Track 1: Telecommunications: Abstracts and Biographies



Track 1, Session 1:  8:30-9:30am


Directional Frequency Reuse for Cellular Communications

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Dr. Saleh Faruque, Northern Telecom

Abstract: This paper presents a method of directional frequency reuse for high density, high capacity cellular networks. Unlike the classical method of cluster reuse, the proposed directional frequency reuse is based on group reuse, having multiple reuse distances. Consequently, the carrier to interference ratio (C/I) appears as a function of multiple reuse distances with fewer cochannel interferers. Moreover, antenna downtilt and beamwidth becomes more effective thus enhancing C/I and capacity.

Biography: Saleh Faruque has received B.Sc. in Physics and M.Sc. in Applied Physics from Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1969 and 1970 respectively. He received M.A.Sc. and Ph.D degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1976 and 1980 respectively. Dr. Faruque has been with Northern Telecom, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, where he contributed extensively in the area of wireless communication systems and actively participated in the deployment of Northern Telecom's Cellular products in the Canadian market place. Later in mid 1994 he moved to the United States, Richardson, Texas . At present, he is a manager of radio architecture planning. Dr. Faruque is the recipient of NORTEL's 1997 President's award of excellence for innovation. He is the author of the Book: "Cellular Mobile systems engineering", Artech House Inc., Boston, 1997. He has received one U.S patent and over ten U.S & International patents pending. He has published over 50 technical articles in IEEE & IEE Journals and Conference Proceedings.

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Track 1, Session 2:  9:45-10:45am



Comparison of W-CDMA and DSSS-TDMA Systems

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Donald L. Schilling, Ph.D., Chairman of the Board,
Golden Bridge Technology Inc., NJ.

Abstract: W-CDMA is a preferential CAI since it provides significant immunity to multpath fading. However, in a multpath access mode, the capacity of a CDMA system is limited by the lack of orthogonality of the received transmissions from the users terminals and the resulting near-far problem. TDMA is a time-orthogonal system, which, when spread, provides both orthogonality, as well as, immunity to multipath. This paper compares a wireless system employing W-CDMA transmissions from terminal-to-base and from base-to-terminal, with a novel system which employs spread-TDMA transmission from terminal-to-base and W-CDMA transmission from base-to-terminal, thereby providing optimum performance in both directions.

The systems are compared on the basis of capacity in a multipath, multiple cell, environment and on the basis of complexity. The spread spectrum receivers employed in both systems employ matched filters which permit connectionless as well as connection based packet switched communications.

Biography: Donald L. Schilling, Ph.D. is Chairman of the Board of Directors with Golden Bridge Technology, Inc.  Dr. Schilling was formerly Vice Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of InterDigital Communications Corporation where he invented and led the development of Broadband-CDMA, and began the field of PCS in the U.S.A. Wideband-CDMA, currently being developed by Dr. Schilling, is being proposed for standardization in the TIA.

Dr. Schilling is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at the City College of New York. Dr. Schilling retired in May 1992 as the Herbert G. Kayser Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at the City College of the City University of New York. Prior to moving to CCNY, he was a Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of New York.

Dr. Schilling is an internationally known expert in the field of communications systems., He has made many notable contributions in spread spectrum communications systems, FM and phase-locked systems, meteor burs= t communications systems and HF systems. His design of an adaptive delta modulator is used on the Space Shuttle.

Dr. Schilling was President of the IEEE Communications Society from 1980-1981, and a member of the Board of Directors of the IEEE from 1982-1983. He was Editor of the Transactions on Communications, Director of Publication from 1968-1978, and initiated the Comsoc Magazine and JSAC. During his term as President, he also initiated the MILCOM and INFOCOM conferences. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of Sigma Xi. He has co-authored twelve textbooks, more than 200 papers and has 40 patents, granted and pending, in telecommunications and electronics.

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Track 1, Session 3:  11:00-12:00pm


CDMA Reverse Link Signal Detection and Demodulation

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Jon St. Clair, Motorola

Abstract: This talk presents a practical treatment of the methods, trade-offs, and design of a CDMA PCS direct sequence spread spectrum signal receiver. The talk includes a walk-through of how a narrow band signal is recovered from a wideband signal, the Hadamard transform process, the multi-channel rake receiver, and how the deinterleaving and decoding blocks all work and play together to provide clear reception of a faded subscriber signal.

Biography: Jon St. Clair has worked with wireless communications for the last 16 years with Motorola in Fort Worth. The last seven years have been spent working on the design of Cellular and PCS products in the infrastructure branch of the larger Cellular Networks and Space Sector of Motorola, where he is currently a Senior Staff Engineer.

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Track 1, Session 4:  1:30-2:30pm



Short-Term Fading in Mobile Communications: Characterization & Mitigation Techniques

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Dr. Ali R. Shah, Ericsson Inc.

Abstract: In this talk, short-term fading problems in mobile communications are characterized and mitigation techniques are presented. The effect of multipath, delay spread, coherence bandwidth, Doppler shift, Doppler spread, and coherence time are presented and discussed. The different types of short-term fading: flat & frequency selective fading, and slow & fast fading are also presented. The mitigation techniques to combat fading are then discussed, including time diversity (equalization), multipath (rake), and space (antennas).

Biography: Dr Ali R. Shah is currently working for Ericsson Inc., Wireless Engineering Technologies, Ericsson Radio Systems since July 1996. In this capacity he has been involved in publishing and patenting ideas related to wireless communications. He obtained his doctoral degree from the School of Information Technology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA in 1996. He received his Master's degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia in 1992. Before that he worked as an ICSC-World Labs Fellow at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Rome, Italy on the "Large Volume Detector" 1989-90. He graduated with his bachelor's from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan in 1989.

Dr Ali R. Shah has been the recipient of a graduate fellowship, from the Graduate School, George Mason University, Fairfax VA. In 1989 he received a World Labs Fellowship to work as a research fellow at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Frascati, Italy. He is a position-holder in his undergraduate engineering class at NED University of Engineering and Technology. In 1982, he secured a Karachi Merit Scholarship from the Karachi Board of Intermediate Education.

Dr Shah has also taught as a guest lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas. His areas of interest range from self-adaptive equalization to coverage verification and analysis in cellular systems. He has several publications in the field of wireless communications and is in the process of applying for patents in this area.

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Track 1, Session 5:  2:45-3:45am



Design of WDM Optical Transport Networks

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Francesco Masetti, PhD, Alcatel Corporate Research Center

Abstract: Optical communications will enable radical changes within future transport networks. This presentation examines the main options and issues towards the design and implementation of telecommunication optical core networks based on multi-wavelength transmission and routing. After a short introduction, addressing essentially the context for the adoption of optical techniques to implement routing functions, the node functional requirements (different optical cross-connects and add-drop multiplexers) are then illustrated, and this introduces also the relationships between the node and network functional architectures, which affect the design phase and the management techniques. This design must ensure proper allocation of resources and network survivability, together with engineering rules to ensure physical feasibility. Finally some technological and experimental results are given as examples to show feasibility of the concepts.

Biography: Francesco Masetti received a M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering, a postgraduation Master in Information Technology and a Ph. D. in Computer Science. He is currently the Location Director of the Alcatel Corporate Research Center in Richardson, TX. He has authored/co-authored several articles in refereed journals and conferences and is a member of the IEEE.

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Track 1, Session 6:  4:00-5:00am



Multimedia Communications Over Low Rate Wireless Channels

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Dr. Jerry D. Gibson, SMU

Abstract: As the basic telecommunications paradigm shifts from one centered onseparate voice and data networks to a focus on developing ubiquitousmultimedia communications, we are faced with the challenge of providingexceptional quality of service (QoS) and seamless user connectivity over avast array of heterogeneous networks. Low rate wireless communicationsoffers some of the greatest difficulties because of the unreliable natureof the transmission medium, the need to conserve battery power, and therestricted bandwidth available. We first examine the issues in thetransmission of voice signals over mobile connections at 8 kbits/s andbelow, with particular emphasis on the speech coder design, unequal errorprotection, and the effects of background impairments. We then address theproblem of wireless video transmission at 28.8 kbits/s, exploring a newmultiframe block motion compensation technique. Audio and videodemonstrations will be presented.

Biography: Jerry D. Gibson currently serves as Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He has held positions at General Dynamics-Fort Worth, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Texas A&M University. He served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1996. Dr. Gibson is Editor-in-Chief of The Mobile Communications Handbook ( 1995) and of The Communications Handbook (1997). In 1990, Dr. Gibson received The Fredrick Emmons Terman Award from The American Society for Engineering Education, and in 1992, was elected Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive prediction and speech waveform coding. He was co-recipient of the 1993 IEEE Signal Processing Society Senior Paper Award for the Speech Processing area. His research interests include data, speech, image, and video compression, multimedia over networks, wireless communications, information theory, and digital signal processing.

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