Day one (15 October 2008)

Pierre Chastanet, Deputy Head, Future Networks Unit, DG INFSO, European Commission, Belgium

• Overview of the EU technology and policy context
• Review of mobile and broadband research in the FP6 research programme
• The FP7 programme: focus on future networks
• We aim for technology neutrality; but we are interested in WiMAX

• Mobile broadband usage behaviour and network implications
• Mixed mode network strategies - WiFi, WiMax, HSPA
• Case study of a multi-bearer business model

• Performance of Mobile WiMAX Networksm
• Practical Limitations
• Video performance over Mobile WiMAX

• Creating a business case for WiMax
• The role of pilots and proof of concepts
• Case Study: Evaluating and identifying need within a public sector environment
• Presenting the case

• Licensed vs unlicensed spectrum: advantages and pitfalls
• Comprehensive spectrum coverage with Aperto’s PacketMAX family
• Deployment examples in: Oil and gas, Ship to port, ISP, and Security / surveillance

• Discover the Wi-Fi/HSPA/WiMAX opportunities for local authorities, transport operators and service providers
• Learn how mobile Wi-Fi/HSPA/WiMAX routers can turn buses, coaches and trains into mobile network hubs
• Hear how some of the world's largest public transport operators successfully deployed Wi-Fi over cellular networks
• Understand how converged broadband devices can offer in-vehicle Internet access, GPS tracking, IP CCTV and VoIP

• Some of the first work reported on using wireless networks for surveillance using passive radar techniques
• Demonstrating human target detection with WiFi systems using low cost COTS hardware
• Explains expansion of this technique to WiMax for longer range outdoor surveillance
• Discusses how development of a surveillance function using WiMAX would add a significant extra capability to the system at relatively low extra cost

• Self-learning medical expert system (WiFIT) conception
• WiFIT principle of operation
• Use of mobile WiMAX technology in WiFIT operation

• Identifying and harnessing resources
• Stakeholder involvement
• Project planning in an dynamic environment
• The outcome

• Innovative wireless solutions can change the economics of delivering broadband connectivity
• Eliminating the digital divide and taking advantage of the flexibility of wireless for social inclusion, public safety, business and casual users
• The content will consider a number of key application areas; surveillance, public safety, M2M communications and mobility

• Carrier class WiMAX modulation schemes will need sub microsecond precise timing
• WiMAX may be backhauled over ethernet over which timing schemes are just emerging
• WiMAX cell clusters may use ethernet communications
• The quality of ethernet timing may be architecture and traffic dependent
• Local GPS is a solution but by itself is not considered carrier class
• What alternative timing solutions are emerging?

• IMT-Advanced requirements
• 16m features overview
• WiMAX Evolution
• WiMAX Certification time line

Registration and refreshments

• Operator Business Cycle
• Planning for Coverage, Capacity, Quality, Service and Operation efficiency
• Engineering a WiMax network in UK

• Novel scenarios and applications for WiMAX
• Challenges
• Emerging Technologies: Cooperation in WiMAX, Robust Header Compression, Radio-over-Fiber, Multiple Antennas
• Visions

• Delivering services, solutions and benefits with wireless networking
• Discussing the technologies that are key to delivering scalable, sustainable networks; mesh, wimax, wifi
• What the customer wants, what can be delivered and what it can do for them
• Bringing technology together and delivering benefits for all

• Aviation security
• Time-critical decision making
• WiMAX operational characteristics

The evolution of mobile wireless backhaul
Roland Thienpont, Product Manager, Technology & Standards, Alcatel-Lucent, UK

• Drivers and requirements for evolving the backhaul
• Use of IP / MPLS for legacy (2G / 3G) and future (LTE / mobile WiMAX) wireless technologies
• Standards update

WiMAX2 as the leading 4G technology: the most recent update from WiMAGIC project
Professor Hikmet Sari, chief scientist, SEQUANS Communications, France

• The latest on the development of a new air interface for the next generation of WiMAX
• Key contributions to the IEEE 802.16m task group
• How to make partnerships between technology companies and universities successful

• These trials proved that mobile broadband can be used to provide useful operational tools for frontline police
• There are emerging policing needs that can only be met by mobile broadband technologies
• There is a need for both extensive wide area coverage and flexible local area coverage
• The hardest part of the exercise was the operational change needed to embrace the technology and get the best from it

• FDD
• Advanced Air Interface (16m)
• Femto Cells
• Relay Stations
• Mesh Networks
• Media Independent Handover
• R&S Platform Philosophy

• Understanding why traditional backhaul will not work for WiMAX
• Underlying technology: selecting PMP architecture to address key planning and deployment considerations
• Assessing the results: An overwhelming business case for using PMP going forward

• Anthony Fulgoni
• Annette Henley
• Yim Ling
• Robert Veenis