European Co-operation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research

European Co-operation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research

COST 259 Wireless Flexible PERSONALIZED Communications Minutes of the 6th Meeting of the Management Committee, held in Duisburg (D) on 23-24 September 1998 COST 259 Minutes of the 6th Meeting of the Management Committee, held at University of Duisburg, Duisburg (D), on 23-24 Sep. 1998, organised by IMST

1. Opening Formalities

The meeting was formally opened by Prof. Luis M. Correia, after which Prof. Wolf, the Chairman of IMST, addressed the plenary for a welcome message. Mr Jörg Pamp, the Local Organiser, than gave some details on the way the meeting was organised.

2. Adoption of the Agenda

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

3. Approval of the Minutes of the 5th Meeting

A correction was asked by Mr. Martin Steinbauer (Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, A), 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 Chairman gave a brief status of the Action, by reporting on some numbers characterising it:

the number of signatory countries continues to be 18
77 institutions are participating
on average, around 90 persons attend the meetings
the email list has more than 180 entries
the number of documents presented throughout 1998 was 111

5. COST 231 Book

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

All files have been recovered, including those of Chapter 7, which is being edited now by Dr. Alister Burr (University of York, York, UK), so the book is complete now. The delay with which Dr. Burr presented his chapter was due to difficulties in recovering some files.
The Chairman is reviewing the final manuscript, and whatever corrections will be needed will be sent to the chapter editors during the month of October.
The final version of the book is expected to be available by the end of the year, and it will be printed through the COST Telecom Secretariat. A total of 1 000 copies has been requested, and they will be available by the beginning of next year.

6. Budget and reimbursements

The Chairman informed that he had received from the COST Telecom Secretariat the information that additional 11.5 kECU have been granted to the Action, concerning the 1998 Budget. This will enable that full reimbursement of travel expenses will be given, as well as it opens the possibility to have some short missions to increase the exchange of information among the participating institutions, and to augment the results of the subgroups on specific topics. Proposals for these short missions should be sent to the Chairman until the end of the year (Action Point 7).

The Chairman also informed that both the 80 % of the 1998 and the remaining 20 % of the 1997 Grants have been received already (from COST Telecom Secretariat and CSELT respectively). Hence reimbursements concerning the remaining 20 % of Turin and Lisbon meetings, as well as 80 % of Bern and Bradford meetings have already been processed.

The budget for 1999 has already been sent to the COST Telecom Secretariat, on the total amount of 179 kECU. There is still no date for a decision by the TCT.

7. Report on the TCT meeting

The Chairman informed that he has attended a TCT meeting in Helsinki, Finland, on 10-11 June 1998, where he as presented the Action before the TCT. He informed that, from now on, all Actions will be evaluated by a panel of 4 persons, consisting of a TCT member and 3 experts outside the TCT.

A contact with Dr. Antoine Roederer, the Chairman of COST 260, was done at the TCT, and the possibility of exchange of information between the two Actions was discussed. Colleagues from COST 260 were invited to participate in the Workshop to be held in Vienna, on April 1999, closing the second year of the Action and dedicated to topics of the interest of COST 260 as well.

8. Presentation and Discussion of Documents

A total of 39 Temporary Documents, which are listed in Annex C, were distributed to be discussed at the Plenary and at the three WGs, Annex C. Due to a more efficient way to allocate papers, which is possible since participants are requested now so send their contributions in advance to the Local Organiser, and to the fact that the number of documents to discuss was not as large as it uses to be, the meeting was extended on Thursday beyond the original schedule, and no meeting was held on Friday.

9. Liaisons with other International Bodies

Reports from the following liaisons were given:

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

The action will held its next meeting on September 28-29 in IST, Lisbon, Portugal. WGs 2 and 3 are dealing with network and air interface issues respectively. These issues and the problem of integrating S-PCS systems in the future UMTS standard are being addressed by the project and could be interesting for COST 259 WG1 and WG3.

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

Next meeting will be held at ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands together with the 1st International Workshop on Radiowave Propagation Modelling for SatCom Services at Ku-band and Above on October 28-30. The WG3 is addressing system and simulation issues and some results might prove interesting to COST 259 WG1. The project has identified several satellite test cases, 3 of which are mobile satellite systems. In future MC meetings results will be presented on these 3 scenarios.

COST 260 - Prof. Emmanuel Van Lil (KU Leuven, B)

Since our Bradford meeting COST260 held 1 meeting (3-5 June 1998 in Trondheim, N). The next meeting is scheduled on 15-16 Nov. 1998 (Nice, F) just prior to JINA '98 (17-19 Nov.). The 1999 meetings are planned in Wroclaw (Spring) and Aveiro (Fall, Nov. or Dec. + Workshop). For 2000, as we discussed, their Spring meeting will be held around the AP2000 conference in Davos. Even if the focusing areas are concerning 5 major antenna design systems, their major priorities are for the moment on the first: 1.Third generation mobile handset antennas; 2.Third generation mobile base station antennas; 3.Multimedia Ku- and Ka-band LEO satellite home terminal & satellite antennas. A glimpse at their official web page: http://inet.uni-c.dk/~pballing/external.html is a good idea (it will show the WG organisations, as I presented them in Bradford).

ACTS/MEDIAN - Mr Jörg Pamp (IMST, D)

The RF/IF (60 GHz) subsystem is completed and delivered into system integration. Baseband subsystem is under test in static test conditions. System integration planned for November '98. MAC and interworking subsystems are currently integrated into system. Start of field trails with demonstrator planned for March 1999.

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

The METAMORP consortium (Ericsson Hellas, Deutsche Telekom AG, France Telecom CNET, TU Wien and Telenor R&D) last meeting was held in Oslo 2nd-3rd July. Currently, deliverables are finished for the description of the Channel Sounder Measurement File format (CSM) and software is available from the METAMORP website (http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/mobile/projects/METAMORP). A deliverable from the first phase of the work on calibration of mobile radio channel sounders is also finished, and was presented as this meeting in the document TD(98)88. A deliverable on quality assessment of channel simulators is currently under progress. Else, work has been focused on condensed radio channel parameters and semi-stochastical channel models. The next METAMORP-meeting is scheduled for 14th-15th December in Athens. The project will finish in October 1999.

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

The most important decision in the PHY group was that OFDM will be the modulation for HIPERLAN 2. Still some parameters, like number of subcarriers 64, 128 or 256 and channel coding, have to be fixed. There is also a proposal for supporting smart/adaptive antennas in the MAC layer in order to utilise the spatial domain within the standard. The discussion on packet size is ongoing, however it seems that 50 bytes would give good throughput performance, when both DLC and PHY layers are considered. One major issue for HIPERLAN 2 is the frequency sharing studies between ICO feeders and HIPERLAN 2 terminals in the 5.2 GHz band. CEPT, ETSI/BRAN and ICO are not fully compliant regarding the interference problems, although calculations from BRAN shows that the satellite link margin is reduced with less than 0.5 dB in a worst case scenario. This scenario includes several thousands of HIPERLAN 2 terminals pointing towards the satellite with a total shielding loss (in addition to free space path loss) of less than 10 dB. The future for HIPERLAN 2 is dependent on a decision that co-existence is possible and

the calculations with real shielding loss show that there is no interference problem, only political arguments.

ITU/SG3 - Dr. David Bacon (Radiocommunications Agency, UK)

SG3 is undertaking revisions to several Recommendations which are relevant to mobile radio systems. Working Party 3J, which deals with fundamental propagation issues, has substantially upgraded Rec. P.676, which gives information on atmospheric absorption, and plans an upgrade to information on global rainfall. Both of these areas are important to millimetric systems. Working Party 3K, which covers propagation aspects of mobile and broadcasting systems, is undertaking upgrades to Recs. P.370 and P.529 (broadcasting and mobile field-strength curves) including extension in frequency up to 3 GHz.

URSI/c - Prof. Ernst Bonek (Technical University of Vienna, A)

The XXVIth General Assembly of URSI will take place 13-21 August 1999 in Toronto, Canada, and general Information is available at the www site of the conference: http://www.nrc.ca/confserv/ursi99/welcome.html. There will be three kind of papers: invited (already decided, don´t rush); solicited - contact Session Chairmen if you want to be solicited; contributed - contact Session Chairmen if you want to contribute. More information is available on Annex E.

10. Future Meetings and Workshop

The next meetings will be held according to the following:

7^th MCM, hosted by Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki, in Thessaloniki, Greece, from Wednesday - 1999/Jan/20 - 9:00 to Friday - 1999/Jan/22 - 12:00.
8^th MCM and Workshop, hosted by Tech. Univ. Vienna, in Vienna, Austria, from Tuesday - 1999/Apr/20 - 9:00 to Friday - 1999/Apr/23 - 12:00.
9^th MCM, hosted by Tech. Univ. Delft, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from Thursday - 1999/Sep/23 - 9:00 to Friday - 1999/Sep/24 - 17:00.
10^th MCM, hosted by Univ. Valencia, in Valencia, Spain, from Wednesday - 2000/Jan/21 - 9:00 to Friday - 2000/Jan/23 - 12:00.

The Workshop will take place on 1999/Apr/20-21, and it will be dedicated to "Spatial Channel Models and Adaptive Antennas". A formal invitation will be forwarded to COST 260 for presenting their work at the workshop.

Prof. Ramjee Prasad (Technical University of Delft, Delft, NL) presented the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 1999 Fall, from which he is the Technical Chairman, and which will be held in Amsterdam just before the 9^th MCM. He opened the possibility of having technical sessions dedicated to COST 259, which was most welcome; the papers will follow the usual review procedure, although the Chairmen of the Action and of the WGs will have some part in the review procedure and sessions schedule. Hence delegates were asked to submit papers to VTC’99 (Action Point 6).

11. Any Other Business

Prof. Luis Correia thanked all the delegates for having sent in advance to the Local Organiser the documents discussed in the meeting. He also has put some Action Points:

No.	Action	Who	Deadline
1	Send information on www address to Webmaster	Those who still have not done it.	ASAP
2	Send files with abstracts of TDs to Webmaster	Those who still have not done it.	ASAP
3	Send list of publications related to COST 259 to Secretary	All	1998/Dec/14
4	Send list of interests in WGs to Secretary	Responsible for Institutions	1998/Dec/14
5	Send reports from liaisons to Chairman	Liaisons raporteurs	1998/Oct/30
6	Submit papers to VTC’99 Fall	All	1999/Mar/01
7	Send proposals for short missions to Chairman	All	1998/Dec/14
8	Check information contained on the www site, and send corrections to Webmaster	All	ASAP

Prof. Ernst Bonek informed that a new Sub-Working Group will be established, within WG 2, dealing with "Test Methods for Handset Antennas", and its Chairman will be appointed in the next meeting.

12. Close of the Meeting

The meeting was attended by a total of 87 persons, Annex D. The Chairman thanked the Local Organiser for hosting the meeting, and all delegates for their participation, and formally closed it.

Annex A Agenda

Opening formalities

Adoption of the Agenda

Approval of the minutes of the 5th Meeting in Bradford

Status of the Action

COST 231 book

Budget and reimbursements

Report on the TCT meeting

Presentation and discussion of documents

Liaisons with other international bodies

Future meetings and workshop

Any other business

Close of Meeting

Annex B List of Documents

TD(98)	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation(s)	Country(ies)	WG
73	WG1 5th Meeting Chairman’s Report	S.K. Barton	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	Pl.
74	WG2 5th Meeting Chairman’s Report	E. Bonek	TU Wien	Austria	Pl.
75	WG3 5th Meeting Chairman’s Report	T. Kuerner	E-Plus	Germany	Pl.
76	Geometry based stochastic model for mobile radio channels with directional components	A.F. Molisch	TU Wien	Austria	2
77	Error floor of pulse amplitude modulation with adaptive sampling in time-dispersive fading channels	A.F. Molisch	TU Wien	Austria	1
78	Pulse design for robust multicarrier transmission over doubly-dispersive channels	A.F. Molisch	TU Wien	Austria	1
79	Propagation Model for Urban Microcellular Systems at the UHF Band	N.C. Goncalves and L.M. Correia	IST	Portugal	2+3
80	Optimisation of Micro Cellular Regions by Minimising the Number of Base Stations	D. Kristic and L.M. Correia	IST	Portugal	1+3
81	Optimum Solution Accessibility of Some Graph Coloring Techniques	M.K. Karray and A.O. Molina	France Telecom CNET	France	3
82	Outdoor Spatio-Temporal Propagation Measurements for Evaluation of Smart Antennas in the 5 GHz Band	P. Karlsson, C. Bergljunk, J. Medbo and H. Hallenberg	Telia Research and Ericsson Radio Systems	Sweden	2
83	Frequency Planning for Frequency Hopping GSM Networks	J. Wigard, T.T. Nielsen, P. Mogensen, and P.H. Michalsen	Aalborg University	Denmark	2+3
84	Mobile location using coverage information	J. Jiménez, I. Berberana, H. Gonzalez, and E. Alonso	Telefónica I+D	Spain	3
85	An Efficient Time Domain Propagation Model	B. Estevez, I. De Coster, E. Van Lil, A. Van de Capelle, and F. Pérez-Fontán	K.U. Leuven / Fund for Scientific Research / Univ. of Vigo	Belgium / Spain	2
86	Symbol Time Offset Estimation in Coherent OFDM Systems	D. Landström, S. K. Wilson, van de Beek, P. Ölding, and P.O. Börjesson	Lund University	Sweden	1

TD(98) Title Author(s) Affiliation(s) Country(ies) WG

87 Estimation of Scatterer Locations from Wideband Array Channel Measurements at 1800 MHz in an Urban Environment H. Asplund and J.-E. Berg Ericsson Radio Systems Sweden 2

88 Calibration of Mobile Radio Channel Sounders P. Lehne, F. Aanvik, P. Pajusco, J.C. Bic, Grigat, Gaspard and Martin Telenor R & D Norway Pl.

89 Optimum Performance of Signal-Level-Based Downlink Power Control in Cellular Systems R. Verdone and A. Zanella University of Bologna Italy 1+3

90 Up-link Analytical Outage Evaluation for Slow Frequency Hopping Mobile Radio Systems M. Chiani, A. Conti, and O. Andrisano University of Bologna Italy 1+3

91 Evaluation of Safety Volumes for Acceptable Exposures Around Base Station Antennas M. Barbiroli, C. Carciofi, G. Falciasecca, and M. Frullone University of Bologna / Fondazione Ugo Bordoni Italy 2

92 Parallel Interference Cancellation in Channel Coded CDMA Systems O.-P. Kaurahalme, and M. Juntti University of Oulu Finland 1

93 The Leaf Initiated Join Hand-over Concept M. Theugels, E. Van Lil, and A. Van de Capelle K.U. Leuven / FWO Flanders Belgium 1+3

94 Downlink Spectrum Efficiency of a JD-CDMA Mobile Radio System with Array Transmit Antennas R. Schmalenberger and A. Papathanassiou University of Kaiserslautern Germany Pl.

95 Cellular Coverage Engineering in Future Mobile Networks R. Menolascino CSELT Italy Pl.

96 Impact of Real Channel Characterisation on Wireless Packet Networks with S-ALOHA Channel Access S. Ruiz-Boque, D. Covarrubias, and J. Olmos UPC Spain 1+3

97 Millimeter Wave Scattering and Attenuation in Bounded Vegetarion D. Didascalou, M. Younis, and W. Wiesbeck University of Karlsruhe Germany 2

98 Comparison of High Resolution Cahannel Parameter Measurements with Ray Tracing Simulations in a Multipath Environment R. Heddergott, P. Truffer, M. Tschudin, and M. Nold ETH Zürich and University of Ulm Switzerland / Germany 2

99 Optical Millimeter-Wave Generation for Remote Antenna Feeding using a Dual-Polarization External Cavity Diode Laser S. Pajarola, L. Occi, and G. Guekos ETH Zürich Switzerland 2

100 Fading Dependence on Scenario and Antennas Characteristics at the 60 GHz Band P. Vasconcelos and L.M. Correia IST Portugal 2

TD(98) Title Author(s) Affiliation(s) Country(ies) WG

101 Location and Paging Area Antenna in UMTS Y. Markoulidakis NTUA Greece 3

102 Automatic Radio Network Planning in the Context of 3rd Generation Mobile Systems S. Fallot-Josselin TDF-C2R France 3

103 A Snapshot of an Evolving three-dimensional Micro-cell Propagation Tool for Indoor Urban Environment W.M. O´Brian, E. Kenny, and P. J. Cullen Trinity College Dublin Ireland 2

104 Combinatorial Lower Bounds for Co-Channel Interference in GSM-Networks (Preliminary Report) A. Eisenblätter ZIB Germany 3

105 Propagation Path Loss Prediction in GSM Macro- and Microcells Using Neural Networks N. Cardona and R. Fraile Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain 2+3

106 Description of Antenna Test method Performed in Scattered Field for GSM MS B. Olson Telia Research Sweden 2

107 Spatio-Temporal Channel Measurements at 1800 MHz for Adaptive Antennas M. Larsson Telia Research Sweden 2

108 Preliminary performance evaluation of speech Service for the WCDMA solution of UMTS M. Mastroforti, G. Romano and B. Melis CSELT Italy 2

109 In Search for a Standardized Test Method for Mobile Phone Antennas O. Edvardsson Allgon Sweden 1

110 Variable Rate CPESK Modulation in Mobile Channels G. Kandus, T. Javomic and P. Loskot Institut Jozef Stefan, Czech Technical University of Prague Slovenia, Czech Republic 1

111 Theoretical modelling of foliage effect on path loss for residential environments S.A. Torrico, H. Bertoni and R.H. Lang Comsearch, Brooklin Polytechnical University, George Washington Univeristy Ireland, USA 2

Annex C Sessions Schedule

Time	Wednesday	Thursday
9:00 / 10:30	Plenary	WGs 1, 2, 3
11:00 / 12:30	WGs 1, 2, 3	Plenary
14:00 / 15:30	WGs 1+3, 2	WGs 1, 2+3
16:00 / 17:30	WGs 1+3, 2	WGs 1, 2, 3
17:30 / 18:00	-	Plenary

Annex D Attendance List

Country	Name	Institution
Austria	Ernst Bonek	INTHF - TU Wien
	Hermann Bühler	Ingenieurbüro Bühler
	Klaus Hugl	INTHF - TU Wien
	Andreas Molisch	INTHF - TU Wien
	Martin Steinbauer	INTHF - TU Wien
Belgium	Benjamin Estevez	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
	Belen Gavilanes	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
	Laurent Schumacher	UCL
	Michel Teughels	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
	Emmanuel Van Lil	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Denmark	Jens Erfurt Andrésen	Tele Danmark
	Bernard Feury	Aalborg University
	Jeroegem Wigard	Center for PersonKommunication
Finland	Olli-Pekka Kaurahalme	University of Oulu
	Jarmo Kivinen	HUT
	Jaakko Lähteenmäki	VTT Information Technology
France	Cyril Delemazure	TDF - C2R
	Sophie Fallot-Josselin	TDF - C2R
	Bertrand Foulonneau	France Telecom - CNET
	Mohamed K. Kayrray	France Telecom - CNET
Germany	Hicham Aroudaki	Mannesmann Mobilfunk
	Dirk Beckmann	Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg
	Thomas Binzer	University of Stuttgart
	Andreas Czylwik	Deutsche Telekom
	Dirk Didascalou	IHE - University of Karlsruhe
	Andreas Eisenblätter	ZIB
	Reinhard Enders	Siemens
	Martin Hellebrandt	RWTH - Aachen
	Andreas Heyn	Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
	Ralf Kattenbach	University of Kassel
	Ulrich Kauschke	T-Mobil
	Jürgen Kunisch	IMST
	Thomas Kürner	E-Plus Mobilfunk
	Nadja Lohse	TU Dresden
	Gerd Ortgies	Deutsche Telekom
	Joerg Pamp	IMST
	Dirk Poppen	E-Plus Mobilfunk
	Ralph Schmalenberger	University of Kaiserslautern
	Michael Schmeink	RWTH Aachen
	Jan Steuer	Universität Hannover
	Ernst Zollinger	IMST
	Thomas Zwick	IHE - University of Karlsruhe
Greece	Yannis Markoulidakis	National Technical University of Athens
	Vaidis Timoleon	Universtity of Athens
Ireland	Cyril Burkley	University of Limerick
	Peter J.	Cullen Trinity College Dublin
	Jaul A. Torrico	Comsearch
Italy	Oreste Andrisano	University of Bologna
	Marina Barbiroli	University of Bologna
	Maco Chiani	University of Bologna
	Lorenzo Gandini	Omnitel
	Clara Giannetti	Ericsson Telecommunicazioni
	Paolo Grazioso	Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
	Maurizio Magarini	Politecnico di Milano
	Marco Mastroforti	CSELT
	Raffaele Menolascino	CSELT
	Maria Perucca	CSELT
	Marcello Sant' Agostino	Italtel
	Roberto Verdone	University of Bologna
The Netherlands	Ramjee Prasad	TU Delft
Norway	Per H. Lehne	Telenor R & D
	Josef Noll	Telenor
	Magne Pettersen	Telenor R & D
	Olaf Rostbakken	Telenor R & D
Poland	Marcin Ney	PTK Centertel
Portugal	Luis M. Correia	IST - Technical University of Lisbon
	Pedro Lourenco	Telecel
	Antonio Rodrigues	IST - Technical University of Lisbon
Slovenia	Gorazd Kandus	Institut Jozef Stefan
Spain	Narcis Cardona	Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
	Silvia Ruiz-Boque	Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya
Sweden	Henrik Asplund	Ericsson Radio Systems
	Jan-Jaap van de Beek	Lulea University of Technology
	Olle Edvardsson	Allgon
	Peter Karlsson	Telia Research
	Daniel Landstrom	Lund University
	Mikael Larsson	Telia Research
	Bo Olsson	Telia Research
Switzerland	Ralf Heddergott	ETH Zurich
	Emanuel Laschter	Swisscom
	Lorenzo Occhi	ETH Hoenggerberg
	Karim Rizk	WAVECALL Wireless Consulting
	Jean-Frederic Wagen	Swisscom
United Kingdom	Steven K. Barton	University of Leeds
	David F. Bacon	Radiocommunications Agency
	Luis Lopes	Motorola
	David Lister	Vodafone

Annex E Information on URSI General Assembly

XXVIth General Assembly of URSI will take place 13-21 August 1999 in Toronto , Canada

General Information available at: http://www.nrc.ca/confserv/ursi99/welcome.html

There will be three kinds of papers:

-invited (already decided, don´t rush)

-solicited - contact Session Chairmen below if you want to be solicited

-contributed - contact Session Chairmen below if you want to contribute

COMMISSION C: SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS

C1 - CODING - THE STATE-OF-THE-ART

The session will report on recent developments in coding techniques and applications and foreshadow future directions. B. Forssell (Norway)

C2 - ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN MULTIPLEX

The session will review the up-to-date developments in the theory and applications of OFDM. .E. Sousa (Canada)

C3 - RADIO SPECTRUM UTILIZATION AND THEIR TECHNOLOGIES

The session will address the development of a human-oriented flexible utilization of spectrum resources from both social and technological viewpoints. Contribution to the spectrum congestion issue is among the objectives of this session. S. Komaki (Japan) and N. Morinaga (Japan)

C4 - SPACE-TIME BLIND SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR COMMUNICATIONS, INTELLIGENT ANTENNAS AND ADAPTIVE EQUALIZATION

It is widely believed that there needs to be a major breakthrough in techniques to dramatically improve the capacity of communication systems. The session will aim to bring together and report on the most recent work in the area. Contribution to the spectrum congestion issue is among the objectives of this session. R. Kohno (Japan)

C5 - ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE SYSTEMS

The session will report current developments of ATM including extremely broadband applications and foreshadow future directions. J. Scott (USA)

C6 - SOFTWARE RADIO FOR FUTURE COMMUNICATIONS - INCLUDING DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGH FREQUENCY INTEGRATED-CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGIES FOR PORTABLE/ PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS

The session will discuss the approaches, problems and potential in the realization of software radio architecture (the implementation of modulation, demodulation etc. in software) from the viewpoints of radio communication systems, the critical devices and also software simulators. Contribution to the spectrum congestion issue is among the objectives of this session. M. Akaike (Japan)

C7 - MULTIRATE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS, FILTER BANKS, WAVELETS AND APPLICATIONS

The session will review the state-of-the-art in the broad area of digital filtering. Contribution to the spectrum congestion issue is among the objectives of this session. L. Vandendorpe (Belgium)

C8 - GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS) AND OTHER POSITIONING SYSTEMS

The session will review the latest developments in GPS and its myriad applications and foreshadow future directions. C. Drane (Australia)

C9 - OPEN SESSION AND LATE BREAKING RESULTS

Open session and late breaking results. P. Wittke (Canada)

Joint Session led by Commission C

CF - MOBILE AND PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS

Joint session CF will concentrate on issues that make cellular networks work to public satisfaction. Those include the following: Capacity limits in second-generation systems - how to extend them? IMT 2000 and UMTS - compatibility or co-existence in third generation? Hierarchical cellular networks - mobility models, handover strategies; Mobile multimedia - how many bits/ s do we really need? Locating mobiles - what are the benefits, what are the costs? Limitations by propagation effects. Contribution to the spectrum congestion issue is among the objectives of this session. E. Bonek (Austria) and H. Bertoni (USA)

Joint Sessions involving Commission C

DC1 - MICROWAVE-OPTICAL INTERACTION

H. Ogawa (Japan) and T. Berceli (Hungary)

DC2 - ADVANCED TECHNIQUES FOR WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEX SYSTEMS

A. Seeds (UK)

GC - DIGITAL TECHNIQUES IN IONOSPHERIC RADIO PROPAGATION, CONTROL AND COMMUNICATION

D. M. Haines (USA) and P. Cannon (UK)

JBC - ADAPTIVE ANTENNA TECHNOLOGIES FOR DECAMETRIC RADIO TELESCOPES

A. van Ardenne (The Netherlands) and J. G. Lucas (Australia)

JDC - FUTURE MILLIMETRE RECEIVERS

R. Blundell (USA), J. Archer (Australia), V. Fusco (UK) and C. Stewart (UK)

JCEG - INTERFERENCE PROTECTION MEASURES

R. Fisher (USA)

KC - HEALTH EFFECTS OF MOBILE TELEPHONES

R. Adey (USA), N. Kuster (Switzerland) and E. Bonek (Austria)

Workshop:

WS C- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MULTICARRIER TECHNIQUES

This Commission C Tutorial/Workshop session will focus on real world applications such as ADLS modems, multicarrier CDMA and DS-CDMA and also multitone CDMA. V.U. Reddy (India)