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MONDAY, September 16 MPO1.1 Radio Resource Management I Chair Roberto Verdone, University of Bologna, Italy   14:00 Affordable Multiservice Wireless Networks – Research Challenges for the Next Decade (Invited) Jens Zander, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 14:20 Power Allocation Strategies for the Downlink in a W-CDMA System With Soft and Softer Handover: The Impact on Capacity Walter-Uliano Pistelli, Roberto Verdone, University of Bologna, Italy 14:40 Admission and Cell Congestion Analysis Through Dynamic Power Allocation Silvia Ruiz, Juan Olmos, UPC, Spain 15:00 Situation Awareness Based Automatic Basestation Detection and Coverage Reconfiguration in 3G Systems Sidharth Sharma, Andrew Nix, University of Bristol, UK 15:20 Resource Allocation Strategies for the TDD Component of UMTS Rubén Fraile, Narcís Cardona, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain MPO1.2 Turbo Coding I Chair Pentti Leppanen, University of Oulu, Finland   14:00 A Turbo Multiuser Receiver for Receive Diversity CDMA Systems Over Flat Rayleigh Fading Channel Jia Shen, Alister Burr, University of York, UK 14:20 Transport Block Error Rates for UTRA-FDD Downlink with Transmission Diversity and Turbo Coding Juan Olmos, Silvia Ruiz, UPC, Spain 14:40 Effects of Correlation Fadings in the Performance of Turbo Codes for UMTS Matilde Fernandez, Beatriz Rodriguez, Ana Armada, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain; K. Shanmugan, University of Kansas, USA 15:00 New Applications of the Simple Bound: Random Codes, Serial Turbo Codes and Punctured Codes Alfonso Martinez, ESA/ESTEC, Netherlands; Simone Morosi, University of Florence, Italy; Beatrice Ponticelli, Nuova Galileo, Italy 15:20 APPA Symbol Timing Recovery Scheme for Turbo Codes Li Zhang, Alister Burr, University of York, UK MPO1.3 4G Systems Chair Werner Mohr, Siemens, Germany   14:00 An Overview of the ETSI-BRAN Hyperaccess Physical Layer Air Interface Specification Khaled Fazel, Marconi Communications, Germany; Carmelo Decanis, Ericsson Lab, Italy; Jay Klein, Ensemble Communications, USA; Gaspare Licitra, Siemens ICN, Italy; Lars Lindh, Nokia, Finland; Yann-Yves Lebret, Alcatel, France 14:20 Multihop Communications in Future Mobile Radio Networks Hui Li, Matthias Lott, Martin Weckerle, Wolfgang Zirwas, Egon Schulz, Siemens AG, Germany 14:40 Multi-Hop Radio Access Cellular Concept for Fourth-Generation Mobile Communications System Yasushi Yamao, Toru Otsu, Atsushi Fujiwara, NTT DoCoMo, Japan; Hidekazu Murata, Susumu Yoshida, University of Kyoto, Japan 15:00 Supporting Resource Allocation with Vertical Handoffs in Multiple Radio Network Environments Mika Ylianttila, Juha Mäkelä, Petri Mähönen, University of Oulu, Finland 15:20 Development of Mirai System for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Masugi Inoue, Gang Wu, Khaled Mahmud, Homare Murakami, Mikio Hasegawa, Communications Research Laboratory, Japan MPO1.4 Space Time Coding I Chair Emmanuel Jaffrot, ENSTA, France   14:00 Non-Differential Space-Time Transmission Diversity in Fast Fading Giuseppe Abreu, Ryuji Kohno, Yokohama National University, Japan 14:20 The Union Bound for Space-Time Turbo Coded Modulation Over Fast Fading Channels Djordje Tujkovic, Markku Juntti, Matti Latva-aho, University of Oulu, Finland 14:40 Space Time Coding Schemes for 4 or More Antennas Mário Silva, Institute for Telecommunications, IST, Portugal; Américo Correia, Institute for Telecommunications, ADETTI, Portugal 15:00 Turbo Coded HSDPA Systems with Transmit Diversity Over Frequency Selective Fading Channels Jinyun Zhang, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA; Ling Li, Stevens Inst. of Tech., USA; Tommy Poon, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA 15:20 Power Control for Orthogonal Space-Time Coding with Multiple Receive Antennas Ali Pusane, Ümit Aygölü, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey MPO1.5 Software Radio I Chair Didier Bourse, Motorola, France   14:00 Broadband Digital Direct Down Conversion Receiver Suitable for Software Defined Radio Mohamed Ratni, Dragan Krupezevic, Zhaocheng Wang, Jens-Uwe Juergensen, Sony International Europe GmbH, Germany 14:20 A Software Radio Architecture for Multi-Channel Digital Upconversion and Downconversion Using Generalized Polyphase Filterbanks with Frequency Offset Correction Mario Kiessling, University of Stuttgart, Germany; Syed Mujtaba, Agere Systems, USA 14:40 Software Defined Radio Approach for Re-Configurable Multi-Standard Terminals Jörg Brakensiek, Bernhard Oelkrug, Martin Bücker, Dirk Uffmann, Axel Dröge, Mohsen Darianian, Nokia, Germany; Marius Otte, University of Dortmund, Germany 15:00 Reducing the Peak to Average Ratio of Multicarrier GSM and Edge Signals Olli Väänänen, Jouko Vankka, Kari Halonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 15:20 Design of Jacobi Evd Processor Based on Cordic for DOA Estimation with Music Algorithm Minseok Kim, Koichi Ichige, Hiroyuki Arai, Yokohama National University, Japan MPO1.6 Wireless Propagation I Chair Ernst Bonek, Technical University of Vienna, Austria   14:00 Fading Depth Evaluation in Mobile Communications - From GSM to Future Mobile Broadband Systems Filipe Cardoso, IST, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Portugal; Luís Correia, IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal 14:20 Outdoor-to-Indoor Propagation Modelling with the Identification of Path Passing Through Wall Openings Yuko Miura, Yasuhiro Oda, Tokio Taga, NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan 14:40 Propagation Modelling of Bistatic Scattering of Isolated Trees for Micro- and Millimetre Wave Urban Microcells Rafael Caldeirinha, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal; Miqdad Al-Nuaimi, University of Glamorgan, UK 15:00 Wave Propagation Over a Forest Edge - Parabolic Equation Modelling Vs. Measurements. Peter Holm, Gunnar Eriksson, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden; Peter Krans, Swedish Defence Material Administration, Sweden; Bengt Lundborg, Elisabeth Löfsved, Ulf Sterner, Åsa Waern, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden 15:20 Phase Function Measurement for Modelling Radiowave Attenuation and Scatter in Vegetation Based on the Theory of Radiative Energy Transfer Jürgen Richter, Miqdad Al-Nuaimi, University of Glamorgan, UK; Rafael Caldeirinha, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal MPO1.7 Wireless LAN I Chair Jamshid Khun-Jush, Ericsson, Germany   14:00 Co-Existence of Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11b Wlans: Results from a Radio Network Testbed Kirsten Matheus, Stefan Zürbes, Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH, Germany 14:20 Performance Evaluation of a Bluetooth Channel Estimation Algorithm Nada Golmie, NIST, USA 14:40 Throughput of IEEE 802.11 FHSS Networks in the Presence of Strongly Interfering Bluetooth Networks Andre Stranne, Fredrik Floren, Ove Edfors, University of Lund, Sweden; Bengt-Arne Molin, Axis Communications AB, Sweden 15:00 IEEE 802.11e - Fair Resource Sharing Between Overlapping Basic Service Sets Stefan Mangold, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; Sunghyun Choi, Philips Research, USA; Peter May, Philips Research, Germany; Guido Hiertz, RWTH Aachen University, Germany 15:20 Capture Effect in IEEE 802.11 Basic Service Area Under Influence of Rayleigh Fading and Near/Far Effect Zoran Hadzi-Velkov, Boris Spasenovski, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia MPPo Poster Session A   P1 - Cost / Revenue Optimisation in Multi-Service Mobile Broadband Systems Fernando Velez, University of Beira Interior, Portugal; Luís Correia, IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal P2 - MIMO Capacity in Free Space and Above Perfect Ground: Theory and Experimental Results Persefoni Kyritsi, Center for PersonKommunikation, Denmark P3 - Pricing Model For 3G/4G Networks Eero Wallenius, Nokia, Finland; Timo Hamalainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland P4 - Design Considerations and Initial Physical Layer Performance Results for a Space Time Coded OFDM 4G Cellular Network Angela Doufexi, Simon Armour, Andrew Nix, Mark Beach, University of Bristol, UK P5 - Future Mobile Networks: Ad-Hoc Access Based on Online Payment with Smartcards Heiko Knospe, T-Systems Nova GmbH, Germany; Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, University of London, England P6 - Evolving Perspectives of 4th Generation Mobile Communication Systems Vangelis Gazis, Nikos Houssos, Athanassia Alonistioti, Lazaros Merakos, University of Athens, Greece P7 - Space-Time Block Coded Transmit Diversity for OFDM System in Mobile Channels Jian Cheng, Southeast University, China; Haifeng Wang, Nokia, Finland; Shixin Cheng, Southeast University, China P8 - A Practical Space-Frequency Block Coded OFDM Scheme for Fast Fading Broadband Channels Lihua Li, Xiaofeng Tao, Ping Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China; Harald Haas, Siemens AG, Germany P9 - A Multipath Interference Canceller for OFDM Signal Transmission Mitsuru Uesugi, Matsushita Communication Industrial, Japan P10 - Optimized Irregular Gallager Codes for OFDM Transmission Valérian Mannoni, LAM/ETIS, France; David Declercq, ETIS, France; Guillaume Gelle, LAM, France P11 - Comparison of Low Complexity Clipping Algorithms for OFDM Gavin Hill, Michael Faulkner, Victoria University, Australia P12 - An Application of Smart Antenna Systems for Archiving Networks in TV Studios Karim Nasr, Fumie Costen, Stephen Barton, University of Manchester, UK P13 - Transmitter-Based Processing for the Down-Link DS/CDMA Systems with Multiple Transmit Antennas Chang Park, Kwang Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea; Sung Kim, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea P14 - Channel Estimation Study of CDMA Downlink for Fixed Beam BTS Juha Ylitalo, Nokia, Finland P15 - A Hexagonal Adaptive Antenna Array Concept for Wireless Applications Luiz Kretly, Arismar Sodré Jr., André Silva, State University of Campinas, Brazil P16 - Smart Antenna Based Interference-Blocking Rake Receiver for CDMA Systems Over Multipath Fading Channel Tsui-Tsai Lin, National Lien-Ho Institute of Technology, Taiwan; Chih-Peng Li, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan P17 - Experimental Evaluation of Coherent Adaptive Antenna Array Diversity Receiver Employing Optical Fiber Interface in IF Stage Taisuke Ihara, Hidekazu Taoka, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan P18 - Asynchronous Interference Cancellation with an Antenna Array Alexandr Kuzminskiy, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, UK; Constantinos Papadias, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, USA P19 - The Mobile IP Handoff Between Hybrid Networks Minhua Ye, Yu Liu, Huimin Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China P20 - Evaluating the RSVP Mobility Proxy Concept Sarantis Paskalis, Alexandros Kaloxylos, University of Athens, Greece; Evangelos Zervas, TEI of Athens, Greece; Lazaros Merakos, University of Athens, Greece P21 - VGSN : A Gateway Approach to Interconnect UMTS/WLAN Networks Shiao-Li Tsao, Chia-Ching Lin, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan P22 - Mobility and Security in IP Network Alain Ringapin, Jalel Othman, Université de Versailles, France; Pascal Urien, Schlumbergersem, France P23 - Call Admission Control in Wireless Multimedia Networks Novella Bartolini, University of Roma, Italy; Imrich Chlamtac, University of Texas at Dallas, USA P24 - Spatial Correlation in Indoor MIMO Channels Darren McNamara, Mark Beach, Paul Fletcher, University of Bristol, UK P25 - Initial Synchronization Procedure in S-UMTS Networks for Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services Carlo Caini, Herman Castellan, Giovanni Corazza, Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli, University of Bologna, Italy P26 - Differential and Non-Coherent Post Detection Integration Techniques for the Return Link of Satellite W-CDMA Systems Giovanni Corazza, Paola Salmi, Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli, Marco Villanti, University of Bologna, Italy P27 - Performance of the GPRS RLC/MAC Protocols with VOIP Traffic Boris Bellalta, UPC, Spain; Miquel Oliver, UPF, Spain; David Rincón, UPC, Spain P28 - Downlink Beamforming Effects on the Code Orthogonality in UTRA-FDD Systems Mythri Hunukumbure, Mark Beach, University of Bristol, UK; Ben Allen, King's College London, UK MPO2.1 Radio Coverage and Planning Chair Ian Groves, King's College London, UK   16:10 Optimizing UMTS Radio Coverage Via Base Station Configuration Edoardo Amaldi, Antonio Capone, Federico Malucelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 16:30 Heuritics for the Reduction of Complexity in UMTS Radio Network Quality Assessment Bernd Heideck, E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co KG, Germany; Andreas Draegert, Atesio GmbH, Germany; Thomas Kuerner, E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co KG, Germany 16:50 In-Buliding Coverage for UMTS Using Radio Over Fibre Technology Hamed Al-Raweshidy, Knut Michael Glaubitt, UKC, UK 17:10 3G Base Station Positioning Using Simulated Annealing Nagy Lajos, Farkas Lóránt, Kocsis Imre, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary 17:30 The Capacity of Air-Ground W-CDMA System. Bazil Ahmed, Miguel Ramón, Leandro Ariet, UPM, Spain MPO2.2 Radio Resource Management II Chair Alberto Zanella, University of Bologna, Italy   16:10 The Use of Mobile Positioning Supported Traffic Density Measurements to Assist Load Balancing Methods Based on Adaptive Cell Sizing Jan Steuer, DOK Systeme, Germany; Klaus Jobmann, University of Hannover, Germany 16:30 Performance of a Dynamic Channel Allocation Scheme with Frequency Hopping, Power Control and Handover in a Mobile Radio System Alberto Zanella, Roberto Verdone, Luca Zuliani, University of Bologna, Italy 16:50 Performance of UMTS Packet Service Over Dedicated Channels (DCH) Antonio Capone, Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 17:10 Resource Allocation with Power-Shaping in TDMA-Based Mobile Radio Systems Velio Tralli, Riccardo Veronesi, Michele Zorzi, University of Ferrara, Italy 17:30 Dynamic and Autonomous Frequency Assignment Method for MP-MP BFWA Systems Satoshi Konishi, Shinobu Nanba, Yoji Kishi, Shinichi Nomoto, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan MPO2.3 Turbo Coding II Chair K. Sam Shanmugan, University of Kansas, USA   16:10 Turbo Aided Maximum Likelihood Channel Estimation for Space-Time Coded Systems Miguel González-López, Joaquín Míguez, Luis Castedo, University of Coruña, Spain 16:30 SOVA-Based Iterative Decoding of Turbo Coded OOK and Turbo Coded BPPM Naotake Yamamoto, Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Tokyo University of Science, Japan 16:50 Effect of Outer Block Interleaving in Turbo Codes Performance Over Rayleigh Fading Channels for 3GPP Costas Chaikalis, Felip Riera-Palou, James Noras, University of Bradford, UK 17:10 Sensitivity to SNR Mismatch in Interference Cancelling Based Turbo Equalizers Mohammad Khalighi, LIS, France 17:30 Parallel VLSI Architecture for MAP Turbo Decoder Reuven Dobkin, Michael Peleg, Ran Ginosar, Technion, Israel MPO2.4 Multiple Access Techniques I Chair Mohammed Ratni, Sony, Germany   16:10 Hybrid ISMA/FDMA Protocol for Wireless Packet Transmission Tatiana Kozlova, Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark 16:30 Evaluation of Throughput Employing Hybrid ARQ Packet Combining in Forward Link OFCDM Broadband Wireless Access Nobuhiko Miki, Sadayuki Abeta, Mamoru Sawahashi, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan 16:50 Optimal Performance of an Oversaturated Ocdma/Ocdma System Based on Scrambled Orthogonal Bases Frederik Vanhaverbeke, Marc Moeneclaey, University of Ghent, Belgium 17:10 Collision Based Multiple Access Scheme for Wireless Networks Chih-Peng Li, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan; Yung-Fang Chen, National Central University, Taiwan 17:30 Improvement on the Multi-User Detection Decorrelator of a MC-CDMA Used in the Reverse Link Faouzi Bader, Santiago Zazo, Ivana Raos, UPM, Spain MPO2.5 Space Time Coding II Chair Ian Oppermann, Southern Poro Communications, Australia   16:10 Space-Time Block Codes for Virtual Antenna Arrays Mischa Dohler, Emeline Lefranc, Hamid Aghvami, Centre for Telecommunications Research, UK 16:30 Layered Space-Time Codes with Iterative Receiver and Space-Time Soft-Output Decoding in a Rayleigh Fading Environment Hamid Aghvami, Francesco Ostuni, Bilal Abdool-Rassool, Reza Nakhai, King's College London, UK 16:50 Lattice Decoding for Space-Time Codes with New Approach Khalil Dolatyar, Lotfollah Harchegani, Ali Olfat, University of Tehran, Iran 17:10 A New Lattice Decoding for Space Time Block Codes With Low Complexity Lotfollah Harchegani, Alireza Ghaderipoor, Khalil Dolatyar, S. Jamali, University of Tehran, Iran 17:30 On the Design of Algebraic Space-Time Overlays Hesham Gamal, Ohio State University, USA; Roger Hammons, Corvis Corporation, USA; Andrej Stefanov, , USA MPO2.6 Software Radio II Chair Demosthenes Ikonomou, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium   16:10 Secure Download System Based on Software Defined Radio Composed of FPGAs Hironori Uchikawa, Kenta Umebayashi, Ryuji Kohno, Yokohama National University, Japan 16:30 A Proposal of Architectural Elements for Implementing Secure Software Download Service in Software Defined Radio Lachlan Michael, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Japan; Miodrag Mihaljevic, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Yugoslavia; Shinichiro Haruyama, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc, Japan; Ryuji Kohno, Yokohama National University, Japan 16:50 FPGA Implementation of a Multimodal Sample Rate Converter and Synchronizer Giuseppe Baruffa, Saverio Cacopardi, Simeone Solazzi, University of Perugia, Italy 17:10 Design and Performance Evaluation of Software Defined Radio Prototype for PHS and IEEE802.11 Wireless LAN Kazuhiro Uehara, Hiroyuki Shiba, Takashi Shono, Yushi Shirato, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Masashi Nakatsugawa, Shuji Kubota, Masahiro Umehira, NTT, Japan 17:30 A Hardware Implementation of LS-CMA Adaptive Array for High-Speed Mobile Communication Atsushi Suzuki, Shintaro Muramatsu, Koichi Ichige, Hiroyuki Arai, Yokohama National University, Japan MPO2.7 Wireless Propagation II Chair Michel Yacoub, University of Campinas, Brazil   16:10 Millimetre-Wave Channel Impulse Response Measurements and Comparison with Raytracing Simulation Results Manuel Dinis, Portugal Telecom Inovação S.A., Portugal; José Garcia, Valdemar Monteiro, Nelson Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal 16:30 Applicabilty of Rough Surface Scattering to 3D Radio Planning Magne Pettersen, Telenor R&D, Norway; Gunnar Stette, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway; Josef Noll, Telenor R&D, Norway 16:50 Measuring Broadband Radio Channel Parameters Using a Simple Experimental Set-Up Ingrid Paez, University of Cantabria, Spain; Susana Loredo, University of Oviedo, Spain; Luis Valle, Rafael Torres, University of Cantabria, Spain 17:10 A Deterministic Frequency Hopping Rayleigh Fading Channel Simulator Designed by Using Optimization Techniques Cheng-Xiang Wang, Matthias Paetzold, Agder University College, Norway; Burin Itsarachai, MobileCom Multimedia GmbH, Germany 17:30 Applications of Generalized RBF-NN for Path Loss Prediction Ileana Popescu, Athanasios Kanatas, Evangelos Angelou, Philip Constantinou, NTUA, Greece; Ioan Nafornita, Technical University of Timisoara, Romania MPO2.8 Wireless LAN II Chair Mário Nunes, INESC / INOV, Portugal   16:10 The Role of Radio LANs in the Wireless Evolution Pierre Chevillat, Wolfgang Schott, Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland 16:30 Mitigating the Effects of Intermittent Interference on Bluetooth Ad Hoc Networks Carlos Cordeiro, Dharma Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA 16:50 On Bluetooth Piconet Traffic Performance Vojislav Misic, Jelena Misic, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 17:10 Study of the Encapsulation of Two Medium Access Methods for a Wireless Home Automation Network Nadir Hakem, Michel Misson, IUT Clermont-Fd, France 17:30 Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.11e Antonio Grilo, Mario Nunes, IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal