WPMC2007

The 10th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications

December 3 ～ 6　 2007 - Jaipur India -

From December 3rd to 6th, 2007, the YRP R & D Promotion Committee and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) held the 10th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications(WPMC'07) in Jaipur, India ,by joint sponsorship with The LNM
Institute of Information Technology, India.

The Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC) Symposia series was inaugurated in 1998 at Yokosuka Research Park, Japan as a global platform to enable collaboration and mutual cooperation in the field of wireless information and multimedia communications.
Since then, WPMC has established itself as a uniquely global conference dedicated to wireless multimedia convergence, held in various countries in the world.

As for this number of total participants, 55 invitation lectures and 3 panel sessions were done additionally by 299 people (29 countries) by 310 numbers of contribution theses and 195 numbers of adoption theses.
This fiscal year's 6 winning a prize theses (3 cases of WPMC '07 Award for Best Paper and 3 cases of WPMC '07 Award for Best Student Paper) are mentioned below.

■　The WPMC2008 will be held in Lapland,Finland.

Cultural Programme

Welcome Address by Mitsutoshi Hatori, Chairman, YRP R&D Promotion

Auditorium

Plenary, Invited Talks,

Commendation Ceremony

WPMC '07 Award for Best Paper

1. “A Real Time Emulator Demonstrating Advanced Resource Management Solutions Transmission Technologies”

Antoni Gelonch (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, ES); 　Vuk Marojevic (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, ES); Oriol Sallent (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, ES); 　Jad Nasreddine (UPC, ES);　 Xavier Reves (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, ES);　 Jordi Perez-Romero (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, ES)

2. “Investigation on Inter-cell Transmission Power Control Using Overload Indicator for Selected Users in Evolved UTRA Uplink Transmission Technologies”

Daisuke Nishikawa (NTT DoCoMo, Inc, JP); 　Yoshihisa Kishiyama (IP Radio Network Development Department, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., JP);　 Kenichi Higuchi (Tokyo University of Science, JP); 　Mamoru Sawahashi (Musashi Institute of Technology, JP)

3. “A Multi-Objective MAC Framework For 4G Networks”

Manjari Chhawchharia (Motorola India Research Lab, IN);　 Abhijit Lele (Motorola Reseach Labs, IN)

Commendation Ceremony

Ramjee Prasad 　Mitsutoshi Hatori　Shingo Ohmori

Contributed Oral and Poster Sessions

Commendation Ceremony

WPMC '07 Award for Best Student Paper

1. “On the Statistical Properties of Mobile-to-Mobile Fading Channels in Cooperative Networks Under Line-of-Sight Conditions Antennas and Propagation”

Batool Talha ( University of Agder , NO); 　Matthias Paetzold ( University of Agder , NO)

2. “Optimum Wavelet Packet Construction for Multicarrier-based Cognitive Radio System Wireless Access”

Madan Kumar Lakshmanan ( Delft University of Technology, NL); 　Homayoun Nikookar ( Delft University of Technology, NL)

3. “Robust MMSE Tomlinson-Harashima Precoder for Multiuser MISO Downlink with Imperfect CSI Transmission Technologies”

P. Ubaidulla (Indian Institute of Science, IN); 　A. Chockalingam (Indian Institute of Science, IN)

Press release