Tuesday 3rd June

0800 - 0900
Payment and handout of printed programs and badges

0900 - 0915
Welcome and introduction
- Roberto Verdone, Univ. of Bologna (COST2100 chairman)

0915 - 1000
Invited talk – "MIMO Systems: Myths and Realities"
- Ralf Müller, NTNU, Norway

Session 1 - Chair: C. Oestges

1000 – 1030
"Cooperative Multi-Cell Power Control under Imperfect Channel Knowledge: A Comparative Performance Study"
- Chung Shue Chen*, Mariam Kaynia*, Geir E. Øien*, Anders Gjendemsjøy+
* Dept. of Electronics & Telecommunications, NTNU, Norway
+ Pricewaterhouse Coopers Advisory, Bergen, Norway

1030 - 1100
Coffee break

1100 - 1130
"Virtual MIMO transmissions: diversity and outage analysis in arbitrary fading channels"
- Stefano Savazzi, Umberto Spagnolini
  Dip. di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy

1130 – 1200
"A MIMO Broadcast Strategy and Interference Cancellation in Single Frequency Cellular System"
- Rizwan Ghaffar, Raymond Knopp
  Eurecom Institute, 2229 route des Crˆetes B.P.193 06904 Sophia Antipolis Cedex FRANCE

1200 – 1230
"Frequency Shift of the Channel Impulse Response in MIMO-FDD-Systems"
- Nico Palleit, Tobias Weber
  University of Rostock, Institute of Communications Engineering, 18119 Rostock, Germany

1230 - 1330
Lunch

Session 2 - Chair: J. Sykora

1330 – 1400
"Exact BER Analysis for Alamouti’s Code on Arbitrary Fading Channels with Imperfect Channel Estimation"
- Lennert Jacobs, Marc Moeneclaey
  Ghent University, TELIN Department, DIGCOM Group, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium

1400 – 1430
"Lattice-based Construction of Non-Coherent Space-Time Codes"
- Zoran Utkovski, Juergen Lindner
  Institute of Information Technology, Albert-Einstein-Allee 43, Ulm, Germany

1430 – 1500
"On the Design of Space-Time Trellis Codes for Cooperative Relaying"
- Velio Tralli*, Andrea Conti*, Marco Chiani+
* University of Ferrara, Via Saragat, 1 44100 Ferrara (Italy)
+ University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento, 2 40136 Bologna (Italy)

1500 - 1530
Coffee break

Session 3 - Chair: K. Kansanen

1530 – 1600
"Performance Analysis of Distributed versus Co-located MIMO-OFDM"
- Nima Seifi, Andreas Wolfgang, Tony Ottosson
  Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden 412-96

1600 – 1630
"Tensor-based linear precoding models for frequency domain MIMO systems"
- Alister G. Burr, University of York, U.K

Wednesday 4th June

Session 4 - Chair: C. Mecklenbräuker

0900 - 0930
"Evaluation of Relay Transmission in Outdoor-to-Indoor Propagation Channels"
- Katsuyuki Haneda*, Veli-Matti Kolmonen*, Taneli Riihonen*, Risto Wichman*, Pertti Vainikainen*, Jun-ichi Takada+
* SMARAD Centre of Excellence, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Finland
+ Department of International Development Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

0930 - 1000
"WLAN MIMO full-system characterization in reverberation chamber"
- Natalia Olano*, Charlie Orlenius+, Katsunori Ishimiya#, Zhinong Ying#
* Antenna Group, Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden
+ Bluetest AB, Gothenburg, Sweden
# Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Lund, Sweden

1000 - 1030
"OpenAirMesh - An Experimental Platform for Cooperative Mesh Networks"
- Hicham Anouar, Christian Bonnet, Florian Kaltenberger, Raymond Knopp
  Eurecom 2229, Route des Cretes - B.P. 193 06904 Sophia Antipolis, France