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Minutes of the 8th Meeting of the Management Committee,
held in Vienna (A) on 22-23 April 1999

COST 259 
Minutes of the 8th Meeting of the Management Committee,
held at Mobilkom, Vienna (A), on 22-23 Apr. 1999,
organised by the Technical University of Vienna

1. Opening Formalities

The meeting was formally opened by the Chairman, Prof. Luis M. Correia, after which Prof. Ernst Bonek, the Local Organiser, addressed the plenary for a welcome message, and details on the way the meeting was organised.

2. Adoption of the Agenda

The Chairman asked for the introduction of an additional point in the Agenda, due to the fact that he had forgotten that elections should be held for the 3rd year term, according to the rules for Actions within COST.  This was accepted by unanimity, and it was introduced as a point after Future Meetings and Workshop.  The final version of the Agenda is shown in Annex A.

3. Approval of the Minutes of the 7th 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 since the last meting, but that the numbers of participating institutions and delegates have increased (80 and more than 200, respectively).

5. Action Extension / Final Report

The Chairman informed that the CSO is not favouring extensions longer than 1 year (for budget reasons), thus it would not be wise to apply for a long extension of the Action.  After some discussion, it was agreed to apply for an extension of 4 months, up to Apr. 2000, on the following grounds: although the official starting date is 10th Dec. 1996, the kick-off meeting was really on 3rd Apr. 1997, due to the illness of Mr. Damosso (the former Action Chairman); this has delayed the work for 4 months, since the first working meeting took place only by the beginning of May 1997, thus applying for a 4 months extension is just to keep the Action within its 3 year timetable as it was initially foreseen.  The Chairman will write a request to the TCT applying for the extension, so that it can be included in the Agenda of its next meeting, to be held in Visegrad (Budapest, Hungary) by the beginning of June.  This way, it is expected that by the next meeting of the Action a decision on the extension will be already known.  All delegates should send suggestions supporting the Action extension to the Chairman, until the end of the month (Action Point 10).
The writing of the Final Report was also discussed since, even if the extension of 4 months is granted, there is not too much time to produce it.  It was decided that it should be structured as a book, i.e., with topics grouped by Chapters and Sections, rather than just a collection of individual or institutional contributions.  As a first proposal of contents, it was decided that each Chapter should correspond to the area of each Working Group (WG), with the possible exception of WG 2, which may originate two (one dealing with antennas and the other with propagation); a final decision has to be taken by the WGs.  The contents and editors of the various Chapters and Sections are to be discussed at the WGs’ level, and the following deadlines were approved, assuming that the extension is granted:
•	Apr. 1999:	__ establish the first draft of contents
			__ appoint Chapters / Sections editors
•	Sep. 1999:	__ establish the detailed contents of each Chapter / Section
		__ identify contributors to the various Sections
•	Jan. 2000:	__ first draft of the report is distributed
		__ last contributions are made available
•	Apr. 2000: 	__ final version of the report is distributed
Everyone should commit to this schedule, and prepare their contributions to the Final Report to be given to the Chapter / Section editors by Dec. 1999 (Action Point 11)
The issue of a new proposal for a follow-up of the present Action was also brought up, since it usually takes some months to prepare it, to get it approved by the TCT and the CSO, and to have its MoU signed.  It was decided that all those interested in joining the new Action should send their areas of work, as well as proposals for a name, to the Chairman until the end of May (Action Point 12).  A first draft of the proposal for a new Action will be discussed at the next meeting, so that the final version is available after that.

6. COST 231 Book

The Chairman reported that he had been informed by the COST Telecom Secretariat that the printing of the book is almost finished, and that the copies should be available in a few days.  It was agreed with COST Telecom Secretariat that the distribution will be done by the Action Secretariat at IST, not only to COST 231 and 259 participants but to TCT members and Chairmen of other COST Actions as well, besides others interested in having a copy of the book.
Dr. David Bacon (Radiocommunications Agency, UK) asked if the book was under any copyright, thus preventing from copying it.  Since no one knew the answer, the Chairman will inquire about it.  Nevertheless, all wishing to receive additional copies of the book should send their request to the Action Secretariat.

7. Budget and reimbursements

The Chairman informed that a total of 16 applications for Short-Term Missions have been received, from which 12 were already formally approved, and 4 are still under evaluation.  There is still budget for a few more missions, but the applications have to be received until the end of May, so that they can still be processed until the end of June, which were the conditions for the additional funding for Short-Term Missions within the Action (Action Point 7).
The Chairman also informed that the reimbursements concerning the Thessaloniki meeting were already processed.  They have practically spent the 24 kEuro, corresponding to 80 % of the advanced payment of 30 kEuro concerning the budget for 1999, which means that any additional reimbursements will have to wait for the rest of the funding.
The Chairman reported that the remaining 23 kEuro from the 1998 budget plus the additional 11.5 kEuro were not received yet, which means that the reimbursement for the Short-Term Missions will have to wait until the funds are received from Brussels.  All the documents concerning the expenses of 1998 have already been sent to the COST Telecom Secretariat, being expected that money will be received soon. 
As far as the budget for 1999 is concerned, the Chairman informed that a provisional amount of 114 kEuro has been granted (which includes the advanced 30 kEuro).  Since this value is similar to the one of 1998, it is expected that it will make possible to comply with the most important items of the budget; this means that there is a possible budget for Short-Term Missions, but this will have to be analysed.

8. Presentation and Discussion of Documents

A total of 43 Temporary Documents, which are listed in Annex B, were distributed, being discussed at the Plenary and at the three WGs, Annex C.

9. Liaisons with other International Bodies

This point was postponed due to the lack of time.

10. Future Meetings and Workshop

The next meetings will be held according to the following: 
•	9th MCM, hosted by KPN, in Leidschendam, The Netherlands, from Thursday - 1999/Sep/23 - 9:00 to Friday - 1999/Sep/24 - 17:00.
•	10th MCM, hosted by Univ. Valencia, in Valencia, Spain, from Wednesday - 2000/Jan/19 - 9:00 to Friday - 2000/Jan/21 - 12:00.
•	11th MCM and Final Workshop, in a location still to be defined, 2000/Apr. on the week starting 24th.
A decision on the local and date of the 11th MCM and on the organisation of the Final Workshop will be taken at the next meeting.
The Chairman reminded that the decision on the acceptance of papers submitted to VTC’99-Fall will take place in the weekend immediately after this meeting.

11. Election of the Chairmen for the 3rd Year Term

All Chairmen as well as the Vice-Chairman were re-elected by unanimity:
•	Chairman: Prof. Luis M. Correia (IST - Tech. Univ. of Lisbon, P)
•	Vice-Chairman: Dr. Jean-Frédéric Wagen (Swisscom, CH)
•	WG 1 Chairman: Prof. Stephen K. Barton (Univ. of Leeds, UK)
•	WG 2 Chairman: Prof. Ernst Bonek (Tech. Univ. of Vienna, A)
•	WG 3 Chairman: Dr. Thomas Kürner (E-Plus, D)

12. Any Other Business

Prof. Luis Correia thanked all delegates that have contributed to and participated in the 2nd COST 259 Workshop, Joint COST 259/260 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 125 (Annex F).
The Chairman reminded also that there is a Call for Papers for the AP2000 Conference, to be held in Davos, Switzerland, by 9-14 Apr. 2000, with the deadline on 1st July 1999 (Action Point 13).
The Action Points from this meeting are as follows: 

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	
7	Send proposals for short missions to Chairman	All	99/May/31	
8	Check information contained on the www site, and send corrections to Webmaster	All	ASAP	
10	Send suggestions supporting the Action extension to the Chairman	All	99/Apr/30	
11	Send contributions to the Final Report to Chapter / Section editors	All	99/Dec/31	
12	Send areas of work, as well as proposals for a name, for the follow-up Action to the Chairman	All	99/May/31	
13	Submit papers to the AP2000 Conference	All	1999/Jul/01	

13. Close of the Meeting

The meeting was attended by a total of 118 peoples, 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

1.	Opening formalities

2.	Adoption of the Agenda

3.	Approval of the minutes of the 7th Meeting in Thessaloniki

4.	Status of the Action

5.	Action extension / final report

6.	COST 231 book

7.	Budget and reimbursements

8.	Presentation and discussion of documents

9.	Liaisons with other international bodies

10.	Future meetings and workshop

11.	Election of chairmen for the 3rd year term

12.	Any other business

13.	Close of Meeting

Annex B

List of Documents

TD(99)	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation(s)	Country(ies)	WG	
027	Workgroup 1 - 7th Meeting Report 	S. Barton	Leeds University	United Kingdom	Pl.	
028	Workgroup 2 - 7th Meeting Report	E. Bonek	Technical University of Vienna 	Austria	Pl.	
029	Workgroup 3 - 7th Meeting Report	T. Kürner 	E-Plus Mobilfunk	Germany	Pl.	
030	A 3-D Extrapolation Model for Base Station Antennas’ Radiation Patterns	F. Gil, A.R. Claro, J.M. Ferreira, C. Pardelinha and L.M. Correia 	IST - Technical University of Lisbon	Portugal	2	
031	Obtaining accurate predictions with an untuned semi-deterministic model used with an advanced statistical database	M. Basile 	Ericsson Telecomunicazioni	Italy	3	
032	Frequency Planning with respect to Interference Minimisation in Cellular Radio Networks	D. Beckmann and U. Killat	Technical University of Harburg-Hamburg	Germany	3	
033	Simulation and Measurement of the Interference Rejection Capability of Handset Antenna Diversity	C. Braun	Allgon Mobile Communications	Sweden	Pl.	
034	Combined performance for joint detection and turbo-codes in CDMA	A.G. Burr and G.P. White	University of York	United Kingdom	1	
035	Assessment of a Propagation Model for Crossroads in Micro-cells	A.R. Claro, J.M. Ferreira and L.M. Correia	IST - Technical University of Lisbon	Portugal	2, 3	
036	Cellular Planning in Urban Regular Structures for Millimetre Waveband Mobile Broadband Systems	C. Bedini and L.M. Correia 	IST - Technical University of Lisbon	Portugal	2, 3	
037	Spatial and Temporal Traffic Distribution Models for GSM	S. Almeida, J. Queijo and L.M. Correia	IST - Technical University of Lisbon	Portugal	3	
038	An Experimental Investigation of the Bistatic Specular Scattering From Rough Dielectric Surfaces in the 60 GHz Band	E. Glangetas, B. Foulonneau and J.-C. Bic	France Telecom - CNET	France	2	
039	Measurement-based characterisation of time-variant directional radio channels	D. Hampicke, A. Richter, A. Scheider, G. Sommerkorn and R. Thomä	Illmenau University of Technology	Germany	2	
040	Adaptive Antennas for the TDD mode of UTRA	C. Anton-Haro, X. Mestre and J.R. Fonollosa	Polytechnic University of Catalonia	Spain	Pl.	

TD(99)	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation(s)	Country(ies)	WG	
041	Validation and Adaptation of Models of Urban Propagation to Land and Irregular Construction	F. Isasi 	Universidad de Vigo	Spain 	2, 3	
042	Multi-amplitude MSK signal performance in nonlinear channels	T. Javornik and G. Kandus 	Jozef Stefan Institute	Slovenia	1	
043	Mobile location using coverage information: Theoretical analysis and results	J. Jimenez, E. Alonso, H. Gonzalez, M. Romero and I. Berberana 	Telefonica	Spain	3	
044	Performance of Parallel Interference Cancellation in UTRA FDD Uplink	K. Kansanen	University of Oulo	Finland	1	
045	Statistical Distribution of Incident Waves to Mobile Antenna in Microcellular Environment at 2.15 GHz	K. Kalliola and H. Laitinen	Helsinki University of Technology / Nokia / VTT 	Finland	2	
046	A Run-time Optimised Adaptive Antenna Array Processor for GSM	A. Kuchar, M. Taferner, E. Bonek, M. Tangemann and C. Hoek	Technical University of Vienna / Alcatel Telecom Corporate Research Center	Austria / Germany	1, 2	
047	A Run-time Efficient 3D Propagation Model for Urban Areas Including Vegetation and Terrain Effects	T. Kürner 	E-Plus Mobilfunk	Germany	2, 3	
048	Reducing Out-of-band Emissions Due to Nonlinearities in OFDM Systems	M. Lampe and H. Rohling 	Technical University of Harburg-Hamburg	Germany	1	
049	Channel Modelling for the Propagation in Tunnel	M. Lienard and P. Degauque	University de Lille	France	Pl.	
050	Nonlinear Modelling and Simulation of Active Array Antennas	S.L. Loyka 	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland	2	
051	System Level Channel Model for Wireless ATM Performance Evaluation	J. Meierhofer and U.P. Bernhard 	ETHZ	Switzerland	1, 3	
052	Analysis of Scattered Field Handset Antenna Measurements	B. Olsson	Telia Research	Sweden	2	
053	Directional wideband channel measurements in urban and suburban areas	M. Pettersen, P.H. Lehne, J. Noll, O. Rostbakken, E. Antonsen and R. Eckhoff 	Telenor	Norway	2	
054	MAI Mitigation in DA ML Carrier Phase Recovery Loops for DS-CDMA Systems	L. Schumacher and L. Vandendorpe 	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium	1	
055	Evaluation of Handset Antenna Configurations	K. Sulonen and P. Vainikainen 	Helsinki Unversity of Technology	Finland	2	
056	Downlink Beamforming for FDD Mobile Radio Systems based on Spatial Covariances	W. Utschick and J.A. Nossek 	Munich University of Technology	Germany	1, 2	

TD(99)	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation(s)	Country(ies)	WG	
057	A Frequency-Domain Based Broadband Coverage Model	I. De Coster, B. Estevez, E.H. Van Lil and F Perez-Fontan 	K.U. Leuven / University of Vigo	Belgium / Spain	3	
058	Power and Traffic Driven Handover Algorithms in Microcellular Networks with Non-Uniform Traffic Distribution	R. Verdone and A. Zanella 	University of Bologna	Italy	3	
059	A Novel Multi-Antenna TD-CDMA Receiver Concept Incorporating the Estimation and Utilisation of Spatial Interference Covariance Matrices	M. Weckerle and A. Papathanassiou 	University of Kaiserslautern	Germany	1, 2	
060	Antenna Pattern Optimisation For Base Stations In Urban Microcellular Systems	V. Degli Esposti, G. Falciasecca, M. Fullone and G. Riva 	University of Bologna / Fondazione Ugo Bordoni	Italy	2	
061	COST 259 SWG 2.1 Mission Report: "Modelling Unification Workshop"	M. Steinbauer, H. Asplund, I. de Coster, D. Hampicke, R. Heddergott, N. Lohse and A. Molisch	Technical University of Vienna /  / K.U. Leuven /  / ETHZ	Austria / Sweden / Belgium / Germany / Switzerland	2	
062	Comparison between Unitary ESPRIT and SAGE for 3-D Channel Sounding	M. Tschudin, C. Brunner, T. Kurpjuhn, M. Haardt and J. Nossek	ETHZ / TU Muenchen / Siemens	Switzerland / Germany	2	
063	Real-Time Antenna Test Range for the Mobile Telephony Market	P.O. Iversen and P. Gareau 	Satimo	France	Pl.	
064	Indoor Propagation Measurements at 5 GHz Band	J. Kivinen and P. Vainikainen	Helsinki University of Technology	Finland	2	
065	Robust DOA Estimation Using a Polarisation Sensitive Array for Mobile Communications	D. Segovia, R Lorenzo and M. Sierra 	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	Spain	2	
066	On the Diffraction by Two Staggered Half Planes	C. Bergljung 	Telia Research	Sweden	2	
067	Propagation Measurements and Spatial Channels for HIPERLAN 2	P. Karlsson and J. Pamp 	Telia Research / IMST	Sweden / Germany	1, 2	
068	Effects of Downlink Intercell Interference on MC-CDMA System Performance	M. Nunes, J. Santos, A. Rodrigues, J. Punt, H. Nikokaar and R. Prasad 	IST - Technical University of Lisbon / Delft University of Technology	Portugal / The Netherlands	1, 3	
069	Bodyloss for Handheld Phones	G.F. Pedersen, K. Olesen and S.L. Larsen 	Aalborg University	Denmark	2	

Annex C

Sessions Schedule

Thursday	Friday	
		8:30 / 10:30	Plenary, SWG 2.1	
10:30 / 12:30	Plenary	11:00 / 12:30	WGs 1+3, 2	
14:00 / 15:30	WGs 1+2, 3	14:00 / 15:30	WGs 1, 2, 3, SWG 2.2	
16:00 / 17:30	WGs 1, 2+3	16:00 / 17:30	WGs 1, 2, 3, SWG 2.2	

Annex D

Attendance List

Country	Name	Institution	
Austria	Holger Arthaber	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Ernst Bonek	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Hermann Bühler	Ingenieurbüro Dr. Bühler	
	Andreas Gehring	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Martin Hagenauer	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Helmut Hofstetter	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Klaus Hugl	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Herbert Jäger	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Klaus Kopsa	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Alexander Kuchar	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Juha Laurila	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Andreas Molisch	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Thomas Neubauer	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Heinz Novak	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Christian Pommer	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Günther Pospischil	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Martin Steinbauer	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Martin Strasser	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Manfred Taferner	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Martin Toeltsch	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
Belgium	Laurent Schumacher	Université Catholique Louvain	
	Emmanuel Van Lil	K.U.Leuven	
Croatia	Juraj Bartolic	University of Zagreb	
	Davor Bonefacic	University of Zagreb	
Denmark	Jørgen Bach Andersen	CPK/Aalborg University	
	Klaus I. Pedersen	CPK/Aalborg University	
	Troels B. Sorensen	CPK/Aalborg University	
Finland	Ari Alastalo	Nokia Research Center	
	Kimmo Kalliola	Nokia & Helsinki University of Technology	
	Kimmo Kansanen	University of Oulu	
	Heikki Laitinen	VTT Information Technology	
	Kati Sulonen	Helsinki University of Technology	
	Jaakko Talvitie	Elektrobit	
	Pertii Vainikainen	Helsinki University of Technology	
	Graeme Woodward	Centre for Wireless Communications	
France	Jean-Claude Bic	France Telecom/CNET	
	Bertrand Foulonneau	France Telecom	
	Mohamed Karray	France Telecom	
	Sylvie Tiertant	TDF-C2R	
	Raphael Visoz	France Telecom/CNET	

Germany	Frank Althaus	Lehrstuhl für Nachrichtentechnik	
	Dirk Beckmann	Technical Universityof Hamburg	
	Andreas Eisenblätter	ZIB	
	Henning Früchting	University of Kassel	
	Andreas Hayn	Technische Universität Darmstadt	
	Martin Hellebrandt	RWTH-Aachen	
	Reiner Hoppe	University of Stuttgart	
	Ralf Kattenbach	University of Kassel	
	Thomas Kürner	E-Plus	
	Mattias Lampe	Technical Univ. of Hamburg-Harburg	
	Frank Layer	University of Kassel	
	Kurt Majewski	Siemens	
	Jörg Pamp	IMST	
	Matthias Schneider	IMST	
	Wolfgang Utschick	TU München	
	Martin Weckerle	University of Kaiserslautern	
	Thomas Zwick	University of Karlsruhe	
Greece	Athanasios Kanatas	National Tech. University of Athens	
	Takis Mathiopoulos	University of Athens	
Ireland	Cyril Burkley	University of Limerick	
	Peter Cullen	Trinity College Dublin	
	Saul Torrico	Comsearch	
Italy	Oreste Andrisano	University of Bologna	
	Massimo Basile	Ericsson Telecomunicazioni	
	Eleni Brisku	CSELT	
	Vittorio Degli-Esposti	University of Bologna	
	Daniele Disco	CSELT	
	Laura Dossi	Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche	
	Michele Guelfi	Ericsson Telecomunicazioni	
	Maurizio Magarini	Politecnico di Milano	
	Jan Marquardsen	Telital	
	Claudio Mattiello	CSELT	
	Guido Tartara	Politecnico di Milano	
	Daniele Tortora	Italtel	
	Roberto Verdone	CSITE-CNR/University of Bologna	
Netherlands	Marc Van den Homberg	KPN Research	
Norway	Per H. Lehne	Telenor R&D	
	Magne Pettersen	Telenor R&D	
	Olaf Rostbakken	Telenor	
Poland	Marcin Ney	PTK Centertel	
Portugal	Sandra Almeida	Telecel	
	Ana Claro	TMN	
	Luis M Correia	IST – Tech. Univ. of Lisbon	
	José Fernandes	IT – Universidade de Aveiro	
	José Ferreira	IST – Tech. Univ. of Lisbon	

	Francisco Gil	Optimus	
	António Morgado	IT - Universidade de Aveiro	
	Custódio Peixeiro	IST – Tech. Univ. of Lisbon	
	José Queijo	IST – Tech. Univ. of Lisbon	
	António Rodrigues	IST – Tech. Univ. of Lisbon	
Slovenia	Gorazd Kandus	IJS	
Spain	Silvia Ruiz Boque	UPC	
	Jose Jimenez	Telefonica	
	Fernando Perez-Fontan	University of Vigo	
Sweden	Henrik Asplund	Ericsson	
	Claes Beckman	Allgon	
	Christian Bergljung	Telia Research	
	Pär Berglund	Allgon	
	Olle Edvardsson	Allgon	
	Peter Karlsson	Telia Research	
	Per Ödling	LTH	
	Bo Olsson	Telia Research	
	Björn Ottersten	Royal Institute of Technology	
Switzerland	Patrick Barbey	Wavecall Wireless Consulting	
	Juerg Meierhofer	ETH Zurich	
	Karim Rizk	Wavecall Wireless Consulting	
	Martin Tschudin	ETH Zurich	
	Jean-Frederic Wagen	Swisscom	
UK	David F. Bacon	Radiocommunications Agency	
	Stephen K. Barton	Leeds University	
	Kevin Boyle	Philips Research	
	Alister Burr	University of York	
	John Hudson	Nortel Networks	
	Stephen Kendall	Motorola	
	David Lister	Vodafone	
	Robert Piechocki	University of Bristol	
	Paul Sheehan	Aethos	
	George Tsoulos	University of Bristol	

Annex E

Joint COST 259 / 260 Workshop Programme

COST 259/260 Joint Workshop
Sessions - Schedule	
Tuesday, April 20 1999	
 9:00 -  9:05   Welcome: Ernst Bonek	
 9:05 – 10:30   Morning session / 1st half -- Chairman: Ernst Bonek
•	Luis M. Correia (Chaiman of COST 259), "Presentation of the Action COST 259"
•	Robert J. Piechocki and George Tsoulos, "Combined GWSSUS and GBSR Channel Model with Temporal Variations"
•	Alister G. Burr, "Evaluation of Influence of Directional Antennas Using a Spatial Channel Model"	
11:00 - 12:30   Morning session / 2nd half -- Chairman: Luis M. Correia
•	Joseph C. Liberti and B. John Koshy, "Spatial Channel Measurements and Modelling for Smart Antenna Systems" (invited)
•	Frank Layer and Henning Früchting, "Impacts of Movement on the Directional Properties of Indoor Radio Channels Based on a 3D Ray-Tracing Model"	
14:00 - 15:30   Afternoon session / 1st half -- Chairman: Joseph C. Liberti 
•	Preben Mogensen, Klaus I. Pedersen, Frank Frederiksen and Bernard Fleury, "Measurements, Channel Statistics, and Performance of Adaptive Base Station Antennas" (invited)
•	Martin Nilsson, Björn Lindmark, Mikael Ahlberg, Mikael Larsson and Claes Beckman, "Measurements of the Spatio-Tmeporal Polarization Characteristics at the 1800 MHz Band"	
16:00 - 17:30   Afternoon session / 2nd half -- Chairman: Preben Mogensen 
•	Graeme Woodward and Jaakko Talvitie, "Wideband Spatial and Temporal Channel Modelling for ISM Bands" 
•	Per H. Lehne, Olaf Rostbakken and Magne Pettersen, "Estimating Smart Antenna Performance From Directional Radio Channel Measurements" 
•	Jose Fernandes, Jose R. Pereira, Paulo Jesus and Jose Ferreira, "Adaptive Array Antenna with Electronically Steerable Beam"	

COST259/260 Joint Workshop
Session - Schedule	
Wednesday, April 21 1999	
 9:00 - 10:30   Morning session / 1st half – Chairman: Peter Balling  
•	Antoine G. Roederer (Chairman of COST 260),"Presentation of COST Action 260 - Smart Antennas: Computer Aided Design & Technology"
•	Will N. Keizer, "An Overview of RF and Adaptive Algorithm/Digital Beam Forming Hardware and Technology in COST 260" 
•	GuyA.E. Vandenbosch and Juan R. Mosig, "Antenna Modeling Efforts within the Antenna COST Actions 245 and 260"	
11:00 - 12:30   Morning session / 2nd half -- Chairman: Will N. Keizer
•	Hans Steyskal, "Aspects of Digital Beamforming and Adpative Antennas" (invited)
•	Klaus Hugl, "Frequency Transformation Based Downlink Beamforming"	
14:00 - 15:30   Afternoon session / 1st half -- Chairman: Hans Steyskal
•	Björn Ottersten, "Antenna Arrays for Wireless Communications - Models and Algorithms from a Systems Perspective" (invited)
•	Klaus Kopsa, Juha Laurila, Robert Schürhuber and Ernst Bonek, "Semi-Blind Adaptive Antenna Detector with Subspace Tracing"	
16:00 - 17:30   Afternoon session / 2nd half -- Chairman: Björn Ottersten
•	Francois Delaveau, Francois Pipon, Olivier Lambron and Cedric Demeure, "Smart Antennas for GSM Interference Resolution and Network Coverage Validation" 
•	Lester K. Chan, Andrew S. Wright and P. Takis Mathiopoulos, "Capacity Improvement Using Beamforming Antennas in IS-95 Cellular CDMA Systems"
•	Plenary discussion and wrap-up 	

Annex F

Joint COST 259 / 260 Workshop Attendance List

Country	Name	Institution	
Austria	Holger Arthaber	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Ernst Bonek	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Hermann Bühler	Ingenieurbüro Dr. Bühler	
	Leopold Faltin	Siemens	
	Andreas Gehring	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Martin Hagenauer	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Helmut Hofstetter	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Klaus Hugl	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Herbert Jäger	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Klaus Kopsa	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Erwin Kubista	Joanneum Research	
	Alexander Kuchar	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Juha Laurila	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Andreas Molisch	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Thomas Neubauer	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Heinz Novak	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Christian Pommer	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Günther Pospischil	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Martin Steinbauer	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Martin Strasser	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Manfred Taferner	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Martin Toeltsch	INTHF/TU-WIEN	
	Hans Christian Wagner	Innovationsagentur	
Belgium	Laurent Schumacher	Universite Catholique Louvain	
	Guy Vandenbosch	K.U.Leuven	
	Emmanuel Van Lil	K.U.Leuven	
Croatia	Juraj Bartolic	University of Zagreb	
	Davor Bonefacic	University of Zagreb	
	Zvonimir Sipus	University of Zagreb	
Czech Republic	Pavel Loskot	Czech Techn. Univ. of Prague	
	Jan Sykora	Czech Techn. Univ. of Prague	
Denmark	Jørgen Bach Andersen	CPK/Aalborg University	
	Peter Balling	ASC	
	Preben Mogensen	CPK/Aalborg University	
	Klaus I. Pedersen	CPK/Aalborg University	
	Troels B. Sorensen	CPK/Aalborg University	
Finland	Ari Alastalo	Nokia Research Center	
	Kimmo Kalliola	Nokia & Helsinki University of Technology	
	Kimmo Kansanen	University of Oulu	
	Heikki Laitinen	VTT Information Technology	

	Kati Sulonen	Helsinki University of Technology	
	Jaakko Talvitie	Elektrobit	
	Pertii Vainikainen	Helsinki University of Technology	
	Graeme Woodward	Centre for Wireless Communications	
France	Jean-Claude Bic	France Telecom/CNET	
	Pierre Degauque	University of Lille	
	Cedric Demeure	Thomson-CSF Comm.	
	Bertrand Foulonneau	France Telecom	
	Martine Lienard	University of Lille	
	Raphael Visoz	France Telecom/CNET	
Germany	Frank Althaus	Lehrstuhl für Nachrichtentechnik	
	Henning Früchting	University of Kassel	
	Christina Gessner	Siemens	
	Dirk Hampicke	TU Ilmenau	
	Andreas Hayn	Technische Universität Darmstadt	
	Cornelis Hoek	Alcatel	
	Ralf Kattenbach	University of Kassel	
	Thomas Kürner	E-Plus	
	Frank Layer	University of Kassel	
	Jörg Pamp	IMST	
	Reiner Thomä	TU Ilmenau	
	Wolfgang Utschick	TU München	
	Walter Wirnitzer	MEDAV	
	Armin Wittneben	Universität des Saarlandes	
	Thomas Zwick	University of Karlsruhe	
Greece	Athanasios Kanatas	National Tech. University of Athens	
	Takis Mathiopoulos	University of Athens	
Ireland	Cyril Burkley	University of Limerick	
	Peter Cullen	Trinity College Dublin	
	Saul Torrico	Comsearch	
Italy	Oreste Andrisano	University of Bologna	
	Chiara Bedini	University of Pisa	
	Eleni Brisku	CSELT	
	Vittorio Degli-Esposti	University of Bologna	
	Daniele Disco	CSELT	
	Laura Dossi	Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche	
	Michele Guelfi	Ericsson Telecomunicazioni	
	Maurizio Magarini	Politecnico di Milano	
	Claudio Mattiello	CSELT	
	Roberto Verdone	CSITE-CNR, University of Bologna	
Netherlands	Will Keizer	TNO-FEL	
	Antoine Roederer	European Space Agency	
	Marc Van den Homberg	KPN Research	
Norway	Per Steinar Hansen	Telenor R&D	
	Kjell J. Hole	University of Bergen	

	Bengt Holter	Sintef Telecom and Informatics	
	Per H. Lehne	Telenor R&D	
	Geir E. Øien	Norw.Univ. of Science & Techn. (NTNU)	
	Magne Pettersen	Telenor R&D	
	Olaf Rostbakken	Telenor	
Poland	Pawel Kabacik	Wroclaw University of Technology	
Portugal	Sandra Almeida	Telecel	
	Ana Claro	TMN	
	Luis M Correia	IST – Tech. Univ. of Lisbon	
	José Fernandes	IT – Universidade de Aveiro	
	José Ferreira	IST – Tech. Univ. of Lisbon	
	Francisco Gil	Optimus	
	António Morgado	IT - Universidade de Aveiro	
	Custódio Peixeiro	IST – Tech. Univ. of Lisbon	
	José Queijo	IST – Tech. Univ. of Lisbon	
	António Rodrigues	IST – Tech. Univ. of Lisbon	
Slovenia	Gorazd Kandus	IJS	
Spain	Carles Anton-Haro	Polytechnic University of Catalonia	
	Fernando Perez-Fontan	University of Vigo	
	Manuel Sierra Perez	University of Madrid	
Sweden	Henrik Asplund	Ericsson	
	Claes Beckman	Allgon System	
	Christian Bergljung	Telia Research	
	Christian Braun	Allgon Mobile Communications	
	Peter Karlsson	Telia Research	
	Per-Simon Kildal	Chalmers University of Technology	
	Björn Lindmark	Allgon System	
	Magnus Lundmark	Chalmers University of Technology	
	Martin Nilsson	Allgon System	
	Per Ödling	LTH	
	Bo Olsson	Telia Research	
	Björn Ottersten	Royal Institute of Technology	
Switzerland	Patrick Barbey	Wavecall Wireless Consulting	
	Yan Brand	CSEM	
	George Guekos	ETH Zurich	
	Sergey Loyka	EPFL	
	Juan Mosig	EPFL	
	Karim Rizk	Wavecall Wireless Consulting	
	Martin Tschudin	ETH Zurich	
	Jean-Frederic Wagen	Swisscom	
UK	Stephen K. Barton	Leeds University	
	Kevin Boyle	Philips Research	
	Alister Burr	University of York	
	John Hudson	Nortel Networks	
	David Lister	Vodafone	

	Robert Piechocki	University of Bristol	
	Simon Saunders	University of Surrey	
	George Tsoulos	University of Bristol	
USA	Joseph C. Liberti	Telcordia Technologies	
	Hans Steyskal	Hanscom AFB