RAS Hot Topics 2nd Edition

The "Radio Access & Spectrum" cluster will hold its 2nd "Hot Topics" Workshop on the 30th of September in Brussels, 25 Avenue de Beaulieu, exactly one year after our previous successful "Hot Topics" workshop. The workshop is open to all FP6/FP7 project participants and will be part of the 4th Future Networks FP7 Concertation Meeting that takes place 28 to 30 September 2009.

Registration

Note that attendance is not limited to active RAS project representatives: you are encouraged to invite other project participants to attend this informative workshop!

Participants are kindly asked to register on the EC's website before the 21 September if possible by following this link. Only registered participants will be granted entry to the EC premises!

Agenda for the Workshop

The core of the agenda will be 3 panel sessions on hot topics within the areas covered by the RAS cluster. In addition, there will be time dedicated to cluster administration and outstanding issues. Please see below for the contents of the panel sessions.

The following agenda is tentative and may yet be adapted. RAS participants are invited to comment and propose changes.

"Hot Topics" Sessions

Each session will be initiated by a 15 minute introductory presentation by the session chair, followed by a free discussion among the panelists. The aim of these sessions is to provide insight into the topic for all those attending, independently of their background and expertise, as well as to provide a global overview of how each topic is addressed by current FP7-FP6 projects.

Session 1 Self-organizing Wireless Infrastructures Chair Eckard Bogenfeld E3 Panelists Jens Tiemann E3  Lars Christoph Schmelz SOCRATES

Session 2 Extending the Network beyond Macro: Picocells, Femtocells and Relays Chair Danny Manor REWIND Panelists Josep Vidal ROCKET  Ove Linnell SOCRATES George Agapiou REWIND

Session 3 Localization Chair Ronald Raulefs WHERE Panelists Bernard Fleury NEWCOM++  Christian Mensing  WHERE Roberto Llorente UCELLS