European Co-operation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research

COST 273

Towards Mobile Broadband Multimedia Networks

Minutes of the 11th Meeting of the Management Committee,

held in Duisburg (Germany) in 2004 Sep. 20-22

COST 273

Minutes of the 11th Meeting of the Management Committee,

held at the Univ. Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg (Germany),

in 2004/Sep/20/14:00-22/17:00

organised by the Univ. Duisburg-Essen

1. Opening formalities

The University Vice-President, Prof. Klaus Solbach, opened the meeting, welcoming all delegates.

After that, Prof. Andreas Czylwik addressed the plenary on matters concerning local arrangements.

2. Adoption of the Agenda

The Agenda, Annex A, was approved without changes, unanimously.

3. Approval of the minutes of the last meeting

The minutes of the last meeting were approved without changes, unanimously.

4. Status of the Action

The Chairman referred that, up to the moment, the Action has:

·        25 countries that have signed the MoU, plus institutions from 4 non-COST countries (the respective information is available at the Action’s web site);

·        102 institutions registered at the Action’s web site (the respective list is available at the Action’s web site) and actively contributing;

·        401 delegates registered at the Action’s web site, from the active institutions.

All delegates from institutions that were not present in the previous meetings presented themselves and the institutions they represent.  These delegates, together with those from the previous meeting that have not done it yet, were asked to send to the Action Secretary the topics to which they intend to contribute, until 2004/Oct/15, Action Point 11/1.

The Chairman reminded that it had been previously approved that institutions from countries in the COST framework are required to contribute with a TD at least in 1 meeting per year, and that institutions from countries that do not belong to the COST framework are required to contribute with a TD at least in 2 meetings per year; failing to do so will imply that the institution will no longer have access to the Members’ Area in the Action web site.  The Chairman informed that the procedure continues to be enforced.  A suggestion was done that the presentation of a tutorial should count as the presentation of a TD, for this purpose.  After a brief discussion, it was approved without any objections.

The Chairman informed that, finally, the FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) area at the website was already working, and he asked for comments and suggestion in order to improve it.

The matter of the tutorials was addressed as well.  As foreseen, two tutorials took place before the start of the meeting:

·          Dr. Robert Bultitude (CRC, Ottawa, CA), on “Considerations Concerning Statistical Stationarity in the Analysis of Measured Data and Radio Channel Modelling”, with an attendance of 38.

·          Dr. Mischa Dohler (King’s College, London, UK), on “Distributed-MIMO Multi-Stage Communication Networks”, with an attendance of 22.

Since no offers had been received yet for tutorials at the 2005/Jan. meeting, the Chairman asked the delegates to send him offers until 2004/Oct/15, Action Point 11/2.

The Chairman informed that, as a result of the start of collaboration with IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, an article describing COST 273 will appear in the VTS Newsletter.

The Chairman informed that had attended the Technical Committee Meeting for Telecommunications and Information Society Technologies, on behalf of COST 273, in Bucharest, Romania, on 2004/Jul/01-02.  The key points were:

·          The former Chairman of the TC-TIST, Prof. Francesco Fedi (Italy), is now the Chairman of the CSO.

·          The new Chairman of the TC-TIST is Prof. Geert Brussaard (The Netherlands).

·          The mains questions put to COST 273 concerned the (large) size of the Action, and the added-value from participation of industry as well as of institutions from non-COST countries.

·          The idea of tutorials was much appreciated by the members of the TC.

·          COST 273 was considered as a success story.  As a consequence, probably, COST 273 will be invited to represent COST-TIST at the “COST Day” event in November, to be held in Brussels, Belgium.

The Chairman then addressed the participation at the 2004 Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications conference.  Prof. Alister Burr, who chaired the session dedicated to COST 273, presented a brief report on the matter: attendance along the average one in the conference.  The Chairman informed that he had received a similar invitation concerning the 2005 edition of the conference (Aalborg, Denmark, 2005/Sep.).  The matter was later discussed within the WGs, and a final decision was postponed to the next meeting in January.

The Action Points from the previous meeting were reviewed.

Action Point 10/1 was still active, and the new Action Point 11/1 was extended to those that have not fulfilled it.

5. Budget and reimbursement

The Chairman informed on the final balance on the budget for the third year (2003/July-2004/June):

The final balance is being taken out of the Secretariat budget.

The Chairman informed that he had already reimbursed the travel expenses of the previous meeting, and that the current meeting would be reimbursed as well by the Action Secretary.  Then, he informed that those entitled and applying to reimbursement for the current meeting should fill in the form (available on the web site), duly sign it, and send it together with a copy of the tickets (transportation and hotel), to the Secretary, until 2004/Oct/15, Action Point 11/3.

An issue was raised by several participants, concerning the reimbursement of the travel expenses: sometimes, the bank transfers did not mention explicitly to whom they were referring to, which created problems in the accounting of the institutions.  The Chairman took note of that, and said that it would be overcome in the future.

The Chairman informed as well that a decision concerning the budget for the forth year (2004/July-2005/June) had been received:

Following the new rules of the ESF, the amount for the Final Report (1) will be taken out of a separate fund, which will be decided later on.

Finally, the matter of the Short Term Missions was addressed, for which there is a budget of 10 k€, and which must take place until 2005/Jun/30.  Following the procedure in previous years, it was decided to launch a Call for Applications, with a deadline by 2004/Oct/22, AP 11/4.  The Chairman reminded that the rules and procedures were available at the website.

6. Presentation and discussion of documents

A total of 67 Temporary Documents, which are listed in Annex B, were presented and discussed at the Plenary and at the WGs, Annex C.  WGs and SWGs Chairpersons were asked to send the minutes and the attendance list to the Action Chairman, until 2004/Oct/22, Action Point 11/5.

Discussions were also held within the WGs.

·               WG1

11 documents were presented in WG1 only sessions; 4 jointly with WG2 and 2 jointly with WG3.  In addition there was a discussion session for WG1 and another jointly with WG2.  The main topic of these were the final report, chapters 2 and 4 respectively.  However four other topics were mentioned, namely a possible special session at WPMC’05, Aalborg (it was agreed that this, if any, should focus on a specific topic, but no WG1 topics were suggested); tutorials for the next meeting (no suggestions were made); the possibility of short term missions; and the possible follow-on proposal (the possibility of changing the structure was mentioned, but no details were discussed).

On chapter 2 of the final report, the balance of the sections and the coverage of TDs was discussed, both in the sense of the number of TDs per section, and the number of sections in which each TD is discussed.  In the former case it was decided that the balance was reasonable, in the latter some TDs were pointed out that are either not mentioned at all, or mentioned in more than 3 sections.  The list of these will be sent to all section editors, for their consideration, although it is not essential to change the allocations.  The disposition of a few papers on UWB transmission techniques was discussed: it was agreed that they would be included in the section on Modulation and Coding. [Outside the session the division between the section 2.3 (CDMA systems) and section 2.7 (Multi-user systems) was also discussed: the former should discuss systems based on CDMA (like UMTS), while the latter will focus on techniques].  In view of the schedule agreed at previous meetings that at this meeting the complete contents list and the contributors should be fixed, it was agreed that section editors would send the updated detailed structure of their section to the chapter editor, and the list of contributors (if any), along with their updated TD allocation list including both TDs from this meeting and workshop papers, by 8th October.  Other deadlines, as discussed at the plenary, were also noted.

Similar issues were raised during the Chapter 4 discussion.  Here it was also noted in particular that liaison between sections in different chapters will be essential, since different aspects of the same work may be covered in Chapter 4 and in Chapters 2 and 3.

·               WG2

WG 2 had ample discussions in Duisburg. The following topics were covered.

1.        WPMC´05 Aalborg.

·           Shall we have a COST 273 Session with a specific title? Yes, WG2 suggests "Localization-UWB", "MIMO Measurement and Modeling", "Indoor propagation".  But we have to assign a coordinating person.  This will be decided after WG3 has declared its preference.  But since they will prefer VTC Stockholm 2005, there are good chances that WG2 can have such a session.

·           J.B. Andersen is tutorial organizer for WPMC´05 and solicits proposals.

2.        New project.

·           Who will support shaping of new project in propagation/antennas area?

3.        Short-term missions

·           Pamp + Kåredal UWB measurements

·           Vainikainen + Degli Esposti: Wideband Measurements + Simulation in Urban Environments

4.        Final Report

·           Chapter 3 "Propagation and Antennas" (Sibille reporting as a substitute for Degauque in this meeting).

·     Structure in principle OK. Problem areas: large number of TDs in Section 3.4.

·     Section 3.4 (Vainikainen) and Section 3.5  (Cardoso, Kottermann) will be renamed – see COST 273 website.

·     Authors of 3.5 will exchange drafts with Bultitude (Section 4.2).

·     Section 3.4 will have 3 Subsections, as planned. Actual number of relevant TDs probably lower. Even if not every TD will be discussed in detail, at least a list of measurement techniques will be provided.

·           Chapter 4 "Space-Time Channels and Systems"

·     Large number of  TDs in 4.5 Measurements (110). It will be suggested to Beach to proceed in a similar way as suggested for 3.4 (list all TDs only in a table, but describe  principle features of campaigns more in detail). Watch out for topical overlap with 4.8 (Czylwik).

·     General modelling that will not be included in the COST 273 MIMO Model (Bultitude will deal with these topics in Section 4.2 ), e.g. Karlsruhe (Fügen), ftw (Hofstetter), IST-Bologna (Gil), …

·     Simulators? Yes. Contributor: Steinböck, liase with Robert Bultitude.

·     One TD covered in several sections; section editors check for n>3, n<1.

·           Section Editors: Update lists, and don´t forget workshop papers – Luis will put them on the download area of the website.

·           Contributors to Sections: if any, please inform chapter editors (Burr, Bonek).

·           Length: approx 0.5 pages  per TD is the general  guideline, probably less than that for Ch. 4 (more than 400 TDs!).

·           Style manual will be handed out by Chairman, once a publisher has been selected.

·               WG3

In Duisburg WG3 discussed about the final report Chapter that will include all WG3 results: the table of contents proposed in Gothenburg has been revised and some changes were approved.  Now the final list of Sections is as follows.  It was decided that Narcis Cardona will co-edit with WG3 Chairman the Chapter.  The Section Editors have also been definitely appointed.

5    Radio Network Aspects                                                        R. Verdone/ N. Cardona

5.1 Introduction                                                                                               R. Verdone

5.2 Mobile Radio Access Network Reference Scenarios (MORANS)                    S. Ruiz

5.3 Techniques for Radio Network Optimisation                                                    V. Tralli

5.4 Methodologies for Performance Evaluation of Radio Networks                        J. Orriss

5.5 Traffic and Multiservice Issues                                                  L. Correia / L. Ferreira

5.6 UMTS Radio Network Planning                                                                 T. Kuerner

5.7 UTRAN Optimisation and Radio Resource Mgmt                 N. Cardona / P. Grazioso

5.8 UTRAN Performance Evaluation                                                                    R. Patelli

5.9 3G and Beyond: Network Evolution                                                             A. Zanella

5.10 WLANs                                                                                              M. Radimirsch

5.11 PANs                                                                                                       G. Pasolini

5.12 Wireless Ad Hoc Networks                                                                       A. Zanella

5.13 Terminal Location Identification                                                         D. Zimmermann

Other researchers that have promised to contribute are: A. Czylwick, J. Diaz, F. Velez, H. Buehler, A. Munna, A. Eisenblaetter, M. Garcia, R. Fraile, L. Dobos.

Then, it was discussed whether to organise sessions at next conferences in the wireless area, and it was agreed to contact the VTC2005Spring Technical Committee to propose a MORANS – related special session

·               SWG2.1

The following topics were address, besides the regular discussion of documents:

·               Final Report: table from environment-representatives to be sent to Andy by December 4^th (firm deadline); section has to be sent to Ernst by Dec. 20^th.

·               Group went through the document drafted by Andy, and modified some of the parameters. These modifications concentrated on the “coupling matrix”.

·               SWG2.2

Andres Alayon Glazunov acted as Chairman.

The following topics were address, besides the regular discussion of documents:

·               Prestandard and presentation for 3GPP RAN4.  The prestandard to be presented in RAN4 meeting November 2004.  A presenter at the RAN4 meeting in Japan in November is needed.  It is preferred that the presenter would be a member of SWG2.2 or other antenna expert from the participating organizations.  Open prestandard action points from the last meeting were reviewed, and some new ones were set.

·               Final report of SWG will be a section of Chapter 3.   Our section is named “Antenna performance assessment of mobile handsets” (unless somebody still comes up with a better name).  The proposed structure for the section was presented and approved. It is expected to fill approximately 30 pages and will cover about xx TD’s and WP’s. The contributors for the various subsections were appointed.  Some instructions from the plenary: Final Report should not include a lot of formulas neither literature surveys. Tables and Figures must have mapping onto particular TDs (due to copyright issues).  Authors of all TDs have to provide a mapping of their TDs onto open literature references (e.g. IEEE conference proceedings or journals).  It was discussed in SWG2.2 meeting that can the authors use other references than our own TDs (+publications made on them) in the final report sections? It concluded that external references should probably not be used very much.  Table of contents with applicable TDs and assigned editors (this version does not yet include the TDs from Gothenburg and Duisburg meetings):

Introduction                                                                                                  Andrés

Figures of Merit                                                                                    Andrés, Gert

Measurement Methods                                                            Henning, Ida, Takada

Radiated Performance Measurement                                                        Pertti, Gert

Sensitivity Performance Measurement                                                                Gert

Head, Hand and Body                                                            Joonas, Benoit, Oliver

Sampling Grid                                                                                               Van Lil

Frequency                                                                                                      Jesper

Propagation Environment                                                                                  Pertti

Measurement Repeatability                                                            Joonas, Stephane

Reference Antennas                                                                         Joonas, Tuomas

Relationship between the figures of merit                                            Olivier, Andres

Antenna Design                                                                                                 Outi

SAR(>3)                                                            Olivier, Stephane, Benoit, Bolomey

Adaptive Matching Systems                                                                   Ida, Takada

In-Network Performance Measurement                                                   (Still open)

·               SWG2.3

The following aspects were discussed, besides the regular discussion of documents:

·               Tutorials: There was a short discussion on possible tutorials for the next meetings, but proposals were not obtained.

·               Two possible STMs were mentioned: Joerg Pamp from IMST plans an STM with Lund University in the area of UWB channel measurements; Vittorio Degli-Esposti from Univ. of Bologna plans an STM in Helsinki Univ. of Technology in November or December, 2004.

·               There was a joint discussion with WG2 on the Final Report. There were two main discussion items concerning Section 3.4 that contains the contribution of SWG 2.3:

·          Number of TDs assigned to Sec. 3.4: The number of TDs assigned to Sec. 3.4 was noticed to be too large, over 80.  The reason for this was explained by P. Vainikainen to be the assignment principle, where the idea was to at least briefly comment or collect in a table all use of propagation channel measurement systems or parameter estimation to present a survey on the status of the techniques in the COST 273 community.  As this seems obviously problematic e.g. due to extensive list of references in Sec. 3.4., a new approach was decided to be taken.  Here only the TD's representing significant development in the topical area of Sec. 3.4 (see below) will be included.

·          Title of Sec. 3.4: The title of Sec. 3.4 was changed to "Channel measurements and parameter estimation" to clarify the topical area of the section and avoid confusion with the topics of other sections like Sec. 3.5 (Channel characterisation).

·               SWG3.1

The following aspects were discussed, besides the regular discussion of documents:

·               Papers from Duisburg meeting to be added to section 5.1 of the Final Report (MORANS)

·               Who should correct the format of some files to converge to a common xml format.  Probably in two months the new version of the CD will be circulated, with the correct files.

·               The possibility of organising a short term mission with the purpose of performing a comparison of results using MORANS scenarios. At this moment there are few papers showing results, but it is expected that after Bologna meeting this number will increase considerably. As possible dates and location for the STM, March and Valencia were proposed.

The list of attendance of the WGs is presented in Annex D.

7. Liaisons with other international bodies

Brief reports were presented as follows:

·        ITU

·      SG3: Prof. Sana Salous, Durham Univsersity, UK – No activity to report.

·      WTSA'04: Prof. Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland – World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly WTSA'04 will be held in Florianapolis, Brazil, 5-14 October 2004, and it will be accompanied by Cybersecurity Symposium on 4 October 2004. The World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly is hold every four years and it defines general policy and adopts working methods and procedures for ITU-T.

·        URSI

·      Commission C: Prof. Andreas Molisch, Lund University, Lund, Sweden –

·        IST

·      4MORE: Dr. David Mottier, Mitsubishi-ITE, Rennes, France – 4More develops a complete Terminal prototype for UL and DL communications based on MC-CDMA and MIMO using a Network On Chip (NoC) architecture. The algorithms to be implemented in the first version of the demonstrator, including two antennas at both the base station and the mobile station, have been selected: in DL, MC-CDMA with adjacent chip-mapping, Alamouti Space-Time coding and LDPC; in UL, SS-MC-MA with adjacent chip mapping, Alamouti Space-time coding and turbo-coding. A base station emulator will also be developed accordingly. Following a stepwise approach for implementation, a second version of the demonstrator will include advanced MIMO schemes with 4 antennas at the base and 2 antennas at the mobile.  Web site: www.ist-4more.org.

·      ACE: Prof. Pertti Vainikainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland (with thanks to Dr. Clemens Icheln) – In both MM-wave and RF-related activities, a list of antenna measurement facilities available within ACE has been compiled and is available on the Web (for ACE members). The goal is to benchmark all the facilities with a set of well-defined test devices, which have been chosen based on discussions within the group, along with systematic measurement procedures. The ACE-wide comparison will probably be performed in late 2004 or early 2005. Test antennas include typical devices such as a reflector dish for MM-wave range, both passive small antennas and active mobile terminals, and devices attached to objects that model the user. Discussions among the participants were also aiming at identifying emerging needs in the mobile terminal technology. A report is being compiled for the year 2004.

·      FLOWS: Prof. Alister Burr, University of York, York, UK – FLOWS is now into its last four months, and a final workshop will take place in Redhill, near London, on 29th November. Four deliverables will be completed in the next few months: reports on performance of multiband MIMO antenna arrays; on baseband signal processing including implementation complexity; on complete system performance simulation, and of course the Technology Implementation Plan.

·      MATRICE: Dr. David Mottier, Mitsubishi-ITE, Rennes, France – The Matrice project is in its final year. After the implementation of several kinds of algorithms in the field of MC-CDMA communication systems, 14 classes of competing physical layer algorithms have been defined and their performances have been assessed and compared on the basis of the same software reference platform. At higher layers, several RRM algorithms have been studied, implemented and compared. A DL SISO MC-CDMA prototype (without RF) has been demonstrated and a fixed point software version of the demonstrator has been developed to validate the results. The results of the Matrice project will be used in the 4More project. Web site: http://www.ist-matrice.org.

·      NEWCOM: Prof. Roberto Verdone, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy –

·      NEXWAY: Prof. Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland – NEXWAY Workshop on the Prospects of Personal Wireless Communications (PPWC-04) was held in Warsaw, Poland, on 18 June 2004.  NEXWAY (Network of Excellence in Wireless Applications and Technology) consortium is continuing to be very active, including large involvement to the web based 1st electronic Conference in the area of Mobile Communications Mobile eConference 2004 http://www.telecom.ece.ntua.gr/eConference/ 30th August - 31st October 2004.

·      PULSERS: Prof. Alain Sibille, ENSTA, Paris, France – The 3rd Pulsers general meeting has taken place in Geneva on oct. 4-6. There have been some discussions on the present satus of UWB regulation in Europe, essentially in relation with works of ECC TG3 (CEPT) work on UWB. PULSERS has delivered many contributions to ECC/TG3 and ITU-R TG1/8. It is recalled that, at the present time, the "tentative generic mask proposed in the last draft ECC report (4th meeting, Mainz, 27 sept - 1 oct) is typically 30 dB below the FCC mask. It is based on (almost) worst case compatibility studies, the huge descrepancy wrt FCC's being significantly due to the adopted activity factors. It is proposed that the TG3 should check the validity of this "mask". Regarding progress in the work, all Pulsers deliverables due over the covered period (jan-sept) have been provided (15 Del. sent to EC). The audit by EC will take place in february, and will give a feeling of EC positions towards the second phase of Pulsers (starting 2006).

·      ULTRAWAVES: Prof. Alain Sibille, ENSTA, Paris, France – ULTRAWAVES is now close to the end, with the final review to take place on oct. 11 in Eindhoven. It will be hosted by Philips and will give the opportunity to present the Ultrawaves demonstration with 3 MPEG2 video streams simultaneously transmitted over the air. On oct. 11 is also an "open day" with free access to public, allowing to present these results to public audience.  At present the full communication platform supports QPSK direct sequence UWB up to 60 Mb/s limited by the ethernet digital data interface, but could be doubled by sequencing up to 2.4 Gc/s instead of 1.2Gc/s. Some delays in the WPs have prevented to implement a variety of modulations as initially planned. Extensive tests with different antennas have shown surprising results which are currently under investigation.  An invited Ultrawaves session has been organized at WPMC'04 'Abano-Terme, 13-15 sept. 2004), with 5 papers from the consortium on channel measurements, antennas, UWB capacity, coexistence issues, and UWB video streaming.

·      UWB cluster: Prof. Alain Sibille, ENSTA, Paris, France – The UWB cluster has been built around the ultrawideband projects UCAN, ULTRAWAVES and WHYLESS. The cluster particularly contributes to meetings of the ECC TG3 (CEPT) working group, with e.g. 5 contributions presented in the TG3 meeting last may.

·        3GPP/3GPP2: Prof. Andreas Molisch, Lund University, Lund, Sweden –

·        IEEE 802.4: Prof. Andreas Molisch, Lund University, Lund, Sweden –

·        WWRF: Dr. Robert Bultitude, CRC, Canada –

Raporteurs were asked to send their reports to the Action Chairman, until 2004/Oct/22, Action Point 11/6.

8. Future meetings and workshop

The next meetings will be held according to the following:

·        12^th MCM, hosted by the University Bolgna, in Bologna, Italy, in 2005/Jan/19/09:00-21/17:00.  Tutorials will be held in 2005/Jan/18/14:00-17:30.  In 2005/Jan/18 there will be a joint Workshop with the IST-NOE NEWCOM, the regular meeting being held in 2005/Jan/20/08:30-21/17:00.

·        13^th MCM, hosted by K. U. Leuven, in Leuven, Belgium, in 2005/Jun/06-08.

The deadlines for the next meeting were established as well:

·        request a TD number via the website, until 2005/Jan/07, Action Point 11/7;

·        send the pdf file of the TD to the Webmaster, until 2005/Jan/11, Action Point 11/8;

·        register to the meeting via the website, until 2005/Jan/04, Action Point 11/9.

9. Final Report

The discussion on the Final Report took place.

Concerning the general schedule, it had been previously decided:

·          2004 June:     __ establish the draft of contents

                            __ appoint Chapters / Sections editors

·          2004 Sep.:     __ establish the detailed contents of each Chapter / Section

                            __ appoint contributors to the various Sections

·          2005 Jan.:      __ first draft of the report is distributed

                            __ last contributions are made available

·          2005 May:     __ final draft of the report is distributed

The general structure of the book has also been previously agreed, as well as chapter editors.  From the previous meeting, there was a slight change in Chapter 5, by adding Prof. Narcis Cardona as a co-editor, and by slightly changing the sections, in order to have a more balanced structure.  The result is as follows:

·          Chapter 1 – Introduction (Luis Correia)

·          Chapter 2 – Transmission Techniques and Signal Processing (ed. Alister Burr)

·          Chapter 3 – Propagation and Antennas (ed. Pierre Degauque)

·          Chapter 4 – Space-Time Channels and Systems (eds. Ernst Bonek / Alister Burr)

·          Chapter 5 – Radio Network Aspects (ed. Roberto Verdone / Narcis Cardona)

As a result of the previous meeting, there is a draft of the ToC, with a brief description per chapter and per section.  Also, a first mapping to TDs onto Sections is available.

It was decided that each Chapter Editor would discuss during the meeting the following topics, to be sent to the Chairman after the meeting:

·          finalise the definitive ToC, taking the TDs mapping into consideration;

·          appoint the definitive editor for each Section;

·          appoint the contributors for each Section.

A brief discussion was held concerning rules and procedures.  Basic style rules will be defined by the Publisher, but since there is the need to have a coherent style throughout the whole book, internal guidelines will be defined after the ones from the publisher, e.g., style for references, use of acronyms, referencing of figures and tables, and style of tables.

The objectives for the book were clarified as well:

·          The objective is to present the main results of the project.

·          It should contain all the results achieved during the project, without the details of deducting models or formulations.

·          Since it is not a textbook, it should not contain any general literature survey, or results that were not dealt with within the project.

The roles of the editors (general, chapter and section) have been defined in a document, as well as the ones for the contributors.  The bases for contributions were agreed:

·          contributions should be based on TDs and workshop papers;

·          in principle, the results of all TDs should be reflected on the contents;

·          Chapter / Section Editors need to update the list of TDs after this meeting, including workshop papers, and their mapping onto Sections;

·          Section Editors and Contributors are not to report only on their own work, but rather to put together the information concerning the respective Section.

Contributions will be constituted by:

·          general text with figures and tables

·          list of references

·          list of figures (with mapping onto TDs)

·          list of tables (with mapping onto TDs)

·          list of symbols

·          list of acronyms

·          list of keywords

Authors of all TDs are required:

·          to provide a mapping of their TDs onto open literature references (i.e., conference or journal papers, etc.),

·          to sign the Copyright Form for permission of use of figures, if required.

It was decided in the previous meeting that LaTeX will be used as the only word processor, which means that all contributions must be done in LaTeX.  Guidelines will be provided, with the help of colleagues that are expert on this processor.

Concerning the publisher, the Chairman reminded that the Final Report will be published by a commercial publisher.  After an initial contact with John Wiley, a formal proposal was sent, by the beginning of July, but by the end of July they said there was no interest in it.  After that, the proposal was sent to other publishers, and the situation was as follows:

·          Springer/Kluwer: under consideration

·          Artech House: potential interest

·          Addison Wesley/Prentice Hall: no interest

·          CRC: under consideration

The Chairman will continue the contacts with publishers, and a decision will be taken as soon as possible.

As far as size is concerned, the aim is (references apart):

·          500 pages for the book

·          100 pages per chapter

·          0.5 pages per TD

The following deadlines were agreed:

·          Section Editors need to send to the Chapter Editor the update mapping of TDs and WPs onto the Section and inform Contributors until 2004/Oct/08, AP 11/10.

·          Chapter Editors need to send to the Editor the update mapping of TDs onto the Chapter until 2004/Oct/15, AP 11/11.

·          All authors need to send to the Editor the mapping of TDs onto papers in open literature until 2004/Oct/29, AP 11/12.

·          Contributors need to send their contributions to the Section Editor until 2004/Dec/06, AP 11/13.

·          Section Editors need to send their contributions to the Chapter Editor until 2004/Dec/20, AP 11/14.

·          Chapter Editors need to send their contributions to the Editor until 2005/Jan/10, AP 11/15.

·          Editor needs to put draft version of the book at the website until 2005/Jan/12, AP 11/16.

10. Preparation of a proposal for a follow on Action

A brief discussion was held on the interest of continuing the activities in another COST Action, after the current one is finished.  There was an overall agreement that there should be a continuation.

After that, it was decided that the preparation and coordination of the proposal for the follow on should be done by the “potential Chairperson” of the Action.  The Chairman informed that he was not available to continue in another term for the follow on Action, since he felt that there should be some renewal in the leadership.  As a consequence, candidates were asked to step in.  There were no candidates, and the Chairman, supported by the Vice-Chairman and the WGs Chairman, proposed Prof. Roberto Verdone (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy) for the role of “potential Chairman”.  A voting took place, and there were neither votes against nor abstentions, i.e., Prof. Roberto Verdone appointment was approved unanimously. 

11. Any other business

The WGs and SWGs Chairmen gave brief presentation of the main results of the discussion held in the meetings.

The Chairman reminded also the Action Points from the meeting:

12. Close of the meeting

The meeting was attended by a total of 107 persons, Annex E.

The Chairman thanked Prof. Andreas Czylwik for hosting the meeting, and for all the effort put into its organisation.  He also thanked the sponsors, University of Duisburg-Essen, Infineon, and Medav, for their support.

The Chairman also thanked all delegates for their participation, and formally closed it.

Annex A

Agenda

1.             Opening formalities

2.             Adoption of the Agenda

3.             Approval of the minutes of the last meeting

4.             Status of the Action

5.             Budget and reimbursements

6.             Presentation and discussion of documents

7.             Liaisons with other international bodies

8.             Future meetings and workshop

9.             Final Report

10.         Preparation of a proposal for a follow on Action

11.         Any other business

12.         Close of Meeting

Annex B

List of Documents

One document that was not presented in previous meetings was discussed: TD(04)139.

One document that was not presented in previous meetings was not still discussed, and was cancelled: TD(04)075.

Annex C

Sessions Schedule

Annex D

WGs Attendance List

WG 1

Country	Organisation	Name
Austria	Telecommunications Research Centre Vienna	Thomas Zemen
Czech Republic	Czech Technical University of Prague	Jan Sykora
Denmark	Aalborg University	Joergen Bach Andersen
Finland	University of Oulu	Kimmo Kansanen
		Kai Yen
France	Ecole Nouvelle de Ingénieurs en Communication	Christelle Garnier
		Okouyi Rodrigue
	Mitsubishi Electric	David Mottier
	Ensta	Alain Sibille
Germany	IMST	Jac Romme
	University of Kaiserslautern	Tobias Weber
	University of Ulm	Christian Pietsch
		Werner Teich
	University of Duisburg-Essen	Andreas Czylwik
		Alinejad Hessamian
Italy	Università di Ferrara	Velio Tralli
Poland	National Institute of Telecommunications	Marian Marciniak
Slovenia	Institut Jozef Stefan	Gorazd Kandus
Spain	Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo	Luis Cucala
Yugoslavia	University of Novi Sad	Dragana Bajic
		Milan Narandzic

21 attendees

WG 2

Country	Organisation	Name
Austria	Technische Universitaet Wien	Ernst Bonek
	Telecommunications Research Centre Vienna	Helmut Hofstetter
Belgium	K. U. Leuven	Dave Trappeniers
		Emmanuel Van Lil
	Université Catholique de Louvain	Claude Oestges
Canada	Communications Research Centre Canada	Robert J.C. Bultitude
Denmark	Aalborg University	Wim Kotterman
		Joergen Bach Andersen
		Xuefeng Yin
	Bang & Olufsen	Henning Mikkelsen
Finland	Electrobit	Jukka-Pekka Nuutinen
France	France Télécom R&D	Jean-Marc Conrat
	Siradel	Yoann Corre
Germany	IMST	Jorg Pamp
	E-Plus Mobilfunk	Bernd Heideck
	Technical University of Braunschweig	Jaouhar Jemai
	University of Karlsruhe	Christiane Kuhnert
	University of Duisburg-Essen	Andreas Czylwik
	Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin	Andreas Einseblätter
	University of Stuttgart	Philipp Wertz
		René Wahl
		Dirk Zimmermann
		Michael Layh
Italy	University of Bologna	Vittorio Degli-Esposti
Japan	Tokio Institute of Technology	Ichirou Ida
		Mir Ghoraishi
		Hiroya Tanaka
Portugal	Instituto Superior Técnico	Luis M. Correia
		Filipe Cardoso
Spain	Universidad Politécnica de Valencia	Narcis Cardona
Sweden	Ericsson	Anders Derneryd
		Joonas Medbo
	Lund university	Andreas Molisch
	Telia Sonera	Andres Alayon
UK	Durham University	Sana Salous
	University of Manchester	Karim Nasr
		Fumie Costen

37 attendees

WG 2.1

Country	Organisation	Name
Austria	DI Dr Hermann Buehler GmbH	Hermann Buehler
	Technische Universitaet Wien	Ernst Bonek
		Hueseyin Oezcelik
		Nicolai Czink
	Telecommunications Research Centre Vienna	Helmut Hofstetter
		Thomas Zemen
	ARC Seibersdorf Research	Gerhard Steinboeck
Belgium	K. U. Leuven	Dave Trappeniers
		Emmanuel Van Lil
	Université Catholique de Louvain	Claude Oestges
Canada	Communications Research Centre Canada	Robert J.C. Bultitude
Croatia	University of Zagreb	Radovan Zentner
Denmark	Aalborg University	Wim Kotterman
		Joergen Bach Andersen
		Xuefeng Yin
Finland	Helsinki University of Technology	Pertti Vainikainen
France	France Télécom R&D	Jean-Marc Conrat
	Siradel	Yoann Corre
	Ensta	Alain Sibille
	University of Lille	Martine Lienard
Germany	IMST	Jorg Pamp
		Jürgen Kunisch
	Medav – TeWiSoft	Walter Wirnitzer
		Uwe Trautwein
	Ilmenau Technical University	Reiner Thomä
	University of Karlsruhe	Christiane Kuhnert
	University of Ulm	Christian Pietsch
		Werner Teich
	University of Duisburg-Essen	Batu K. Chalise
		Andreas Czylwik
Japan	Tokio Institute of Technology	Hiroaki Tsuchiya
		Jun-ichi Takada
		Katsuyuki Haneda
Portugal	Instituto Superior Técnico	Luis M. Correia
		Filipe Cardoso
		João Gil
Sweden	Ericsson	Anders Derneryd
	Lund university	Andreas Molisch
		Buon Kiong Lau
		Shurjeel Wyne
UK	Toshiba Telecommunications Research Laboratory	Rafael Cepeda

41 attendees

WG 2.2

Country	Organisation	Name
Belgium	K. U. Leuven	Emmanuel Van Lil
Denmark	Bang & Olufsen	Henning Mikkelsen
Finland	Helsinki University of Technology	Pertti Vainikainen
		Joonas Krogerus
France	Satimo	Arnaud Gandois
	Sagem	Benoît Derat
		Stéphane Pannetrat
	Supelec	Olivier Merckel
	Ensta	Alain Sibille
Germany	Technical University of Braunschweig	Jaouhar Jemai
	Ilmenau Technical University	Reiner Thomä
	University of Karlsruhe	Christiane Kuhnert
	University of Duisburg-Essen	Arjang Hessamian
Japan	Tokio Institute of Technology	Mir Ghoraishi
		Hiroya Tanaka
		Jun-ichi Takada
Sweden	Ericsson	Anders Derneryd
	Telia Sonera	Andres Alayon
UK	Durham University	Sana Salous
	University of Manchester	Wenyu Guo
USA	Motorola	Carlo Di Nalo

21 attendees

WG 2.3

Country	Organisation	Name
Austria	Technische Universitaet Wien	Hueseyin Oezcelik
		Nicolai Czink
	Telecommunications Research Centre Vienna	Helmut Hofstetter
Belgium	Université Catholique de Louvain	Claude Oestges
Croatia	University of Zagreb	Radovan Zentner
Denmark	Aalborg University	Wim Kotterman
Finland	Electrobit	Jukka-Pekka Nuutinen
	Helsinki University of Technology	Pertti Vainikainen
		Veli-Matti Kolmonen
Germany	IMST	Jac Romme
	Medav – TeWiSoft	Walter Wirnitzer
	Ilmenau Technical University	Reiner Thomä
Italy	University of Bologna	Vittorio Degli-Esposti
Japan	Tokio Institute of Technology	Hiroaki Tsuchiya
		Ichirou Ida
		Jun-ichi Takada
		Katsuyuki Haneda
Sweden	Ericsson	Anders Derneryd
		Joonas Medbo
	Lund university	Buon Kiong Lau
		Shurjeel Wyne
UK	Durham University	Sana Salous

22 attendees

WG 3

Country	Organisation	Name
Austria	DI Dr Hermann Buehler GmbH	Hermann Buehler
		Michael Feher
Finland	Helsinki University of Technology	Joonas Krogerus
Germany	E-Plus Mobilfunk	Bernd Heideck
	Technical University of Braunschweig	Thomas Kürner
		Andreas Hecker
		Peter Unger
	University of Hannover	Andreas Heinrich
	Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin	Andreas Einseblätter
		Hans-Florian Geerdes
	University of Stuttgart	Philipp Wertz
		René Wahl
		Dirk Zimmermann
		Michael Layh
Italy	University of Bologna	Alberto Zanella
		Antonella Munna
		Roberto Verdone
		Franco Fuschini
	Università di Ferrara	Velio Tralli
	Fondazione Ugo Bordoni	Paolo Grazioso
Japan	Tokio Institute of Technology	Hiroya Tanaka
Portugal	Instituto Superior Técnico	Lúcio Ferreira
Slovak Republic	Technical University of Kosice	Lubomir Dobos
Spain	Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya	Silvia Ruiz Boqué
	Universidad Politécnica de Valencia	Jose Monserrat
		Narcis Cardona
Sweden	Ericsson	Anders Derneryd
UK	University of Manchester	John Orriss
		Wenyu Guo
		Nick Filer
		Stephen K. Barton
USA	Motorola	Carlo Di Nalo

32 attendees

WG 3.1

Country	Organisation	Name
Austria	DI Dr Hermann Buehler GmbH	Hermann Buehler
		Michael Feher
Germany	E-Plus Mobilfunk	Bernd Heideck
	Technical University of Braunschweig	Thomas Kürner
		Andreas Hecker
		Peter Unger
	Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin	Andreas Einseblätter
		Hans-Florian Geerdes
	University of Stuttgart	Philipp Wertz
Italy	University of Bologna	Antonella Munna
		Franco Fuschini
	Fondazione Ugo Bordoni	Paolo Grazioso
Portugal	Instituto Superior Técnico	Lúcio Ferreira
Slovak Republic	Technical University of Kosice	Lubomir Dobos
Spain	Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya	Silvia Ruiz Boqué
	Universidad Politécnica de Valencia	Jose Monserrat
		Narcis Cardona
Sweden	Ericsson	Anders Derneryd
UK	University of Manchester	John Orriss
		Nick Filer
		Stephen K. Barton

21 attendees

Annex E

General Attendance List

Country	Organisation	Name
Austria	DI Dr Hermann Buehler GmbH	Hermann Buehler
		Michael Feher
	Technische Universitaet Wien	Ernst Bonek
		Hueseyin Oezcelik
		Nicolai Czink
	Telecommunications Research Centre Vienna	Helmut Hofstetter
		Thomas Zemen
	ARC Seibersdorf Research	Gerhard Steinboeck
Belgium	K. U. Leuven	Dave Trappeniers
		Emmanuel Van Lil
	Université Catholique de Louvain	Claude Oestges
Canada	Communications Research Centre Canada	Robert J.C. Bultitude
Croatia	University of Zagreb	Radovan Zentner
Czech Republic	Czech Technical University of Prague	Jan Sykora
Denmark	Aalborg University	Wim Kotterman
		Joergen Bach Andersen
		Xuefeng Yin
	Bang & Olufsen	Henning Mikkelsen
Finland	University of Oulu	Kimmo Kansanen
		Kai Yen
	Electrobit	Jukka-Pekka Nuutinen
	Helsinki University of Technology	Pertti Vainikainen
		Joonas Krogerus
		Veli-Matti Kolmonen
France	Ecole Nouvelle de Ingénieurs en Communication	Christelle Garnier
		Okouyi Rodrigue
	France Télécom R&D	Jean-Marc Conrat
	Mitsubishi Electric	David Mottier
	Satimo	Arnaud Gandois
	Sagem	Benoît Derat
		Stéphane Pannetrat
	Supelec	Olivier Merckel
	Siradel	Yoann Corre
	Ensta	Alain Sibille
	University of Lille	Martine Lienard
Germany	IMST	Jorg Pamp
		Jac Romme
		Jürgen Kunisch
	E-Plus Mobilfunk	Bernd Heideck
	Technical University of Braunschweig	Thomas Kürner
		Andreas Hecker
		Jaouhar Jemai
		Peter Unger
	Medav – TeWiSoft	Walter Wirnitzer
		Uwe Trautwein
	Ilmenau Technical University	Reiner Thomä
	University of Hannover	Andreas Heinrich
		Silke Feldmann
	University of Kaiserslautern	Tobias Weber
	University of Karlsruhe	Christiane Kuhnert
	University of Ulm	Christian Pietsch
		Werner Teich
	University of Duisburg-Essen	Batu K. Chalise
		Lars Häring
		Arjang Hessamian
		Andreas Czylwik
		Stefan Bieder
	Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin	Andreas Einseblätter
		Hans-Florian Geerdes
	University of Stuttgart	Philipp Wertz
		René Wahl
		Dirk Zimmermann
		Michael Layh
Italy	University of Bologna	Alberto Zanella
		Antonella Munna
		Roberto Verdone
		Franco Fuschini
		Vittorio Degli-Esposti
	Università di Ferrara	Velio Tralli
	Fondazione Ugo Bordoni	Paolo Grazioso
Japan	Tokio Institute of Technology	Hiroaki Tsuchiya
		Ichirou Ida
		Mir Ghoraishi
		Hiroya Tanaka
		Jun-ichi Takada
		Katsuyuki Haneda
Poland	National Institute of Telecommunications	Marian Marciniak
Portugal	Instituto Superior Técnico	Luis M. Correia
		Lúcio Ferreira
		Filipe Cardoso
		João Gil
Slovak Republic	Technical University of Kosice	Lubomir Dobos
Slovenia	Institut Jozef Stefan	Gorazd Kandus
Spain	Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo	Luis Cucala
	Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya	Silvia Ruiz Boqué
	Universidad Politécnica de Valencia	Jose Monserrat
		Narcis Cardona
Sweden	Ericsson	Anders Derneryd
		Joonas Medbo
	Lund university	Andreas Molisch
		Buon Kiong Lau
		Shurjeel Wyne
	Telia Sonera	Andres Alayon
UK	Durham University	Sana Salous
	University of Manchester	Karim Nasr
		John Orriss
		Fumie Costen
		Wenyu Guo
		Arnaud Thiry
		Nick Filer
		Stephen K. Barton
	University of York	Alister Burr
	Center for Telecommunications Research	Mischa Dohler
	Toshiba Telecommunications Research Laboratory	Rafael Cepeda
USA	Motorola	Carlo Di Nalo
Yugoslavia	University of Novi Sad	Dragana Bajic
		Milan Narandzic

107 attendees