Crowncom 2015 will be held from April 21-23, 2015 in Doha, Qatar to mark the 10th anniversary of the conference. It will feature seven technical tracks on topics related to cognitive radio technology, as well as tutorials, panels, and keynote speakers. The goal is to bring together researchers to discuss recent developments and future trends in cognitive radio and its integration with 5G networks. Authors are invited to submit papers on topics such as dynamic spectrum access, networking protocols, modeling and theory, and emerging applications. The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2014.

1. Scope
2015 marks the 10th anniversary of the
International Conference on Cognitive
Radio Oriented Wireless Networks
(Crowncom 2015). Crowncom 2015 will be
hosted by Texas A&M University at Qatar
21-23 April, 2015. The event will be a special
occasion to look back at the contribution
of the Crowncom 2015 toward the
advancements of cognitive radio technology
since its inaugural conference in Mykonos
Island, Greece, in 2006 — as well as to look
forward to the decades ahead, the ways
that cognitive radio technology would
like to evolve, and the ways its emerging
applications and services can ensure everyone
is connected everywhere.
Crowncom 2015 will feature a comprehensive
technical program including seven technical
tracks and a number of tutorial and special
sessions. Crowncom 2015 will also include
Demo and Exhibition program, panels of
regional and international experts, and
keynote speakers. The conference will
bring together academic and industry
researchers to identify and discuss the recent
development, highlight the challenging gaps
and forecast the future trends of Cognitive
Radio Technology toward their integration
with the fifth generation (5G) of networks.
Crowncom 2015 invites you to submit your
technical regular research and position
papers, tutorial, special session and panel
proposals on the following topics of interest,
but not limited to:
Topics
Track 1 – Dynamic Spectrum Access/
Management
Track Chair: Mohammad Shaqfeh, Texas A&M
University at Qatar, Qatar
Track 2 – Networking Protocols for
Cognitive Radio
Track Chairs: Tamer Khattab, Qatar University, Qatar,
Amr Mohamed, Qatar University, Qatar
Track 3 – Modeling and Theory
Track Chairs: Zouheir Rezki, KAUST, Saudi Arabia,
Syed Ali Raza Zaidi, University of Leeds, UK
Track 4 – Hardware Architecture and
Implementations
Track Chairs: Ahmed El-Tawil, University of California,
Irvine, USA, Fadi Kurdahi, University of California,
Irvine, USA
Track 5 – Next Generation of Cognitive
Networks
Track Chairs: Muhammad Ali Imran, CCSR/5G
Innovation Centre University of Surrey, UK, Richard
Demo Souza, Federal University of Technology - Paraná
(UTFPR), Curitiba - PR - Brazil
Track 6 – Standards and Business Models
Track Chairs: Stanislav Fillin, NICT, Japan, Stephen
J. Shellhammer, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.,
USA, Markus Dominik Mueck, INTEL Mobile
Communications, Germany
Track 7 – Emerging Applications for
Cognitive Networks
Track Chairs: Octavia A. Dobre, Memorial University,
Canada, Hai Lin, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Publications
Conference proceedings will be submitted
for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other
Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases
including Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex
etc.
Selected papers may be invited to publish in
the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cognitive
Communications.
Paper submission
Information about paper submissions
(including guidelines) can be found under
Author Instructions. All accepted and
presented papers will be included in the
Crowncom 2015 Conference Proceedings,
published in IEEE Xplore.
Important dates
Paper submission deadline:
December 15, 2014, 10 a.m. CET
Acceptance notifications:
February 10, 2015
Camera-ready submissions:
March 1, 2015
Tutorial, panel and special session
proposal submission:
November 1, 2014.
Technical sponsors
CALL FOR PAPERS
Doha, Qatar
21–23 April, 2015
www.crowncom.org
Organizing Committees
General Chair
Mark Weichold, Texas A&M
University at Qatar, Qatar
Mounir Hamdi, Hamad Bin
Khalifa University, Qatar
Technical Program Chair
Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir,
Texas A&M University at Qatar,
Qatar
Mohamed Abdallah, Texas A&M
University at Qatar, Qatar
George Karagiannidis, Khalifa
University of Science Technology
and Research, KUSTAR, UAE
Conference Coordinator
Erica Polini, EAI
Special Session Chair
Alhussein Abouzeid, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, USA
Panel Chair
Maziar Nekovee, Samsung, UK
Publication Chair
Muhammad Ismail, Texas A&M
University at Qatar, Qatar
Tutorial Chair
Mohamed Nafie, Nile University,
Egypt
Exhibitions and Demos Chair
Majid Butt, Qatar University,
Qatar
Web Chair
Islam Safak Bayram, Texas A&M
University at Qatar, Qatar
Local Arrangements
Carol Nader, Texas A&M
University at Qatar, Qatar
Mohamed Kashef, Texas A&M
University at Qatar, Qatar
Advisory Board
Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Kuwait
University, Kuwait
Jinsong Wu, Bell Labs, China
Khalid A. Qaraqe, Texas A&M
University at Qatar, Qatar
David Grace, University of York,
UK
Naofal Al-Dhahir, University of
Texas, Dallas
Endorsed and organized byDoha, Qatar
April 21-23, 2015
www.crowncom.org
CROWNCOM 2015 Workshop
Cognitive Radio for 5G Networks
Overview
The exponential growth of wireless data traffic urged the international wireless industries and
academia to layout a new wireless network standard which is 5G. It is generally believed that the
future 5G network may need to be engineered to meet a multitude of stringent requirements in
terms of cost, energy and spectral efficiency, number of connected devices and latency. Cognitive
Radio (CR) is one of the promising techniques to meet these requirements by exploiting under-
utilized spectrum bands especially at microwave frequencies where there is a spectrum crunch.
CR has applications ranging from the traditional cellular to device-to-device (D2D) and vehicle-
to-vehicle (V2V) communication systems via interweave, underlay and overlay dynamic spectrum
access. In cellular systems, CR can enhance the overall efficiency of the network by allowing op-
portunistic and shared spectrum access. And for the D2D systems, massive short range connec-
tivity which facilitates efficient data transfer is realized using CR. On the other hand, network
assisted CR techniques can be leveraged in vehicular applications, such as driverless cars, learn-
ing the road traffic which consequently contribute in achieving the zero accident goal of the future
intelligent transport systems (ITS). Furthermore, for multi-tier heterogeneous network (HetNet),
CR can be utilized to opportunistically offload delay tolerant data traffic to different tiers and ra-
dio access technologies (RATs) which is one of the effective means to alleviate traffic congestion.
Scope and Objectives
Given the above promising potentials of CR technology, still a number of challenges arise includ-
ing how to enable autonomous CR transmission without creating significant interference to the
primary networks for Machine to Machine (M2M), D2D and HetNet communication systems.
This workshop aims to gather researchers, academia, industry and regulators to present and dis-
cuss their research findings on the CR technology and, to highlight the opportunities, challenges
and potentials of CR for realizing the future 5G network. The topics of interest include but are
not limited to:
• Dynamic spectrum sharing and access
• Massive/multiple antenna and cooperative spectrum sensing
• Energy and spectral efficient CR network
• Resource allocation, power/interference control and management for CR network
• Algorithm, signaling and protocol design for CR network
• Carrier aggregation, traffic/data offloading and load balancing in shared spectrum access
• Cognitive HetNet, D2D, M2M and V2V networks
• Mobile, ad-hoc and multi-hop CR network
• Self-powered and context aware CR network
• Experimental, link and system level simulation, field trail and prototype results
Organizing Committee
• Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale
Univ. Quebec, INRS, Canada
• Zaheer Khan
University of Oulu, Finland
• Batu Krishna Chalise
ArrayComm LLC, USA
• Syed Ali Hassan
Nat. Univ. Sc. Tech. (NUST)
Pakistan
Contributions
Submitted papers must present original materials which are not currently under review in any other conference or journal and have not
been previously published. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum of 6 printed double column pages (minimum
10-point font) including figures and references. Papers exceeding 6 double column pages will not be reviewed at all. Authors should use
the CROWNCOM Author’s Kit template, ensuring IEEE Explore compatible PDF-format. More detailed information about the work-
shop and submission policy can be found at http://crowncom.org/2015/show/initial-submission. Workshop papers will be submitted
for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
TPC Members
• Zhen Gao
Tianjin University, China
• Sajid Saleem
SEECS, NUST, Pakistan
• Rafael Aguilar Gonzalez
University of Oulu, Finland
• Shahriar Shahabuddin
University of Oulu, Finland
• Shree Krishna Sharma
University of Luxembourg
• Daniel Benevides da Costa
Federal Univ. of Cear (UFC)
• Joel Grotz
Technology Labs, Newtec Cy
• Eva Lagunas Targarona
University of Luxembourg
• Satish Chandra Jha
Intel USA
• Le Thanh Tan
Univ. Quebec, INRS, Canada
Important Dates
• Paper submission deadline
March 07, 2015 (FIRM)
• Acceptance Notification
March 15, 2015
• Camera ready
March 18, 2015