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

COST 259

Wireless Flexible Personalised Communications

Minutes of the 11th Meeting of the Management Committee,
held in Bergen (N) on 27-28 April 2000

COST 259 
Minutes of the 11th Meeting of the Management Committee,
held at Bergen Kongress Senter, Bergen (N), on 27-28 Apr. 2000,
organised by Telenor

1. Opening Formalities

The Chairman, Prof. Luis M. Correia formally opened the last meeting of the Action.  After that, Mr. Per Lehne, the Local Organiser, addressed the plenary for a welcome message and details on the way the meeting was organised.
The Chairman acknowledged the attendance of Dr. Tricia Willink, from CRC, Canada., as well as Prof. Kalman Fazekas, from the TC TIST, which will be evaluating the Action.

2. Adoption of the Agenda

The Agenda, shown in Annex A, was approved by unanimity.

3. Approval of the Minutes of the 10th Meeting

The minutes were approved, without corrections, unanimously. 

4. Status of the Action

The Chairman informed that the number of signatory countries (18) remains unchanged, the final numbers of participating institutions and delegates being 90 and 270, respectively.
It has been clarified that the Chairman will not attend the June meeting of the TC TIST, because the Action is finished by then.
The Chairmen of the Sub-Working Groups presented a brief report on the work performed in each one during the Action.

5. Action Final Report

The Chairman thanked the effort from all editors and contributors, since a draft version of the Final Report is already available.
Each Chapter Editor presented the status of his Chapter.  Basically, they are all almost finished, and just some editorial changes are needed, plus some updating with the last contributions from this meeting.
All delegates were asked to:
•	send equivalences between TDs and papers in the open literature to Chapter Editors until 2000/May/12 (Action Point 22);
•	send the acronym of the institution to the Chairman until 2000/May/12 (Action Point 23);
•	send comments/corrections to the draft version to Chapter Editors until 2000/May/12 (Action Point 26);
Following the changes and uncertainties presently existing in COST, it is clear that COST Telecom will neither take care of printing the Final Report nor give any funding for its publication.  As a consequence, the Chairman started contacting several publishers (John Wiley, Kluwer and Prentice Hall), and all of them are potentially interested in publishing the Final Report as a book.  Other publishers were suggested during the meeting (Springer-Verlag, Elsevier and Artech House), which will be contacted by the Chairman as well.  It was agreed that the criteria for choosing the publisher should be based on: accepting the already existing style; free copies in exchange of royalties; discount to project participants.  The Chairman called the attention to the fact that publishing the Final Report as a book implies revisions corrections, which means that Chapter and Section editors must be aware that they may be requested to perform them.  The Final Report is expected to be ready by June.
It was decided the title of the Final Report should be “Wireless Flexible Personalised Communications”, with the sub-title “COST 259: European Cooperation in Mobile Radio Research”.
There is a need to issue an Administrative Final Report as well, which will be done by the Chairman.  Nevertheless, all delegates continue to be requested to send information on examples of joint collaborations with colleagues of other institutions/countries coming from this Action, so that they can be shown in this report; the deadline is 2000/May/12 (Action Point 14).

6. Budget and reimbursements

The Chairman reported that all documents concerning the budget for 1999 have already been sent to the COST Telecom Secretariat, hence it is only on the Commission hands to transfer the remaining 20 % of the budget.  Once it is received, the remaining reimbursements of Short Term Missions will be performed.
As far as the AP2000 Conference Student Best Paper Award within the Action is concerned, the winner was Mr. Kimmo Kaliola (Helsinki University of Technology).
As for this meeting, reimbursements will be done directly by the COST Telecom Secretariat, as for the previous one.  The Action Secretariat will collect all forms and documents, and send the whole package to Brussels.
The COST Telecom Secretariat informed the Chairman that no funding would be available for paying the Action Secretariat in 2000 and the Final Workshop (that took place immediately before this meeting), although the budget for 2000 had been submitted in due time (August 1999).  The MC found this situation totally unacceptable, and it was decided that the Chairman would write a letter to the Commission, asking for the funding.

7. Status of the Proposal of a Follow-on Action

The Chairman reminded that the MoU and its Technical Annex of the proposal for a new Action was submitted in time to the TC TIST meeting on 1999/Oct/28-29.  No decision on the approval of the proposal was taken at that meeting, and he was invited to present the proposal at the next TC TIST meeting, held in Brussels on 2000/Mar/01.
The rules concerning the approval of new Actions state that a decision is taken only after the previous one has been evaluated, hence only after the current Action has been evaluated by the TC TIST will the proposal for the new Action be evaluated.  The next meeting of the TC TIST will be in June 2000.
The general situation of the COST framework was discussed.  All delegates found that it would be worthwhile to continue, despite the fact that no funding may be available in the future for reimbursement of travel expenses, Action Secretariat, and so on.  It was agreed that in that case, a new Action would start anyway, with funding for the Action Secretariat coming from an annual participation fee (250 Euro for universities and 1 000 Euro for companies, with a 50 % discount for SMEs).  The possibility of having a new meeting was also discussed, and a tentative date was agreed (week starting 20th Nov. 2000).

8. Technical Challenges for the Follow-on Action

The Working Group Chairmen presented their views on the technical challenges to be solved in the next Action, which correspond TDs listed in Annex B.  Some discussion was held on these matters.  The basic conclusions were: the new Action will have to deal with many topics in the area of mobile/wireless communications, since this is an area far from being closed; the main topics to be addressed were identified; there will be a need for an increasing exchange of information among the WGs, since interdisciplinarity is increasing as well.

9. Presentation and Discussion of Documents

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

10. Any Other Business

Prof. Luis Correia thanked all delegates that have contributed to and participated in the Final COST 259 Workshop, which took place immediately before this MCM, thus contributing for its success, not only in terms of programme (Annex E) but also in terms of attendance, with a total of participants of 74 (Annex F).
The Action Points from this meeting were as follows: 

No.	Action	Who	Deadline	
1	Send information on www address to the Webmaster	Those who still have not done it.	ASAP	
2	Send files with abstracts of TDs to the Webmaster	Those who still have not done it.	ASAP	
8	Check information contained on the www site, and send corrections to the Webmaster	All	ASAP	
14	Send list of joint collaboration results within the project to the Chairman	All	2000/May/12	
22	Send equivalences between TDs and papers in the open literature to Chapter Editors	All	2000/May/12	
23	Send acronym of the institution to Chairman	All	2000/May/12	
25	Submit papers to the 5th OFDM Workshop	All	2000/Jun/04	
26	Send comments/corrections to the Final Report to Chapter Editors	All	2000/May/12	
25	Submit papers to the 4th EPMCC	All	2000/Sep/15	

11. Close of the Meeting

The meeting was attended by a total of 60 people, Annex D.  The Chairman thanked the Local Organiser for hosting the meeting, and all delegates for their participation.  Besides that, the Chairman thanked the Vice-Chairman, the WGs Chairmen, the SWGs Chairmen as well as all participants for their effort and collaboration during the project, which contributed in a decisive way to its success.  After this, the meeting and the Action were formally closed.

Annex A

Agenda

1.	Opening formalities

2.	Adoption of the Agenda

3.	Approval of the Minutes of the 10th Meeting in Valencia

4.	Status of the Action

5.	Action Final Report

6.	Budget and reimbursements

7.	Status of proposal of the follow up Action

8.	Technical challenges for the follow up Action

9.	Presentation and discussion of documents

10.	Any other business

11.	Close of Meeting

Annex B

List of Documents

TD(00)	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation(s)	Country(ies)	WG	
036	WG1 10th meeting report	Stephen Barton	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	Pl.	
037	WG2 10th meeting report	Ernst Bonek	TU Wien	Austria	Pl.	
038	WG3 10th meeting report	Thomas Kürner	E-Plus Mobilfunk	Germany	Pl.	
039	SWG2.1 Minutes of Valencia meeting	Martin Steinbauer	TU Wien	Austria	Pl.	
040	SWG3.1 Minutes of Valencia meeting	Andreas Eisenblätter	ZIB	Germany	Pl.	
041	Efficient OFDM Transmission without Cyclic Prefix over Frequency-Selective Channels	Martin Toeltsch and Andreas Molisch	TU Wien	Austria	1	
042	Results of Double-Directional Channel Sounding Measurements	Thomas Zwick, Dirk Hampicke, Jürgen Maurer, Andreas Richter, Gerd Sommerkorn, Reiner Thomä, and Werner Wiesbeck	Universität Karlsruhe, Technische Universität Ilmenau	Germany	2	
043	Obtaining lower bounds on co-channel interference in GSM-Networks by Semidefinite Programming	A. Eisenblätter	ZIB	Germany	1, 3	
044	Benchmarking for Frequency Allocation	A. Eisenblätter and Th. Kürner	ZIB, E-Plus Mobilfunk	Germany	3	
045	A statistical Model for Connectivity Between Mobiles and Base Stations	John Orriss and Stephen Barton	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	1, 3	
046	Effect of Base Station Location on the Transmission Power Levels of an Indoor TDD System	Andreas Gehring and Thomas Neubauer	TU Wien	Austria	3	
047	On the distribution of relevant radio channel figures in different propagation environments for performance evaluation of WCDMA systems	Andreas Alayon Glazunov and Jan-Erik Berg	Ericsson Radio Systems AB	Sweden	1, 2	
048	The Non-Alignment Properties of BPSK Sequences with Good Peak Factor	Matthew G. Parker	University of Bergen	Norway	1	
049	Performance of Directed Retry in Cellular Environments: Extension to the Non-Uniform Case	A. Zanella, J. Orriss, S.K. Barton, R. Verdone	University of Bologna, University of Manchester	Italy, United Kingdom	1, 3	

TD(00)	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation(s)	Country(ies)	WG	
050	Towards an Efficient Hardware Implementation of Recurrent Neural Network Based Multiuser Detection	W.G. Teich, W. Schlecker, A. Engelhart, R. Gessler, and H.-J. Pfleiderer	University of Ulm	Germany	1	
051	Sophisticated Neural Networks for the Planning of Urban Radio Networks	Thomas Binzer,G. Wölfle, R. Hoppe and F.M. Landstorfer	University of  Stuttgart	Germany	2	
052	A Vision for Possible WG 3 tasks within a Follow-on Project of COST 259	Thomas Kürner	E-Plus Mobilfunk	Germany	Pl.	
053	CDMA Network planning: Simplified procedures	J. Jiménez, C. Canales, E. Alonso and I. Berberana	Telefonica I+D, Telefónica Servicio Móviles	Spain	3	
054	Frequency Planning Using Simulated Annealing	Luis Jordán de Urries, M. A. Diaz Guerra and Ignacio Berberana	Telefonica I+D	Spain	3	
055	Simulation of the Physical Layer of UTRA-FDD and modelling by means of Hidden Markov Models 	J. J. Olmos and S. Ruiz	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya	Spain	1	
056	Array Measurements of the Double-Directional Mobile Radio Channel 	Martin Steinbauer, Dirk Hampicke, Gerd Sommerkorn, Axel Schneider, Andreas F. Molisch, Reiner Thomä and Ernst Bonek	TU Wien, TU Ilmenau, FT Wien	Austria, Germany	2	
057	3D Radio Environment Measurements at 900 MHz and 2000 MHz.	Mikael Bergholz Knudsen	Bosch Telecom Denmark A/S	Denmark	2	
058	Future Developments of Radio Systems	Alister Burr	University of York	United Kingdom	Pl.	
059	What Next in Antennas and Propagation	Ernst Bonek	TU Wien	Austria	Pl.	

Annex C

Sessions Schedule

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

Annex D

Attendance List

Country	Name	Affiliation	
Austria	Ernst Bonek	INTHF TU-Wien 	
	Hermann Bühler 	Ingenieurbüro Hermann Bühler	
	Andreas Gehring 	INTHF TU Vienna 	
	Klaus Hugl	INTHF TU-Wien 	
	Martin Steinbauer 	INTHF TU-Wien 	
	Martin Toeltsch	INTHF TU-Wien 	
Belgium	Emmanuel Van Lil	K.U. Leuven	
Canada	Tricia Willink 	Communications Research Centre	
Denmark	Morten Christensen	Bosch Telecom Denmark	
	Mikael Bergholz Knudsen 	Bosch Telecom Denmark	
	Pertti Vainikainen 	Center For PersonKommunikation 	
	Gert Frølund Pedersen 	Aalborg University	
Finland	Seppo Karhu 	University of Oulu 	
France	José Baro	Alcatel 	
	Pierre Degauque	University of Lille	
	Martine Lienard	University of Lille	
Germany	Christian Bornkessel	IMST	
	Andreas Eisenblätter 	ZIB	
	Gerd Friedrich	Forschungsgemeinschaft Funk	
	Henning Früchting	University of Kassel	
	Ralf Kattenbach	University of Kassel	
	Thomas Kürner 	E-Plus Mobilfunk	
	Nadja Lohse	TU Dresden	
	Jürgen Maurer	University of Karlsruhe	
	Jörg Pamp	IMST	
	Andreas  Schmidbauer 	Technische Universitaet München	
	Matthias Schneider	IMST	
	Thomas Zwick	University of Karlsruhe	
	Thomas Binzer	Univerity of Stuttgart 	
	Werner Teich 	University of Ulm 	
	Martin Weckerle 	University of Kaiserslautern 	
Hungary	Kalman Fazekas	Budapest University of Technology 	
Ireland	Cyril Burkley	University of Limerick	
	Saul Torrico	Comsearch	
Italy	Eleni Brisku	CSELT	
	Maurizio Magarini 	Politecnico Milano 	
	Daniele Tortora 	Siemens ICN 	
	Carlo Mannino	Universita' Di Roma	
	Roberto Verdone	University of Bologna	
The Netherlands	Wim Kotterman	KPN	
Norway	Ragnar Eckhoff	Telenor	
	Arild Jacobsen	Telenor R&D	
	Per H. Lehne	Telenor	
	Ellen Røhne	Post- and Telecommunication Authority	
Portugal	Luis M. Correia	Instituto Superior Tecnico	
	Pedro Lourenço	Telecel	
	Antonio Rodrigues	Instituto Superior Tecnico	
Slovenia	Tomaz Javornik	Institut Jozef Stefan	
Spain	Jose Jimenez 	Telefonica 	
	Silvia Ruiz-Boque 	Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya 	
Sweden	Andres Alayon Glazunov 	Ericsson Research 	
	Yngve Hamnerius	Chalmers Univ. of Technology	
	Kristina Gold	Ericsson Mobile Communication	
	Bo G. H. Olsson	Telia Research	
Switzerland 	Jean-Frédéric  Wagen 	EIA-FR	
United Kingdom	Kevin Boyle	Philips Research	
	Terry Kenny	Multiple Access Communication	
	John Orriss	Manchester University	
	Alister Burr	University of York	
	Stephen K. Barton	Manchester University	

Annex E

Workshop Programme

COST 259 Final Workshop: 
"The Mobile Terminal and Human Body Interaction"

Wednesday 26th April 2000

09:00 - 09:15	Welcome and opening of the Workshop
Local organizer, COST 259 Chairman	
Session I: Test Methods for Mobile Terminals 
Chair: Gert F. Pedersen, CPK, Aalborg University, Denmark	
09:15 - 10:15	Mobile Communication and Dosimetry - Invited paper
Dr. Georg Neubauer, Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf	
1015 - 10:50	State of the Art Investigation Methods for Characterizing Mobile Phones with Regard to User Interaction
Christian Bornkessel, Matthias Schneider, Achim Bahr	
10:50 - 11:20	Coffee Break	
11:20 - 11:55	Telia Scattered Field Measurements of Mobile Terminal Antennas
Bo Olsson	
11:55 - 12:30	Comparison of Three Methods for Measuring Total Radiated Power of Handheld Phones.
Joonas Krogerus, Kalle Kiesi, Veli Santomaa 	
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch	
Session II: Antenna design and performance 
Chair: Matthias Schneider, IMST, Germany	
14:00 - 14:35	Antenna Measurements of Wireless Communications Devices Including Human Body Interaction Effects
Per O. Iversen 	
14:35 - 15:10	Slot Antennas for Cellular Phone
Franco Moglie, Massimiliano Gambini, Allesandro Neri	
15:10 - 15:30	Coffee Break	
15:30 - 16:05	Performance Analysis of Small Antennas Mounted on Mobile Handset
Pertti Vainikainen, J. Ollikainen, O. Kivekäs, I. Kelander	
16:05 - 16:40	Investigation of Mobile Phone Antennas with Regard to Power Efficiency and Radiation Safety
Harald Haider, H. Garn, Georg Neubauer, G. Schmid 	
16:40 - 17:00	Discussion	

Thursday 27th April 2000
Session III: Radiation exposure and limitation techniques
Chair: Ernst Bonek, TU Wien, Austria	
09:00 - 10:00	Health Effects of Mobile Phones: Recent Scientific and Policy Developments - Invited Paper
Prof. Kenneth R. Foster, University of Pennsylvania, USA	
10:00 - 10:35	Absorption and Bodyloss of Handheld Phones
Gert Frølund Pedersen	
10:35 - 10:55	Coffee Break	
10:55 - 11:30	Measurement System to Determine SAR and Radiation Pattern of Mobile Telephones Considering the Human Head
Michael Klar, Michael Mahler, Hans-Oliver Ruoß, Wolfgang Spreitzer, Georg Fässler	
11:30 - 12:05	Comparison of the Numerical and Experimental Evaluation of the SAR Employing a Spherical Benchmark Configuration
Nobby Stevens, Luc Martens, Katja Pokovic, Niels Kuster	
12:05 - 12:30	Discussion	
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch	

Annex F

Workshop Attendance List

Country	Name	Affiliation	
Austria	Ernst Bonek	INTHF TU-Wien 	
	Hermann Bühler 	Ingenieurbüro Hermann Bühler	
	Klaus Hugl	INTHF TU-Wien 	
	Georg Neubauer 	Research Center Seibersdorf	
	Martin Steinbauer 	INTHF TU-Wien 	
	Martin Toeltsch	INTHF TU-Wien 	
Belgium	Luc Martens	Universiteit Gent – Ghent University	
	Emmanuel Van Lil	K.U. Leuven	
Canada	Tricia Willink 	Communications Research Centre	
Croatia	Dina Simunic	University of Zagreb	
Denmark	Morten Christensen	Bosch Telecom Denmark	
	Mikael B. Knudsen 	Bosch Telecom Denmark	
	Pertti Vainikainen 	Center For PersonKommunikation 	
	Gert F. Pedersen 	Aalborg University	
Finland	Seppo Karhu 	University of Oulu 	
	Kalle Kiesi	Nokia Reserch Center	
	Joonas Krogerus	Nokia Reserch Center	
	Maarit Melvasalo	VTT Information Technology	
	Mika Piisilä	Filtronic LK	
	Jari Talkara 	Nokia Mobile Phones	
France	José Baro	Alcatel 	
	Thierry Bousquet 	Alcatel CIT 	
	Pierre Degauque	University of Lille	
	Martine Lienard	University of Lille	
Germany	Christian Bornkessel	IMST	
	Andreas Czylwik	T-Nova	
	Andreas Eisenblätter 	ZIB	
	Gerd Friedrich	Forschungsgemeinschaft Funk	
	Henning Früchting	University of Kassel	
	Ralf Kattenbach	University of Kassel	
	Michael Klar	Robert Bosch	
	Thomas Kürner 	E-Plus Mobilfunk	
	Jürgen Maurer	University of Karlsruhe	
	Jörg Pamp	IMST	
	Andreas Schmidbauer 	Technische Universitaet München	
	Matthias Schneider	IMST	
	Thomas Zwick	University of Karlsruhe	
	Jan Steuer	University of Hannover	
	Werner Teich 	University of Ulm 	
	Martin Weckerle 	University of Kaiserslautern 	
Hungary	Kalman Fazekas	Budapest University of Technology 	
Ireland	Cyril Burkley	University of Limerick	
	Saul Torrico 	Comsearch 	
Italy	Eleni Brisku	CSELT	
	Maurizio Magarini 	Politecnico Milano 	
	Carlo Mannino	Universita' Di Roma 	
	Franco Moglie	University of Ancona	
	Rosanna Pinto	ENEA	
	Daniele Tortora 	Siemens ICN 	
	Roberto Verdone	University of Bologna	
The Netherlands	Wim Kotterman	KPN	
Norway	Ragnar Eckhoff	Telenor	
	Arild Jacobsen	Telenor R&D	
	Per H. Lehne	Telenor	
	Matthew Parker	University of Bergen	
	Ellen Røhne	Post- and Telecommunication Authority	
Portugal	Luis M. Correia	Instituto Superior Tecnico	
	Pedro Lourenço	Telecel, SA	
	Antonio Rodrigues	Instituto Superior Tecnico	
Slovenia	Tomaz Javornik 	Institut Jozef Stefan 	
Spain	Jose Jimenez 	Telefonica 	
	Silvia Ruiz-Boque 	Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya 	
Sweden	Gert Anger	Swedish Radiation Protection Institute	
	Thomas Bolin	Ericsson Mobile Communication	
	Igor Egorov	Ericsson Mobile Communication	
	Bo G. H. Olsson	Telia Research	
	Kristina Gold	Ericsson Mobile Communication	
Switzerland	Kenneth R Foster	World Health Organization	
	Jean-Frédéric Wagen 	EIA-FR	
USA	Gianni Barone	SATIMO LLC	
United Kingdom	Kevin Boyle 	Philips Research 	
	Alister Burr 	University of York 	
	Terry Kenny	Multiple Access Communication	
	John Orriss 	University of Manchester