VTC 2004-Spring Panel Sessions
17th May - Technology and Innovations for systems beyond
3G Go >>
18th May - Enabling
heterogeneous wireless networking: technologies and challenges
ahead Go >>
Monday, May 17, 19.00 – 21.00 Manzoni
Technology
and innovations for systems beyond 3G
Chair: Walter Tuttlebee, Chief
Executive, Mobile VCE (Virtual Centre of Excellence
in Mobile & Personal
Communications)
Expansion of Future Mobile toward Ubiquitous World Slides
>>
Yasushi
Yamao, Vice President and Managing
Director of Radio Systems Development Department,
NTT DoCoMo Inc.
Wireless World Research Forum: win-win approach for all
Slides >>
Mikko
A. Uusitalo, Head of International
Cooperation, Nokia Research Center & Chairman,
WWRF
Systems Beyond 3G - A Perspective from the Evolving
World
of Standardization Slides >>
Asok Chatterjee, Vice-President,
Ericsson, Inc & Vice-Chairman of the 3GPP Project
Coordination Group
While commercial deployment of Third Generation (3G) wireless
systems is now a reality nearly worldwide, research activities
looking at defining beyond 3G systems (also referred as
4G systems) have already started in industry, academia
and worldwide research and standardization forums. Although
the provision of higher transmission data rates is a constant
objective in wireless research, other key targets of beyond
3G systems include: higher spectral efficiency, lower cost
per transmitted bit, the provision of ubiquitous (broadband)
wireless services and guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS),
the migration towards all IP networks, reconfigurability
and the development of power efficient technologies. In
this context, international experts from industry and leading
research/standardization organisations will discuss challenges
ahead in wireless research, global and regional research
activities and key technologies for making beyond 3G wireless
systems a reality. Some of the potential topics covered
in the panel are:
- Evolution/enhancements of 3G technologies
(UMTS, cdma2000, TD-SCDMA, HSDPA) and standardization
efforts
- Spectrum efficient air interfaces and physical layer
enhancements
- Antenna technologies, MIMO and
OFDM systems
- Ultra Wideband (UWB) and Wireless
Personal Area Networks (WPAN)
- Role and
impact of wireless ad-hoc networking
- Software
Defined Radio (SDR)
- Wireless All-IP
systems and impact of IPv6
- Network
architectures, management and protocols
- QoS
support for multimedia services
- Machine-to-Machine
(M2M) wireless communications
Walter Tuttlebee is Chief Executive of the Virtual Centre
of Excellence in Mobile & Personal Communications -
Mobile VCE. Mobile VCE is a not-for-profit company established
by the mobile telecommunications industry in 1996 with
a remit to undertake long-term, industry-steered, collaborative
research. The company’s mechanisms harness the best of
the UK's academic research teams in mobile telecommunications
into a geographically-distributed virtual research organisation,
providing a highly-effective research capability for the
mobile telecoms industry. Walter Tuttlebee joined Mobile
VCE in 1999, with an extensive background of wireless R&D
in the defence, mobile and broadcasting industries, having
operated in both engineering and management roles. In his
current position he is responsible for the organisation
and operation of the strategic research of Mobile VCE,
working with member companies to help define new forward-looking
programmes. He also works closely with the Board of Mobile
VCE with respect to the strategic development of the company,
and has been responsible for strengthening Mobile VCE’s
links with Japan, Korea and China.
Walter is well known
within the mobile and wider industry industry, in Europe
and Asia, through his activities during
the 1990s in the fields of personal communications and
digital broadcasting, and more recently for his leadership
of Mobile VCE. Walter is also known for his technical contributions
in the field of software radio, which have included invited
tutorial papers and keynotes at seminal conferences on
the topic, organised by the European Commission and the
SDR Forum, and as originator and editor of the Wiley book
series on the subject.
Walter holds an MBA degree from Cranfield University,
as well as BSc and PhD from Southampton University. He
currently serves on various international conference organisation
committees and editorial panels, and is a member of the
UK's Radio Research Advisory Committee. He is a Fellow
of the IEE (FIEE), a Senior Member of the IEEE (SMIEEE)
and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures
and Commerce (FRSA).
Yasushi Yamao is VP and Senior Director, Wireless Laboratories,
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. Dr. Yamao received his B.S., M.S., and
Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from Kyoto University,
Kyoto, Japan, in 1977, 1979, and 1998, respectively. In
1979, he joined the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
(NTT) Laboratories, Japan, where his major activities included
research on the GMSK modulator / demodulator and GaAs RF
ICs for digital mobile communications, and development
of PDC digital cellular handheld phones. In 1993, he moved
to NTT DoCoMo, Inc., where he conducted standardization
and development of the FLEX-TD high-speed paging system.
From 1999 to 2002, he conducted studies on the fourth generation
mobile communications system. He is now Vice President
and Managing Director of Radio Systems Development Department,
NTT DoCoMo. He is a member of IEEE and IEICE, and served
as Vice President of the IEICE Communications Society.
Mikko A. Uusitalo is Head of international cooperation
at the Nokia Research Center. He obtained a M.Sc. (Eng)
and Dr.Tech. from Helsinki University of Technology in
1993 and 1997 and a B.Sc. (Economics) from Helsinki School
of Economics in 2003. In 2001 Mikko was project manager
of Wireless Strategic Initiative that gave birth to the
Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF, http://www.wireless-world-research.org).
Since this birth, Mikko has been Nokia contact and steering
board member in WWRF. Mikko has several leading or participating
roles in international and Nokia internal communities,
strategically guiding research cooperation.
Asok Chatterjee is a Vice President with Ericsson, and
a Vice Chairman of the Project Coordination Group of 3rd
Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Dr. Chatterjee is
a member of the US Delegation to ITU-R Working Party 8F.
In each of these capacities Asok is intimately involved
in the evolving definition of Systems Beyond 3G.
During his career of over 25 years, Dr. Chatterjee contributed
to all branches of telecommunications - wireline, cellular
and PCS, Specialized Mobile Radio, satellite. He has seen
the industry from the perspectives of R&D, operating
companies, and manufacturers.
Tuesday, May 18, 19.00 – 21.00 Manzoni
Enabling
heterogeneous wireless networking: technologies and challenges
ahead
Chair:
Vijay K. Varma, Senior Scientist, Telcordia
Technologies Slides >>
Maximilian Ott, Co-Founder/CTO of Semandex Networks and
Research Professor, WINLAB, Rutgers University; Slides >>
Jorge Pereira, Scientific Officer, European
Commission
Peter Karlsson, TeliaSonera Slides >>
The recent developments and trends witnessed in the wireless
communications sector suggest a near and long term future
scenario where different wireless systems will have to
coexist in interconnected and/or integrated networks. This
is already happening with the interest and work carried
out, both in the research community and standardization
forums, regarding the interconnection of cellular (GPRS/UMTS/cdma2000)
and, the increasingly popular, Wireless LANs systems. This
situation is expected to be accentuated with the introduction
of new wireless communications technologies such as Wireless
Personal Area Netowrks (WPAN), Ultra Wideband (UWB) systems,
wireless ad-hoc networks, wireless sensor networks and
other machine-to-machine wireless systems. This potential
scenario presents new and exciting open challenges to guarantee
the provision of truly and seamless wireless connectivity
with the sufficient and required Quality of Service. In
this panel, international experts from industry and research
organizations will discuss and present their views on the
challenges and technologies necessary to define and seamlessly
operate heterogeneous wireless networks.
Some of the potential topics regarding the seamless integration
of heterogeneous wireless networks that will be covered
in the panel are:
- Services and applications in heterogeneous wireless
networks
- Location technologies
- Supporting efficient and seamless Quality
of Service (QoS) in an heterogeneous scenario
- Mobility
and handover management
- Pricing and subscription
management
- Network architectures and network
selection criterias
- Middleware solutions
- Provision of satisfactory
security in an heterogeneous scenario
- Traffic
and congestion management techniques
- Development
of efficient routing and MAC protocols
- Testbeds
and trials
- Standardization and other
research activities
Vijay K. Varma is a Senior Scientist in the Wireless Systems
Research Department of Telcordia Technologies, Red Bank,
NJ. He has 18 years experience in wireless communications
and has been involved in various systems issues, including
speech coding, signaling and call control protocols, wireless
data, and mobility management protocols, for wireless and
personal communications. His current research interest
includes 3G wireless network architectures, wireless-to-IP
network interworking, WLAN/3G wireless network integration,
and ad hoc networking. He has published several papers
in the area of wireless communications and has given many
tutorials, organized workshops and sessions at various
IEEE conferences.
Dr. Varma received the M.Tech degree from the Indian Institute
of Technology, Kanpur, and the Ph. D. degree from Southern
Methodist University, Dallas, TX, both in Electrical Engineering.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He received the Frederick
E. Terman award from the School of Engineering and Applied
Science, Southern Methodist University.
Maximilian A. Ott (max@semandex.net) is the chief technology
officer and a co-founder of Semandex Networks, Inc., which
is developing and commercializing innovative content routing
technologies. He is also holds a Research Professor position
at WINLAB, Rutgers University, where he co-manages the
NSF sponsored ORBIT Wireless Research Testbed.
His work focuses on intelligent, network-centric information
discovery, distribution, and presentation. He received
his M.S.E.E. degree from the Technical University of Vienna,
and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo.
Jorge M. Pereira is Scientific Officer in the area of
Mobile and Personal Communications at the European Commission,
DG XIII, now DG Information Society, a position he has
held since September 1996. He is involved in Third Generation
and Broadband Wireless systems, Spectrum and Regulatory
issues, Reconfigurable Radio, WLANs, ad hoc networks, sensor
networks, PANs, UWB, Terrestrial Positioning Technologies
and Location-based Mobile Value Added Services, Wireless
IP, and Fourth Generation systems. He received the SDR
Forum 2003 Industry Achievement Award in recognition of
his outstanding contributions, research and development
in the field of SDR. He is a member of the Advisory Board
of John Wiley's Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Journal, and of the Editorial Board of Kluwer Academic
Publishers' Wireless Personal Communications Journal.
Peter Karlsson received both his M.Sc. and Ph.D.
from the Lund Institute of
Technology in 1988 and 1995 respectively. In 1995 he joined
the Radio System
Group at Telia Research AB (Malmö, Sweden), working
on design, analysis and
trials with high capacity mobile and fixed broadband radio
communications
systems. He has been contributing to the standardisation
of UMTS in 3GPP and
WLANs in ETSI BRAN and IEEE 802.11 physical layer focusing
on channels
models and range extension with smart antennas. Peter Karlsson
chaired the
HiperLAN2 Global Forum (H2GF) regulatory group 1999 to
2001 aiming at
global allocation for WLANs in the 5 GHz band. During year
2000 he was a
research fellow at University of Bristol in combination
with a half time position at Telia Research
working with adaptive antennas both for cellular and WLAN
systems. He has written and coauthored
some 50 conference and journal papers on antennas and propagation
and mobile and fixed
radio systems. Peter Karlsson was area manager of the Mobile
System Innovation projects at Telia
Research AB in 2001. He was then appointed expert in radio
communications and is active in longterm
university and European IST 6th framework research cooperation.
Peter Karlsson is now
holding the expert position at TeliaSonera Sweden, Mobile
Network R&D. (Email:
peter.c.karlsson@teliasonera.com)
