Tuesday, February 26, 2002

Opening Session

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Luciano Lenzini, General Chairman - EW2002

Keynote Address: "Mobile Services Towards 3G"
Mauro Sentinelli, Managing Director of TIM - Telecom Italia Mobile S.p.A., Italy

TRACK A

HIPERLAN/2

Session Organizer: Bernhard Walke, Aachen University of Technology, Germany
Chair: Bernhard Walke

- A Multi Hop Concept for HiperLAN/2: Capacity and Interference (Invited Paper)
N. Esseling^*, E. Weiss^*, A. Kraemling^*, W. Zirwas^+
* Aachen University of Technology, Germany; ⁺ Siemens AG, Germany

- An Evaluation of HiperLAN/2 Scalability for Mobile Broadband Systems (Invited Paper)
K. Ishii^*, A. H. Aghvami^+
* NEC, Japan; ⁺ Kings College London, UK

- HiperLAN/2 Public Access Interworking with 3G Cellular Systems (Invited Paper)
S. McCann
Siemens Roke Manor Research Ltd, Southampton, UK

- Protocol Implementation in a 5 GHz ODFM-Testbed (Invited Paper)
H. Wijaya^(2,3) , N. Esseling⁽²⁾ , O. Klein⁽²⁾ , A. Vidal⁽²⁾ , W. Zirwas^(1)
(1) Siemens AG, Germany; ⁽²⁾ Aachen University of Technology, Germany; ⁽³⁾ AixCom GmbH, Germany

- Performance Evaluation of HiperLAN/2 Multihop Ad-Hoc networks (Invited Paper)
J. Habetha, R. Dutar, J. Wiegert
Philips Research, Aachen, Germany

- IEEE 802.11e Wireless LAN for Quality of Service (Invited Paper)
S. Mangold¹, S. Choi², P. May³, O. Klein¹, G. Hiertz¹, L. Stibor^1
1 Aachen University of Technology, Germany; ² Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA; ³ Philips Research Aachen, Germany

Bluetooth

Chair: Moshe Zukerman, The University of Melbourne, Australia

- Bluetooth/802.11 Protocol Adaptation for RFID Tags
R. Bridgelall
Symbol Technologies, NY, USA

- Unambiguous Device Identification and Fast Connection Setup in Bluetooth
A. Busboom¹, I. Herwono², M. Schuba¹, G. Zavagli^1
1 Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH, Germany; ² Aachen University of Technology, Germany

- A Fast Bluetooth Symmetric Link Formation Protocol - SF/CAI (Scan First/ Collision Avoidance Inquire)
H.-C. Luo^* , E. H.-K. Wu⁺, G.-H. Chen^*, J.-H. Chiang^*
* Computer Science and Information Engineering Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁺ Computer Science and Information Engineering Department, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

- Adaptive RTP/UDP/IP Header Compression for VoIP over Bluetooth
L. Marzegalli, M. Masa, M. Vitiello
CEFRIEL/Politecnico di Milano, Italy

- Prompt Connecting Mechanism and Multiple-Code Transmission Support for Bluetooth Personal Area Network
E. H.-K. Wu, Y.-H. Chou
National Central University, Taiwan

- Mapping of Services on Bluetooth Radio Networks
J. Dunlop, N. Amanquah
University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Point to Multi-Point Wireless Networks

Session Organizer: Luciano Lenzini, University of Pisa, Italy
Chair: Luciano Lenzini

- The IEEE 802.16 Standard for Broadband Wireless Access (Invited Paper)
C. Eklund
Nokia Research Center, Finland

- Achieving Interoperability with IEEE 802.16-Compliant Systems (Invited Paper)
K. L. Stanwood
Ensemble Communications Inc, San Diego, CA, USA

- MAC Protocol for a Wireless Point to Multi-Point ATM Access System (Invited Paper)
G. Cavalli, C. Santacesaria
Siemens ICN, Milano, Italy

The Impact of Mobility on TCP/IP

Session Organizers: Dorgham Sisalem, GMD FOKUS, Berlin, Germany, 
Holger Karl, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Chair: Dorgham Sisalem

- Performance Optimization of TCP/IP over Asymmetric Wired and Wireless Links (Invited Paper)
D. Shekhar, H. Qin, S. Kalyanaraman, K. Kidambi
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

- Evaluating the Eifel Algorithm for TCP in a GPRS Network (Invited Paper)
A. Gurtov¹, R. Ludwig^2
1 Sonera, Finland - ² Ericsson Research, Germany

- End-To-End Bandwidth Estimation to Improve Wireless Link Utilitization (Invited Paper)
S. Mascolo¹, A. Greco², M. Gerla³, G. Pau³, C. Casetti^4
1 Politecnico di Bari, Italy, ² Università di Lecce, Italy, ³ UCLA, CA, USA, ⁴ Politecnico di Torino,Italy

- Packet Latency for Type-II Hybrid ARQ Transmissions over a Correlated Error Channel
R. Mukhtar, M. Zukerman, F. Cameron
The University of Melbourne, Australia

- Study of the TCP Dynamics over Wireless Networks with Micromobility Support Using the ns Simulator
L. Cerdà, F. Vena, O. Casals
Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

- Admission Control for QoS Provisioning in Wireless IP Networks
T. Janevski, B. Spasenovski
University “Sv. Kiril i Metodij”, Skopje, Macedonia

TRACK B

QoS and Admission Control for Wireless Networks

Chair: Roberto Cusani, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy

- Developing Cell Cluster based CAC for Cellular Networks
M. De Marco, M. Vitiello, A. Pattavina
CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

- Investigation of coexistence of TDD systems in indoor environment
S. Koul, P. Patronen, W. Daqing
Nokia, Finland

- Access Control Scheme for QoS provisioning in UTRA
M. Ruiz Garcia, J.M. Romero-Jerez, A. Diaz-Estrella
University of Malaga, Spain

- Local and Global QoS-aware Token Bucket Parameters Determination for Traffic Conditioning in 3rd Generation Wireless Networks
F. Y. Li
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

- Convergence of UMTS and Internet Services for End-to-end Quality of Service Support
S. I. Maniatis, E. G. Nikolouzou, I. S. Venieris
National Technical University of Athens, Athens , Greece

WAP

Chair: Olga Casals, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Barcelona, Spain

- Dimensioning GPRS Networks for Coexisting Applications based on WAP and Conventional Internet Protocols
P. Stuckmann, C. Hoymann
Aachen University of Technology, Germany

- Enabling Mobile WAP Gateways using Mobile IP
S. Aust, N. Fikouras, C. Görg
University of Bremen, Germany

- Characteristics of WAP Traffic
I. C. Y. Ma, J. Irvine
University of Strathclyde, Scotland

- Robust Packet video transmission over heterogeneous wired-to-wireless IP networks using ALF together with edge proxies
Y.Pei, J.W. Modestino
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

Resource Scheduling Algorithms for Wireless Networks

Chair: James Modestino, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA (TBC)

- Resource allocation for wireless CDMA systems supporting Heterogeneous Multimedia Traffic
Y.S. Chan, J.W. Modestino
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

- High Bitrate Modem Architecture (WIND-FLEX) wireless LAN: the MAC, the Scheduler and their performance
M. Torregiani, R. Cusani, F. Delli Priscoli, G. Ferrari
Università di Roma 1, Roma, Italy

- Improving Throughput and Fairness on the Downlink Shared Channel in UMTS WCDMA Networks
S. A. Malik, D. Zeghlache
Institut National des Télécommunications, Evry, France

- A Resource-based Approach to MAC Layer Independent Hierarchical Link-Sharing in Wireless Local Area Networks
L. Wischhof, W. Lockwood
Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, USA

- Multimedia Traffic Management for Packetized Uplink Transmission in WCDMA UMTS
A. Hernandez Solana¹, A. Valdovinos Bardaji¹, F. Casadevall Palacio^2
1 University of Zaragoza, Spain; ² Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

(MC) - CDMA and Related Techniques

Chair: Friedrich Jondral, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

- Code Orthogonalizing Filter Based Adaptive Array Antenna Using Common Correlation Matrix of Time Domain Signals for a Multicarrier DS/CDMA Systems
C.-J. Ahn, I. Sasase
Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

- Channel Estimation with Low-Pass Filter for UTRA FDD Downlink
K. Knoche, J. Rinas, K.-D. Kammeyer
University of Bremen, Germany

- Performance Analysis of Wide Band MC-CDMA systems in Indoor Wireless Radio Networks
M. Bouziani¹, A. Djebbari¹, A. B. Djebbar¹, M. F. Belbachir² and J. M. Rouvaen^3
1 Djillali Liabès University, Algeria; ² UST, Oran, Algeria; ³ ENSIMEV - Université de Valenciennes, France

- Fast ARQ in High Speed Downlink Packet Access for WCDMA Systems
M. Chatterjee¹, G.D. Mandyam², S.K. Das^1
1 University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA; ² Nokia Research Center, TX, USA

- Spectral Efficiency of Randomly-Spread CDMA over Multipath Rayleigh Fading Channels
O. Ertug, B.S. Unal, B. Baykal
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

TRACK C

Broadband Wireless Access

Session Organizer: Anthony Acampora, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Chair: Anthony Acampora

- Performance of a MAC Protocol for Multicell Cellular Systems with Space Time Processing (Invited Paper)
A. Acampora, H. Jin
University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

- On the Optimal Allocation of Bandwidth for Source Coding, Channel Coding and Spreading in a Coherent DS-CDMA System Employing an MMSE Receiver (Invited Paper)
L. B. Milstein, P. Cosman, Q. Zhao
University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

- Improving Wireless Access to the Internet By Extending the Client/Server Model (Invited Paper)
J. Pasquale, E. Hung, T. Newhouse, J. Steinberg, N. Ramabhadran
University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

- Introducing power-shaped advanced resource assignment (PSARA) in fixed broadband wireless access systems (Invited Paper)
V. Tralli, R. Veronesi, M. Zorzi
University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

- An adaptive multimode modulation modem for point to multipoint broadband radio
H. Halbauer, M. Tomsu
Alcatel Stuttgart, Germany

- Second Generation Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems: Requirements, Architecture and Performances
C. Decanis, S. Piana
Ericsson Lab Italy, Italy

2G, 2G 1/2, and 3G Wireless Systems

Chair: Rahim Tafazolli, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

- Impact of Service and Mobility Modelling on Network Dimensioning
S. Thilakawardana, R. Tafazolli
University of Surrey, UK

- Wireless Internet Access based on UTRA-TDD
E. Gonzalez Parada, J. M. Cano Garcia, J.A. Aguilar, A. Reyes Lecuona, A. Diaz Estrella
University of Malaga, Spain

- Performance of Prioritized W-CDMA RACH transmission over satellite-UMTS
V. Kueh, R. Tafazolli, B.G. Evans
University of Surrey, UK

- Analytical Performance Evaluation of Mobile Internet Access via GPRS Networks
U. Vornefeld
Aachen University of Technology, Germany

Antenna Design and Cell Layout in Cellular Systems

Chair: Gerhard Fettweis, University of Dresden, Germany

- Joint Deployment of Macro- and Microcells in UTRAN FDD Networks
P. Herhold, W. Rave, G. Fettweis
Dresden University of Technology, Germany

- Downlink Beamforming Method for Multimedia CDMA/TDD Systems
Y. Hara, D.-K. Park, Y. Kamio
YRP Mobile Telecommunications Key Technology Research Laboratories Co., Ltd., Japan

- Chebyshev-like Low Sidelobe Beampatterns with Adjustable Beamwidth and Steering-Invariance
G. Abreu, R. Kohno
Yokohama National University, Japan

- Tightest Possible Reuse Plans For Tri-Sectorized TDMA Wireless Systems
V.A. Nguyen, P.Y. Wan
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA

Wireless Channel Modeling

Chair: Ruggero Reggiannini, University of Pisa, Italy

- Advanced Ray-Optical Propagation Modeling for Indoor Environments Including Wideband Properties
R. Hoppe, G. Woelfle, P. Wertz, F.M. Landstorfer
University of Stuttgart, Germany

- Electromagnetic Field Intensity Estimator for Cellular Mobile Radio Systems
G. Giancola, G. Fedele
Università di Roma 1, Italy

- Explicit Formula for Path Loss Prediction in Urban Streets for Microcellular Communications
Q. Sun, S. Y. Tan, K. C. Teh
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

- Measurements of a Wireless Link in different RF-isolated Environments
J. Gross, A. Willig
Technical University Berlin, Germany

- Temporal variations modeling of the EHF Indoor Channel
Z. Sebbani, G.Y. Delisle
Laval University, Sainte Foy, Qc, Canada