Scope

Cooperative communications, relaying and distributed MIMO have been recognized as key technologies for increasing the system capacity, enlarging the coverage area and enhancing the quality-of-service. Although the promises and potentials of these key technologies are apparent, realizing them gives rise to various challenges in PHY-, MAC-, and Network-layer. ACCORD'2013 will bring researchers and experts together to present and discuss the latest research contributions that address cooperative communications, relaying and distributed MIMO related issues and challenges, ranging from theory to practices, from architecture to algorithms. Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research are solicited. Topics include, but not limited to:

  • Cooperative multiple access technologies
  • Scheduling and resource management for cooperative wireless communications
  • Advanced relaying
  • Distributed MIMO and space-time coding for cooperative wireless communications
  • Network coding for cooperative wireless communications
  • QoS-driven resource allocation for cooperative wireless networks
  • Protocols and algorithms for cooperative wireless relay networks
  • Cross-layer design and optimization for cooperative wireless networks
  • Game theory for resource management in cooperative and distributed networks
  • Intelligent knowledge acquisition and information sharing in cooperative wireless networks
  • Satellite-terrestrial cooperative wireless networks
  • Cooperative communications in Standards

    Important Dates

    • Submission Deadline: December 15, 2012
    • Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2013
    • Author Registration: March 15, 2013
    • Final Manuscript: March 15, 2013
    • Conference Dates: July 3-5, 2013