1. Opening Formalities

The meeting was opened by Prof. Stephen Barton, the Local Organiser. Since this meeting followed a Joint Workshop with COST 252 (see Annex A for a brief report), the formal opening by the University Chancellor was done at the Workshop.

Due to the absence of the Chairman, Mr. Eraldo Damosso (his health condition did not allowed him to travel), the meeting was chaired by the Vice-Chairman, Prof. Luis Correia.

2. Adoption of the Agenda

The Agenda, included in Annex B, was formally approved by unanimity.

3. Approval of the Minutes of the 4th Meeting

A correction was asked by Mr. Per Lehne (Telenor R&D, N) since his name was misspelled. Another correction was asked by Mr. Andreas EisenblŠtter (ZIB, Berlin, D), since he is not a Dr. as it was miswritten in the minutes. The minutes, with corrections, were approved unanimously.

4. Status of the Action

The Vice-Chairman gave a brief status of the Action, by reporting on some numbers characterising it:

• the number of signatory countries continues to be 18
• over 70 institutions are participating
• around 100 persons attend the meetings
• the email list has more than 150 entries
• circa 50 technical documents are presented and discussed per meeting

5. COST 231 Book

The Vice-Chairman reported on the status of the book, since the last meeting:

• A letter was sent to the Chairman, explaining that Chapter Editors were available to re-edit the book, by putting it back in the original style, correcting the errors, and so on, and that the Vice-Chairman would take the task to edit the final version.
• A copy of the draft version, dated April 1996, was sent by the Vice-Chairman to the COST Telecom Secretariat, since they needed at least a draft version of the Final Report, and they had informed that had nothing.
• Although there were problems in recovering some files and information from Chapter 7, the book is almost complete.

There was a meeting of Chapter Editors during the meeting, and the last editing details were solved. It was agreed that if it not possible to recover the information from the missing sections from Chapter 7, they will be omitted, and the book will be printed without them. It is expected that the whole process is finished before Summer.

6. Budget and reimbursements

The Vice-Chairman informed that he had received from the COST Telecom Secretariat a formal letter granting the Action with the budget of 115 kECU for 1998, confirming the information given at the last meeting. A letter was sent by him to Mr. Joseph Dwyer (TCT Chairman) asking for more funding, but no reply had been received. He also informed that, as usual, 80 % of the Grant his made available initially (during May, according to an information received from the COST Telecom Secretariat), and that the remaining 20 % will be paid after a copy of the expenses of the first payment is sent to Brussels.

The Vice-Chairman reminded the rules concerning reimbursement of travel expenses. Following a proposal from him, due to the fact that the budget does not cover all the foreseen expenses, it was approved that the travel expenses will be reimbursed on a 80 % basis, and by the end of the year, the remaining of the budget will be used to pay the missing part of the travel expenses to all meetings.

According to an information from the COST Telecom Secretariat, the remaining 20 % of the 1997 budget will be transferred to the Chairman during May. As soon as the Chairman transfers the money to IST, the remaining reimbursement of the travel expenses will be done.

7. Email reflector and WWW site

The Vice-Chairman informed that all reflectors are working now; those wishing to be part of the list of a Working Group or Sub-Working Group should send an email to the Action Webmaster stating so in the Subject field (Subscribe WGn).

The Vice-Chairman presented as well the present status of the WWW site: http://www.lx.it.pt/cost259. The collaboration of all delegates was asked, in order to detect any errors or to suggest any improvements to its contents.

8. Presentation and Discussion of Documents

A total of 24 Temporary Documents, which are listed in Annex C, were distributed to be discussed at the Plenary and at the three WGs, Annex D.

9. Liaisons with other International Bodies

Reports from the following liaisons were given:

• COST 252 - Prof. António Rodrigues (IST, Lisbon, P)

• COST 255 - Prof. António Rodrigues (IST, Lisbon, P)

• SMT/METAMORP - Mr. Per Lehne (Telenor R&D, N)

• ETSI/BRAN - Dr. Peter Karlson (Telia Research, S)

• ITU/SG3 - Dr. Thomas KŸrner (E-Plus, D)

• ACTS/SUNBEAM - Dr. Preben Mogensen (Aalborg University, DK)
• ACTS/MEDIAN - Dr. Joerg Pamp (IMST, D)
• COST 260 - Prof. Emmanuel Van Lil (K.U. Leuven, B)

10. Future Meetings and Workshop
 
Following an initial idea to have, by the end of the 2nd year of the Action, a Joint Workshop with another COST Action related with the areas of COST 259, Prof. Ernst Bonek established a contact with Dr. Antoine Roederer (COST 260 Chairman), proposing the realisation of such event by April 1999. Dr. Roederer replied that he was already committed for the meetings for 1999, thus not being available for such a Joint Workshop; afterwards, he proposed that COST 259 could join COST 260 and other Actions on the proposal of a COST Event on Antennas & Propagation to be organised within the Millennium Conference on Antennas & Propagation by April 2000. Since there were various views on this proposal, a voting took place with the following result: 4 countries in favour and 6 countries against. Therefore, the proposal was rejected, and Prof. Ernst Bonek will inform Dr. Antoine Roederer of this outcome.

The following meetings will be held according to the following:

• 6th MCM, hosted by IMST in Duisburg, Germany, from Wednesday - 23/Sep/98 - 9:00 to Friday - 25/Sep./98 - 12:00
• 7th MCM, hosted by Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki, in Thessaloniki, Greece, from Wednesday - 20/Jan/99 - 9:00 to Friday - 22/Jan/99 - 12:00
• 8th MCM and Workshop, hosted by Tech. Univ. Vienna, in Vienna, Austria, from Tuesday - 13/Apr/99 - 9:00 to Friday - 16/Apr/99 - 12:00
• 9th MCM, hosted by Tech. Univ. Delft, in Delft, The Netherlands, in Sep./99, week starting 20th.
• 10th MCM, hosted by Univ. Valencia, in Valencia, Spain, in Jan/00

11. Election of Chairpersons for 2nd Year Term

According to Article 7 of "Rules of Procedure for the Management Committees of COST Actions", the election of chairpersons was held for the 2nd year term. A letter was received from the Chairman, Annex. E, stating his unavailability to continue. Following this, Prof. Ernst Bonek proposed, and Prof. Stephen Barton seconded, Prof. Luis Correia as a candidate for the position of Chairman, which he accepted; there were no other candidates, and he was elected by unanimity. Prof. Luis Correia proposed, and Dr. Thomas KŸrner seconded, Dr. Jean-FrŽdŽric Wagen (Swisscom, CH) as a candidate for the position of Vice-Chairman, which he accepted; there were no other candidates, and he was elected by unanimity. Following a proposal by Prof. Luis Correia, the chairmen of the working Groups were re-elected, by unanimity as well.

A letter of appreciation for all the work done by Mr. Eraldo Damosso in preparing and chairing the Action was written to him, and signed by everyone.

12. Any Other Business

Dr. Martin Steinbauer (Tech. Univ. Vienna, A) presented a brief report on the status of Sub-Working Group 2.1.

Prof. Luis Correia thank all the delegates for having sent in advance to the Local Organiser all the documents discussed in the meeting. He also reminded that they should:

• send the abstracts of all the documents already presented in the previous meetings to the Action Webmaster, so that they can be included in the WWW; the same procedure should be done for future documents;
• send the WWW addresses of their institutions to the Action Webmaster, so that they can be included in the WWW;
• send files of the documents to be presented in future meetings to the Local Organiser, at least one week in advance of the date of the meeting.

13. Close of the Meeting

The meeting was attended by a total of 88 persons, Annex F. The Chairman thanked the Local Organiser for hosting the meeting, and all delegates for their participation, and formally closed it.

The workshop was held at University of Bradford, Bradford (UK), on 21-22 April 1998, organised by University of Bradford, being attended by more than 100 persons.

The Welcome session was opened by the University Chancellor, after which the Technical Sessions took place according to the following:

 
 

Session 1:   COST 252 Overview     Chair:   Prof. E. del Re	R.E. Sheriff, "Current Activities in COST 252/WG 1: Strategic Scenarios and Feasibility Studies"  I. Mertzanis, A. Sammut, R. Tafazolli, B.G. Evans, "Network Aspects of Dynamic Satellite Multimedia Systems: An Overview of COST-252 Activities"  F. Cercas, "Current Activities in COST 252/WG3: Air Interface Aspects"
Session 2:   COST 259 Overview     Chair:   Prof. L.M. Correia	S.K. Barton, "Radio System Aspects of Wireless Personal Communications"  E. Bonek, "COST 259 Topics and Achievements in Antennas and Propagation"  T. Kuerner, "Radio Network Aspects and Planning Issues for Evolving Mobile Radio Syatems"
Session 3:   Radio Systems     Chair:   Prof. S.K. Barton	H. Rohling, "OFDM Transmission Technique"  A.G. Burr, "Enhancement of TDMA systems: Slow Frequency Hopping and Other Techniques"  E. Buracchini, B. Melis, G. Romano, P. Taaghol, "SINUS WB-CDMA access for S-UMTS"  F. Cercas, E. Del Re, R. Fantacci, L.S. Ronga, "Simplified Receiver Structure with New Sequences for CDMA using FFT Implementation"  A.J. Rodrigues, "Near-Far Resistant Techniques in CDMA"

 

 
 

Session 4:   Networks     Chair:   Dr. T. Kuerner	L.M. Correia, "Traffic Modelling and its Influence in Planning Optimisation in Dense Urban Networks"  J. Bostic, T. Ors, M. Werner, H. Bischl, B. Evans, "Multiple Acess Protocols for ATM over Low Earth Orbit Satellites"  A. Eisenblaetter, T. Kuerner, R. Fauss, "Radio Planning Algorithms for Interference Reduction in Cellular Networks"  E. Del Re, R. Fantacci, G. Giambene, T. Pecorella, "Performance Evaluation of the PRMA Protocol for Voice and Data Transmissions in Low Earth Orbit Mobile Communication Systems"  P. Seidenberg, M. Lott, "On the Spectral Compatibility of DECT and UMTS Services"
Session 5:   Invited Papers - Terrestrial     Chair:   Prof. L.M. Correia	J.F. Huber, "Spectrum for UMTS"  G. Colombo, "European Research and Development: evolution and perspectives for mobile communications"  J. Bach Andersen, "Intelligent Antennas in a Scattering Environment"
Session 6:   Invited Papers - Satellite     Chair:   Prof. E. del Re	R. de Gaudenzi, "ESA Activities in the Field of Satellite UMTS"  B. Barani, "Satellite Communication R&D in the European Union Framework Programmes"
Session 7:   Radio Propagation     Chair:   Prof. E. Bonek	P. Karlsson, L.M. Correia, "Propagation Characteristics for Broadband Radio Access at Mm-Waves"  C. Tzaras, S.R. Saunders, B.G. Evans, "A Tap-gain process for Wideband Mobile-Satellite Channels"  A.F. Molisch, J. Laurila, A. Kuchar, R. Schmalenberger, "Test scenarios for mobile radio systems with adaptive antennas"  F. Frederiksen, P.E. Mogensen, K.I. Pedersen, P. Leth-Espensen, "Testbed for Evaluation of Adaptive Antennas for GSM and Wideband-CDMA"

1. Opening formalities

 
2. Adoption of the Agenda

 
3. Approval of the minutes of the 4th Meeting in Bern

 
4. Status of the Action

 
5. COST 231 book

 
6. Budget and reimbursements

 
7. Email reflector and WWW site

 
8. Presentation and discussion of documents

 
9. Liaisons with other international bodies

 
10. Future meetings and workshop

 
11. Election of Chairpersons for 2nd Year Term

 
12. Any other business

 
13. Close of Meeting

 

TD(98)	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation(s)	Country(ies)	WG
049	WG1 4th Meeting Chairman's Report	S. K. Barton	Bradford University	United Kingdom	Pl.
050	WG2 4th Meeting Chairman's Report	E.Bonek	Technical University of Vienna	Austria	Pl.
051	WG3 4th Meeting Chairman's Report	T.Kuerner	E-Plus	Germany	Pl.
052	Subgroup on Directional Channel Models 1st Meeting Chairman's Report	Martin Steinbauer	Technical University of Vienna	Austria	Pl.
053	Preliminary Report on Traffic from Mobility in Mobile Broad Band Systems	F.J. Velez, L.M.Correia	IST-Technical University of Lisbon	Portugal	3
054	Complex Impulse Response Modeling for Wideband Channels	P.Marques, J. Fernandes, J.Neves	Universidade de Aveiro	Portugal	1+2
055	User Angular Separation Considerations on the Uplink Performance of a TD-CDMA Mobile Radio System	A. Papathanassiou, R.Schmalenberger, M.Weckerle, P.Baier	University of Kaiserlautern	Germany	1+2
056	Na Investigation of Millimeter Wave Propagation Mechanisms for Mobile Intervehicle Communications and Outdoor MBS	D.L.Didascalou, T.Zwick, W.Wiesbeck	University of Karlsruhe	Germany	2
057	Stochastic Radio Channel Model for Advanced Indoor Mobile Communications Systems	R. Heddergott, U.P. Bernhard, B.Fleury	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zurich / Aalborg University	Switzerland / Denmark	1+2
058	The TWP Format for a 3-D Geographical Dataset	S. Murphy, D. Lister	University of Bristol / Vodafone	United Kingdom	3
059	Comparison of Antenna Diversity Schemes	B. Gavilanes-Loureiro, I.De Coster, E.Van Lil, F.Perez-Fontan	K.U. Leuven/ University of Vigo	Belgium / Spain	1+2
060	Path Loss predications in Urban Areas with Irregular Terrain Topography	R. Janaswamy, J.Bach Andersen	Aalborg University	Denmark	2
061	Performance of a Distributed DCA Algorithm Under Inhomogeneous Traffic Modelled from a Operational GSM Network	K. Kennedy, E.De Vries, P.Koorevaar	KPN Research	The Netherlands	1+3

 
 

TD(98)	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation(s)	Country(ies)	WG
062	Optimum Power Control Schemes for Cellular TDMA Systems Employing Adaptive Modulation and Coding	D.A.J.Pearce, A.G.Burr, T.C.Tozer	University of York	United Kingdom	1+3
063	Single-Carrier Transmission with Guard-Interval - An attractive Way of Realising Multi-carrier Spread Spectrum Systems	H.Rohling, K. Bruninghaus	Technical University of Braunschweig	Germany	1+3
064	An Integral Equation Approach to Long Distance UHF Terrain Propagation	C.Brennan, P.J.Cullen	University of Dublin	Ireland	2
065	Validation of High Resolution Channel Parameter Measuraments	M. Tschudin, R. Heddergott, P. Truffer	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland	2
066	Development of FDTD Models to Calculate Radiation Pattern Distortions Due to Nearby Walls	P. Koivisto, S. Karhu	VTT Information Technology	Finland	2
067	Analysis of Wideband Indoor Propagation Measuraments at 5.3 GHZ	J. Kivinen, P. Vainikainen	Helsinki University of Technology	Finland	1+2
068	Use of Compatibility Matrix for Optimizing a SFH Frequency Assignment	J. Jimenez, H. Gonzalez	Telefónica I+D	Spain	1+3
069	A Comparison of Propagation Models for Urban Micro-Cells in GSM	B. Alves, C. Ribeiro, L.M.Correia	IST - Technical University of Lisbon	Portugal	2
070	Channel Models for HIPERLAN/2 in Different Indoor Scenarios	J. Medbo, H. Anderson, P. Schramm, H. Asplund, J.E. Berg	Ericsson Radio Systems / Ericsson Microwave Systems / Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland	Sweden	1+2
071	Application of the Slope Diffraction Method for Urban Microwave Propagation Prediction	K. Rizk, R. Valenzuela, D. Chizhik, F. Gardiol	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland	2
072	Array Based Measurements of the Time-Varient Directive Radio Channel	U. Trautwein, D. Hampicke, G. Sommerkorn, R. Thomas	Ilmenau University of Technology	Germany	2

 

To COST 259 Members and Participants

Dear friends,

I am very sorry for this last minute message I have to send to inform you of my decision (and duty) to resign from the chairmanship of the Action.

As you may be aware, due to my absence at the past two (and this present) meetings, and according to what Prof. Correia should have been told by my colleague, Gianni Colombo, I am no longer able to continue to chair the Action, because of both my health problems and daily job commitments.

My sincere apologies for what happened during last months (in particular, as far as the COST 231 book is concerned) and for missing my promises; please, excuse my behaviour, but I repeatedly tried (and failed) to re-start to work for the project. Due to the current situation I strongly believe (and I agree with your opinion) that a new chairman is necessary for the continuation and success of the Action.

I will inform of this decision Brussels and the TCT Chairman.

My personal thanks to Prof. Correia and the WG chairmen who "de facto" chaired the Action in my absence and my best wishes to the new chairman who will be appointed at this meeting.

Yours sincerely

Eraldo Damosso