Tutorial 01: "The 4 MIMOs and Cross-layer Operation Aided Intelligent Networking"
Instructor(s): Prof. Lajos Hanzo (Univ of Southampton)

T-01: "The 4 MIMOs and Cross-layer Operation Aided Intelligent Networking"

Instructor(s): Prof. Lajos Hanzo (Univ of Southampton)

Overview
This research-oriented presentation is based on theWiley/IEEE Press monographs and considers the joint benefits of both MIMO-aided adaptive physical and adaptive network-layer performance enhancement techniques, with special emphasis on the latter. More specifically, conventional systems would drop a call in progress, if the communications quality falls below the target quality of service and it 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, whilst maintaining the same AVERAGE performance as their conventional fixed-mode counterparts. The further benefits of employing cutting-edge MIMO-aided transceivers will also be explored and quantified.

Biography
Lajos Hanzo received his first-class Master degree in electronics in 1976, his PhD in 1983 and his Doctor of Sciences (DSc) degree in 2004. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). During his career in telecommunications he has held various research and academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he has been with the School of ECS,University of Southampton, UK, where holds the Chair in Telecommunications. He co-authored 12 books totalling 8000 pages on mobile radio communications, published in excess of 600 research papers, organised and chaired conference sessions, presented overview lectures and has been awarded a number of distinctions. Currently he heads an academic research team, working on a range of research projects in the field of wireless multimedia communications sponsored by industry, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK, the European IST Programme and theMobile Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE), UK. He is an enthusiastic supporter of industrial and academic liaison and he offers a range of industrial courses. Lajos is also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of both the Communications as well as the Vehicular Technology Society and a Fellow of both the IEE and IEEE. For further information on research in 2 progress and associated publications please refer to http://wwwmobile. ecs.soton.ac.uk

T-02: "Next Generation Wireless Technologies: High Throughput WiFi , WiMAX, and UWB"

Prof. Raj Jain (Washington University in Saint Louis)

Overview
This course on the latest advances in wireless data networking is designed for Engineers and Managers involved in the design and deployment of wireless equipment. In addition to providing an overview of the technology, issues and standards, it also covers the technical aspects. After a brief introduction to WiFi (IEEE 802.11) technology, we discuss the technological developments that enable high-speed IEEE 802.11n LANs. We present and compare these different proposals. The second part of the course is on broadband wireless access using WiMAX. Technical developments that allow WiMAX to provide high-speed communication over a long distance are explained. The key features of various versions of IEEE 802.16 (802.16, 802.16a, 802.16d) are presented. The mobile broadband access 802.16e is also described. Again technology, industial status, and products are discussed. Finally Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) technology for high-speed personal area networks is covered.

Biography
Raj Jain is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University, St. Louis, MO. He is also Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Nayna Networks, Inc - a next generation broadband access equipment company in San Jose, CA. Until August 2002, he was a Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Jain is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the ACM. He has served on the Board of Technical Advisors to several companies including Nexabit Networks (Westborough, MA.) which was acquired by Lucent Corporation (March 1997-1999), and Amber Networks (Fremont, CA.) acquired by Nokia (1999-2001). He is the author of ``Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis,'' which won the 1991 ``Best-Advanced How-to Book, Systems'' award from the Computer Press Association. His fourth book entitled " High-Performance TCP/IP: Concepts, Issues, and Solutions," was published by Prentice Hall in November 2003. Based on his active participation in the computer industry, Dr. Jain was awarded the 1999 siliconindia Leadership Awards for Excellence and Promise in Business and Technology. For his publications and talks, see http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/

T-03: "Creating and Protecting Intellectual Property Rights"

Instructor(s): Dion Messer (Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP)

Overview
In this age of growing intellectual property rights for hardware, software and business processes, it is imperative that developers understand what those rights are and the mechanisms used to protect them. Failing to adequately protect designs may leave its owners and developers with no recourse should a third party misappropriate the design or implementation. Obtaining and enforcing patents has never been more important to companies than it is today all over the world. Patent infringement suits cost millions to defend, and courts can order permanent injunctions preventing a losing party from making, selling, and using an infringing device. An accusing party can also petition the International Trade Commission to instigate an investigation into allegedly infringing products that are imported into the US. If the Commission finds that such products infringe a patent, it will prohibit any future imports and order the destruction of existing products in the US. This tutorial explains how intellectual property rights can be protected through patents, copyrights, and trade secrets. It gives an overview of international law and how to perfect international rights in the United States. It compares and contrasts the procurement, cost, and scope of protection of all three. It also addresses protecting hardware and software from both the outside—theft by a third party—as well as from the inside—theft by transient employees, contractors, etc. Intellectual property rights are further complicated by the fact that three sets of ownership rules govern contractors, regular employees hired to develop the software, and other employees. This tutorial explains the differences in those rules for each type of protection and their implications to both organizations and individuals.

Biography
Dion Messer is a patent litigator with Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. She is an intellectual property attorney licensed in Texas, California, and at the PTO. Education: JD, University of Texas School of Law; MS Electrical Engineering, University of Texas; and BS Electrical Engineering, New Mexico State University. She was a clerk to the Honorable William Bryson on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Prior to practicing law, she was an active co-owner of Objective Engineering, Inc., a company that provides training and consulting in object technology, and an engineer for 18 years. She has nine patents and has published extensively in the area of digital signal processing.

T-04: "Broadband Convergence Network and Associated Technologies"

Instructor(s): Prof. Abbas Jamilpour (Univ of Sydney, Aus)

Overview
The advent of mobile multimedia applications with high bandwidth and quality of service requirements has initiated a new era in telecommunications technology. At the same time, transportation of multimedia traffic has been diverted the telecommunications R&D to the advancement of existing and emerging technologies including 3G cellular networks (UMTS and cdma2000) and their next generation 4G, IEEE 802.16e (known as mobile WiMax), and IEEE 802.20 (known as Mobile-Fi). All these activities merge within the original concept of the realization of broadband wireless IP in a wide area of coverage. Toward such goal, the convergence of mobile and fixed networks becomes an important issue as it will provide new business models for the communications systems and generate new applications. Broadband convergence Network (BcN), therefore, becomes a vital term toward the implementation of next generation mobile networks and the broadband wireless IP. In BcN, interconnection among heterogeneous networks both on horizontal and vertical structures, interaction among network-dependent elements of those networks, as well as security, billing, and quality of service policies (including scheduling and admission control) must be carefully designed. The seamless movement of a subscribed user from the home network to a visiting network using a unique multimode handheld device will therefore create new problems to be solved by the telecommunications researchers. In this tutorial, fundamental concepts and specifications of the above technologies will be reviewed. It will be discussed whether these technologies can fulfill the requirements of the mobile Internet service in achieving seamless mobility and QoS guarantee for a variety of multimedia applications including both real-time and non-real-time traffic. Providing backward compatibility with the existing (and advanced) technologies and the use of already available telecommunications infrastructure will be considered as the main factors in feasibility and sustainability study of any new technology for being a real player in the future broadband wireless Internet.

This tutorial contains brief reviews of several key technologies related to the topic of broadband convergence network, with concluding discussion on their role in BcN. The tutorial will provide a detailed feasibility study of how these technologies can work together and the key factors toward the realization of BcN as part of next generation mobile networks.

Biography
Abbas Jamalipour received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. He is a Professor at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia, where he is responsible for teaching and research in wireless data communication networks, wireless IP networks, network security, and satellite systems. He is the author for the first technical book on networking aspects of wireless IP, The Wireless Mobile Internet - Architectures, Protocols and Services (New York: Wiley, 2003). In addition, he has authored another book on satellite communication networks, Low Earth Orbital Satellites for Personal Communication Networks (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1998) and coauthored five other technical books in wireless telecommunications. He has authored over 180 papers in major journals and international conferences, and given short courses and tutorials in major international conferences. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Wireless Communications, a Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications, and the International Journal of Communication Systems, and several other journals. Professor Jamalipour is a voting member of IEEE GITC and has been a Vice Chair of IEEE WCNC2003-2006, Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM2005 (Wireless Communications), and a symposium Co-Chair at IEEE ICC2005-2007, and IEEE GLOBECOM2006. He is a Fellow of IEAust; a Fellow of IEEE; Past Chair of IEEE Communications Society Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee; Chair of Asia-Pacific Board, Coordinating Committee Chapter; and Vice Chair of Communications Switching and Routing Technical Committee. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society.

T-06: "Introduction to Project Management for Telecommunications Projects"

Instructor(s): Celia Desmond (World Class – Telecommunications)

Overview
Do you ever wonder what makes a project successful, or what else you can do to achieve better results on your projects? Numerous problems cause many projects either to fail, or to create considerable difficulty for the project team. There are techniques that can be implemented which have been shown to make projects more successful and to make life easier for the project manager and the team. This short seminar provides broad coverage of project management methods, supplemented by real project examples from the telecommunications environment. Each process area described in the Project Management Institute's "Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" will be covered, including Project Integration, Scope Management, Cost Management, Time Management, Risk Management, Procurement Management, Quality Management, Communications Management, Human Resources. Techniques addressing each of these areas can be applied to engineering projects large or small, no matter how simple or complex.
This tutorial is of value to anyone who works on projects in telecommunications companies, or the telecom/ electronic communications areas of other companies. The course illustrates the concepts and techniques that project managers and their teams need to use in order to successfully complete their projects within budget and schedule with quality work and products. So any project team member can benefit. Thus the audience includes: • People in telecommunications companies, in both line and staff functions, who manage either large or small projects. Project can be service or product oriented, or process projects. • People in related industries such as internet providers or companies making products for telecommunications could find the information useful • People in other fields can also benefit from the material by considering examples from their own field

This seminar illustrates the value of project management techniques,and gives the attendees an opportunity to apply some of the key techniques to electronic communications projects. The seminar is not focused on telecommunications technologies. Instead it focuses on bringing these technologies to fruition via successful projects. The seminar links the business aspects with the technical aspects of the technical works, and bridges the fields of IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Engineering Management Society.

Biography
Celia Desmond is President of World Class – Telecommunications, which provides training in management skills in business and telecommunications engineering environments. She was instrumental in creating a Masters Program and a Certificate Program at University of Toronto. She has lectured internationally on programs for success in today’s changing environment. At Stentor Resource Centre Inc. she was instrumental in establishing the Stentor culture and processes, and in obtaining buy-in from the employees to adopt and grow the new organization. She developed and implemented processes for service/product development and for project governance. As Director - Industry Liaison, she was the external technical linkage to the Stentor owner companies, their customers, and the international technical community In various positions at Bell Canada, Celia provided strategic direction to corporate planners, ran technology and service trials, standardized equipment, and issued guidelines for the member companies. In Celia's previous line positions, her groups provided technical and project management support to large business clients. She is author of Project management for Telecommunications Managers, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers (now Springer). Celia is the 2006 IEEE Vice President – Technical Activities. She is also Vice President Membership for IEEE Engineering Management Society. She was 2002-2003 President of IEEE Communications Society. In 2000-2001 Celia was President of IEEE Canada, and she served her second term on the Board of Directors of IEEE as Region 7 Director. She was 1997-1998 Division III Director. She has twice served in the IEEE Audit Committee, including serving as Chair, and actively participated in numerous other TAB, RAB, IEEE and Society committees. She was 2004 Chair of the IEEE Transnational Committee. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the IEEE Canada Foundation where she is the Donations Chair. Celia was awarded the Donald J. McLellan Award for meritorious service to IEEE Communications Society, the Engineering Institute of Canada John B. Sterling Medal in May 2000, and the IEEE Millennium award. She is a Senior Member of IEEE. Celia holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, a B.Sc. in Mathematics & Psychology from Queens University, an Ontario Teaching Certificate and a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. Celia has taught kindergarten, high school, and at three universities, Ryerson School of Business, Stevens Institute of Technology, and University of Toronto.

T-07: "Availability-Based Service Provisioning in Backbone Networks"

Instructor(s): Dr Dominic Schupke (Nokia Siemens Networks)

Overview
Optical networks are critical infrastructures, serving a large number of users and being subject to various outages (caused by failures, attacks, …) Users depend on continuous service operation, for which protection and restoration mechanisms are installed in the network. Thereby a desired availability level can be achieved for the user. Availability levels are defined in service level agreements (SLAs) between the user and the network operator. In traditional approaches, paths in the network are provisioned without inclusion of the service availability, potentially missing target availabilities. Novel approaches take service availability directly into account, and, thus, the path design can guarantee that target availabilities are met. The aim is to achieve design optimality subject to availability constraints, which are, however, often challenging because of their non-linear nature. Several solutions for availability-based service provisioning have been recently proposed. After establishing a terminology and model framework, the tutorial summarizes these approaches and identifies further research issues within the field. Many of the methodologies do not only apply to optical networks, but are also usable for other network technologies. The tutorial is rather an “in-depth” treatment of the topic.

Biography
Dominic A. Schupke received his Dipl.-Ing. degree from RWTH Aachen in 1998 and his Dr.-Ing. degree (with distinction) from Munich University of Technology (TUM) in 2004. From 1998 to 2004 he was research and teaching staff member of the Institute of Communication Networks at TUM. In 2004 he joined the research and development department of Siemens, Corporate Technology, in Munich, Germany. There, he is Senior Research Scientist and Competence Field Manager of the Network Configuration and Planning Group in the Optical Networks and Transmission Department. His research interests include network architectures and protocols, routing and wavelength assignment, recovery methods, availability analysis, network optimization, and network planning. Dominic has been as technical program committee member for the conferences DRCN, Globecom, ICC, and ONDM. He is member of IEEE, ITG/VDE, and VDI.

T-08: "Peer-to-Peer Technologies for Next Generation Communication Systems – Basic Principles and Advanced Issues"

Instructor(s): Wolfgang Kellerer (DoCoMo Comms Labs (EU)) Prof. Jörg Eberspächer, Gerald Kunzmann, Stefan Zöls (Munich U.of Tech.)

Overview
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems can be regarded as decentralized and self organizing overlay architectures, independent of specific access networks. Self organization makes them robust and flexible to dynamic changes without provider interaction. Their main objective is to support to find and use distributed resources. P2P technologies have thus received an increased interest in academia and also in industry in different application areas not limited to file sharing but also in communication application such as Skype. The potential of P2P is in the realization of novel applications (user generated content, community based services) and also in applying its principles to use existing resources in a more clever way to save infrastructure cost. This tutorial explains P2P principles and their advanced issues in two parts. Part 1 of the tutorial is addressing the basic principles of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communications. We explain the concepts and algorithms of structured (DHT based) and unstructured P2P systems, which are the two main concepts used for resource lookup. Both concepts will be explained and illustrated with examples about analysis, traffic evaluations and applications. We will also elaborate on basic algorithms for P2P data delivery once a resource is found (example: BitTorrent). Part 2 of the tutorial is addressing advanced issues of P2P communications along selected topic areas. We will describe the application of P2P for Voice over IP systems, P2P security, P2P for mobile communications and P2P principles applied to mobile ad hoc networks.

Biographies
Wolfgang Kellerer is heading the Ubiquitous Services Platform research group at NTT DoCoMo's European Research laboratories in Munich, Germany. His research interests include mobile service platforms, peer-to-peer, sensor networks and cross-layer design. In 2004 and 2005 he has served as the elected Vice Chairman of the Working Group 2 (Service Architecture) of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF). He is member of the editorial board of Elseviers International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking (COMNET) and serves as guest editor for a IEEE Communications Magazine feature topic in 2006. He has published over 50 papers in respective journals, conferences and workshops in the area of service platforms and mobile networking and filed more than 18 patents. Before he joined DoCoMo Euro-Labs, he has been a member of the research and teaching staff at the Institute of Communication Networks at Munich University of Technology (TUM). In 2001 he was a visiting researcher at the Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University, California, US. He received a Dipl.-Ing. Univ. (MSc) and a Dr.-Ing. (PhD) degree in electrical engineering and information technology from Munich University of Technology, Germany, in December 1995 and in January 2002, respectively. He is still related to TUM, regularly lecturing on “Advanced Networks and Services” (WS 06/07, WS 05/06, WS 04/05, SS 04 and WS 03/04, further invited lectures). He is a member of IEEE ComSoc, the ACM, and the German VDE/ITG.

Jörg Eberspächer studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he received the Dr.-Ing. degree in 1976. 1977 he joined Siemens AG, Munich, Germany, where he was responsible, in various positions, for research and development in the fields of high speed networks (LAN, ATM) and computer-PBX interaction. In 1990 he was appointed full professor and head of the Institute of Communication Networks at the Munich University of Technology (TUM). His main research areas are peer-to-peer communication, mobile ad hoc networking, next generation Internet and network resilience. He is guest professor at the Tongji University, Shanghai, China, co-author of the book "GSM Global System for Mobile Communication", editor of the journal "European Transactions on Telecommunications" (ETT) and chair or member of several scientific advisory committees of European research institutes. He was chairman of the German Information Technology Society (VDE/ITG) from 2000 to 2002, and is senior member IEEE.

Gerald Kunzmann studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Munich University of Technology with branch of study in communication networks. In his bachelor thesis he analysed the topology of the Gnutella P2P-Overlay, and his diploma thesis dealt with the feasibility of a distributed procedure for measuring different network parameters. Since March 2004 he works as member of the research staff at the institute of communication networks. His main research interests are the stability and resilience of structured P2P networks, as well as the deployment of P2P methods in Voice-Over-IP applications.

Stefan Zoels received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Munich University of Technology (TUM) in 2003. In his diploma thesis, he worked on the simulation and visualization of mobile Ad Hoc networks. Since 2004 he is working as a member of the Peer-to-Peer-Group at the Institute of Communication Networks at TUM. His research interests include the analysis and development of P2P concepts with a special focus on mobile P2P networking.

T-09: "Reconfigurable Technology for MIMO-OFDM Systems with a focus on 802.16/802.16e"

Instructor(s): Dr Raghu M Rao, Dr Chris Dick (Xilinx Inc)

Overview
High data rate applications are driving the need for high throughput and spectrally efficient broadband communication systems. Efficient modulation schemes and multiple antenna techniques are being explored for such applications. MIMO-OFDM is one such promising technology. OFDM modulation has been adopted by almost all the major broadband wireless standards such as, 802.11a/g, DVB-T/DVB-H, 802.16, UWB, etc. MIMO-OFDM is also finding its way into some of the newer standards such as 802.11n and 802.16e. The key aspects of all of these standards are reliability and high-throughput. Mobility is also a key factor in some of these standards. In this tutorial we will start off by discussing the wireless propagation environment and study the characteristics of the wireless environment in the presence of scattering and mobility. We will introduce the audience to the key concepts of OFDM and MIMO-OFDM systems, relating aspects of information theory that led to the development of MIMO-OFDM systems. We will then consider the practical issues related to OFDM system and receiver algorithms, including feedback MIMO systems, the impact of RF and analog impairments on OFDM and MIMO-OFDM systems. The 802.16/802.16e physical layer will be discussed and will be used to exemplify the various aspects of OFDM and MIMO-OFDM technology. In addition we will discuss architectural aspects of FPGAs that make them a popular choice for developing wireless communication systems at the basestation, given their configurability and time to market advantages. Newer generation FPGAs also have dedicated fabric for efficient implementation of DSP and communication systems. Newer, higher level design methodologies, further improve this time to market advantage of FPGAs. We will briefly discuss these methodologies and also introduce some of the DSP and communication centric features of popular FPGAs.

The participants will learn about basic concepts of wireless propagation environment, will get a thorough understanding of OFDM and MIMO-OFDM systems and Mobile WiMax. They will also get a thorough understanding of FPGAs, design methodologies and communication and signal processing architectures for FPGAs.

Biographies
Dr. Raghu Rao is a Senior Staff communications Systems Engineer in the Advanced Systems Technology Group at Xilinx Inc. He has a PhD in wireless communications from UCLA where his thesis topic was Performance Analysis of MIMO-OFDM Systems. Prior to joining Xilinx Raghu worked for Texas Instruments, Logic Modeling Corporation and was the Director of Engineering at Exemplar Logic. Most recently Raghu was the VP of engineering for a communications start-up developing MIMO-OFDM and DVB-H technologies. From 1999-2004 he was a fulltime PhD candidate researching algorithms for MIMO-OFDM wireless communication systems. From 1989-1992 he was at Texas Instruments (India) Pvt. Ltd. where he worked on placement and routing algorithms for ASICs and FPGAs. Between 1992 and 1994 he was involved in developing software for hardware modelers at Logic Modeling Corp. From 1994-1999 he was at Exemplar Logic Inc. where he worked on timing analysis and timing optimization algorithms for FPGA designs and later on was Director of Engineering where he was responsible for all of Exemplar Logic’s engineering activities. His interests are in digital communication algorithms, signal processing and efficient DSP and communication algorithms for FPGAs.

Dr Chris Dick is the DSP Chief Scientist at Xilinx. Chris has worked with signal processing technology for two decades and his work has spanned the commercial, military and academic sectors. Prior to joining Xilinx in 1997 he was a professor at La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia for 13 years and managed a DSP Consultancy called Signal Processing Solutions. He has been an invited speaker at many international signal processing symposiums and workshops and has authored more than 70 journal and conference publications, including many papers in the fields of parallel computing, inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR), FPGA implementation of wireless communication system PHYs and the use of FPGA custom computing. Chris' work and research interests are in the areas of fast algorithms for signal processing, digital communication, software defined radios, VLSI architectures for DSP, adaptive signal processing, synchronization, hardware architectures for real-time signal processing, and the use of Field Programmable Arrays (FPGAs) for custom computing machines and real-time signal processing. He holds a bachelor’s and PhD degrees in the areas of computer science and electronic engineering.

T-10: "Distributed Signal Processing for Wireless Sensor Networks"

Instructor(s): Prof. Georgios Giannakis (Univ of Minnesota USA)

Overview
Recent technological advances have led to the emergence of small, low-power sensors with limited on-board processing and wireless communication capabilities. When deployed in large numbers, these devices have the ability to form an intelligent network which can measure aspects and identities of the physical environment in unprecedented scale and precision. Such sensor networks can be employed in situation awareness applications such as environmental monitoring (air, water, and soil), smart factory instrumentation, military surveillance, precision agriculture, intelligent transportation and space exploration, to name a few. To fully exploit the potential of sensor networks, it is essential to take advantage of power and bandwidth efficient communications and signal processing algorithms which can be implemented in a distributed manner. Responding to the growing interest on wireless sensor networks, this tutorial will provide a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art with emphasis on the unique features and challenging research directions.

Biography
G. B. Giannakis (Fellow'97) received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Ntl. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece, 1981. From 1982 to 1986 he was with the Univ. of Southern California (USC), where he received his MSc. in Electrical Engineering, 1983, MSc. in Mathematics, 1986, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1986. Since 1999 he has been a professor with the ECE Department at the University of Minnesota, where he now holds an ADC Chair in Wireless Telecommunications. His general interests span the areas of communications, networking and statistical signal processing - subjects on which he has published more than 250 journal papers, 400 conference papers, two edited books, and two upcoming research monographs on Space-Time Coding for Broadband Wireless Communications (Wiley 2006) and Ultra-Wideband Wireless Communications (Cambridge Press 2007). Current research focuses on diversity techniques, complex-field and space-time coding, multicarrier, cooperative wireless communications, cognitive radios, cross-layer designs, mobile ad hoc and wireless sensor networks. G. B. Giannakis is the (co-) recipient of six paper awards from the IEEE Signal Processing (SP) and Communications Societies including the G. Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications. He also received Technical Achievement Awards from the SP Society (2000), from EURASIP (2005), a Young Faculty Teaching Award and the G. W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Research from the University of Minnesota. He has served the IEEE in numerous posts and has delivered plenary and tutorial talks in many IEEE Conferences.

T-11: "Next Generation Multimedia Transmission and Storage Technologies"

Instructor(s): Prof. Bahram Honary, Dr Vladimir Stankovic, Dr Lina Fagoonee (Univ of Lancaster)

Overview
The tutorial addresses high-speed, high-capacity networks and storage for tomorrow’s ever-growing multimedia content distribution. It aims at highlighting the latest advances in digital multimedia communications and storage technologies and the newest standardization issues for digital video broadcasting (DVB). It also offers an insight into next generation smart multimedia technologies, such as distributed multimedia processing and transmission.

The tutorial will comprise three key themes linked by the need to achieve reliable high-speed multimedia transmission and storage. 1. Migration to capacity-approaching codes for Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) a. Overview of DVB-T, DVB-M, DVB-S, DVB-S2 b. Capacity-approaching channel coding and hierarchical modulation c. Standardization issues (e.g., backwards compatibility, long-term migration) 2. Emerging multimedia communications technologies based on distributed source coding (DSC) a. Practical DSC code design with capacity-approaching channel codes b. Wyner-Ziv video coding c. DVB based on DSC principles 3. 4th generation optical storage with up to 100GB capacity a. Signal processing techniques for increasing data rate and capacity b. Multilevel two-dimensional optical storage c. Symbol detection and error protection The tutorial is designed for graduate students, engineers, and researchers in academia/industry working in the fields of multimedia communications, communication theory, multimedia signal processing, and storage.

Driven by a host of numerous multimedia applications (such as video-on-demand, interactive digital TV, 3G mobile communications, large data-bases, archiving and back-ups), today’s society is facing an increasing demand for higher transmission capacity and storage density. This tutorial will study the current trends and emerging technologies that facilitate ubiquitous availability and instantaneous access to large amounts of multimedia data.

Biography
Prof Bahram Honary received his MSc in Digital communications and PhD in Error protection techniques for bursty channels from University of Kent at Canterbury (UK) in 1976 and 1982, respectively. He was appointed to the Chair of Communications Engineering at Lancaster University in 1992, where he currently leads an internationally recognized research group of over 30 students and staff. He is a regular member of international conference Programme and Organizing Committees. Prof Honary is the chairman of IEEE Chapter of Information Theory for the UK and Republic of Ireland which received the best chapter award for 2004. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Applications (IMA). He has coauthored a book on “Trellis Decoding of Block Codes: A Practical Approach”, co-edited 11 books on the related areas, and published in excess of 450 research papers. His current research interests include channel coding, in particular capacity-approaching codes and application to radio communication channels and multimedia communications and storage, secure communication applications, power line communication systems, and modem design.

Dr Vladimir Stankovic received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 2000, and the Dr.-Ing. degree from the University of Leipzig, Germany, in 2003. From 2002 to 2003 he was with the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, Germany. From June 2003 to February 2006, he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, first as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and then as a Research Assistant Professor. In February 2006, Dr Stankovic joined the Department of Communication Systems, Lancaster University, UK, as a lecturer. Over the past five years Dr Stankovic has published 50 papers in leading scientific journals and prestigious international conference proceedings. He has served on the Programme and Organizing Committees of international conferences, and has given many invited talks. He has taught a number of undergraduate and graduate-level courses in the area of communications and signal processing. Dr Stankovic serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Communication Letters. His research focuses on multimedia networking, network information theory, wireless communications, wireless ad hoc/sensor networks, and security.

Dr Lina Fagoonee received her first-class BEng (Hons) degree in 1999 in Electronic Communication Systems and PhD in 2003 from Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. From May 2004, she has been with the Department of Communication Systems, Lancaster University, as a lecturer. Dr Fagoonee has significant experience with industry, having worked with BT Research Labs in Ipswich, QinetiQ, and Philips Research Eindhoven. Dr Fagoonee has been actively engaged in research for the past five years publishing over 20 papers in peer reviewed international journals and conference proceedings. She is the student liaison representative for the IEEE Chapter of Information Theory for the UK and Republic of Ireland and mentor in an IEEE initiative for women in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET). She has served on the Programme and Organizing Committees of international conferences and has given many invited talks to industry and academia. Dr Fagoonee has a rich teaching experience and was nominated for a teaching prize for her innovative approach towards disseminating math-intensive material to an audience with varying mathematical backgrounds. Her research interests include error protection, channel estimation and modeling, signal processing, including equalization and synchronization, multifunctional techniques, all with applications in (but not limited to) wireless communications and storage.

T-12: "An Intuitive Approach to Error-Correction Coding: How we (Virtually) Reached the Shannon Limit "

Instructor(s): Dr Bernard Sklar (Communications Engineering Services)

Overview
Block codes, convolutional codes, and trellis-coded modulation represent the core techniques for obtaining coding gain. We review these fundamentals by briefly addressing: how to generate codes, how to decode them, the advantage of non-binary codes (such as Reed-Solomon) in bursty noise, the benefits of soft-decisions, and how they are implemented with Viterbi decoding of convolutional codes. Owing to recent developments, soft-decision decoding has now become very important for block codes - which leads to the main thrust of this tutorial - examining the remarkable coding strides accomplished in this decade. These advances, which are bringing digital system performance extremely close to the theoretical limitation of what is possible, entail the use of iterative decoding techniques which we examine by using turbo-code and low-density parity-check (LDPC) code examples. We focus on the remarkable performance of LDPC, and demonstrate the workings of the message-passing algorithm used with such iterative decoding methods. In general, we strive to present the key developments of the past nearly-60 years in a way that is easy-to understand and very intuitive.

Biography
Dr. Bernard Sklar has 50 years of electrical engineering experience at companies that include Hughes Aircraft, Litton Industries, and The Aerospace Corporation. At Aerospace, he helped develop the MILSTAR satellite system, and was the principal architect for EHF Satellite Data Link Standards. He is currently the Director of Advanced Systems at Communications Engineering Services, a company he founded in 1984. He has taught engineering courses at several universities, including the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California, and has presented numerous training programs throughout the world. Dr. Sklar has published and presented scores of technical papers. He is the recipient of the 1984 Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society for his tutorial series on digital communications, and he is the author of the book, Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2001. His academic credentials include a B.S. degree in Math and Science from the University of Michigan, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York, and a Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.

T-14: "Routing, TE and Resilience in Heterogeneous Optical Networks"

Instructor(s): A/Prof. Tibor Cinkler, (Budapest U.of Tech. & Econ.)

Overview
Heterogeneous networks based on optical transmission and eventually optical switching are a hot topic as well as the efficient resource management methods. The networks are moving from simple provisioned to on-demand switched capabilities. Although the standardization gives a framework for how to do routing, TE and Protection/Restoration in networks, this framework does not give methods (models and algorithms) for their implementation in a heterogeneous environment.

Participants will understand the hottest trends in optical-based heterogeneous networks as well as some interesting properties of resource control and management. A SWOT-like (SWOT: Strength Weakness Opportunity Thread) analysis of some approaches and strategies will be given illustrated by simulation results.

The growth of the traffic in networks induced, among others, by new applications and the advance of optical technology have made clear that the networking of the forthcoming decades will definitively relay on optics. Not only the transmission links but also the network nodes as well as the metro and access parts are expected to become optical. This tutorial gives first an overview of optical networks in general, then it focuses onto the transport (backbone) part with starting with a short overview of networking techniques ranging from SONET and SDH through ATM/MPLS, ngSDH/SONET, OTN/DigitalWrapper, 10GbE, MPLambdaS/ASON and GMPLS/ASTN to OBS/OPS. The trends will be presented as well as the advantages and drawbacks of certain networking solutions, with special emphasis on common aspects and solutions reused by different techniques. The tutorial will give an overview of heterogeneous (Multi-Service, Multi-Layer, Multi- Domain, Multi-Provider, Multi-Vendor) networks with emphasis on vertical and horizontal interconnection and integration including the aspects of User (Data), Management and Control Planes. Then we will discuss and illustrate the problems of Routing, Traffic Engineering and Resilience in such heterogeneous networks as follows: Problems introduced by the networking evolution and the solution alternatives to these problems will be presented trying to answer among others the following questions: • What is better: static, dynamic or adaptive routing? • Should it be centralised, or distributed? • Should network domains be used to make the routing scalable? How? • What information aggregation strategies and what flooding mechanisms are needed for Multi-Domain Routing? • How to make this high capacity network more resistant to failures (Protection, restoration, fast reroute (FRR), Multi-Path Protection (MPP), p-cycle)? • How can the performance be improved through traffic engineering (TE)? • How can multilayer architectures be handled (overlay, peer and augmented interconnection models or the integrated MRN one)? • How do the layers impact granularity (e.g., sub-lambda granularity)? • How do Traffic, Wavelength (Lambda) and Waveband grooming improve throughput? • What about QoS and transparency? • What is the role of the User (Data), Control and Management Planes and through what interfaces and how do they cooperate? • What are the most promising services over these networks, e.g., (o)VPN (Virtual Private Network), (o)VON (Virtual Overlay Network), Leased Bandwidth, Leased Lambda, Bandwidth on Demand, Lambda on Demand? • What if we have multiple services, multiple layers and multiple domains within a network?

Biography
Tibor Cinkler (cinkler@tmit.bme.hu) has received M.Sc.('94) and Ph.D.('99) degrees from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, where he is currently associate professor at the Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics. His research interests focus on routing, TE, design, configuration, dimensioning and resilience of IP, MPLS, ATM, ngSDH and particularly of WR-DWDM based multilayer multi-domain networks. He leads a research team of 28 researchers including undergraduate (MSc) and graduate (PhD) students and he is author or co-author of over 120 scientific publications and of 3 patents. 2

T-15: "Distributed Cooperative Communication Networks - with application to cellular, ad hoc and sensor networks

Instructor(s): Dr Mischa Dohler (France Telecom), Prof. Hamid Aghvami (King's College)

Overview
This tutorial will be different from previous tutorials given by the same presenters. It will be an in-depth technical treatment of latest results having emerged in 2006 and 2007 on cooperative wireless systems. The focus will be on latest results in:

• realizable hardware and associated costs;
• distributed SISO and MIMO channel modeling;
• cooperative PHY (AF, LF, nLF, EF, CF, DF, PF and GF);
• cooperative MAC & Cross-Layer Design.

The aim of this tutorial is hence to expose an industrial and academic audience to the cutting-edge challenges related to the analysis, design and deployment of such cooperative wireless communication networks. We will discuss the applicability of above techniques to cellular, ad hoc and wireless sensor networks. Based on our unique industrial experiences, we will clearly pin-point the limits of cooperative wireless systems when used in wireless sensor and cellular networks. The participants will be equipped with a sufficient set of tools related to the analysis and optimization of such systems. They will be able to apply developed theories and tools to emerging problems in his/her own field of research. The attendee is expected to be well equipped in the functioning and understanding of modern communication systems. Knowledge in information theory, channel modeling, space-time code design and medium access control is advantageous but not vital. Since the topic of cooperative wireless systems is very new, the tutorial is intended to be self-consistent.

Biography
Dr. Mischa Dohler obtained his MSc degree in Telecommunications from King's College London, UK, in 1999, his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Dresden University of Technology, Germany, in 2000, and his PhD from King's College London in 2003. He has been lecturer at King's College London, Centre for Telecommunications Research, until June 2005. He is now Senior Research Expert in the R&D department of France Telecom working on distributed/cooperative communication systems, sensor networks and cognitive radio. In the framework of the Mobile VCE, he has pioneered research on distributed cooperative space-time encoded communication systems, dating back to December 1999. Prior to Telecommunications, he studied Physics in Moscow. He has won various competitions in Mathematics and Physics, and participated in the 3rd round of the International Physics Olympics for Germany. He has been Student Representative of the IEEE UKRI Section, member of the Student Activity Committee of IEEE Region 8 and the London Technology Network Business Fellow for King's College London. He has published over 90 technical journal and conference papers, holds several patents, co-edited and contributed to several books, and has given numerous international short-courses. He has been TPC member and co-chair of various conferences and is editor for the IEEE Communications Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, the IEEE Wireless Communications, the IET Communications (former IEE Proceedings in Communications), and the EURASIP JWCN journal. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. In addition to being an experienced lecturer in academia (5 years of MSc and BSc courses at King's College London at INSA Lyon) and industry (7 years at Mobile VCE and now in France Telecom), he has given seven – well attended – international short-courses: two on UMTS and Beyond at WPMC02 & ATAMS02, one on wireless sensor networks at PIMRC 2006, and four on distributed cooperative systems at VTC Spring 2004, VTC Spring 2006, COST273 and WCNC 2007.

Prof. Hamid Aghvami is presently the Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King’s College London. He has published over 300 technical papers and given invited talks all over the world on various aspects of Personal and Mobile Radio Communications as well as giving courses on the subject world wide. He was Visiting Professor at NTT Radio Communication Systems Laboratories in 1990 and Senior Research Fellow at BT Laboratories in 1998-1999. He is currently Executive Advisor to Wireless Facilities Inc., USA and Managing Director of Wireless Multimedia Communications LTD. He leads an active research team working on numerous mobile and personal communications projects for third and fourth generation systems, these projects are supported both by the government and industry. He is a distinguished lecturer and a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society. He has been member, Chairman, Vice-Chairman of the technical program and organizing committees of a large number of international conferences. He is also founder of PIMRC & ICT. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and fellow member of the IEEE and IEE.

T-16: "Traffic Engineering and Quality of Service Management for IP-based Next Generation Networks"

Instructor(s): Prof. George Pavlou (Univ. of Surrey)

Overview
Next Generation IP-based Networks will offer Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees by deploying technologies such as Differentiated Services (DiffServ) and Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) for traffic engineering and network-wide resource management. Despite the progress already made, a number of issues still exist regarding edge-to-edge intra-domain and inter-domain QoS provisioning and management. This tutorial will start by providing background on technologies such as DiffServ, MPLS and their potential combination for QoS support. It will subsequently introduce trends in Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Service Level Specifications (SLSs) for the subscription to QoS-based services It will then move to examine architectures and frameworks for the management and control of QoS-enabled networks, including the following aspects: approaches and algorithms for off-line traffic engineering and provisioning through explicit MPLS paths or through hop-by-hop IP routing; approaches for dynamic resource management to deal with traffic fluctuations outside the predicted envelope; a service management framework supporting a “resource provisioning cycle”; the derivation of expected traffic demand from subscribed SLSs and approaches for SLS invocation admission control; a monitoring architecture for scalable information collection supporting traffic engineering and service management; and realization issues given the current state-of-the-art of management protocols and monitoring support. The tutorial will also include coverage of emerging work towards inter-domain QoS provisioning and relevant industrial activities such as IPsphere. In all these areas, recent research work will be presented, with pointers to bibliography and a specially tailored Web page with additional resources.

Biography
Prof. George Pavlou holds the Chair of Communication and Information Systems at the Center for Communication Systems Research, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, University of Surrey, UK, where he leads the activities of the Networks Research Group (http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CCSR/Networks/). He received a Diploma in Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from University College London, UK. His research interests encompass network and service management, network planning and dimensioning, traffic engineering, quality of service, mobile ad hoc networks, service engineering, multimedia service control and management, code mobility, programmable networks and communications middleware. He is the author or co-author of over 120 papers in fully refereed international conferences and journals and has contributed to 4 books. He has also contributed to standardization activities in ISO, ITU-T, TMF and IETF. He was the technical program co-chair of IEEE/IFIP Integrated Management 2001 and he is co-editor of the bi-annual IEEE Communications Network and Service Management series.