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.