Tuesday, April 3rd
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Registration
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM (room
Pasteur)
Conference Opening
Session 1: Application & Economics
S1.1 Efficiency
improvement of fixed wireless in NGN environment
Hans –Peter Petry
(Detecon International)
S1.2 A future for broadband fixed wireless access
Terje Tjelta, Isabelle Tardy, Ole Grondalen,
Lisa Henden (Telenor
R&I)
S1.3 Next generation transport microwave for 3G
network infrastructure
Ross Lunan
(Harris Corporation)
S1.4 New paradigm in fixed wireless
PDH/SDH/Ethernet point-to-point access radios reducing OPEX & CAPEX and
meeting the evolving business needs of operators
Stéphane Varin (Harris Corporation)
Coffee Break
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM (room Pasteur)
Session 2: Spectrum Management &
Regulatory Aspects
S2.1 Broadband Wireless access
networks – Standardization activities in ETSI and other Fora
Bernd Friedrichs
(Ericsson GmbH)
S2.2 Recent evolution and trends in
point-to-point fixed radio systems in the European regulatory and
standardization environment
Laurent Bellot
(Harris Corporation)
S2.3 Flexible spectrum management for
introduction of novel broadband fixed wireless systems
Arthuras Medeisis (CEPT SE19)
S2.4 Multi Gigabit wireless systems (MGWS) around
60 GHz
Marc Le Devendec (European
Radiocommunications Office)
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM (room Pasteur)
Round
table: Regulations vs Market opportunities
Wednesday, April 4th
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM (room Pasteur)
Session 3: Access Networks
S3.1 Failure handling and
efficient data transport in wireless Ethernet networks using adaptive
modulation
Torsten Mueller,
Herbert Leuwer, Thorsten
Kaiser (Ericsson GmbH)
S3.2 Siemens microwave network management
systems: experiences and solutions
M.Alberti, M. Bernini, M. Frassetto
(Siemens S.p.A)
S3.3 Quality evaluation of VoIP
service over IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN
Andrea Barbaresi, Massimo
Colonna, Andrea Mantovani, Giovanna Zarba (Telecom Italia)
S3.4 Trial link measurements on an adaptive
modulation implementation on existing PDH radios
Massimo Grimoldi, Gianni Marion
(Siae Microelettronica S.p.a.)
Paolo
Agabio, Bruno Cornaglia, Stefano Veclani (Vodafone Omnitel N. V.)
Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM (room Pasteur)
Session 4A: Equipment technologies Point to Point
S4A.1 Full SMT 38 GHz integrated radio for point to point low capacity
links
M. Piloni, S. Bianchi, G. Montiron
(Siemens S.p.A.)
S4A.2 A
solution for an IP/Ethernet radio: concept and implementation of a
technological Demonstrator
Sergio Bianchi, Andrea Dell’Orto,
Roberto Rezzonico (Siemens S.p.A.)
S4A.3 A new SDH trunk radio system for 3 GHz – 13
GHz bands
M. Biester, U.
Hülsen, G. Schneider (Ericsson GmbH)
Lunch
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM (room Pasteur)
Session 4B: Equipment technologies Point to
Point
S4B.1 System design consideration for a single universal scalable
PDH/SDH/Packet data radio platform
San Jao
(Harris Corporation)
S4B.2 A
compact SDH/SuperPDH ODU platform
L. Ferrucci, S. Fusi, F. Morgia
(Siemens S.p.A.)
S4B.3 An
indoor unit with integrated ADM
A. Dal Lago, A. Eggenhoffner, R,
Rezzonico (Siemens S.p.A.)
S4B.4
SENCITYTM link 60 – a wireless point-to-point transparent Ethernet
bridge at 60 GHz
Volker
Schwarz, Peter Serbe, Uhland Goebel (Huber+Suhner AG)
S4B.5
2xSTM1 frequency reuse system with XPIC
Leonardo Rossi, Nunzio
Calia, Marco Nava, Cesare Salvaneschi (Siae Microelettronica S.p.A.)
Paolo
Agabio, Bruno Cornaglia, Ari Ratia (Vodafone Omnitel S.p.A.)
Coffee Break
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM (room Pasteur)
Round
table: Point to Point systems
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM (room Lagrange)
Exhibition
Thursday, April 5th
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (room Pasteur)
Session 5: Planning & Deployment
S5.1 About the use of FSO and
58GHz microwave systems in the UMTS Access Network
Luca Stroppolo (Ericsson Italy)
S5.2 CAST: a software package for the design of
radio relay networks
V. Benedetto, P. Di Cristofano, M.
Duca, D. Fossati, G. Rigamonti, I. Rizzo (Siae Microelettronica
S.p.A.)
S5.3 A model for WIMAX coverage & capacity
performance estimation – Mathematical models and field measurements
Paolo Agabio,
Bruno Cornaglia (Vodafone Omnitel N.V.)
Roberto Arco (auSystems Italia
S.p.A.)
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM (room Pasteur)
Invited
paper WIMAX Forum
Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 12:30 AM (room Pasteur)
Session 6: WIMAX
S6.1 Deployment and design of multiantenna
solutions for fixed WiMax systems
M. Nicoli, U. Spagnolini (Dip.
Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico
Milano)
L.
Sampietro, C. Santacesaria (Siemens S.p.A.)
S6.2 Architectural solutions and implementation
for a WiMAX base station
Luigi Cervi, Alessandro Greco,
Angelo Pasotti (Siemens S.p.A.)
S6.3 WayMAX@vantage
system: the Siemens platform for delivering packet-based data/voice services
based on the WiMAX/IEEE802.16 standard
Alessandro Nevola, Luigi Lovino
(Siemens S.p.A.)
Lunch
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (room Pasteur)
Round
table: WIMAX
Conference closing