-------- Original Message -------- Subject: E-NEXT.members: Call for Participation: SEACORN Workshop March 23, 2004, Cambridge, UK. Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:09:28 +0200 From: Vasos Vassiliou vasosv@ucy.ac.cy To: members@ist-e-next.net

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

SEACORN Workshop on Simulation of Enhanced UMTS Access and Core Networks March 23, 2004, Cambridge, UK.

SEACORN workshop is linked to WiOpt '04, 2nd Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks , March 24 - 26, 2004, Cambridge, UK. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/wiopt04/

SEACORN Project Workshop

23rd of March 2004, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

See http://seacorn.ptinovacao.pt for more information and registration into the SEACORN workshop.

08:30 Registration

09:00 Opening Session - Chair: Kostas Papanikolaou (EC)

09:05 Welcome (Manuel Dinis)

09:10 The future of UMTS - a services perspective - (Steve Hearnden - Program Manager of the UMTS Forum - invited talk)

09:40 SEACORN project explained: towards E-UMTS (Manuel Dinis)

10:05 E-UMTS Services and Applications Characterisation (Jaime Ferreira)

10:30 Coffee break and simulators demonstration

11:00 Session 1: Improvements to UMTS radio interface - Chair: Américo Correia (ADETTI)

11:05 Interference Suppression Consisting of Pre-Distortion Filtering and Beamforming with joint Transmit Diversity (Mário M. Silva)

11:30 HSDPA performance results with enhanced TX/RX schemes (Nuno Souto)

12:00 Turbo TCH codes for application in CS-CDMA schemes (João C. Silva)

12:30 Lunch and simulators demonstration

14:00 UMTS standardization - Current Status & Future (Gert-Jan van Lieshout, Samsung Electronics Research Institute, The Netherlands - invited presentation)

14:35 Session 2: All-IP RAN and Core networks evolution - Chair: Frank Brower (WMC)

14:40 Resource Management in IP-based Radio Access Networks (Hommad El Allali)

15:00 Modelling of physical layer behaviour in a HS-DSCH network simulator (Frank Brouwer)

15:20 The impact of scheduling on the performance of packet switched services over the UMTS HS-DSCH (Irene de Bruin/Neill Whillans)

15:40 Coffee break and simulators demonstration

16:10 Session 3: System level analysis - Chair: Andreas Pitsilides (University of Cyprus)

16:15 Designing a system-level simulator for E-UMTS (Josephine Antoniou)

16:35 Interfacing issues for a system-level simulator for E-UMTS: simulation tools and radio aspects (Marinos Stylianou)

16:55 Radio Resource Management in E-UMTS system level simulator (George Hadjipollas)

17:15 Performance of E-UMTS in outdoor (micro-cellular and macro-cellular) environments (Vasos Vasiliou)

17:35 Concluding address and close

Travel and address information: http://www.newhall.cam.ac.uk/about/directions.htm

Generic information about Cambridge: http://www.tourismcambridge.com

Conference facilities New Hall where the Vivien Stewart Room is located that is booked for SEACORN: http://www.newhall.cam.ac.uk/conference/default.htm

Information about hotels (on campus as well): The Arundel House Hotel The University Arms Hotel The Holiday Inn

Andreas Pitsillides, PhD Associate Professor & Chairman Cyprus Academic and Research Network (CYNET) Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus P.O. Box 20537, Nicosia, CY 1678, Cyprus Tel: +357 22892700 (secr.) or +357 22 892695 Fax: +357-22892701 e-mail: Andreas.Pitsillides@ucy.ac.cy Url: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/networksgroup