IEEE GLOBECOM 2008

Thursday 4 December 2008

9:00-17:30
Workshops

9:00-12:30
Tutorials

14:00-17:30
Workshops
Tutorials

#	Workshop Title	Date	Time
W06 W07 W08 W09	Service Discovery and Composition in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Environments Chair: Mohamed Bakhouya (George Washington University, US) 3rd IEEE Automotive Networking and Applications (AutoNet) Workshop Chair: Wai Chen (Telcordia Technologies, US) and Onur Altintas (Toyota InfoTechnology Center) 4th IEEE Broadband Wireless Access Workshop (BWA 2008) Featuring a keynote presentation by Prof. Edward Knightly. Chairs: Dmitri Moltchanov and Thomas Michael Bohnert (Siemens, DE) International Workshop on Space Platforms: Research, Applications, Vision Chairs: Niovi Pavlidou Stylianos Karapantazis Georgios Theodoridis Jorge Pereira	12/04 12/04 12/04 12/04	14:00-17:30 9:00-17:30 9:00-17:30 9:00-17:30

Thursday MORNING TUTORIALS (9:00 - 12:30)

	T13: Multiple Antenna Systems from Optimum Combining to MIMO Presenters: Marco Chiani, University of Bologna Moe Win, Massachusetts Institute of Technology This tutorial provides the basic principles and applications of multiple antenna systems, including MIMO and distributed MIMO, and their analysis based on random matrix theory. Applications include cellular, high-speed wireless LAN, WiMAX, and energy-constrained systems.
	T14: IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Evolution to New Capabilities Presenter: Vijay Varma, Telcordia Technologies, Inc. This tutorial introduces the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) vision and its evolution from GSM/UMTS. IMS has become the platform of choice for providing unified session control. IMS concepts, architectures, procedures, protocols and services are presented.
	T15:Games, Distributed Decision Making and Learning in Wireless Multimedia Networks Presenter: Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California at Los Angeles This tutorial provides an introduction to game-theoretic methods and solutions for defining, formalizing, characterizing and optimizing the performance of multi-user multimedia networks and applications. Advanced topics presented are Modeling interactions using Repeated and Stochastic Games.
	T16: Relays and Cooperative Communication Presenter: Aria Nosratinia, University of Texas at Dallas This tutorial introduces the principles of cooperative communication. Cooperation protocols and their properties are studied, highlighting the key ideas, revealing the tools and techniques of the area, with a blend of theory and practice. Recent developments and potential future trends are discussed.
	T17: Future Gigabit/s Systems: Towards Real 4G and Cognitive Radios Presenters: Nicola Marchetti, Aalborg University Muhammad Imadur Rahman, Ericsson Research After a general overview, advanced PHY and RRM techniques suitable for achieving 4G data rate and spectral efficiency targets is given. The concentration is on multi-antenna techniques, cognitive radios, advanced spectrum management, adaptive scheduling, etc.

Thursday AFTERNOON TUTORIALS (14:00 - 17:30)

	T18: Design and Performance Issues in Wireless Mesh Networks Presenter: Dharma Agrawal, University of Cincinnati This tutorial presents the evolution of mesh technology and describes the IEEE 802.11s standard that formalizes the physical and MAC layer of WMN. Radio resource management, multipath route determination, and queue management policy are covered.
	T19: Indoor Geolocation Systems Presenter: Ilir Progri, Giftet Inc. This course introduces C-CDMA, OFDMA, and MC-CDMA pseudolite indoor geolocation systems. Each system is researched, discussed, and analyzed based on its principle of operation, its transmitter, the indoor channel, and its receiver design.
	T20: Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications Presenters: Song Ci, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Haohong Wang, Marvell Semiconductors This tutorial covers cross-layer design optimization topics focusing on video content analysis, video coding and error concealment, quality driven network protocol design for both wired and wireless networks, TCP-friendly rate control, cooperative communications and networking.
	T21: Cooperative Communications and Networking Presenters: K. J. Ray Liu, University of Maryland Ahmed Sadek, Qualcomm Inc. Weifeng Su, State University of New York at Buffalo Andres Kwasinski, Texas Instruments Inc. This tutorial introduces the concepts of cooperative communications and networking. Key issues in studying, designing, implementing, and deploying cooperative communication and networking systems are presented. Conceptually, cooperative communications can generate independent MIMO-like channel links.
	T22: Signal Processing Techniques for Spectrum Sensing & Communication Presenter: Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny, University of Utah This tutorial reviews cognitive radios (IEEE 802.22, etc.) and addresses signal processing tools available for spectral sensing and communications. Presented is the idea: unlicensed users are allowed use of spectra when licensed users are inactive.