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Plenary Speaker Programme

The 61th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference comes back to one of the most attractive European cities and home of the worldwide recognized Mobile Valley. The high number of submitted papers to this year's Spring edition of VTC is a clear indication that VTC has established itself over the years as a key technical and research forum where industrials and academics can discuss the problems and challenges that the wireless communications and transportation communi-ties are facing.

To try defining the Path for a Wireless Future, keynote speeches and panels from leaders in the wireless industry have been scheduled. In addition to discussing the evolution and future wireless breakthrough technologies and services, this year's VTC also hosts a keynote speech on Galileo, the European Satellite Navigation system.  Two panels, chaired by Dr. Jorge Pereira from the EU Commission, have also been organised. In the first one, a group of visionaries will discuss the long-term persectives of wireless communications. The second panel will address the provision of wireless connectivity and services to passengers. This topic, of relevance to the IEEE VTS, has been experiencing a growing demand and interest from the wireless and transportation industries.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank our keynote and panel speakers for kindly agreeing to participate in VTC and share their knowledge and thoughts on how to Pave the Path for a Wireless Future. In particular, I would like to thank Dr. Jorge Pereira for his active and outstanding work in preparing our two panel sessions. I would also like to thank the members of the Steering Committee for their support in preparing the speaker programme.Finally, I wish you an enjoyable time in Stockholm, and a successful and productive VTC Conference. 

 

Javier Gozalvez, Speakers Chair
VTC2005-Spring

 

Keynote Speakers

Monday May 30, 8.30 - 9.50, B12

The Evolution of 3G into Mobile Broadband

Dr., Dr.h.c. Jan Uddenfeldt, Senior Vice President, Senior Advisor to CEO, LM Ericsson

 

Monday May 30, 8.30 - 9.50, B12

The Future of Mobile Communication - The Link between Business Goals and Research

Dr H.c Östen Mäkitalo
Senior Vice president Corporate Mobile Products and Services TeliaSonera AB, Guest Professor at KTH

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, May 30, 19.00 – 20.30,
Stockholm’s City Hall

VTC and the evolution of mobile communication

Håkan Eriksson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Research and Development, and Chief Technology Officer at LM Ericsson

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, May 31, 12.00 - 13.40,
Matsalen

Galileo - The train has left the station

Mike Mattner, Head of Business Development Division, Galileo Joint Undertaking

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, May 31, 19.30 - 21.00, B12

Technology challenges in the real world

Mats Lindoff, Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, June 1, 12.20 - 14.00, Matsalen

Ubiquitous, Personalised Access: The Challenge Ahead

Augusto A de Albuquerque, Head of Unit, Communication Technologies, European Commission

       

Presentation of VTC2005-Fall in Dallas

   

Robert Shapiro, Preseident STI and General Chair for VTC2005-Fall

 

     

Presentation of VTC2006-Spring in Melbourne

   

Fu-Chun Zheng, Victoria University and General Chair for VTC2006-Spring

       
       

Panel Sessions

Monday, May 30, 15.50 – 17.30 B1

2020: Long-Term Perspectives in Mobile and Wireless (and Beyond)

Chair: Jorge Pereira, Scientific Officer, European Commission

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, May 31, 16.10 – 17.50 C10

The Networked Vehicle

Chair: Jorge Pereira, Scientific Officer, European Commission

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, May 30, 8.30 – 9.50 B12

The Evolution of 3G into Mobile Broadband

Dr., Dr.h.c. Jan Uddenfeldt, Senior Vice President, Senior Advisor to CEO, LM Ericsson

Dr. Jan Uddenfedlt has been with Ericsson since 1978, and became head of the Research Department at Ericsson Radio Systems in 1985, and in 1990 he became Vice President of Research and Development responsible for Ericsson’s cellular radio products.

In 1998 he was appointed Chief Technology Officer for the Ericsson Group with responsibility for Ericsson´s worldwide activities in Research and Development. Since January 2004, Dr Uddenfeldt is holding a position as Senior Vice President and Senior Advisor Technology to CEO. He is also a visiting Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology. Dr. Uddenfeldt has been actively involved in the development of both 2nd generation wireless technologies e.g. GSM, and 3rd generation WCDMA.

He got his Ph.D from Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and received an honorary Doctor’s degree from the University of Lund in 1996 and was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) in 1989. He was awarded the Edward Rhein Foundation Technology Prize for the innovation of GSM in 1997 and he received the prestigious KTH Prize, by the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm in 2000.

 

 

 

Monday May 30, 8.30 - 9.50, B12

The Future of Mobile Communication - The Link between Business Goals and Research

Dr H.c Östen Mäkitalo, Senior Vice president Corporate Mobile Products and Services TeliaSonera AB, Guest Professor at KTH

Östen Mäkitalo is Senior Vice President, Responsible for Corporate Mobile Products and Services at TeliaSonera. He previously held the following positions: Senior Vice President Strategy & Innovation, Telia Mobile; CTO and Senior Vice President, Telia Mobile; Senior Vice President Technology (CTO), Telia AB; President of Telia Research; and Director of R&D at Televerket Radio. Under the leadership of Mäkitalo, a number of Radio Communication Systems have been developed, such as NMT (Nordic MobileTelephone), MBS (Paging System), RDS (Radio Data System), Digital Television in particular HD-Divine. Furthermore, important contributions have been made to the development of many other Radio Communication Systems (GSM, ERMES etc).

He has been Chairman and Member of several National and International Working Groups e.g. CCIR JIWP 10-11/3 and Chairman of the Nordic NR-MSK (Broadcasting Standards). He is also a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), a Member of HLSG (High Level Strategy Group for ICT) and Chairman of National Research Program ‘Personal Computing and Communication’.

Dr. Mäkitalo has received numerous awards including: Gold medal from the King of Sweden for important contributions in the field of mobile telephone; ‘Great Price 1994’ by The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) for Pioneering Research in the Field of Analogue and Digital Radio Technique and Gold Medal by The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Mr Mäkitalo received a MSc EE at the Royal Institute of Technology and a Doctor’s degree Honoris Causa on Technology at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, May 30, 19.00 – 20.30, Stockholm’s City Hall

VTC and the evolution of mobile communication

Håkan Eriksson, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Research and Development, and Chief Technology Officer at LM Ericsson

Mr. Håkan Eriksson is Senior Vice President and General Manager, Research and Development, and Chief Technology Officer at Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson. Mr. Eriksson was appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager, Research and Development, and Chief Technology Officer on January 1, 2004. Mr. Eriksson was appointed Vice President and General Manager for Research and Development at Ericsson on April 14, 2003, and was responsible for development activities carried out in Ericsson's Core Network Development, Radio Network Development and Service Network and Applications, as well as for Ericsson Research. Prior to this, Mr. Eriksson served for five years as head of Ericsson Research. Mr. Eriksson joined Ericsson in 1986, representing the company as a technical expert in GSM standardization work and he has held a number of senior positions in the Research and Development field for Ericsson in Sweden and internationally. Håkan Eriksson was born in Mjölby, Sweden, in 1961. He graduated with a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden, in 1985.

 

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Tuesday, May 31, 12.00 - 13.40, Matsalen

Galileo - The train has left the station

Mike Mattner, Head of Business Development Division, Galileo Joint Undertaking

Dr. Mike Mattner is heading up the business development division of the Galileo Joint Undertaking since its formation in September 2003. He joined from Degussa, a global leader in specialty chemicals, where his last position was Vice President research and development, based in France and Cincinnati, Ohio. Former positions at Degussa included business development, corporate strategy, and Six Sigma implementations.

He started his professional career at VIAG that is now E.ON, the biggest private global utility group. After his PhD programme in chemistry, he worked for two years as a special advisor to the president of the Technical University in Munich. He was trained as a chemist and holds a MBA. Dr. Mattner has worked in various capacities for Audi, BASF, IBM, Siemens and Wacker Siltronics.

Galileo Joint Undertaking was formed as a special purpose company by the European Space Agency and the European Commission. It is the management body of the Galileo programme and will exist up to the end of Galileo's in orbit validation. It is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

 

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Wednesday, June 1, 12.20 - 14.00, Matsalen

Ubiquitous, Personalised Access: The Challenge Ahead

Augusto A de Albuquerque, Head of Unit, Communication Technologies, European Commission

Augusto A de Albuquerque received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Essex in 1982, the Master of Electronics Engineering in 1977 from Eindhoven Technical University and the Electrical Engineering (specialisation Telecommunications) degree from Lisbon Technical University in 1972. He joined Lisbon Technical University in 1971, where he became a Professor of Telecommunications Systems. He led research in optical, image and mobile communications, and high capacity networks and consultancy for several organisations including the Portuguese Public Telecommunications Operators.  He was also Professor of Information Systems and Chairman of the Department of Management Sciences in Lisbon University.

In 1989 he joined the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium. He has been in charge of coordinating activities in the RACE Programme (Research and Development in Advanced Communications in Europe) in areas such as optical and multimedia communications and high-capacity networks, since 1995 in the ACTS Programme (Advanced Communications Technologies and Services) and since 1999 in the IST (Information Society Technologies) Programme. He was Head of several units in the Information Society Directorate General namely Development of Networks and Services for Integrated Broadband Communications and Visualisation and Simulation. Presently he is Head of the unit Communications Technologies which includes research on Broadband and Mobile and Wireless communications. He is author of 3 books and over 90 papers and book chapters.

 
   
   

 

Tuesday, May 31, 19.30 - 21.00, B12

Technology challenges in the real world

Mats Lindoff, Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB

Mats Lindoff assumed the position of Chief Technology Officer at Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications in April 2003. Mats started his career as a radio designer at Ericsson designing Ericsson’s first mobile phone (NMT 900) after graduating from Lunds University of Technology in 1985. In 1993 Mats became Director & General Manager at Ericsson in RTP North Carolina building up the R&D centre for American cellular standards in joint venture with GE. Previous to this, Mats held several Managerial positions in Lund e.g. Senior Program Manger for Ericsson’s first high volume GSM telephones. Mats returned to Lund in 1996 first as the Director & General Manager at Ericsson Communication System R&D Mobile Phones&Terminals Europe. During this period, the R&D staff was tripled and research activities like 3G and Bluetooth were initiated. Within 2 years he assumed the title of Executive Vice President at ECS. Between 2000 and 2003 Mats took on the challenge as the CEO and President of “C- Technologies”. The main product was the scanning C-Pen and ANOTO writing pen. The company is listed on the Swedish stock exchange as “Attract 40 list” and with the subsidaries employs 400 persons. Mats Lindoff holds a Master Degree in Electronic Engineering from Lunds University of Technology in Sweden.

 

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Panels
Chairing the Panels at VTC2005-Spring is Jorge M. Pereira
Jorge is Scientific Officer in the area of Mobile and Personal Communications at the European Commission, DG XIII, now DG Information Society, a position he has held since September 1996. He is involved in Third Generation and Broadband Wireless systems, Spectrum and Regulatory issues, Reconfigurable Radio, WLANs, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, PANs, UWB, Terrestrial Positioning Technologies and Location-based Mobile Value Added Services, Wireless IP, and Fourth Generation systems. He received the SDR Forum 2003 Industry Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions, research and development in the field of SDR. He is a member of the Advisory Board of John Wiley's Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, and of the Editorial Board of Kluwer Academic Publishers' Wireless Personal Communications Journal.  He has recently taken up the position of Associate Editor for Vehicular Communications for the IEEE VTS News.
   
Monday, May 30, 15.50 – 17.30 B1

2020: Long-Term Perspectives in Mobile and Wireless (and Beyond)

A panel of visionaries will discuss the longer-term perspectives in the area of Mobile and Wireless set in the scope of a broader perspective of evolution of Communication and Information systems. Going beyond the “generational divide”, they will tackle the challenges around the provision of truly personalised, seamless, context-aware access to the right information in the right format at the right time and for the right price, and address the promises an open, inter-disciplinary approach will potentiate.

Chair: Jorge Pereira, Scientific Officer, European Commission
Panelists:
 
Prof. Ernst Bonek Formerly of TU Wien/ftw, Austria

Prof. Ernst Bonek was active in mobile communications research at Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien) until 2004. His group pioneered 3D superresolution measurements of the mobile radio channel and the “double-directional” viewpoint, and contributed to internal antennas, smart antennas, and direct-conversion transceivers. He was the initiator of ftw (Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien), a public-private partnership for telecommunications research in Vienna, Austria. In the European research initiatives COST 259 and COST 273 he served as chairman of the working group on Antennas and Propagation. In URSI, he was chairman of Commission C “Signals and Systems” between 1999 and 2002. From 1996 to 1999 he served on the Board of Directors of the reorganized Post and Telekom Austria.

 

 

Prof. Rene Cruz, University of California, San Diego, USA

Prof. Rene Cruz joined the UCSD faculty in 1987, after receiving his Ph.D. the same year from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He received his S.M.E.E. from MIT in 1982 (where he held a Vinton Hayes Fellowship in Communications), and his B.S.E.E. from UIUC in 1980. Cruz was an NSF Graduate Fellow from 1981-86. He received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991. He co-chaired the Technical Program Committee of the 2001 IEEE INFOCOM Conference, which is the annual joint conference of the IEEE Computer and Communication Societies. He was a general chair of the 2001 ACM SIGCOMM Conference. Prof. Cruz’s early work was on the analysis of information flow in communication networks. He is known for the development of a research area called "network calculus" for characterizing the flow of data through packet-switching networks, including the Internet.

 

 

Dr. Masugi Inoue, NICT, Japan

Dr. Masugi Inoue received the B.S. degree from Kyoto University in 1992, and M.S. and Ph.D.(Dr. Eng) degrees from University of Tokyo in 1994 and 97, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. Since April 1997, he is with Communications Research Laboratory, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (reorganized as National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NICT). Currently, a Senior Researcher, Mobile Networking Group, Yokosuka Radio Communications Research Center, NICT. His research interests include interworking of heterogeneous wireless networks, IP mobility support, wireless TCP, QoS control for wireless-wired integrated Internet, ubiquitous networking, sensor networks, ad-hoc networks, location sensing techniques.

 

 

Prof. Heinrich Meyr, Chief Scientist CoWare Inc., USA/RWTH Aachen, Germany

Prof. Heinrich Meyr received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He spent over 12 years in various research and management positions in industry before accepting a professorship in Electrical Engineering at Aachen University of Technology (RWTH Aachen) in 1977. At RWTH Aachen he is a co-director of the Institute for Integrated Signal Processing System involved in the analysis and design of complex signal processing systems for communication applications. He was a co-founder of CADIS GmbH (acquired 1993 by Synopsys) a company which commercialized the tool suite COSSAP. In 2001, he co-founded LISATek Inc., a company with breakthrough technology to design application specific processors which was later acquired by CoWare. At CoWare, Dr. Meyr has accepted the position of Chief Scientist. He also serves as a member of the board of directors at CoWare and another large corporation. His present research interest is in communication theory (MIMO, channel and interference estimation, analysis of turbo decoders), design of energy efficient ASIPs for wireless communication and the LISATek tool suite for the design of ASIPs. Dr. Meyr is a Fellow of the IEEE and has served as Vice President for International Affairs of the IEEE Communications Society. Also in the field of vehicular technology, Dr. Meyr is an active glider pilot with many hours of experience.

 

 

Prof. Ian Oppermann, CWC, University of Oulu, Finland

Prof. Ian Oppermann completed a BSc, BE and PhD at the University of Sydney Australia in 1990, 1992 and 1997 respectively. In 1996 he founded Southern Poro Communications, a company which developed network planning tools for 3G mobile systems and IP cores for WLAN chipsets. Dr. Opperman became an Adjunct professor at the University of Oulu, Finland in 2001 and subsequently joined the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) in 2002 as Assistant Director, becoming Director in 2003. His main research responsibilities are UWB and wireless networking. He heads several large research and development projects that cover fundamental research, MAC development, channel measurement/modeling, system design, positioning, antenna, and ASIC development. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has been a guest editor for the IEEE JSAC (1999/2000) and was/is General Chairman for the International Workshop on UWB Systems (2003), the International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Systems and Applications (2004) and the International Workshop on Convergent Technology (2005). Dr. Opperman holds several patents for wireless communications and has over 50 publications in international journals and conferences. He was also an Editor of CDMA Techniques for Third-Generation Mobile Systems and Associate Area Editor for Communications on the 1998 CRC Dictionary of Engineering Terms. Dr. Oppermann received the Sydney University Engineering Foundation Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 1995 and 1997.

 

 

 

 

 

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Tuesday, May 31, 16.10 – 17.50 C10

The Networked Vehicle

As people spend more and more of their time on their way to and from places, it becomes increasingly attractive to make good use of the extended communication capabilities of the supporting vehicles to provide better, enhanced connectivity and services to the passengers, overcoming the limitations of the personal devices they usually carry. We refer in particular to the delivery of a variety of rich multimedia content, namely what is called edutainment, not forgetting the enhancement of business-related services, like video-conferencing, on the move. In this panel, we will discuss a number of initiatives to provide enhanced services and better connectivity to passengers in all sorts of transportation modes, private and public.

Chair: Jorge Pereira, Scientific Officer, European Commission

Panelists:

 

Sandro Scalise, WirelessCabin; DLR (German Aerospace Centre)

Sandro Scalise was born in Utrecht, Holland in April 1973. In July 1999, he graduated in Electronic Engineering specialising in Telecommunications (with honours) from Università di Ferrara, Italy.

Since 2001, he is with the Institute for Communications and Navigation, DLR (German Aerospace Centre), Germany. Since October 2004, he is leading the Mobile Satellite Systems Group. His research activity deals with forward error correction and synchronization schemes for mobile satellite applications, land mobile satellite channel modelling and link performance evaluation.

www.wirelesscabin.com

   

Uma S. Jha, Connexion; Boeing

Dr. Uma S. Jha has over 27 years of industry experience specializing in the wireless/cellular systems architecture and systems engineering. He is currently the Chief Mobility Architect and Technical Fellow at Boeing. Prior to this he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Airify Communications. Uma has served as the Director of Systems Engineering at Morphics Technology, Manager at Philips Semiconductors and Systems Staff Engineer at Conexant to name a few. He received his BSEE from BIT Sindri, MSEE from CSU, Fullerton, Engineer degree from USC, Los Angeles and Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University, Denmark. Dr. Jha is a senior member of IEEE and has several publications and key patents in the area of wireless/cellular systems. Uma is on the editorial board of Wireless Personal Communication magazine published by Kluwer publication and serves on many Technical Program committees all around the globe.

www.connexionbyboeing.com

   

Paolo Conforto, FIFTH; Alenia Spazio

Paolo Conforto was born in Rome, Italy, in 1971. He received the M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering in 1998 and PhD in System Engineering in 2003, both from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. In the 1998 he received a post-degree grant from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” – Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica and worked in the scope of several ACTS (Advanced Communication Technologies and Services) projects funded by the European Union. Since March 1999 he works in Alenia Spazio where he has taken care of the technical coordination and has performed R&D activity in several projects (ACCORD, SUITED, FIFTH) co-funded by the European Union in the context of the 4th (ACTS) and the 5th (Information Society Technology, IST) Framework Programmes. His research interests mainly focus on the integration of satellite systems with wireless and fixed IP based networks.

www.fifth.it

   

David Grace, CAPANINA; University of York

Dr David Grace received his MEng degree in Electronic Systems Engineering and D.Phil degree from the University of York, UK in 1993 and 1999 respectively. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of York, and Technical Manager of the EU-funded project CAPANINA, which is investigating aerial platform broadband communications delivery to both fixed and high-speed vehicle users. He is also a Director of SkyLARC Technologies Ltd, a spin-off company from the University of York that specialises in providing expertise and solutions for the delivery of broadband communications from aerial platforms. He is a member of the IEEE Satellite and Space Technical Committee. Current research interests include cognitive radio for broadband communications, particularly from high-altitude platform and terrestrial ad hoc networks. He is an author of over 100 journal and conference publications, many in the field of HAP communications.

www.capanina.org

   

Richard Savage, Director, Qualcomm Europe

  Richard Savage joined Qualcomm Europe in April 2004 as Director of Business Development for Scandinavia. Richard is responsible for Carrier relations to WCDMA and CDMA operators in the region. Prior to joining QUALCOMM, he held several positions as Sales Director at Ericsson AB responsible for both fixed and fixed mobile solutions to Carriers in Europe, Africa and North America. Richard has a combined experience of over 13 years in the Telecom and IT Industry from around the world, and holds a Bachelor Science from both the Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Bordeaux.
   

Michael M. Wolf, OverDRiVE, DaimlerChrysler

 

Michael M. Wolf studied computer science at the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany and the University of York, England. He received his diploma in computer science from the Technical University of Chemnitz in 1996. From 1996 till 1997 he worked at the Technical University of Chemnitz at the field of computer simulations of multimedia wireless networks. He joined the Communication Research Department of DaimlerChrysler as a member of staff in 1997. He worked there on the national project ATMmobil in the area of medium access control for wireless ATM networks. During this work he was also working within ETSI BRAN on the standardization of HIPERLAN/2. From 1999 onwards he worked on the national project COMCAR and IST projects DRiVE/OverDRiVE and Ambient Networks and also on internal projects. His research interests are cellular and broadcast systems and consumer device integration into cars.

www.ist-overdrive.org

 

 

 

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