Tutorial Program

Sunday, 16 March


9:00 ­ 17:30, Room 208

T1. Mobile Commerce: Issues, Applications and Technologies

Upkar Varshney, Georgia State University, USA

Interest in mobile commerce is growing tremendously in the research and development community. Some projections of this market estimate its value at several hundred billions of dollars. With significant wireless penetration in many European countries and Japan, the mobile commerce market is already taking off and reaching billions of dollars annually. Mobile commerce may require significantly different approaches in design, development, and implementation of applications due to the inherent characteristics of wireless networks and mobile devices. Many important challenges include design and development of m-commerce applications, networking requirements, transactions and security issues, business models and strategies. This tutorial will include discussion of a variety of issues in mobile commerce, from both technical and business application points of view.

Upkar Varshney is on the faculty of Computer Information Systems at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is credited with some of the early research on mobile commerce. He has written over 50 papers on mobile commerce, wireless networks, and high speed networking in major journals and for international conferences. He was the guest editor for ACM/Kluwer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) special issue on Mobile Commerce (June 2002). Varshney is also on the editorial boards of IEEE Computer and International Journal of Mobile Communications, and has delivered over 50 invited speeches, including several keynote speeches and tutorials at major international conferences such as IEEE WCNC (1999), HICSS (1998, 1999 and 2001) and ACM Mobicom (1999, 2001 and 2002). He is the recipient of several teaching awards including the prestigious Myrone T. Greene Outstanding Teaching Award (2000) and RCB college teaching award (2002) at Georgia State University.


Sunday, 16 March


9:00 ­ 17:30, Room 212

T7: Smart Antennas, Turbo Coding, Space-Time Coding, Adaptive Transceivers, Intelligent Networking and 'all that' for Improved QoS

Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

This tutorial will provide an overview based on the Wiley/IEEE Press monographs "Blogh, Hanzo: Third-Generation Systems and Intelligent Wireless Networking: Smart Antennas and Adaptive Modulation"; "L. Hanzo, et al.: Adaptive Wireless Transceivers"; "L. Hanzo, et al.: Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalisation and Space-Time Coding". This short course provides an insight into the effects of turbo-coded, turbo-equalized and space-time coded adaptive TDMA, CDMA and OFDM transceivers, as well as smart antennas and a range of other efficient networking techniques on the achievable teletraffic capacity of wireless systems. This research-oriented presentation considers the joint benefits of both physical and network-layer performance enhancement techniques.

More specifically, conventional systems would drop a call in progress if the communications quality falls below the target quality of service and cannot be improved by handing over to another physical channel. By contrast, the adaptive transceivers of the near future are expected to simply "instantaneously drop the throughput, rather than dropping the call" by reconfiguring themselves in a more robust mode of operation. It is demonstrated that the proposed beam-forming and adaptive transmission techniques may double the expected teletraffic capacity of the system, while maintaining the same average performance as their conventional fixed-mode counterparts.

Lajos Hanzo has held various academic and research positions in Hungary, Germany and the United Kingdom during his 26-year career. Since 1986 he has been with the University of Southampton, United Kingdom where he holds the Chair of Telecommunications. Hanzo has published about 400 research papers and eight John Wiley/IEEE Press books. He is also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.


Sunday, 16 March


9:00 ­ 17:30, Room 211

T5. The Wireless Mobile Internet - Architectures, Protocols and Services

Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia

Providing Internet services to mobile users has become the most significant telecommunications research challenge within academia and industry in the past few years. In this tutorial, major requirements for realization of the Internet services over cellular and wireline infrastructures and new network architectures will be described. The tutorial will examine third generation wireless networks in detail and reveal how 3G and beyond networks should support the wireless IP. Major issues in the realization and standardization of the wireless IP, including quality of service, mobility and traffic management, TCP and IP protocol enhancement, and multimedia IP services will be addressed.

Abbas Jamalipour holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan. He is the author of the book The Wireless Mobile Internet - Architectures, Protocols and Services, John Wiley 2003, a book on satellite communications 1998, coauthor of two books on wireless telecommunications, and over 80 technical papers. He has organized several special issues on the topic of 3G and beyond wireless systems in IEEE magazines and journals. Jamalipour is a technical editor to the IEEE Wireless Communications, a Senior Member of the IEEE, Vice Chair of the IEEE ComSoc SSC Committee and the APB Coordinating Committee Chapter.


Sunday, 16 March


9:00 ­ 17:30, Room 213

T10: Basics of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Dharma P. Agrawal and Qing-An Zeng, University of Cincinnati, USA

Wireless systems have a unique capability of maintaining the same contact number even if one moves from one location to another, which has made them increasingly popular. Wireless telephones are not only convenient but are also providing flexibility and versatility, and there have been a growing number of wireless phone subscribers as well as service providers. A combination of wireless communication and computer technologies has revolutionized the world of telecommunications. This tutorial will explain in detail how the basic wireless and mobile systems work and what underlying infrastructure is needed.

Dharma P. Agrawal is the Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati. He has been a consultant to the General Dynamics Land Systems Division, Battelle, Inc., and the U. S. Army. He has held visiting appointments at AIRMICS, Atlanta, Georgia, and the AT&T Advanced Communications Laboratory, Whippany, New Jersey. Agrawal has published widely and his recent research interests include energy efficient routing, information retrieval, secured communication in ad hoc and sensor networks, effective handoff handling and multicasting in integrated wireless networks, interference analysis in piconets and routing in scatternet, use of directional antennas for enhanced QoS, scheduling of periodic real-time applications and automatic load balancing in heterogeneous workstation environment. Agrawal holds a D.Sc. and is a Fellow of the IEEE, as well as the ACM.

Qing-An Zeng has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati since November 1999 and is currently a Research Assistant Professor. In 1997 he joined NEC Corporation, Japan, where he has been engaged in the research and development of the third generation mobile communication systems (W-CDMA). Zeng has published a number of papers in the areas of Performance Modeling and Analysis for Wireless Mobile Communication Systems, Handoffs, Channel Allocation, Ad hoc Network, Sensor Network, and QoS Issues. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Shizuoka University, Japan, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. Zeng is a member of the IEEE.


Monday, 17 March


9:00 ­ 17:30, Room 203

T6: Coordinated Multiple User Communications

Lars K. Rasmussen, University of South Australia, Australia

Over the past decade much work has been done in the area of multi-user detection. These efforts have led to a thorough understanding of the principles at play and thus to a structured framework for design and analysis. Within the past few years, joint decoding of coded CDMA has also matured and there is now a firm understanding of iterative decoding techniques based on turbo principles. This tutorial provides an overview of the fundamental theory and current understanding of joint multi-user detection and decoding in CDMA. This tutorial will give a brief introduction to the information theoretic background of multi-user strategies and then focus on presenting the fundamental approaches to multi-user detection. It will conclude with a detailed discussion of iterative joint decoding strategies for coded CDMA.

Lars K. Rasmussen was born on March 8, 1965 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He received his M.Eng. degree in 1989 from the Technical University of Denmark and his Ph.D. in 1993 from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Over the years since his graduation, Rasmussen has held positions at universities in Australia, Singapore, South Africa and Sweden. In 1999 he joined the Department of Computer Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden as an Associate Professor. Since February 2002 he has been at the Institute for Telecommunications Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia as professor of telecommunications, maintaining a part-time position at Chalmers in Sweden.


Monday, 17 March


9:00 ­ 17:30, Room 204

T9: Mobile VPN and Other Advanced Data Services

Alex Shneyderman, BlueCube Technologies, USA

Subjects covered in this tutorial will include 3G data networking and Wireless Virtual Private Networking. The convergence of wireless and data technologies and the exponential growth of the Internet have made IP VPNs an important vehicle for communicating business information via public infrastructures. But as wireless technology becomes increasingly sophisticated and standards activity heats up, Mobile VPNs (MVPNs) are fast moving from concept to reality. That's not surprising. MVPNs have the potential to enable unprecedented wireless services (i.e. mobile commerce, push applications, remote collaborative computing) with all the quality of the wired network. And, as these advances transform mobile devices into productivity tools for companies, carriers have the opportunity to premium pay revenues. To realize this potential service providers should be able to design and implement infrastructures based on the next generation wireless standards that enable MVPN services (i.e. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) and CDMA2000, among others).

Alex Shneyderman received a B.S. from Polytechnic University of New York in 1995. From 1995 to 1997 he worked at Verizon Communications (NYNEX) in telecommunications engineering. From 1997 to 1998 he worked at Sprint as a senior network engineer. From 1998 to 2000 he worked for Lucent Technologies as a product manager in the field of wireless data. In 2000 he joined Spring Tide Networks (acquired by Lucent later that year) as a senior product manager to lead a UMTS and CDMA 2000 data platform development program which later resulted in the aareation of SpringTide Wireless IP Switch, representing a new class of wireless data platforms. In April 2002 Shneyderman joined MobileCore Networks, a start-up building the next generation of wireless platforms, as a director of product management and one of the founders. He currently works at BlueCube Technologies.


Monday, 17 March


9:00 ­ 12:30, Room 201-202

T2. Mobile Ad hoc Networking

Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, and Sung-Ju Lee, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA

This tutorial will begin with a description of the characteristics and applications of wireless ad hoc networks. It will also include in-depth coverage of many well-known protocols including MAC layer, routing, and multicast protocols, as well as Bluetooth. We will conclude the tutorial with discussions of current challenges in ad hoc networking.

Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on mobile networking, specifically routing protocols, security, scalability, address autoconfiguration, and adaptability.

Sung-Ju Lee is a research scientist/engineer in the Internet Systems & Storage Laboratory (ISSL) of Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, California. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). His research interests include ad hoc networks, streaming media over the Internet, mobile computing, and content distribution networks.


Monday, 17 March


9:00 ­ 12:30, Room 205

T8: Advanced Technologies for Real-Time Multi-Dimensional Mobile Communication Channel Simulators and their Related Signal Processing Issues

Tommi Jämsä, Elektrobit Oy, Finland and Tad Matsumoto, Oulu University, Finland

Radio channel simulators play important roles when evaluating mobile communications system performances. The first half of this tutorial will present state-of-the-art radio channel simulator technologies that can simulate spatial and temporal spreads, multi-dimensional structure of the radio channels, and MIMO channel structure. A lot of new ideas, including various ways of the use of simulators in each phase of the product development, are introduced. The second half of this tutorial will cover issues of future simulator design. Methodologies for evaluating performances of radio access schemes, signal processing, and modulation and coding in realistic environments will be presented. Results of simulations conducted to evaluate a single carrier MIMO system with Turbo signal detection techniques, using filed measurement data gathered in real fields, will also be presented.

Tommi Jämsä received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Oulu University, Finland in 1995. He joined Solitra Oy, Finland, in 1990. Jämsä participated in duplex filter and radio modem projects. In 1993, he moved to Elektrobit Ltd., Finland. Since then, his responsibility has been research and development projects of real-time broadband radio channel simulators and related products.

Tadashi Matsumoto received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 1978, 1980 and 1991, respectively. He joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) in April 1980. In March 1996 he moved to NTT DoCoMo where he researched adaptive signal processing and Turbo equalization techniques for broadband mobile communications. In May 2002 he moved to Oulu University, Finland, where he is serving as professor at the Center for Wireless Communications. Matsumoto is a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE VT society.


Monday, 17 March


14:00 ­ 17:30, Room 201-202

T3. Traffic Engineering for 3G/WLAN Networks

Mooi Choo Chuah and Santosh Abraham, Lucent Technologies, USA

This tutorial will provide overviews of traffic engineering issues for packet based wireless networks and of 3G (CDMA2000/UMTS) architecture. It will also provide descriptions of the different multimedia services of particular interest to network operators. Stochastic traffic characterization of these services will be given along with their QoS requirements. The tutorial will also present QoS architecture and discuss how QoS engineering can be done at Radio Access Network and Core Network. Additionally, it will include discussion of how scheduling/buffer management schemes can be used at radio access network and core network to meet different delay/jitter/loss requirements. Then, we describe typical WLAN architectures and how 802.11 MAC works. The tutorial concludes with a discussion of how to engineer integrated WLAN/3G networks.

Mooi Choo Chuah is a technical manager in the Advanced Technologies division of Bell Laboratories at Lucent Technologies. Chuah has over 30 publications covering topics in media access control, power control algorithms, mobility management and TCP performance. She has been awarded 14 patents (WLAN MAC, mobility management, etc.) and has more than 40 pending. She joined Bell Labs in 1991 after receiving her Ph.D. in ECE from the University of California at San Diego. Her current research interests are mobility management, QoS/traffic management in 4G networks, MPLS, DDOS, future WLAN design and ad hoc networking routing protocols.

Santosh Abraham is a member of the technical staff in the Advanced Technologies division of Bell Laboratories at Lucent Technologies. He has worked on MAC layer design for wireless internet system and traffic management issues in 3G networks. Abraham joined Bell Labs in 1999 after receiving his Ph.D. in ECE from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His current research interests are QoS management in 3G & 4G networks, future WLAN design and ad hoc networking routing protocols.


Monday, 17 March


14:00 ­ 17:30, Room 205

T4. CDMA2000 1xEV-DV

Young C. Yoon, Shiau-He Tsai and Aleksandar D. Damnjanovic, Ericsson Wireless Communications, USA

The CDMA2000 family of standards is based upon code division multiple access (CDMA) technology and is one of the defined modes in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 3G wireless standard. The early releases of the CDMA2000 standard support high-speed data transmission (up to 307.2 kbps) using dedicated data channels. The latest release, Release C, significantly increases the efficiency of the air interface by introducing a high-speed shared packet data channel (with a peak data rate of 3.091 Mbps) while maintaining backward compatibility with previous releases. This release, commonly referred to as 1xEV-DV (for 1xRTT Evolution for high-speed integrated Data and Voice), was approved in May 2002 by the Telecommunication Industry Association (TIA) and submitted to ITU for inclusion in the next revision of its 3G standard.

This tutorial will cover a number of key features of 1xEV-DV, including the design of the high-speed shared data channel, its components (Hybrid-ARQ, link adaptation, modulation and coding, scheduling, cell-switching, channel supervision, control/hold etc.), MAC, and the effect of mixing data and voice services. It will also discuss in detail how 1xEV-DV exploits the channel and data structure to significantly increase the spectral efficiency.

Young C. Yoon received a B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto, Canada in 1989, a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Yokohama National University, Japan, in 1993 and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1998. From 1996 to 1997 he was a Research Assistant with the Telecommunications and Signal Processing Laboratory at McGill. From 1998 to 2001, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Centre for Wireless Communications at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He was a co-recipient of the Telecom System Technology Prize from the Telecommunication Advancement Foundation, Japan, in 1995 for contributions to interference cancellation techniques in CDMA systems. During the fall of 2000, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Advanced Telecommunications Laboratory, SONY Computer Sciences Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan. He is presently a Staff Engineer with Ericsson Wireless Communications, Inc. in San Diego, U.S.A.

Shiau-He Tsai received his B.S. degree from Catholic Fu-Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan in 1991, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA in 1995 and 2000, respectively. From 1995 to 2000, he was a teaching and research assistant in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and participated in the Small Unit Operations and the Global Mobile Computing programs of the Defense Advanced Research Agency. He also helped in the establishment of the Spread Spectrum and Satellite Communications Lab. He is currently a Staff Engineer at Ericsson Wireless Communications, San Diego, California. Tsai has published more than 10 journal and conference papers. His research interests include spread spectrum and satellite communications, error control coding, digital signal processing, and wireless fading channels.

Aleksandar D. Damnjanovic received his Diploma in electrical engineering from University of Nis, Yugoslavia in 1994 and D.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the George Washington University in 2000. In July 2000 he joined Ericsson Wireless Communications Inc. in San Diego, California, where he is currently Staff Engineer working on the wireless CDMA systems. His areas of interests are algorithms and architectures for wireless communications, with emphasis on evolution of third-generation wireless networks, cdma2000 1xEV-DV in particular.