Prof. David Goodman,

Director of the Wireless Information Network Laboratory at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. 

Pre-conference (Feb. 10, 1PM-5PM) workshop on:

Wireless ATM Enhanced Software Radio

Chairman's remark

Dr. William Lee, Vice President and Chief Scientist, AirTouch

Dr. William C. Y. Lee is Vice President and Chief Scientist of Strategic Technology at AirTouch Communications, Inc. in Walnut Creek, California, USA. He is one of the developing pioneers of cellular systems. Dr. Lee is also the author of three technical books, 20 patents, another 5 patents pending, and more than 150 technical papers. In addition, Dr. Lee is a fellow of IEEE and the Radio Club of America and is a distinguished alumnus of Ohio State University. Recently, he was appointed to the California Council on Science and Technology.

Keynote speech

"Meeting the Challenges of 3rd Generation Wireless Information Services"

Prof. David Goodman, Director of the Wireless Information Network Laboratory at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Dr. Goodman's research accomplishments are in the fields of speech coding, digital signal processing and wireless communications. He is author of the book "Wireless Personal Communications Systems" and editor of five books on wireless communications. Three of his papers have won prize paper awards. In 1997, he received the ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contributions Award.

"Wireless Terminals for 3G Systems"

Dr. Muzibul Khan, Director of Wireless Terminals, Samsung Telecom America

Dr. Muzibul Khan is director of product management for the Wireless Terminals division of Samsung Telecommunications America, Inc.

Before joining Samsung, Dr. Khan was with Lucent Technologies/Philips Consumer Communications for six years. He served as technical manager responsible for Systems Engineering, Standards and Regulatory Compliance for wireless terminals and infrastructure products. Prior to this position, Dr. Khan was an associate professor of electrical engineering at Lakehead University, Canada.

Dr. Khan obtained his doctorate degree from Concordia University in Adaptive Error Control Coding for Satellite communications. He has authored more than 30 technical publications and received two patents with several patents pending. Dr. Khan received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Electrical Communications Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.

"Network Systems for the Next Generation CDMA System"

Dr. Yiuman Leung, Senior Manager, Nortel Networks

Yiuman Leung has been actively participating in the North American CDMA standards development activities since 1992. Yiuman was elected as the Working Group I vice-chair of the TIA CDMA standards subcommittee, TR45.5, upon the subcommittee's establishment. He is also an active participant of the CDG.

In his current role as a senior manager in the CDMA Product Line Management Group at NORTEL, his key responsibilities include the development of NORTEL's 3-G CDMA air-interface and network evolution strategies and managing various system optimization programs such as CDMA Traffic Management. Previously, Yiuman was the manager of NORTEL's North American Cellular Standards Group.

Yiuman received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia. His research interests include error-control coding and equalization for the wireless RF environment, probability theory, and control theory

Tony Chu, Base Station System Engineering, Siemens Telecom Networks

Tony is the supervisor in Siemens's Wireless Business Unit to support basestation system engineering activities. Tony was graduated from McMaster University of Ontario, Canada, with the Master Degree in electrical engineering in 1983. From 1983 - 1986, he performed R&D for satellite microwave equipment at Com Dev Ltd. From 1986 - 1989, he designed microwave receiver for electronic counter measure system at MEL Defense Systems Ltd. From 1989 - 1993, he designed the RNS-440 microwave digital radio receiver at Bell Northern Research. From 1993-1996, he designed IS-136 TDMA and IS-95 CDMA basestation transceivers at NORTEL. He joined Siemens in 1996. 

Prodip Chaudhury, a veteran of Siemens for the past 15 years, is the director of Product Line Management and Systems Engineering in the Wireless Business Unit of Siemens Information and Communication Networks, inc., located in Boca Raton, Florida. Having spent a number of years in the wireline side of the house, Mr. Chaudhury transferred to the Wireless Business Unit in 1995. His responsibilities include product line management and systems engineering support of Siemens’ PCS-1900 turnkey products for the U.S. market.

Mr. Chaudhury graduated from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University, with a degree in Electrical Engineering. His experience in the wireline and wireless industry spans a total of 21 years.

Umesh Amin, Director of New Technology and Planning, AT&T Wireless (IS-136 TDMA)

Dr. Sergio Aguirre, Director Network Technology, PrimeCo PCS (IS-95 CDMA)

Dr. Sergio Aguirre is currently Director of Network Technology with PrimeCo Personal Communications. His present responsibilities include technology evolution planning for cdmaOne, third generation systems, and technology evaluation to introduce new services.

He joined PrimeCo in September 1996, prior to the launch of the largest CDMA PCS network of its kind. Previous affiliations include companies such as Motorola, U S WEST Advanced Technologies, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was involved in multidisciplinary areas in the fields of mobile communications and satellite communications.

He received a B.S.E.E. from the University of Texas, an M.S.E.E. from the University of Arizona, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California.

3G Proposals and Panel Discussion:

W-CDMA, CDMA2000, UWC-136, WIMS

Pro's and Con's of Each System Proposal

The Differences of these 4 systems

IPR Issues

A single IMT-2000 standard: dream or reality?

Moderator: Dr. William Lee, Vice President and Chief Scientist, AirTouch Communications

Panelists:

Keith Shank, Director, Ericsson (W-CDMA)

Dr. Mark Epstein, Senior VP, QUALCOMM (CDMA2000)

Dr. Epstein received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Dr. Epstein is Senior Vice President, Development, at QUALCOMM Incorporated, where he leads corporate international standards activities and the development of inter-corporate relationships in support of the company’s next generation wireless products.

QUALCOMM builds OmniTRACS, a mobile, two-way satellite communications system for the transportation industry; CDMA spread-spectrum, mobile, wireless and fixed wireless access communications systems; Globalstar satellite communications subscriber and ground terminal equipment; and EUDORA electronic mail systems.

Prior to joining QUALCOMM, Inc., Dr. Epstein was Deputy for Communications, Command, Control and Intelligence (C3I), in the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Army, where he guided the Army's electronic research and development programs. There, he successfully revitalized the Army’s leadership role and operational focus on electronics programs. Earlier, Dr. Epstein held senior operations and management positions with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Computer Sciences Corporation and Northrop Corporation.

Among his many activities in wireless standards, Dr. Epstein is on the US delegation to ITU Task Group 8/1 FPLMTS and 8A Land Mobile; chairs the TIA International Standards Coordination Committee; is a member of the US delegation to RAST and FAMOUS; and is a member of the US National Research Council study on the Evolution of Tetherless Communications.

Dr. Epstein has 21 publications and one patent.

Paul Meche, Chairman, Global TDMA Forum UWC Consortium (UWC-136)

Paul Meche is currently serving as the Chairman of the Universal Wireless Communication Consortium's Global TDMA Forum. In this role, Mr. Meche has been responsible for UWCC's technical programs related to the evolution of the 136 based systems. One of the results of these programs is the UWC-136 RTT candidate accepted by ITU for IMT-2000. In the past, he has served as Chairman of various functions of the Telecommunications Industry Association engineering groups. He is the Director of New Systems Technologies for Nokia Mobile Phones where he has been responsible for standards strategy and programs for the Americas as well as Information Technology services for the Dallas R&D facility. Prior to Nokia, Paul was employed by Bell Northern Research (BNR) for over 11 years where he held various technical and managerial positions in Wireless Research and Development, including responsibility for Cellular Architecture Evolution for the DMS-MTX Wireless Switching System. He is recognized as a contributing Author of IS-136. Mr. Meche has been responsible for a variety of AMPS, CDMA, PCS1900, TDMA R&D and standards programs. He has received 6 patents and several industry achievement awards. Paul graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The University of Southwestern Louisiana.

E.LABORDE received the Ingeniero Superior de Telecomunicacion degree from the University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain and the M.S. degree in Computer Systems from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

From 1966 to 1982, he was with ITT-Spain Laboratories as a Research Engineer in radio, modems, and data communications equipment. He became a Manager for the Transmission, Space and Data Communications Division. Since 1982, he has been with Hughes Network Systems (HNS), Germantown, MD, working in the definition and design of satellite, cellular, and personal communications systems and equipment. Currently, he is Chief Scientist in the Advanced Systems Engineering Group at HNS. He is Chairman of the Working Group (T1P1.3) developing the personal access communications system standards and of Working Group TR-46.1.4 on Link and Network Control/Interfaces for an emerging third-generation wireless technology. He has received four patents and published more than 15 technical papers.

Doug McGregor, Vice President, IMT-2000 Systems, Nortel Networks

Douglas McGregor has been with the Telecommunications industry for over 20 years. He started his professional career working for Bell Northern Research. While there, he performed systems engineering studies on Fiber Optic Transmission systems for the delivery of multimedia services to the home.

From there he joined Northern Telecom in 1980 and has been served in many capacities in the support and marketing of Nortel’s portfolio of transmission, switching and multimedia service products.

He joined Nortel’s Wireless Networks Organization in 1994 where he is currently the VP, IMT-2000 Systems. In this capacity, Mr. McGregor is responsible for Nortel’s next generation IMT-2000 Systems.

Mr. McGregor is a Professional Engineer, a Member of the IEEE, and has a degree in Engineering Physics.

John Marinho, Director, Lucent Technologies

Session Chairman: Dr. Don Fye, Director of Technology Development, GTE Wireless

Dr. Donald M. Fye is Director, Technology Development, for GTE Wireless. His responsibilities include direction of GTE Wireless' technology initiatives in CDMA capacity enhancement, enhanced-bandwidth data, wireless local loop, and competitive drive testing. Before assuming his present assignment Dr. Fye was Assistant Vice President-Network Engineering and Construction, for GTE's 1.8 GHz PCS deployment in Seattle, Cincinnati and Spokane. Prior to that he was Manager of GTE Laboratories' Mobile Systems Department. Dr. Fye holds a B.S.E.E. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Sc.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Science from Brown University. 

"W-CDMA System Evaluation and Experiment Results"

Dr. Shinji Uebayashi, Executive Research Engineer, NTT DoCoMo

Dr. Shinji Uebayashi received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Nagoya University, Japan, in 1981, 1983 and 1986, respectively. In 1986 he joined the Electrical Communication Laboratory, NTT. From 1986 to 1992, he was engaged in the development of PDC (Personal Digital Cellular) system. He designed traffic channel for speech, data and facsimile communications of PDC. In 1992, he moved to NTT mobile communications network Inc. and his present job is to develop and standardize the air interface of the next generation mobile communication system.

"Mobile Satellite Systems as a Complement to Terrestrial Roaming"

Ed Hirshfield, Vice President of Technology, Globalstar

Edward Hirshfield is Vice President of Special Programs of Globalstar, an

international partnership that will provide a new generation of satellite-based telephony services worldwide by 4th quarter 1999.

He has 39 years of experience in the design and development of communication systems. Joining Globalstar at the beginning, he was the initial V.P. for Development and Production where he was responsible for many of the Globalstar System concepts, approaches and organization. After serving in this capacity for several years he became V.P. Operations and later the Technical Director and V.P. Production. As V.P. Special Programs he is now responsible for broadening application and use of Globalstar.

Before joining Globalstar in 1992, he was hired in 1986 by Space Systems/Loral as a Manager of Communications Sciences where he was responsible for building the company’s depth in Communications Systems Engineering. He conceived of and managed a large portion of the company’s IR&D, Advanced Communications Systems Architecture and Communications Systems studies.

In addition to extensive background in satellite systems, he has many years of experience in satellite, ground and other communications systems - from the perspective of an architect, hardware designer and program manager.

Mr. Hirshfield began his career with Ford Aerospace’s Western Development Laboratory Division in 1975. Prior to that he was employed by GTE for 13 years, as well as Communications Electronics, Inc. (now Watkins Johnson) and the Vitro Corporation.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Kenyon College and has been issued 15 patents. He has also authored numerous technical papers. 

"Power Amplifiers for Wide Band CDMA Systems in the 2100MHz Bands"

Rob Harper, Director, Powerwave Technologies

Mr. Rob Harper is the Director of Marketing for Powerwave Technologies, a manufacturer of advanced single and multi-carrier power amplifiers for the wireless infrastructure industry. He is responsible for Strategic Planning, Marketing Communications, and Product Marketing including Advanced Product Planning.

Current product initiatives underway are developing various approaches for power amplification as they apply to performance and capacity versus the cost for high data rate, next generation wireless networks.

Mr. Harper has been in his current position for the past three years and prior to this he headed the Wireless and RF marketing effort for Future Electronics in Montreal, Canada. Before that he spend five years with the Siemens organization. Mr. Harper received his B.S.E.E. specializing in radio and microwave propagation and communications theory from the University of Calgary in 1988.

"3G Wireless Data Networks"

Alan Sicher, Manager of Wireless Data, Ericsson

Mr. Sicher has worked with wireless in Ericsson for over 12 years. He initially started out in radio network engineering and created a number of software tools to optimize system performance. In 1989-90, Mr. Sicher worked in Sweden as one of the key system design contributors to the development of Ericsson’s D-AMPS (IS-54 and later IS-136) solution. In 1992, Mr. Sicher started to work with wireless data product planning in Dallas and later during 1996-97 led a number of wireless data development projects at Ericsson in Montreal, Canada. Currently, Mr. Sicher leads a business development group focussed on wireless data applications and IS-136/CDPD wireless data infrastructure and services. Mr. Sicher has a BSEE, MBA and is completing a MS of Telecom. Mr. Sicher holds several U.S. patents.

"Superconducting Filters and Multiplexers for 3G Wireless Systems"

Dr. Robert B. Hammond, Chief Technical Officer, Superconductor Technologies Inc.

Dr. Robert B. Hammond received his BS in physics, MS in applied physics and Ph.D. in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1971, 1972, and 1976, respectively. From 1976, he was with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he held positions as Staff Member, and later as Deputy Group Leader, in the Electronics Research and Exploratory Development Group. At Los Alamos Dr. Hammond established and built a semiconductor physics and device development group; and pursued his own research in solid state electronics and optics. In 1987, he initiated research at Los Alamos in thin film high temperature superconductivity; and subsequently left to join newly-founded superconductor Technologies Inc. (STI), in Santa Barbara, California.

Since 1990, he has been Chief Technical Officer at STI. There he has built a team of outstanding engineers and scientists, lead the technology development efforts, directed corporate technology strategy, and intellectual property. Dr. Hammond has authored eighty technical papers, and seven patents.

Session Chairman: Dr. Christopher Flores, VP of Engineering, AdiCom

Christopher Flores is the VP of Engineering at AdiCom Wireless, Inc., a Wireless Local Loop vendor in Hayward, CA. He received his B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1978 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981 and 1983, respectively.

He was involved with the design and development of data networking products at AT&T Bell Laboratories, NJ, from 1984 through 1990 and of digital cellular and cordless technologies at TCSI, Berkeley from 1991 through 1995. His current interests are the application of 3G technologies to the future evolution of WLL products.  

"Mobile ATM Infrastructure for 3G IMT-2000 Wireless Systems"

NEC USA, C&C Research Lab.

Bala Rajagopalan received his B.Tech (Hons) degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1985, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories from September, 1991 to December, 1995, working on network design and engineering, and the design and analysis of routing and multicasting algorithms for IP and ATM networks. From January, 1996 to January, 1997 he was with the Internetworking Research Dept. at Bellcore as a Research Scientist, working on quality of service and mobility-related issues in the emerging integrated services Internet. Since January, 1997 he has been with the NEC USA, C&C Research Laboratories, as a Member of Research Staff. His research areas are Internet architecture and services, distributed systems and mobile computing.

"Smart Antenna for 3G Wireless System"

Dr. Jack Winters, Technology Leader, AT&T Lab.

Jack H. Winters received his B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, in 1977 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1978 and 1981,respectively. Since 1981 he has been with AT&T Bell Laboratories and now AT&T Labs - Research, where he holds the position of Technology Leader in the Wireless Systems Research Department. He has studied signal processing techniques for increasing the capacity and reducing signal distortion in fiber optic, mobile radio, and indoor radio systems and is currently studying adaptive arrays and equalization for mobile radio systems. Dr. Winters is a Fellow of the IEEE.

"Space-Time Communications: Improving Spectrum Efficiency"

Prof. A. Paulraj, Stanford University

Arogyaswami Paulraj was educated at the Naval Engineering College,

India and at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

(Ph.D. 1973). The major part of his career was been spent in research

laboratories in India where he directed major laboratories and has supervised the development of several electronic systems. His contributions include a sonar receiver 1973-74, a large surface ship sonar 1976-83, a massively parallel computer 1988-91, and several other systems in telecommunications, radar and computing.

His research has spanned several disciplines, emphasizing estimation theory, sensor signal processing, antenna array processing, parallel computer architectures/algorithms and communication systems. He is

currently a Professor at Stanford University where he leads a large group in smart antennas for mobile communications. He is the author of over 100 research papers and holds several patents. He has won a number of national awards in India for his contributions to technology

development and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Dr. Paulraj has recently founded Gigabit Wireless Inc. to commercialize smart antenna technologies developed at Stanford University.

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