEATURE ARTICLES - in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, October 2015 Special Issue:
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