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T2 - UMTS/IMT2000

Speakers	Prof. Hamid Aghvami - Centre for Telecommunications Research – King’s College London
Duration	Full Day	Start Time	9h00
Abstract	The course will start by an introduction and background to UMTS/IMT2000. It will be followed by a description of the overall network architecture. The technical aspects of UMTS network access (both W-CDMA and TD/CDMA) and core network will be given. For WCDMA, the following techniques will be covered: - RF, physical, transport and logical channels - Frame and time-slot structures - Spreading, modulation, channel coding and multiplexing - Power control - Initial cell search - Packet transmission - Slotted downlink transmission - Handover strategies - MAC, RLC and RRC The following techniques will be described for TD/CDMA. - RF, physical, transport and logical channels - Frame and burst structures - Spreading, modulation, channel coding and multiplexing - Power control - Handover strategies Then, the planning and optimisation issues for WCDMA networks will be discussed. Finally, the latest activities within 3GPP and ITU will be addressed.

Short Biography of the Speaker(s):

Hamid Aghvami joined the academic staff at King’s in 1984. In 1989 he was promoted to Reader and Professor in Telecommunications Engineering in 1992. He is presently the Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King’s. Professor Aghvami carries out consulting work on Digital Radio Communications Systems for both British and International companies. He has published over 300 technical papers and given invited talks all over the world on various aspects of Personal and Mobile Radio Communications as well as giving courses on the subject world wide. He was Visiting Professor at NTT Radio Communication Systems Laboratories in 1990 and Senior Research Fellow at BT Laboratories in 1998-1999. He is currently Executive Advisor to Wireless Facilities Inc., USA, Managing Director of WGCom LTD, UK and Managing Director of Wireless Multimedia Communications LTD (his own consultancy company). He leads an active research team working on numerous mobile and personal communications projects for third and fourth generation systems, these projects are supported both by the government and industry. He is a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He has been member, Chairman, Vice-Chairman of the technical programme and organising committees of a large number of international conferences. He is also the founder of International Conference on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC). He is a fellow member of the IEE and senior member of the IEEE.