COST 259
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Minutes of the 10th Meeting of the Management Committee,
held in Valencia (E) on 19-21 January 2000
COST 259
Minutes of the 10th Meeting of the Management Committee,
held at Polytech. Univ. Valencia, Valencia (E), on 19-21 Jan. 2000,
organised by Polytech. Univ. Valencia
1. Opening Formalities
The Chairman, Prof. Luis M. Correia formally opened the meeting. After that, Prof. Narcis Cardona, the Local Organiser, addressed the plenary for a welcome message and details on the way the meeting was organised.
The Chairman acknowledged the attendance of Dr. Robert Bultitude, from CRC, Canada.
2. Adoption of the Agenda
The Agenda, shown in Annex A, was approved by unanimity.
3. Approval of the Minutes of the 9th Meeting
The minutes were approved, without corrections, unanimously.
4. Status of the Action
The Chairman informed that the number of signatory countries (18) remains unchanged, as well as the numbers of participating institutions and delegates (80 and more than 200, respectively).
Following information from the COST Telecom Secretariat, the Chairman informed that the TCT has changed its designation to TC TIST (Technical Committee on Telecommunications and Information Society Technologies).
The Chairman gave an update on the evaluation of the Action, which will be performed after its final meeting next April. Prof. Kalman Fazekas was already invited to attend the final meeting; although it is not yet confirmed that he will attend it, he has expressed his interest in doing so. The composition of the evaluation team is already known, since Prof. Fazekas was kind enough to let us know of it: the external evaluators will be Prof. Laszlo Pap (Tech. Univ. Budapest, Hungary) and Prof. Ramjee Prasad (Aalborg Univ., Denmark).
It is not clear yet if the Chairman will attend the June meeting of the TC TIST, since the Action is finished by then. Hence the Final Report, at least a draft version of it, needs to be ready by the next meeting, to be given to Prof. Fazekas.
A formal request to participate in the Action has been received from CRC of Canada. Since it will end in a few months, it was suggested that the institution requests its participation in the follow on Action, assuming it will be approved by the TC TIST.
5. Action Final Report
The Chairman reminded the schedule approved at the last meeting:
The template file and a set of guidelines have been distributed by the Chairman. It was agreed that they need some more definitions (on the style of sub-sub-sections, referencing on Temporary Documents, and other issues). The Chairman will update them immediately after this meeting. It was also agreed that the UK English Dictionary should be used for checking the spelling.
Each Chapter Editor presented the status of his Chapter: Chapter 2 is half ready, Chapter 3 is still in a very initial phase, while Chapter 4 is very close to its final version. Some small changes have been done in the contents and editors for various Sections.
Section Editors were asked to send List of Figures and of Tables, as well as of Acronyms, together with the text of their contributions to Chapter Editors, in order to facilitate the elaboration of the final ones; the deadline is 2000/Feb/29 (Action Point 20). Chapter Editors will have to prepare their contributions, together with the aforementioned list, and send them to the Chairman by 2000/Mar/31 (Action Point 21).
Everyone should send to the Chairman, with copy to Section Editors, the list of correspondence between their Temporary Documents and papers in the open literature, like conferences and journals, until 2000/Feb/15 (Action Point 22). All delegates are also asked to send to the Chairman the acronym of their institution until 2000/Jan/31 (Action Point 23).
Following the changes and uncertainties presently existing in COST, it is not clear at this moment who will take care of printing the Final Report, i.e., either the Action Secretariat or the COST Telecom one.
As a final remark on this item, everyone was asked to keep within schedule, so that a draft version 9very close to the final one) is available by the next meeting in April.
There is a need to issue an Administrative Final Report as well, which will be done by the Chairman. Nevertheless, all delegates continue to be requested to send information on examples of joint collaborations with colleagues of other institutions/countries coming from this Action, so that they can be shown in the this report; the deadline is 2000/Feb/14 (Action Point 14)
6. Budget and reimbursements
The Chairman reported on the budget for 1999: it has been decreased by 7 kEuro, since the COST Telecom Secretariat has informed that it considers that costs concerning publications (namely the Final Report) are no longer illegible for funding. This way, the present situation on the budget for 1999 is as follows:
It is expected that 80 % of the 92 kEuro of the budget (the 2nd Grant of 1999) will be transferred soon. Once it is received, reimbursements will be performed.
As far as the specific budget for the AP2000 conference, 15 kEuro, the Chairman reminded that half will be transferred to the Conference Secretariat, from which 3 registration and banquet fees of persons from the Action will be paid (Profs. Luis M. Correia and Ernst Bonek, and the winner of the Student Best Paper Award within the Action), while the other half is to pay for travel expenses of people from the Action. After some discussion it was decided that this budget is to pay for the travel expenses of the aforementioned 3 persons, plus other students form the Action that have papers accepted at the conference. Students should send the files of the accepted papers to the Chairman until 2000/Jan/31 (Action Point 18), so that the Best Paper is awarded; the committee that will judge this award will be composed by the WGs Chairmen, plus the Action Chairman and Vice-Chairman. The corresponding tickets need to be bought until 2000/Feb/29, so that the expenses are still illegible for the 1999 budget.
The COST Telecom Secretariat has informed that, since the end of 1999, all COST countries, except Croatia, Malta, Turkey and Switzerland, are entitled to reimbursement of travel expenses, according to the usual rules.
As for this meeting, reimbursements will be done directly by the COST Telecom Secretariat. The Action Secretariat will collect all forms and documents, and send the whole package to Brussels.
Still no news have been received concerning the budget for 2000.
7. Short-Term Missions
Reports from the remaining persons that went on STMs were presented to the plenary.
Since there will be still a short budget for some more STMs, but that needs to be spent until 2000/Mar/31, applications should be sent to the Chairman until 2000/Jan/31 (Action Point 7).
8. Proposal of a Follow-on Action
The Chairman informed that the MoU and its Technical Annex of the proposal for a new Action was submitted in time to the TC TIST meeting on 1999/Oct/28-29. No decision on the approval of the proposal was taken at this meeting. However, the Chairman has been formally invited to present the proposal at the next TC TIST meeting, to be held in Brussels on 2000/Mar/01.
The rules concerning the approval of new Actions state that a decision is taken only after the previous one has been evaluated, hence this reinforces the need to finish the Final Report in due time, i.e., until the next meeting, so that the new Action can start in a few months from now, without a major discontinuity between the present and the new Action.
9. Presentation and Discussion of Documents
A total of 35 Temporary Documents, which are listed in Annex B, were distributed, being discussed at the Plenary and at the three WGs, Annex C.
10. Liaisons with other International Bodies
Reports from the following liaisons were given:
The next meetings will be held according to the following:
Since the Workshop is dedicated mainly to the areas dealt with in WG2, it was decided that the other WGs will also their discuss technical documents during the 2nd day of the workshop, their contributions being included in an annex of the finalreport.
It was also decided that during the MCM that the WGs chairmen will present the challenges for the next project, to be discussed by all delegates.
12. Any Other Business
The Action Points from this meeting are as follows:
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Send information on www address to the Webmaster | Those who still have not done it. |
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Send files with abstracts of TDs to the Webmaster | Those who still have not done it. |
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Send reports from Liaisons to the Chairman | Liaisons Raporteur |
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Send proposals for Short-Term Missions to the Chairman | All |
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Check information contained on the www site, and send corrections to the Webmaster | All |
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Send list of joint collaboration results within the project to the Chairman | All |
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Submit papers to the PIMRC conference | All |
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Send files of papers accepted for the AP2000 Conference to Chairman | Students |
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Send updated list of TDs to be included in the Section to Chairman with copy to Chapter Editors | Section Editors |
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Send files with contributions (text, plus list of figures, tables and acronyms) to Final Report to Chapter Editors | Section Editors |
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Send files with contributions (text, plus list of figures, tables and acronyms) to Final Report to Chairman | Chapter Editors |
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Send correspondences between TDs and papers in the open literature to Chairman with copy to Section Editors | All |
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Send acronym of the institution to Chairman | All |
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Submit papers to the final Action Workshop | All |
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15. Close of the Meeting
The meeting was attended by a total of 71 people, Annex D. The Chairman
thanked the Local Organiser for hosting the meeting, and all delegates
for their participation, and formally closed it.
Agenda
List of Documents
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Propagation in Road Tunnels: Influence of the Traffic Conditions and Channel Characterisation for Adaptive Antennas | Martine Liénard, Samuel Betrencourt, Pierre Degauque | University of Lille | France |
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Adaptive Array Processing for Time Division CDMA Utilizing Multi-Step Joint Detection | Martin Weckerle, Tobias Weber, Paul W. Baier, Jochen Oster | University of Kaiserslautern | Germany |
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New Heuristic Method for Frequency Assignment | Martin Hellebrandt, Hans Heller | Siemens | Germany |
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Statistical Channel Modelling Based on Raytracing Simulations | Jann E. Dietert | Technical University of Aachen | Germany |
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Stochastic Channel Model for Outdoor Applications Based on Raytracing Simulations | Jann E. Dietert | Technical University of Aachen | Germany |
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Channel Capacity Evaluation of Multi-Element Antenna Systems Using a Spatial Channel Model | Alister Burr | University of York | UK |
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Evaluation of Space-Time Codes | Alister Burr | University of York | UK |
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Comparison of Propagation Models for Small Urban Cells in GSM900 and 1800 | Joao Chaves, Pedro Oliveira, Luis M. Correia | IST - Technical University of Lisbon | Portugal |
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Investigation of the Characteristics of Measured Delay Power Density Spectra for the 5.2 GHz Indoor Radio Channel. | Torsten Englert, Ralf Kattenbach, Henning Früchting | University of Kassel | Germany |
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Sector and Polarisation Dependent Wideband Indoor Propagation Channel Measurements at 5.1 GHz | Alain Sibille | ENSTA | France |
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Modelling and Measurements of EM-Wave Propagation in the Berlin Subway | Dirk Didascalou | Universität Karlsruhe | Germany |
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A Statistical Model for Connectivity Between Mobile and Base Stations. Part 2 | John Orris, Stephen K. Barton | University of Manchester | UK |
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Bandwidth-independent Fading Characterisation | Henrik Asplund | Ericsson Research | Sweden |
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A Novell Approach in the Determination of Visible Surfaces in 3D Vector Geometries for Ray-Optical Wave Propagation Modelling. | Jürgen Maurer | University of Karlsruhe | Germany |
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A Model for Quick Calculation of Power Delay Profiles in Geometrically Simple Environments. | Jan Hansen, Michael Nold, Hansruedi Benedickter, Marcel Kossel | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) | Switzerland |
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Performance of Directed Retry in a Mobile Radio System: the Impact of Propagation | Roberto Verdone, Alberto Zanella | University of Bologna | Italy |
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Smart Antenna Concepts for the UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access | Andreas Jarosch, Dirk Dahlhaus, Zhenlan Cheng | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) | Switzerland |
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Wideband Channel Sounder for Time-Variant Indoor Radio Channels. | Ralf Kattenbach, Dieter Weitzel | University of Kassel | Germany |
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Performance of Turbo-Coded OFDM | Alister Burr, George White | University of York | UK |
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Comparison of Angular Dispersion Metrics in Synthetic and Measured Radio Channels. | Patrick Eggers | Aalborg University | Denmark |
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Characterisation of Telia Scattered Field Test Room by Use of 3D Radio Environment Measurements | Mikael B. Knudsen, Gert F. Pedersen, Bo Olsson | Bosch Telecom Danmark, CPK / Aalborg University, Telia Research | Denmark, Sweden |
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Integrated Antennas for Mobile Communication Handsets. | Marta Martínez-Vázquez, David Sánchez-Hernández | Technical University of Valencia, Technical University of Cartagena | Spain |
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Chip Level Simulation of the Downlink in UTRA-FDD | J.J.Olmos, S. Ruiz | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) | Spain |
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Statistical Characteristics of Indoor Radio Propagation in NLOS Scenarios | Ralf Heddergott, Pascal Truffer | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) | Switzerland |
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Tapped Delay Line Channel Models at 5.3 GHz in Indoor Environments. | Xiongwen Zhao, Jarmo Kivinen, Pertti Vainikainen | Helsinki University of Technology | Finland |
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Required Network Size for System Simulations in UMTS FDD Uplink. | Thomas Neubauer Thomas Baumgartner | Technische Universität Wien | Austria |
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N-MSK Adaptive Modulation Techniques in Slow Rayleigh Fading Channel | Tomaz Javornik, Gorazd Kandus | Institut Jozef Stefan | Slovenia |
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Outage Probabilities of Maximal Ratio Combining Systems in an Exponentially Correlated Nakagami Fading With Multiple interferers | Juan Reig, Narcis Cardona | Technical University of Valencia | Spain |
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Proactive Dynamic Resource Distribution Based on Borrowing and Control Engineering Methods for GSM - Like Systems | Nabil Elouardi, Jan Steuer, Markus Radimirsch, Holger Fette, Klaus Jobmann | University of Hannover | Germany |
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Measurements and Predictions of the Local Mean Power and Fast Fading Statistics Indoor Wireless Environments | Rafael P. Torres, Susana Loredo, Luis Valle, Marta Domingo | University of Cantabria | Spain |
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Comparison of Ray-Tracing Results With indoor Measurements | Thomas Zwick | University of Karlsruhe | Germany |
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Coupling Between GSM Base-Station Antennae on the Same Metallic Tower | Sylvie Tiertant | TDF-C2R | France |
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Radiation Efficiency of Handheld Phones | Gert F. Pedersen | Aalborg University | Denmark |
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Downlink Beamforming for Systems With Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) | Andreas Zwick | T-Nova | Germany |
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Modelling Unification Workshop II (on Micro and Pico Cells) | Martin Steinbauer, Jann E. Dieter, Torsten Engler... | T.U. Wien, T.U. Aachen, Ericsson, ETH | Austria, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland |
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Annex C
Sessions Schedule
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Attendance List
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Austria | Ernst Bonek | INTHF / TU Wien |
Hermann Buehler | Ingenieurbüro Dr. Bühler | |
Andreas F. Molisch | INTHF / TU Wien | |
Thomas Neubauer | INTHF / TU Wien | |
Martin Steinbauer | INTHF / TU Wien | |
Belgium | Emmanuel Van Lil | K.U.Leuven |
Canada | Robert J.C. Bultitude | Communications Research Centre |
Denmark | Jørgen Bach Andersen | Aalborg University |
Gert F. Pedersen | Aalborg University | |
Klaus Pedersen | Aalborg University | |
Finland | Jarmo Kivinen | Helsinki Univ. of Technology |
Jaakko Talvitie | Elektrobit | |
France | Pierre Degauque | University of Lille |
Cyril Delemazure | TDF-C2R | |
Martine Lienard | University of Lille | |
Alain Sibille | ENSTA | |
Sylvie Tiertent | TDF-C2R | |
Germany | Andreas Czylwik | T-Nova Deutsche Telekom |
Jann E. Dietert | IHF RWTH Aachen | |
Andreas Eisenblaetter | ZIB | |
Nabil Elouardi | University of Hannover, | |
Torsten Englert | University of Kassel | |
Henning Fruechting | University of Kassel | |
Hans Heller | Siemens | |
Ralf Kattenbach | University of Kassel | |
Thomas Kürner | E-Plus Mobilfunk | |
Jüergen Maurer | University of Karlsruhe | |
Joerg Pamp | IMST | |
Jochen Schiller | University of Karlsruhe | |
Matthias Schneider | IMST | |
Jan Steuer | University of Hanover | |
Werner Teich | University of Ulm | |
Martin Weckerle | University of Kaiserslautern | |
Thomas Zwick | University of Karlsruhe | |
Ireland | Saul Torrico | Comsearch |
Italy | Eleni Brisku | CSELT |
Vittorio Degli-Esposti | DEIS, University of Bologna | |
Andrea Di Rocco | Ericsson Telecomunicazioni | |
Daniele Disco | CSELT | |
Laura Dossi | CNR-CSTS, Politecnico di Milano | |
Maurizio Magarini | Politecnico di Milano | |
Daniele Tortora | Siemens ICN | |
Roberto Verdone | CSITE-CNR, University of Bologna | |
Alberto Zanella | CSITE-DEIS, University of Bologna | |
The Netherlands | Wim Kotterman | KPN Research |
Norway | Ragnar Eckhoff | Telenor R&D |
Per H. Lehne | Telenor R&D | |
Poland | Marcin Ney | PTK Centertel |
Portugal | Luis M. Correia | IST - Tech. Univ. Lisbon |
Joao Chaves | TMN | |
Antonio Rodrigues | IST - Tech. Univ. Lisbon | |
Slovenia | Kandus Gorazd | Institut Jozef Stefan |
Tomaz Javornik | Institut Jozef Stefan | |
Spain | Narcis Cardona | Technical University of Valencia |
Jose Jimenez | Telefónica | |
Leandro Juan | Technical University of Valencia | |
Francisco López | Technical University of Valencia | |
Marta Martínez-Vàzquez | Technical University of Valencia | |
Juan Reig Pascual | Technical University of Valencia | |
Silvia Ruiz Boque | UPC | |
Sweden | Henrik Asplund | Ericsson Research |
Christian Bergljung | Telia Research | |
Bo G. H. Olsson | Telia Research | |
Switzerland | Jan C. Hansen | ETH Zürich |
Ralf Heddergott | ETH Zürich | |
Andreas Jarosch | ETH Zürich | |
Jean-Frédéric Wagen | EIA-FR/HTA-FR | |
UK | Stephen K. Barton | Manchester University |
Kevin Boyle | Philips | |
Alister Burr | University of York | |
John Orriss | Manchester University |