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Subject:    [Tccc] IEEE JSAC SI on VMIMO: Submission Deadline Extended to Oct.	15, 2012
From:       Zhou Yi Qing <yqzhou () eee ! hku ! hk>
Date:       2012-09-29 8:29:03
Message-ID: 20120929162903.qhmxtyxq8wkco8c4 () 159 ! 226 ! 43 ! 49
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Dear all,

Due to many requests from authors, the submission deadline of JSAC SI  
on VMIMO is extended to Oct. 15, 2012, which is a firm deadline.

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                                CALL FOR PAPERS
            IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
                                Virtual MIMO

Multiple antenna (also known as MIMO: multiple input and multiple  
output) has been widely accepted as a promising scheme to improve the  
spectrum efficiency of mobile communication systems. MIMO is supported  
by various international standards such as long term evolution (LTE),  
WiMAX and International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)-Advanced. Due  
to the limited size of hand-held mobile stations (MSs), however, no  
more than two antennas can usually be fit per MS. As a result,  
implementing conventional MIMO with MSs in practice becomes  
challenging. On the other hand, multiple single-antenna MSs can be  
grouped to create a virtual MIMO (VMIMO) system. The system  
performance can be greatly enhanced by VMIMO because the size of the  
MIMO channel increases significantly, resulting in more degrees of  
freedom and improved spatial diversity gain. Moreover, interesting  
research areas and various challenges arise in VMIMO systems to solve  
problems that do not appear in MIMO systems. For example, given a  
large number of MSs and limited processing capability of base  
stations, a proper subset of the MSs must be chosen to form the VMIMO  
system; this is also known as user grouping. One of the considerations  
when carrying out user grouping is fairness. Moreover, in existing  
cellular systems, information exchange between MSs is difficult. To  
manage spatial interference at each MS, powerful precoding techniques  
are needed at base stations, which are crucial to the performance of  
VMIMO. On the other hand, considering wireless ad-hoc networks and  
future cellular systems, collaboration among MSs could be possible. As  
such, it is also interesting to investigate VMIMO with cooperating  
terminals and security issues arising as a consequence of cooperation.  
Therefore, VMIMO is a pressing research topic that has a wide range of  
applications in wireless communication systems, including both  
cellular and wireless ad hoc networks. It is timely and important to  
develop enabling techniques for VMIMO. The goal of this issue is to  
bring together the most updated research contributions in this area  
and contribute in identifying issues that need to be addressed when  
analyzing and designing VMIMO systems. The topics of interest include,  
but are not limited to:

* Capacity analysis of VMIMO
* User grouping in VMIMO
* Precoding schemes for VMIMO
* Pilot signal design for VMIMO
* Distributed Coding and Modulation for VMIMO
* Signal detection in VMIMO with and without user collaboration
* Feedback scheme design in VMIMO
* Impact of limited feedback in VMIMO
* Impact of limited backhaul in VMIMO
* Multiple-terminal synchronization in VMIMO
* MAC protocol design for VMIMO
* Fairness in VMIMO
* Self-optimization and distributed implementation of VMIMO
* Security issues of VMIMO

Prospective authors should prepare their manuscripts following the  
IEEE J-SAC format described at  
http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html. Authors should submit a  
PDF version of their complete manuscript to http://www.edas.info. The  
timetable is as follows:

Manuscript Submission Due: 	 Oct. 15, 2012 (Firm Deadline)
First Reviews Due: 	 Feb. 1, 2013
Second Reviews Due and Acceptance Notification:  Apr. 1, 2013
Final Manuscript Due: 	 Jun. 1, 2013
Publication: 		 Fourth quarter 2013

Guest Editors:

Prof. Yiqing Zhou, zhouyiqing@ict.ac.cn, China
Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi, adachi@ecei.tohoku.ac.jp, Japan
Dr. Kai-Kit Wong, k.wong@ee.ucl.ac.uk, United Kingdom
Prof. Xiang-Gen Xia, xxia@ee.udel.edu, USA
Prof. Dimitris Toumpakaris, dtouba@upatras.gr, Greece
Prof. Heidi Steendam, Heidi.Steendam@telin.ugent.be, Belgium
Prof. Wei-Ping Zhu, weiping@ece.condordia.ca, Canada
Prof. Lie-Liang Yang, lly@ecs.soton.ac.uk, United Kingdom


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