6th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications -SPAWC 2005

本提案的目的是寻求对第六届IEEE无线通信信号处理进展研讨会（SPAWC-05）的支持。本次研讨会是IEEE信号处理协会主办的一系列年度会议中的第六次。成功的SPA\VC研讨会系列旨在为来自学术界和工业界的科学家以及学生提供一个论坛，介绍和讨论通信系统的前沿信号处理方法。SPAWC有着良好的赞助历史，过去曾得到NSF和ARG的资助。当时，蜂窝系统中数字前端设计的重要性日益上升，并受到有关蜂窝传输标准和一般移动的通信的热烈讨论的刺激，为启动SPAWC系列提供了肥沃的土壤。从那时起，致力于通信问题的信号处理研究人员的社区稳步增长，无线技术已经快速发展到宽带无线局域网应用，最近又发展到超宽带无线电。新技术正在吸引越来越多的研究人员的兴趣。事实上，无线通信也是ad-hoc网络和传感器网络的自然选择，其重要性因更好地应对国家安全威胁和保护关键基础设施的需求而受到越来越多的关注。嵌入式系统、无人驾驶车辆、机器人和传感器的有效联网可以产生巨大的社会影响，特别是在监控应用中。这项技术还不成熟，它提出了非常具有挑战性的工程问题，吸引了越来越多的研究人员的兴趣。先进的分布式信号处理技术可能有助于克服标准网络方法所带来的限制。SPAWC 2005主题（请参阅随附的论文征集）反映了这些新兴的感兴趣领域。从这个前提我们可以得出结论，虽然研讨会的内容在不断发展，但提供一个竞技场来展示和讨论最新的”无线通信中的信号处理进展”的必要性并没有减少。

The purpose of this proposal is to seek support for the Sixth IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC-05). This workshop is the sixth in a series of annual meetings sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The successful SPA\VC workshop series started with the intent of providing a forum for scientist coming from academia and industry and for students for presenting and discussing leading edge signal processing methods for communications systems. SPAWC has had a good history of sponsorship and was funded in the past from both NSF and ARG.The fertile terrain for starting the SPAWC series was provided at the time by the rising importance of the digital front-end design in cellular systems and stimulated by the fervid discussion about cellular transmission standards and mobile communications in general. Since then, the community of signal processing researchers devoting their attention to communications problems has steadily grown and the wireless technology has fast forwarded towards broadband wireless local area network applications and, more recently, towards ultra-wide band radios. New technologies are attracting the interest of this growing pool of researchers. In fact, wireless communications are also the natural choice in ad-hoc networks and sensor networks, whose importance has been brought to greater attention by the need of better addressing National Security threats and guarding critical infrastructures.Networking efficiently embedded systems, unmanned vehicles, robots and sensors can have enormous societal impact, especially in surveillance applications. This technology is still immature and it is posing very challenging engineering issues that are attracting the interest of an increasing number of researchers. Advanced distributed signal processing techniques may help overcome the limitations posed by standard networking approaches.The SPAWC 2005 topics (see the call for paper included) reflect these emerging new areas of interest. From this premise we can conclude that, while the content of the workshop is evolving, the necessity of providing an arena to present and discuss the most recent" Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications" has not diminished.