Welcome to FiveNET 2015

Welcome to the 1^st International Workshop on Relay Networking in 5G Cellular Communications (FiveNET 2015), in conjunction with The 12^th IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2015), to be held in Las Vegas, USA, on 9-12th January 2015.

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During the next years, the rapid increase in data-traffic consumption by Machine-type Communication Devices (MCDs) will require to implement new connectivity architectures that guarantee acceptable levels of QoS and reliability. MCD Mobile relaying in cellular networks, with and without the direct intervention of the infrastructure, faces the challenge of distributed management of communications, in which end-client terminals will play a more active role in the self-configuration of the network. On the other hand, standardization consortiums like the Third Generation Partnership Project 3GPP on LTE, already in Release 12, are focusing now on relaying as a means to improve signal coverage, QoS performance and capacity in future releases of the standard. However, only static or semi-static relays are considered for the moment in the last Release. The full exploitation of network relaying in which also mobility is taken into account is whatsoever foreseen to take place in 5G cellular communications, according to the industry and the academia, hence the importance of this type of research.

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