The VTC2009-Spring Technical Program and Organizing Committees are pleased to announce the following invited papers (in alphabetical order) by distinguished colleagues.
| A Fully Cooperative and Distributed Medium Access Control Protocol for Large TDMA/TDD-based Wireless Mesh Networks Hyunok Lee and Donald C. Cox, Stanford University Bit Error Rate Analysis in MIMO Channels with Fading and Interference Juan M. Romero-Jerez, Juan P. Peña-Martin, University of Malaga; Andrea J. Goldsmith, Stanford University Can We Find (and Use) ‘Spectrum Holes’—Spectrum Sensing and Spatial Reuse Opportunities in “Cognitive” Radio Systems Jens Zander, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Cross-Layer Analysis of Cognitive Radio Relay Networks under Quality of Service Constraints Leila Musavian and Sonia Aïssa, INRS-EMT, University of Quebec CSMA with Enhanced Collision Avoidance: a Performance Assessment Jaume Barceló, Boris Bellalta, Anna Sfairopoulou, Cristina Cano, Miquel Oliver, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Distributed and Centralized Architectures for Relay-Aided Cellular Systems Erhan Yilmaz, Eurecom; Federico Boccardi, Angeliki Alexiou, Bell Labs (Alcatel-Lucent) Distributed Beamforming Coordination in Multicell MIMO Channels Randa Zakhour, Zuleita K. M. Ho and David Gesbert, Eurecom GFDM - Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing Gerhard Fettweis, Marco Krondorf, Steffen Bittner, Technische Universität Dresden Industrial Prototyping: A Commonn Architecture and Case Study of IEEE 802.11n Transmit Beamforming Sadia Quadri and Russell John Haines, Toshiba Research Europe Limited Interference Aware Scheduling in the Synchroneous Cellular Multi-Antenna Downlink Lars Thiele, Malte Schellmann, Thomas Wirth, Volker Jungnickel, Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut MIMO Spatial Mode Adaptation at the Cell Edge Using Interferer Spatial Correlation Robert W. Heath Jr, MIMO Wireless; Tao Wu, Anthony C. K. Soong, Huawei Technologies Multi-Antenna Techniques in Fixed Wireless Links Reinaldo A. Valenzuela, Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent); Luciano Ahumada, Universidad Diego Portales; and Rodolfo Feick, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María Multiuser MIMO Downlink Made Practical: Application to IEEE 802.16m Bruno Clerckx, David Mazzarese, Gil Kim and Sungjin Kim, Samsung Electronics On the Performance of Downlink Beamforming with Synchronized Beam Cycles Patrick Hosein and Cornelius van Rensburg, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd On the Throughput Potential of Two-Dimensional Wireless Multi-hop Networks Using Directional Antennas Lemonia Dritsoula and Constantinos Papadias, Athens Information Technology Optimal Bit Loading for MIMO Systems with Decision Feedback Detection Svante Bergman, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH); Daniel P. Palomar, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; and Björn Ottersten, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Performance of MMSE MIMO Receivers: A Large N Analysis for Correlated Channels Aris L. Moustakas, National & Capodistrian University of Athens; K. Raj Kumar, Giuseppe Caire, University of Southern California Spatial Dynamics of Indoor Radio Channels Dana Porrat, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Aawatif Hayar, Eurecom; Eli Kaminsky, Moshe Uziel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Throughput Scaling Laws for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Relay Selection Marios Kountouris, Jeffrey G. Andrews, The University of Texas at Austin Why Downlink Cyclic Delay Diversity Helps Uplink Transmit Diversity Louay M.A. Jalloul, Beceem Communications Inc; Nicolai Czink, Stanford University and Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (ftw.); Bertrand M. Hochwald, Beceem Communications Inc; Arogyaswami Paulraj, Beceem Communications Inc. and Stanford University |

