Interference Management in Wireless Communication Systems: Theory and Applications

Call for Papers

Interference is a fundamental nature of wireless communication systems, in which multiple transmissions often take place simultaneously over a common communication medium. In recent years, there has been a rapidly growing interest in developing reliable and spectral efficient wireless communication systems. One primary challenge in such a development is how to deal with the interference, which may substantially limit the reliability and the throughput of a wireless communication system. In most existing wireless communication systems, interference is dealt with by coordinating users to orthogonalize their transmissions in time or frequency, or by increasing transmission power and treating each other's interference as noise. Over the past twenty years, a number of sophisticated receiver designs, for example, multiuser detection, have been proposed for interference suppression under various settings. Recently, the paradigm has shifted to focus on how to intelligently exploit the knowledge and/or the structure of interference to achieve improved reliability and throughput of wireless communication systems.

This special issue aims to bring together state-of-the-art research contributions and practical implementations that effectively manage interference in wireless communication systems. Original contributions in all areas related to interference management for wireless communication systems are solicited for this special issue. We are particularly interested in manuscripts that report the latest development on interference channels or cognitive radio channels from the perspectives of information theory, signal processing, and coding theory. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Information theoretic study of interference channels or cognitive radio channels
• Game theoretical approach to interference management in wireless networks
• Cooperative wireless communication systems
• Relaying in interference networks
• Advanced coding schemes for interference/cognitive radio channels
• Interference channels with confidentiality requirement
• Femtocell networks
• Signal processing algorithms for interference mitigation
• Receiver designs for interference channels or cognitive radio channels
• MIMO interference channels or MIMO cognitive radio channels
• Base station cooperation for interference mitigation
• Network coding for interference channels or cognitive radio channels
• Resource allocation for interference management

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Lead Guest Editor

• Yan Xin, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ 08540, USA

Guest Editors

• Xiaodong Wang, Electrical Engineering Department, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
• Geert Leus, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands
• Guosen Yue, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
• Jinhua Jiang, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305, USA