Important dates * FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION *

Full papers-due: July 15, 2014, 23:59 CEST June 18, 2014, 13:59 CEST

Notification of acceptance/rejection: August 5, 2014 July 15, 2014, 13:59 CEST

Camera-ready due manuscripts: August 25, 2014, 23:59 CEST

Call For Papers

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting technical challenges, comprehensive in-depth tutorial surveys, standardization efforts and new research results related to the theory or practice of Relay Multi-hop Communications in Cellular Networks. All submissions must be original contributions not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

• - Distributed power and interference management
• - Energy-harvesting aware protocols in multi-hop relaying networks
• - Distributed Radio Resource Management and Scheduling
• - Relay selection and maintenance under mobility
• - Recent advances in 3GPP Release-12 standardization related to network relaying
• - Device-initiated versus infrastructure-coordinated link establishment
• - Distributed Cognitive and Cooperative Radio
• - Mobility, traffic and channel models for multi-hop relaying in cellular networks
• - Distributed Forward Error Correction algorithms
• - Inter-Radio Access Technologies interfacing
• - MAC mechanisms and algorithms for distributed multi-hop relaying in cellular networks
• - Security, confidentiality and reliability of information
• - Routing protocols in multi-hop relaying networks
• - Load Balancing with and without infrastructure
• - Relay networking for public safety communications
• - Social networks and general applications in relay networking for cellular networks
• - Business models for relay networking in cellular networks

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