Abstract

The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is an effort to produce a Third Generation Mobile System based upon evolved GSM core networks and the radio access technologies that they support (i.e., Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) in both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) modes).  It also includes evolved radio access technologies (e.g., General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)).  In this presentation, Andrew Delecki will look beyond the airlink and bring us up to date on recent advances in the 3GPP network architecture.

About the Speaker:

Andrew Delecki received the M.Sc. degree in Automation Engineering from Technical University of Szczecin (Poland) in 1975, the M.Sc. degree in Applied Electromagnetics from the University of Manitoba in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa in 1989. Since 1996, he has been with Motorola Canada Ltd. in Richmond, BC working on various aspects of wireless communication as a staff engineer.   Since 2000, he has been a Motorola delegate to 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) attending the network architecture working group. He is editor of two 3GPP technical specifications: 3.60 and 23.060, which describe GPRS and UMTS network services and architecture, respectively.
 

No-Host Dinner 

You can meet the featured speaker at a no-host dinner before the talk.  Meet us at 5:30 PM at Earl's, 3850 Lougheed Highway (one block east of Boundary) in Burnaby.  All are welcome, although advance notice to Dave Michelson <dmichelson@ieee.org> would be appreciated so that we can ask for a table of appropriate size.