Implementation of NLMS Algorithm for Echo Cancellation with MSC8102 EFCOP
Yehuda Nowogrodski, Motorola

Advanced Personal Portable Communication Systems
Haiying Zhu, Luc Boucher, CRC Industry Canada

Economic Benefit of Point-to-Point Radio for Wireless Backhaul Application in 3G Wireless Networks
Tony W. Wong, Univ. Texas at Arlington; Albert Ho, Liliana Deisel, Nortel Networks

Investments in Wireless Communications
Kevin Maroni, Spectrum Equity Investors

Railroad Industry Evolving Standard for Wireless Communications
Edward L. Furman, Nexterna

Dr. Al Javed is Vice President of Wireless Networks Technology at Nortel Networks. Since joining Nortel in 1977, he has held a number of management positions in the areas of system design, systems planning, technology development, and product development. Since 1988, he has led wireless R&D activities in Nortel Networks. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Alberta, Canada.

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology is at the forefront in the minds of the commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as they near completion of a final Report and Order which will make this technology legal for widespread commercial deployment. It is expected that the FCC issue these final rules by the end of 2001. There has been a lot of hype about the technology as providing the potential for very high data rates at much lower power levels than current technology with the added feature of extremely accurate position location capability on the order of centimeters. However, there are still questions about the long-term feasibility and robustness of the technology given its frequency overlay nature. This panel session will provide a timely discussion on the following important topics related to the future of UWB technology: coexistence of UWB waveforms with existing "narrowband" services, spectrum sharing and regulations of UWB technology, commercial and military applications for UWB technology, propagation characteristics of wideband signals, system considerations for UWB system design (modulation, multiple access, coding, etc.), and circuit implementation challenges (Analog/RF circuits, SiGe and/or CMOS integration, antenna design, etc.). The following panelists will provide the audience an excellent view into the commercial potential for this technology from leading companies developing it, an understanding of the regulations that will allow the technology to coexist with other wireless systems, and some of the challenges that merit further research in this field.

Chair:
Dr. Jeff Foerster joined Intel in August 2000 as a Wireless Researcher with Intel Labs in Hillsboro, Oregon. He is currently focusing on future short- and medium-range wireless technologies, including Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology and related regulations, system design, and performance analysis. Prior to joining Intel, he worked on Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) systems and standards (IEEE 802.16).

Panelists:
Dr. Robert Scholtz joined the faculty of the University of Southern California (USC) in 1963, where he is now Professor of Electrical Engineering. From 1984 through 1989, he served as Director of USC's Communication Sciences Institute. In 1996 he founded the Ultra-wideband Radio Laboratory as part of the Integrated Media Systems Center at USC.

Dr. Kazimierz (Kai) Siwiak, is Vice President - Strategic Development at Time Domain Corporation, Huntsville, AL, and is a recent recipient of the Dan Noble Fellow Award from Motorola Corporation. He holds more than 70 patents world-wide. He has written two textbooks and many book sections on radiowave propagation and antennas for personal communications. Prior to joining Time Domain, he held positions at Motorola and at Raytheon.

Dr. Roberto Aiello is former CTO of Fantasma Networks. At Interval Research, he led a project that built the first Ultra Wideband (UWB) network that connects consumer devices. His company grew from a research project to Fantasma Networks. Prior to joining Interval, he was with the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory in Texas.

Dr. Dale N. Hatfield is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to his current position, he was the Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the Federal Communications Commission and, immediately before that, he was Chief Technologist at the Agency.

Dr. John W. McCorkle co-founded XtremeSpectrum in 1998, leveraging 13 years experience in ultra-wideband (UWB) technology and more than 25 years experience in the successful development of a series of cutting edge radar, communication, and electronic systems. Prior to founding XSI, he founded the foliage penetration synthetic aperture radar (SAR) group at the US Army Research Laboratories, which led to a $30 million budget over 10 years. In this position he invented and supervised the development of the first system to successfully image military and civilian targets hidden behind foliage. He was the Army's lead scientist on UWB systems and in 1992, he received the US Army R&D Achievement Award for his contributions to UWB radar technology.

This session will focus on emerging topics in wireless start-ups, including experiences in the management of start-ups.

Using Runtime Reconfigurable Processor Arrays: From the System Specification to the Implementation
S.Eriksson-Bique, Armin Nueckel, M. Vorbach, PACT GmbK Munich

Next Generation LMDS Modems
Zvi Schichter, Provigent Ltd.

Taking Advantage of Multiple Wireless Communications Technologies
Edward L. Furman, Nexterna

Next Generation Mobile Application Protocol
Zhifeng Dong, WireGate Technology

Earlier generations (1G/2G/3G) are distinguished by a number of elements: the kinds and level of integration of services, the frequency bands being deployed, the data rate, the breakthrough hardware/communication technology, and software/protocol innovations. One purpose of this panel is to extrapolate and to speculate on how each of these elements may be formative and definitive for the 4th and 5th generation wireless networks. Let us elaborate further on these elements. Are high definition video services on the move made available in the next generation wireless networks? Are we moving to multiple 10ıs Gigahertz or even beyond 100 Gigahertz frequencies? Are new bands of Gigahertz frequencies being made available? What are the hardware breakthroughs (such as pulse radio, smart antenna, or high dimensional space time coding) required for the next generation? Do we anticipate the entire network to be Internet based, and perhaps be entirely ad-hoc? What level of mobility do we anticipate? What level of intelligence do we anticipate? The panel will speculate and debate on what is necessary for defining new generations of wireless networks and how an evolutionary if not revolutionary path be mapped for moving across the generations.

Joseph Hui is the International Switching Symposium Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He is also the Interim Director of the Telecommunications Research Center in the College of Engineering. He received all his degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Subsequently, he joined Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, just months before the breakup of the Bell System. He selected to work for Bell Communications Research and his focus then, just as he did at MIT, was on wireless multi-access communications, things like CDMA, optical communications, and satellite systems. He had also taught at Columbia University, and ended up writing a book on the subject. In 1989, he joined Rutgers University. He went on sabbatical in 1995 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and ended up working to build an Internet Exchange for Hong Kong. So in the next 4 years he spent most of his time in Hong Kong, but came back to New Jersey several terms to teach and supervise his students there. He started two companies in Hong Kong, one commercializing the Internet Exchange he helped built, and another developing and marketing an Internet phone product built by his students.

Dale N. Hatfield is currently the Director of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to his current position, Hatfield was the Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the Federal Communications Commission and, immediately before that, he was Chief Technologist at the Agency. He retired from the Commission and government service in December 2000. Before joining the Commission in December 1997, he was Chief Executive Officer of Hatfield Associates, Inc., a Boulder, Colorado based multidisciplinary telecommunications consulting firm. Before founding the consulting firm in 1982, Hatfield was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Deputy Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Before moving to NTIA, Hatfield was Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy at the FCC. Hatfield was the founding director of the Telecommunications Division at the University College at the University of Denver and, for many years, taught telecommunications policy on an adjunct basis at the University of Colorado a Boulder.

In 1973, Mr. Hatfield received a Department of Commerce Silver Medal for contributions to domestic communications satellite policy and, in 1999, he received the Attorney Generalıs Distinguished Service Award. More recently, he received the PCIA Foundation's Eugene C. Bowler award for exceptional professionalism and dedication in government service and the Federal Communications Commission's Gold Medal Award for distinguished service. He currently is a Fellow of the Radio Club of America.

Hatfield holds a BS in electrical engineering from Case Institute of Technology and an MS in Industrial Management from Purdue University.

Ramjee Prasad was born in Babhnaur (Baya), Bihar, India, on 1 July, 1946. He received the B.Sc. (Eng.) from Bihar Institute of Technology Sindri, India, and the M.Sc. (Eng.) and Ph.D. degrees from Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Ranchi, India in 1968, 1970 and 1979, respectively. He joined BIT as a Senior Research Fellow in 1970 and became an Associate professor in 1980. During 1983-1988 he was with the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania, where he became a full Professor in Telecommunications at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1986. Since February 1988, he has been with the Telecommunications and Traffic-Control Systems Group at the Delft University of Technology, where he is actively involved in the area of mobile and indoor radio communications. He has published over 80 international technical papers and has presented tutorials on mobile and indoor radio communications at various universities, technical institutions and IEEE conferences. Professor Prasad is a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers. He is currently a professor at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Dr. Richard D. Gitlin is a Fellow and Area Manager at NEC C&C Research Labs, with responsibility for wireless, IP, optical, and signal processing research. Before assuming this position he was Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, and he was with Lucent Technologies for thirty-two years. At Lucent he held several executive positions including Chief Technical Officer and Vice President of R&D for the Data Networking Systems Business Unit and Senior Vice President for Communication Sciences Research at Bell Labs. In the latter position he managed and led research in wireless systems, broadband and optical networking, multimedia communications, and access technologies. Throughout his career he has conducted and led pioneering research and development in digital communications and networking that has resulted in many innovative products including: the industry leading ATLANTA ATM Chipset, Globeview --- the worldıs first 20 gigabit/sec ATM switch, wire-speed and quality of service [QoS]-aware IP switches, multicode technology for CDMA wireless data (IS-95B), and the record-setting BLAST fixed-wireless loop system based on advanced spatial domain (smart antenna) processing. Earlier in his career he led the team that pioneered the V.32/V.34 voice-band modems, and in 1986 he was a co-inventor of the DSL technology. He is the co-recipient of three prize paper awards including the 1995 IEEE Communications Society's Steven O. Rice Award for the best original paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the 1994 IEEE Communications Society's Frederick Ellersick Award for the best paper published in the IEEE Communications, and the 1982 Bell System Technical Journal Award for the best paper in communications science. Dr. Gitlin is the co-author of the text Data Communications Principles, more than 95 technical papers, numerous conference papers and keynote presentations. He holds 43 patents in the area of data communications, digital signal processing, wireless systems, and broadband networking. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and is also a Bell Laboratories Fellow.

Dr. Gitlin has served as Chair of the Communication Theory Committee of the IEEE Communications Society, as a member of the COMSOC Awards Board, as Editor for communication theory of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, as a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society, and a member of the Nominations and Elections Board. He has served on the Advisory Committee for Computer Science and Engineering (CISE) of the National Science Foundation. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. He was a founding Editorial Board member of the Bell Labs Technical Journal, and he currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Mobile Networks and Applications and the Journal of Communications Networks.

This session will focus on the detailed 3G design on the baseband, RF as well as system level technical issues.

Chair: Wen-Yi Kuo, CTO, Wiscom Technologies

High Data Rate SW for Mobile Applications
Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia

Mobile Flash Memory/Stacked Memory
Kevin Plouse, AMD

3G Mobile RF Module
Alastair Upton, RFMD

3G Mobile Baseband ASIC
Raafat Kamel, Wiscom Technologies

3G Mobile Device Reference Design
Wen-Yi Kuo, Wiscom Technologies