Monday Feb 26, 2007





08:45 09:00 Welcome Message




Chair: Wolfgang Utschick, TU München Session: Channel Estimation and Receiver Issues
09:00 09:20 Ernesto Zimmermann; Gerhard Fettweis Generalized Smart Candidate Adding for Tree Search Based MIMO Detection
09:20 09:40 Manuel Vazquez; Joaquin Miguez Sequential MAP Equalization of MIMO Channels with Unknown Order
09:40 10:00 Michel Ivrlac; Josef A. Nossek On MIMO Channel Estimation with Single-Bit Signal-Quantization
10:00 10:20 Amine Mezghani; Josef A. Nossek A Modified MMSE Receiver for Quantized MIMO Systems
10:20 10:40 Ansgar Scherb; Karl-Dirk Kammeyer Bayesian Channel Estimation for Doubly Correlated MIMO Systems
10:40 11:10 Coffee Break / Poster Session 1 (see below)
11:30 11:50 Steffen Bittner; Ernesto Zimmermann; Wolfgang Rave; Gerhard Fettweis Performance Analysis of Iterative MIMO-OFDM Receiver under the Presence of Phase Noise
11:50 12:10 Yasushi Takatori; Riichi Kudo; Koichi Ishihara; Atsushi Ohta; Shuji Kubota Multiuser Detection Method Robust Against Frequency Offsets in Uplink MIMO-OFDM
12:10 12:30 Tomoyuki Yamada; Wenjie Jiang; Yasushi Takatori; Riichi Kudo; Atsushi OHTA; Shuji Kubota Enhanced Simplified Maximum Likelihood Detection (ES-MLD) in Multiuser MIMO Downlink in Time-Variant Environment








12:30 13:30 LUNCH BREAK








Chair: Helmut Bölcskei, ETH Zürich Session: Multiuser MIMO and Relaying
13:30 13:50 Kentaro Nishimori; Riichi Kudo; Yasushi Takatori; Atsushi Ohta; Shuji Kubota Multiuser OFDM-MIMO Effect with Fair Resource Allocation in Actual Indoor Multipath Environment
13:50 14:10 Mario Castaneda; Michael Joham; Josef A. Nossek Opportunistic Eigenbeamforming: Exploiting Multiuser Diversity and Channel Correlations
14:10 14:30 Tarcisio Maciel; Anja Klein On the Performance of SDMA with Soft Dropping and SINR Balancing Power Control in the Downlink of Multi-user MIMO Systems
14:30 14:50 Christian Guthy; Wolfgang Utschick; Josef A. Nossek; Gerhard Bauch Sum Throughput Maximization in Quality of Service Constraint Multiuser MIMO Systems Based on Perturbation Analysis
14:50 15:10 Holger Boche; Martin Schubert; Slawomir Stanczak Proportionally Fair Resource Allocation for Wireless Networks
15:10 15:40 Coffee Break / Poster Session 1 (see below)
15:40 16:00 Holger Boche; Martin Schubert; Eduard Jorswieck; Aydin Sezgin A General Framework for Concave/Convex Interference Coordination Problems and Network Utility Optimization
16:00 16:20 Aihua Hong, Tad Matsumoto, Reiner Thomä, Wolfgang Zirwas On the Use of Multiple Access Coding in Cooperative Space-Time Relay Transmission and Its Measurement Data Based Performance Verification
16:20 16:40 Martin Fuchs; Christian Kaes; Ulrike Korger; Martin Haardt Comparison of MIMO Relaying Deployment Strategies in a Manhattan Grid Scenario
16:40 17:00 Tobias J. Oechtering; Holger Boche Bidirectional Relaying using Interference Cancellation

19:30


Welcome reception, Social event





Tuesday Feb 27, 2007







Chair: Ana I. Pérez-Neira, UPC, Barcelona Session: Service Quality and Network planning for Smart Antenna Systems
09:00 09:20 Thomas Neubauer (invited talk) Symena Network Planning for Smart Antenna Base Stations
09:20 09:40 Nizar Zorba; Ana I. Pérez-Neira Optimum Number of Beams in Multiuser Opportunistic Schemes Under QoS Constraints
09:40 10:00 Thomas Michel; Gerhard Wunder Achieving QoS and Efficiency in the MIMO Downlink with Limited Power
10:00 10:20 Philip Paunov; Alfonso Camargo; Andreas Czylwik EESM as a Link to System Level Interface for MIMO Systems based on QOSFBC
10:20 10:40 Clemens Schnurr; Slawomir Stanczak; Aydin Sezgin The Impact of different MIMO Strategies on the Network-Outage Performance
10:40 11:10 Coffee Break / Poster Session 2 (see below)
11:10 11:30 Juan Pontes Elevation Optimized Antenna Arrays for Future Cellular Systems
11:30 11:50 Stefan Bieder; Lars Haering; Batu Krishna Chalise; Andreas Czylwik Realistic Antenna Elements and Different Array Topologies in the Downlink of UMTS FDD Networks
11:50 12:10 Naoki Honma; Riichi Kudo; Kentaro Nishimori; Yasushi Takatori; Atsushi Ohta; Shuji Kubota Effectiveness of Terminal Antenna Employing Orthogonal Polarizations and Patterns in Outdoor Multiuser MIMO System
12:10 12:30 Jörn Weber; Giovanni Del Galdo; Christian Volmer; Martin Haardt; Matthias Hein MIMO Capability of a Miniaturised Antenna Array with a Decoupling and Matching Network




12:30 13:30 LUNCH BREAK






Chair: Markus Rupp, TU Wien Session: Precoding and limited Feedback
13:30 13:50 Paula Castro; Michael Joham; Luis Castedo; Wolfgang Utschick Robust Precoding for Multi-User MISO Systems with Limited-Feedback Channels
13:50 14:10 Jee Hyun Kim; Wolfgang Zirwas; Martin Haardt Efficient Feedback via Subspace Based Channel Quantization for Downlink Transmission in Distributed Cooperative Antenna Systems
14:10 14:30 Sander Wahls; Holger Boche Stable and Causal LTI-Precoders and Equalizers for MIMO-ISI Channels with Optimal Robustness Properties
14:30 14:50 Raphael Hunger; Maximilian Riemensberger; Wolfgang Utschick Near Capacity Tomlinson Harashima Precoding with Uniform Stream Properties
14:50 15:10 Michael Joham; David Schmidt; Hans Brunner; Wolfgang Utschick A Symbol-Wise Order Optimization for Successive Precoding
15:10 15:40 Coffee Break / Poster Session 2 (see below)


Chair: Ernst Bonek, TU Wien Session: MIMO Channel Characterisation and Modelling
15:40 16:00 Martin Weis; Giovanni Del Galdo; Martin Haardt A Correlation Tensor-Based Model For Time Variant Frequency Selective MIMO Channels
16:00 16:20 Nicolai Czink; Ernst Bonek; Juha Ylitalo Parameterizing Geometry-Based Stochastic MIMO Channel Models from Measurements Using Correlated Clusters
16:20 16:40 Christian Mehlführer; Florian Kaltenberger; Markus Rupp; Gerhard Humer Low-complexity MIMO Channel Emulation by Reducing the Number of Paths
16:40 17:00 Xuefeng Yin; Lingfeng Liu; Daniel Nielsen; Nicolai Czink; Bernard Fleury Characterization and Estimation of Elevation-Azimuth Dispersion of Individual Path Components




Poster Session 1 (Monday)




Florian Römer; Martin Haardt Deterministic Cramér-Rao Bounds for strict sense non-circular sources

Andreas Wilzeck; Thomas Kaiser; Qipeng Cai; Maik Schiewer Effect of Multiple Carrier Frequency Offsets in MIMO SC-FDMA systems

Robert Fischer; Christian Siegl; Martin Hoch Out-of-Band Power Reduction in MIMO OFDM

Martin Wrulich; Sebastian Caban; Markus Rupp Testbed Measurements of Optimized Linear Dispersion Codes

Peter Klenner; Sven Vogeler; Karl-Dirk Kammeyer A Doppler-Compensated Noncoherent OFDM-Transceiver with Sectorized Antenna Reception

Mark Petermann; Karl-Dirk Kammeyer; Wen Xu Sum-Rate Evaluation of Beamforming with Limited Feedback for the Evolved UTRA Downlink

Ulrich Hammes, Ramon F. Brcic, Abdelhak M. Zoubir A Robust Transmitter Diversity Scheme for CDMA in Impulsive Noise




Poster Session 2 (Tuesday)




Marcin Wiczanowski; Angela Feistel; Slawomir Stanczak; Holger Boche On Energy Cost of Bit and Bit/s in Multiantenna Wireless Networks Under Hardware Constraints

Ari Hottinen; Yi Hong; Emanuele Viterbo; Christian Mehlführer; Christoph Mecklenbräuker A Comparison of High Rate Algebraic and Non-Orthogonal STBCs

Angela Feistel; Marcin Wiczanowski; Slawomir Stanczak Optimization of Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks

Pedro Tejera; Wolfgang Utschick; Christoph Schmid Rate Balancing in the Broadcast Channel with Independent Encoding

Geert Leus; Claude Simon Adaptive Feedback Reduction for Precoded Spatial Multiplexing MIMO Systems

Andreas Ahrens; Tobias Weber; Shiyang Deng A Novel Decentralized MIMO-OFDM Uplink Detection Scheme