The 8th management committee meeting of COST-Action IC0902 is going to be on 11-12 March 2013 in Dublin, Ireland.

There will be a mini-workshop in conjunction with the management committee meeting. The mini-workshop hosts presentations on recent advances of cognitive radio research. The presentations of the mini-workshop mainly cover the interests of Work group 3 - Definition of network-wide mechanisms for enabling the cognitive approach and Special interest group 2 - Learning and artificial intelligence.

For further information about the management committee meeting and the small workshop please visit this events webpage http://www.ctvr.ie/COST-Action-March-2013 or contact the organizers.

Please note that every attendee at the MC meeting and workshop must be registered, and the registration deadline is February 20, 2013.

Best regards,

Hamed Ahmadi

Research Fellow, CTVR, Trinity College Dublin.

Ahmadih@tcd.ie

URL: http://ahmadihamed.wordpress.com

FROM WORKSHOP ORGANIZER PROF. LILJANA GRAVILOVSKA

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Dear all,

I would like to announce that the registration for the upcoming COST IC0902 workshop is now set up.

The registration fee for the upcoming 3rd COST IC0902 workshop in Ohrid is now set to 149 euros. It will cover the workshop participation, coffee breaks, lunches, boat tour, guided Ohrid city tour and a dinner at St. Naum's monastery.

You can find all relevant information for the registration process at the workshop's website http://cost-ic0902-ws-ohrid.feit.ukim.edu.mk/index.htm under the registration tab.

Those of you flying to Skopje should contact HRG Macedonia for transportation organization. Contact details are given in the registration form.

Let me remind that the accommodation is not include in the registration fee. Accomodation details can be found on the workshop link.

You are all welcome to the beautiful Ohird!
Looking forward to seeing you in Ohrid in September.

Sincerely,
Prof. Liljana Gavrilovska

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Head of Institute of Telecommunications

Center for Wireless and Mobile Communications

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies

Ss. Cyril and Methodius University - Skopje

The 2nd International Summer School on Cognitive Wireless Communications: Highlight on Game Theory will be held in Paris from the 10th of July to the 13th of July, 2012.

The program and more information on the summer school may be found on the web site:

http://www.flexible-radio.com/SummerSchool2012/

You can now directly register at:

https://ssl.ieeefrance.org/registration/SummerSchool2012/registration.php

This Summer School is initiated by the European COST action IC0902 and supported by IEEE France section.
It provides an intense and high quality program with lectures given by worldwide recognized experts in the field.
The venue is the historical and beautiful site ?Les Cordeliers? in the heart of Paris.

The summer school is expected to be particularly appealing to:
-Graduate and PhD students who want to learn game theory or want to get a different perspective to their research problems from what they have already learned. The participation will give access to ECTS credits;
-Engineering faculty and post-doc researchers who wish to expand their research horizons;
-Engineers and researchers in the industry who want to learn on game theory applied to cognitive radio communication.

Registering soon insure oneself a seat!
The deadline for the early registration rate is the first of June.

Looking forward to seeing you in Paris,

Jocelyn Fiorina,
Vice-chair of the European COST action IC0902, professor at Supélec
Merouane Debbah,
Professor, Head of the Supélec-Alactel Lucent Chair on flexible radio
Samson Lasaulce,
Senior researcher in the Laboratory of Signal and Systems, CNRS/Supélec, author with H.Tembine of the book "Game Theory and Learning for Wireless Networks: Fundamentals and Applications"

It is a great pleasure to announce the

2nd International Summer School on Cognitive Wireless Communications: Highlight on Game Theory

to be held in Paris, July 10-13, 2012.

organized by COST action IC0902 and supported by IEEE France section.

The focus of this edition will be on game theory and application to analyzing and designing communication systems in the context of cognitive radio.

COST action IC0902 will provide about 25 grants for outstanding students.

More information on the summer school may be found on the web site where applications are open:

http://www.flexible-radio.com/SummerSchool2012/

For any question you can send an email to SummerSchool2012GT@supelec.fr

Apply soon in order to reserve yourself a seat!

Looking forward to seeing you all in Paris,

On behalf of

Merouane Debbah, Head of the Supélec-Alactel Lucent Chair on flexible radio

Jocelyn Fiorina, Vice-chair of the European COST action IC0902, professor at Supélec

Samson Lasaulce, Senior researcher in the Laboratory of Signal and Systems, CNRS/Supélec, author of the book "Game Theory and Learning for Wireless Networks: Fundamentals and Applications".

IEEE 1900.7™ Working Group ( WG) is starting to develop a draft standard IEEE P1900.7 for Radio Interface for White Space Dynamic Spectrum Access Radio Systems Supporting Fixed and Mobile Operation. The scope of the IEEE P1900.7 is as follows:

All interested parties are invited to participate in the IEEE 1900.7 WG. The meetings of the WG are scheduled as follows:

- FIRST MEETING: September 29-30, 2011 - Berlin, Germany
- SECOND MEETING: December 12-14, 2011 - Scottsdale, AZ, USA

IEEE 1900.7 WG is sponsored by the Standards Committee of the IEEE Communications Society
and is part of the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN) Committee. 

All information related to DySPAN Committee and IEEE 1900.7 WG can be found at:
http://www.dyspan-sc.org/

If you have any question related to IEEE 1900.7 WG please contact:
Working Group Chair, Stanislav Filin, sfilin@ieee.org

Andrea Mariani - our candidate for COST Action IC0902 - has been awarded a COST-ICT ESR Conference Grant (EUR 2300) for the attendance of the Conference on ICC 2011 Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium ('ICC'11 CRN') in Kyoto.

Congratulations Andrea from the MC and the members of COST Action IC0902

http://research.nokia.com/page/9401

York – Zhejiang Summer School on Cognitive Communications

12 – 16 September 2011

University of York, York, UK 

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The second York-Zhejiang Summer School on Cognitive Communications will take place from 12 - 16 September 2011 at University of York, York, UK. The central aim is to bring together up to 80 like-minded research active individuals to explore the ever-growing field of Cognitive Communications, which encompasses cognitive radio, cognitive networks, and application of cognition to other aspects of communications systems.  This follows on from the first York-Zhejiang Summer School in Cognitive Communications, which took place last year at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.  This event attracted delegates from all over the world. 

Supported by a team of six expert lecturers, the programme includes tutorials, providing an in-depth introduction to key topics, lectures dealing with more specialist techniques, workshops, one centred on a mini-project “a tech-fest” to be undertaken during the week, the other giving delegates hands on experience of tools and implementation. There will also be time for a short seminar and poster session, to allow delegates to display their current research in the area. Briefings of various relevant projects from around the world will also be given.  

The evenings will be more devoted to cultural aspects, with a welcome reception and banquet, a Ghost Walk around the historic City of York and also a visit to York Brewery. 

The School is designed for Masters students, PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and junior Lecturers with interests in Cognitive Communications. Courses will be comparable to first year graduate courses. 

For more information and how to apply please see: www.summerschool2011.org

Key Aspects

• To train participants in new approaches to Cognitive Communications, by spreading existing knowledge and expertise to the next generation of the researchers.
• Attendance capped at 80
• Low registration fees
  • £325 for WUN CogCom Members 
    
  • £400 for other attendees
• Closing date for initial applications 30^th June 2011

Lecturing Team

The Management Committee of COST Action IC0902 solicits submissions for the 2^nd International Workshop of COST Action IC0902 to be held in Castelldefels  and   Barcelona city, Spain, October 5–7 2011. The goal of the Workshop is to favour the exchange of new ideas on the topics of cognitive radio and networks  addressed  by IC0902 Working Groups and Special Interest Groups, as well as to broaden participation to the IC0902 Action research activities. Contributions presenting early results and work-in-progress on all topics relevant to the COST IC0902 Action are welcome, and submissions by young researchers are strongly encouraged. Contributors are expected to present their work during one of the WG/SIG sessions that will be held within the IC0902 Action Workshop

http://ic0902-workshop2011.cttc.es

COST to receive additional EUR 30 million from European Commission!

The full press release is available on the COST website, at:

http://www.cost.eu/library/newsroom/30million

Invitation

On behalf of special session organizers:

Dumisa W. Ngwenya, Independent Communications Authority of South Africa

(ICASA), South Africa,

Dr Chen Sun, National Institute of Information and Communications

Technology (NICT), Japan,

David L. Johnson, University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA,

Moshe Masonta, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR):

Meraka Institute, South Africa,

Dr Albert A. Lysko, CSIR Meraka Institute, South Africa

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research: Meraka Institute

Bld. 43c, Meiring Naude Rd, Brummeria, Pretoria 0184 South Africa

http://www.csir.co.za/

Hi All,

Please check the WG1 page for a new feature: the WG1 blog managed by WG1 leader Carlos Bader and co-leader Fengming Cao

IEEE R8 Africon Conference 2011, Special session on "Cognitive Radios, Dynamic Spectrum Management and Digital Dividend"

• Where: Livingstone, Zambia
• Submission deadline: March 31, 2011
• When: September 13-15, 2011
• Special session website

Luxembourg has joined Action IC0902.

Dr. Symeon CHATZINOTAS from University of Luxembourg has been nominated as MC member to COST Action IC0902 for Luxembourg.

Welcome!

A formal link has been finalized between COST Action IC0902 and ETSI TC RRS. ETSI TC RRS conducts pioneering standardisation work in the area of cognitive systems, reconfigurable infrastructures, system coexistence. The link has been formalized by Dr. Markus Mueck chair of ETSI TC RRS and by chair for IC0902 Chair.

Professor Panagiotis Demestichas, chair of IC0902 WG4, who was the promoter of the liaison, will serve as IC0902 responsible for this link in bridging standardization work and the research community in the field.