Tentative program, JOINT BEATS/Wireless IP seminar,
Hotel Alexandra, Loen, June 4 – 6, 2003
(Note: Time slots for presentations include time for discussions and questions: assumed 5-10 minutes for 30 minute slots, and 10-15 minutes for 45 minute slots.)
Wednesday, June 4th, 2003
Session W1: Introductory session
0900 – 0915 Welcome - Geir E. Øien/NTNU, Mikael Sternad/UU
0915 – 0930 Presentation of the Wireless IP project - Mikael Sternad/UU
0930 – 0945 Presentation of the BEATS project - Geir E. Øien/NTNU
Session W2: Beyond 3G
0945 – 1030 Invited talk: Wireless Systems beyond 3G - Erik Dahlman/Ericsson Research
1030 – 1100 Coffee break
1100 – 1200 Invited talk: MIMO - What Shall We Do with All These Degrees of Freedom? – Helmut Bölcskei/ETH
1200 – 1300 Lunch
1300 – 1330 A 4G System Proposal Based on Adaptive OFDM, Tony Ottosson/CTH, Mikael Sternad/UU
1330 – 1400 CUBAN: Co-Optimized Ubiquitous Broadband Access Networks, Lars Lundheim/NTNU
1400 – 1430 Invited talk: (”industrial viewpoint” type of subject to be announced) – Pål Orten/Nera Research
1430 – 1500 Coffee break
Session W3: Rate-adaptive transmission
1500 – 1530 Prediction of Fading Broadband Wireless Channels – Torbjörn Ekman/UNIK
1530 – 1600 A Simulation Model for Pilot-Aided Adaptive LDPC Coded Modulation on Correlated Nakagami Channels – Ola Jetlund/NTNU
1600 – 1630 Adaptive Trellis Coded Modulation over Predicted Flat Fading Channels – Sorour Falahati/UU
1630 – 1700 Optimization of Adaptive Coded Modulation Schemes for Maximum Average Spectral Efficiency – Geir E. Øien/NTNU
1700 – 1730 Summary, discussion, comments
1900 - ???? Dinner
Thursday, June 5th, 2003
Session T1: MIMO Systems
0830 – 0915 Invited talk: On the Capacity of MIMO Channels – Mohamed-Slim Alouini/University of Minnesota
0915 – 1000 Invited talk: Minimum Error Rate Based Detectors for Strongly Correlated MIMO Channels – David Gesbert/UiO
1000 – 1030 Coffee break
1030 – 1100 Diversity Factor Characterization for MIMO Channels with Spatial Correlation – Bengt Holter/NTNU
Session T2: Improving the efficiency of higher layers
1100 – 1130 Criteria and Algorithms for Scheduling of
Packet Data over Wireless Links – Nilo
Casimiro Ericsson/UU
1130 – 1200 TCP-L – Stefan Alfredsson/KaU
1200 – 1300 Lunch
1300 - 1330 Dynamic Channel Selection in Ad Hoc
Networks – Kjell J. Hole/NTNU, UiB
1330 - 1500 Parallel discussions in suitable working groups (e.g.: Adaptive transmission, channel prediction, MIMO and diversity systems, improved efficiency in higher layers, joint source-channel coding and multimedia applications, Beyond-3G systems, implementation issues)
1500 – 1530 Plenary summary of group discussions
1530 – 1830 Trip to the Briksdal glacier (or similar sight(s); details tba)
1900 – 1930 Aperitif
1930 - ???? Banquet dinner
Friday, June 7th, 2003
Session F1: Joint source-channel coding
0900 – 0945 Shannon Mappings for Robust Communications – Tor A. Ramstad/NTNU
0945 – 1030 Recent Developments and Ongoing Work in Joint Source-Channel Coding - A. Kim/NTNU
1030 – 1100 Coffee break
Session F2: Image and video processing
1100 – 1145 Rate-Based Control for Video Streaming – Saverio Mascolo/Politecnico di Bari
1145 – 1215 Image Decoding Aided by Soft Information from Lower Layers – Hannes Persson/KaU
1215 – 1315 Lunch
1315 - 1415 Parallel discussions in suitable working groups
1415 – 1500 Plenary summary of discussions + Close of workshop
1900 - Dinner for those who are staying until the 7th.
NB: There will possibly be yet another invited talk from Wireless IP, but this has yet to be confirmed definitely.