DSD2010 Special Session on Flexible Digital Radio - Call for papers

SPECIAL SESSION ON FLEXIBLE DIGITAL RADIO - BACKGROUND

Over the past decade, flexible radio has been a very thought after topic, especially after the boom of wireless technologies. Future radios will have to handle more and more different air interfaces which often exhibit complex schemes to improve spectrum efficiency and to push the performance closer to the channel capacity limit. Hence, modern transceivers have to cope computational demanding processing, while being flexible enough to run multiple standards. It is also required that the underlying hardware and software offers means for incremental design. Harsh design constraints are thus to be considered: flexibility, efficiency, size, power consumption, cost, and real time processing.

SPECIAL SESSION SCOPE

This special session addresses all aspects regarding both the digital architecture and the design methodology for multi-standard, multi-mode flexible radios. Tradeoffs considering flexibility vs. computational power, and power consumption parameters are cornerstones of architecture selection. Papers on any of the following and related topics will be considered for the special session:

o         HW / SW partitioning for flexible radios

o         HW accelerators for flexible radios

o         Algorithm / Architecture optimization

o         HW factorization and parameterization techniques

o         Design space exploration methodology

o         Digital front end architectures and design

o         Parallel processing for real-time digital communication systems

o         Power consumption aware radios

o         Abstraction layers for multi-standard radio.

o         Open platforms for multi-standard support

o         Prototypes, applications, case studies

o         Application of flexible radio to cognitive radio

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts for review electronically trough the following web page (http://www.conftool.net/dsd2010/) or by sending the paper to the Session Chair via email (dominique.noguet@cea.fr, only if an unexpected web access problem is encountered) before the deadline for submission.

Each manuscript should include the complete paper text, all illustrations, and references. The manuscript should conform to the required IEEE format: single-spaced, double column, A4/US letter page size, 10-point size Times Roman font, up to 8 pages. In order to conduct a blind review, no indication of the authors' names should appear in the submitted manuscript, references included.

CPS, Conference Publishing Services, publishes the DSD Proceedings, which are available worldwide through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. An extended version of the best papers will be published in a special issue of the ISI-indexed “Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded Hardware Design”

IMPORTANT DATES

o         Submission of papers: March 15th, 2010

o         Notification of acceptance: April 26th, 2010

o         Camera ready papers: May 31st, 2009