Organiser	Hamid Aghvami, King's College London, UK
Panel	Hamid Aghvami, King's College London, UK Robert Hancock, Roke Manor Research (Siemens), UK Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum, Luxembourg Dave Wisely, BT Exact, UK Masami Yabusaki, NTT DoCoMo, Japan
Summary	The next generation of wireless networks is expected to be data-centric with a mobility feature. It is also widely believed that future data traffic will be IP-based multi-media traffic. Future radio access networks should be capable of handling the anticipated huge increase in multimedia traffic efficiently and cost-effectively. There are two different approaches to the design of such networks: Inter-working and Integration approaches. In the inter-working approach, future radio access networks will inter-work with the Internet and will use radio access-specific functions and protocols, which may be different from those used or proposed for the Internet. In the Integration approach, future radio access networks will be fully integrated within the Internet. In other words, future wireless networks will be a "plug-in" to the Internet. The panel will discuss the pros and cons of these approaches. It will also address the consequences and impacts of these alternatives.

Organiser	Werner Mohr, Siemens, Germany
Panel	Nicolas Demassieux, Motorola, France Magnus Madfors, LM Ericsson, Sweden Werner Mohr, Siemens AG, Germany Jorge Pereira, European Commission, Belgium Yasushi Yamao, NTT DoCoMo, Japan
Summary	Third generation mobile radio systems are currently being deployed in different regions of the world. Future systems beyond the third generation are already under discussion in international bodies and forums such as ITU, WWRF and R&D programs of the European Union and in other regions such as in China, Japan and Korea. These systems will determine the research and standardization activities in mobile and wireless communication in the next years. Based on the experience of the third generation future systems will be developed mainly from the user perspective with respect to potential services and applications including traffic demands. Therefore, international research activities are initiated with players from manufacturers, network operators, SMEs, R&D centres and the academic domain. Currently, significant effort is spent on the vision of such systems and potential key technologies. This panel will address the major trends of the Wireless World towards the vision and potential technical approach from the user perspective towards the key technologies and the related international cooperation.

Organiser	Jorge M. Pereira, European Commission, Belgium
Panel	Toshihiko Misawa, TAO, Japan Mike Payne, Vodafone, UK Jorge M. Pereira, European Commission, Belgium Andrew Pickford, Cambridge Positioning Systems, UK Luciano Splendorini, SnapTrack, USA Njål Vikdal, CellVision, Norway
Summary	Although E-911 continues to dominate the news in the USA - compliance and waivers -, the exploitation of positioning technologies to offer Value Added Services (VAS) is increasingly important. As a variety of different technologies are being proposed, the need for a common location interface will be discussed, and the many VAS envisioned will be reviewed taking into consideration the associated requirements in terms of accuracy and availability.

Organiser	Jorge M. Pereira, European Commission, Belgium
Panel	Nancy Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece Paul Bender, RegTP, Germany Lachan B. Michael, Sony Computer Science Labs., Japan Jorge M. Pereira, European Commission, Belgium Seshaiah Ponnekanti, Fujitsu Europe Telecom R&D Centre, UK
Summary	From SDR's original focus on multi-mode, multi-band terminals, the emphasis has shifted decisively to a much broader perspective, what we call Reconfigurable Radio. This approach, cutting across the whole system, from terminals to base stations to the network, from services to applications, and even across networks enabling system integration, has far reaching implications in terms of open architectures, third party service/application provision, secure download mechanisms, etc. The implications in terms of Standards and Regulation, as well as Spectrum management (and efficiency) will also be analysed.

Organiser	Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark, and Luis Muñoz, University of Cantabria, Spain
Panel	Mohsen Darianian, Nokia Research Centre, Germany Peter C. Karlsson, HyperLAN/2 Global Forum Jamshid Khun-Jush, ETSI BRAN Petri Mahonen, Oulu University, Finland Diego Melpignano, Philips Research Monza Labs, Italy Luis Muñoz, University of Cantabria, Spain George Orphanos, Intracom, Greece Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark
Summary	This panel will focus on trends of WPANs and WLANs in the context of an all-IP network. Topics like mobility, QoS, protocol boosters, security, and internetworking of WLAN and WPAN platforms with 2.5G and 3G systems, amongst others, will be covered. Technology aspects related to the variety of standards under consideration, like IEEE 802.11, HIPERLAN, IEEE 802.15, as well as future "second-generation" WPANs and WLANs, will also be discussed.