Plenary Speakers

Prof. Joachim Hagenauer

Technical University of Munich, Institute for Communications Engineering

Presentation Title: The Turbo Principle in Wireless Communications

Professor Joachim Hagenauer received his degrees from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, where he served as an assistant professor. He held a postdoctoral fellowship position at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, a one year visiting position year at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill, and a research position at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, since 1990 as the director of the DLR Institute for Communications Technology. Since April 1993 he is a full professor for Telecommunications at the Munich University of Technology (TUM) and since 2002 a Full Member of the Bavarian Academy of Science.

Professor Hagenauer is a Fellow of the IEEE, the recipient of the 1996 E.H. Armstrong-Award of the IEEE Communications Society and of the IEEE 2003 “Alexander Graham Bell Medal”. In 2001 he served as the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society.

Prof. Bernard H. Fleury

Aalborg University, Center for PersonKommunikation

Presentation Title: Recent developments in Radio Channel Measurement and Modelling
Authors: Bernard H. Fleury and Xuefeng Yin

Professor Bernard H. Fleury received the diploma in electrical engineering and mathematics in 1978 and 1990 respectively, and the doctoral degree in electrical engineering in 1990 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland. Since 1997 he has been with the Department of Communication Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark as a Professor in Digital Communications. Bernard H. Fleury is the head of the Digital Communications Division at this department and the coordinator of the PhD Study Programme Wireless Communications of the International Doctoral School of Technology and Science, Aalborg University.

His current fields of interest include stochastic modelling of the radio channel, high-resolution methods for the estimation of the radio channel, characterization of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, and iterative techniques for joint channel parameter estimation and data detection/decoding in multi-user communication systems.

Prof. Hans van den Berg

Presentation Title: Flow-level Performance Modelling for Elastic Data Traffic in 3G+ Networks

Prof. Hans van den Berg received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, in 1986 and 1990 respectively. From 1986, he worked at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam. In 1990 he joined KPN Research (TNO Telecom, since January 2003). He is particularly working on performance modeling, traffic management and QoS provisioning for multi-service communication networks (ATM, IP, UMTS, WLAN, ad-hoc networks). In these fields he has cooperated within many international research projects. Currently, he is a Senior Research Member and leader of the QoS group within TNO Telecom, Delft. Since April 2001 Hans van den Berg has a part-time position at the Univeristy of Twente.

Dr. Mikko A. Uusitalo

Nokia Research Center

Presentation Title: WWRF - The Win-Win Way towards B3G

Mikko A. Uusitalo is head of international cooperation at the Nokia Research Center. He obtained a M.Sc. (Eng) and Dr.Tech. from Helsinki University of Technology in 1993 and 1997, and a B.Sc. (Economics) from Helsinki School of Economics in 2003. Mikko has several leading or participating roles in international and Nokia internal communities, strategically guiding research cooperation. One of these roles is chairmanship of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF).