Radio Resource Management in Wireless Networks

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Wireless_at_KTH The Worlds Meeting Place for
Education and Research in Wireless Systems
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Stockholm Wireless Valley

• Rapidly growing industrial wireless hotspot,
  today gt10.000 active engineers
• KTHs presence necessary for
• Supply of trained personnel
• Competence center
• Creating new ideas Think Tank
• Meeting place in research
• Catalyst

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Center Vision
The worlds meeting place for education
research for wireless systems

• Producing ideas and leaders of tomorrow
• Setting trends and fueling the Mobile Valley
• Sustaining KTHs leadership in Wireless

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Center Focus

• Wireless Mobile
• Computing Communication

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The Cogg Wheel that will make Wireless Spinn
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Center Objectives

• Meeting point for researchers - academic
  industrial
• A Think tank
• Producer of leading and "trend-setting" research
  results.
• Provide an attractive environment for
  international top-level scientists and talented
  students.
• Undergraduate specialization in Wireless yearly
  producing about 150 engineers
• international M.Sc. program with the highest
  international reputation, producing about 50
  graduates per year.
• Post graduate school on telecom producing about
  20 Ph.Ds yearly
• Create sufficient resources for independent
  research and administration of "larger" research
  projects.

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Academic Founders

• Jens Zander, Radio Communication Systems
• Björn Ottersten, Signal Processing
• Gerald Chip Maguire, Computer Communication

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Academic Founders

• Gunnar Karlsson, Teletraffic Systems
• Carl-Gustav Jansson, Knowledge and Communication
  Engineering
• Bastiaan Kleijn, Speech processing and source
  coding

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Industrial Partnerships

• Active participation
• Internships/Research Fellows
• Common research projects/programs
• Tiered Sponsorship Program
• Founding Partners
• International Partners
• Associated Partners
• Network Partners

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Founding Partners
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Organization

• 6 Chairs directly associated. 40-50 researchers
• 4 Founding Industry Partners
• Interim Board ? Permanent Board
• Management
• Executive Director
• Administrative Staff
• Directors of Education and Research
• Industrial and Scientific Advisory Board

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Interim Board

• Bengt Broman
• (Chairman)
• Jan Johansson Jan Markendal
• Leif Persson Richard Lindh
• Jens Zander Björn Ottersten

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Management

• Executive Director Dr. Claes Beckman
• Head of Administration Ms. Lise-lotte Wahlberg
• Director of Research Prof. Jens Zanders
• Director of Studies Prof. Björn Ottersten

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Education in Wireless Systems

• Under Graduate Education
• A new specialization within the IT, D, E, and F
  programs
• International M.Sc. program
• Post-graduate School in Telecom
• Influencing existing education
• Continuing education

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Vision Driven Research Model
Partners
External researchers
Center Vision WAs
Wireless Foresight
Graduates
Techno- Socio- Economic Scenarios
Center Projects onKey Problems
Innovations
4G and beyond
Papers
Think Tank
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Research Areas

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• Wireless Services Applications
• Wireless Infrastructure
• Economics of Wireless Systems 
• EMC and Human Interactions with Wireless Systems

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Proposed Financing

• Continuous funding (100 MSEK/year)
• Industrial partnership program 20-30 MSEK
• KTH undergraduate education 15-20 MSEK
• Telecom graduate school 5-15 MSEK
• KTH research funding 15-20 MSEK
• SSF funding 15-20 MSEK
• Cont Education 2-5 MSEK

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Schedule

• Spring 2001
• Wireless Foresight
• International M.Sc. Program
• June 2001 Physical Center in operation
• End 2001 All Positions Filled
• 2002 National Conference RVK
• 2004/5 VTC or PIMRC in Stockholm