WiMAX London 2008 conference
Date 04-05 June 2008
Time
08:30 - Register (day one)
16:40 - Close (day two)
Location
The IET, Savoy Place, London, UK
About the event
WiMAX 2008 is an annual conference organised by the IET Comms Technical and Professional Network, Europe’s largest comms engineering community with 16,000 members from all over the globe. 2008 is the fourth year the IET is running events on WiMAX.
At the IET conference the delegates will get to grips with the real opportunities of WiMAX and the latest and in progress deployment plans from the UK’s major buyers (government, police force, etc.), large and small network operators as well as leading manufacturers. The conference will look at case studies, lessons learnt and performance results.
Registration
Register for this event online
Cost
Member | £445.00 (+ £77.88 VAT = £522.88) |
Non member | £495.00 (+ £86.63 VAT = £581.63) |
Author | £245.00 (+ £43.40 VAT = £288.40) |
Programme
| Day nne | 4 June 2008 |
| 08:30 | Registration and refreshments |
| 09:30 | Opening remarks from the chairman of the IET's communications technical and professional network Professor Garik Markarian, University of Lancaster, UK |
| 09:35 | Opening remarks from the conference chairman |
| 09:40 | Keynote speaker: Merging mobile and broadband, in EU framework research Andrew Houghton, Deputy head, Future networks unit, European commission, Belgium |
| Session 1: Regional trends in deployment and network rollout Chair - Steve Griffin, PA Consulting | |
| 10:10 | Presentation to be announced Niall Murphy, Chief strategy officer, The Cloud, UK |
| 10:35 | Mobile WiMAX trials in the UK Dr Sean Sonander, Managing director, Rinicom Ltd, UK |
| 11:00 | Refreshments and networking break |
| 11:30 | Business case for mobile data management based on WiMAX Dr David Allen, Leeds University Business School, UK |
| 11:55 | Backhaul case study Lance Hiley, VP Marketing, Cambridge broadband, UK |
| 12:20 | Licensed and unlicensed WiMAX Europe Dr Rudiger Miesenburg, Director for European sales, Aperto |
| 12:40 | WiMAX network engineering and deployment Dr Yim Ling, Head of network engineering, Freedom4, UK |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| Session 2: Applications Chair - Steven Lowe | |
| 14:00 | WiMAX and 3G network convergence in mobile broadband applications Jim Baker, CEO, Moovera networks, UK |
| 14:30 | Passive surveillance using wireless networks: from WiFi to WiMAX Karl Woodbridge, UCL, UK |
| 15:00 | Wireless eHealth Professor Robert Istepanian, Kingston university, UK |
| 15:30 | Refreshments and networking break |
| 16:00 | WiMAX sync and timing challenges Charles Curry, Managing director, Chronos technology, UK |
| 16:30 | Close of day one |
| 17:00 | Drinks reception |
| Day two | 5 June 2008 |
| 08:30 | Registration and Refreshments |
| 09:00 | Opening remarks from the communications chairman Professor Garik Markarian, University of Lancaster, UK |
| Session 3: Coexistence of competing technology Chair - Keith Jones | |
| 09:05 | WiMAX and LTE Dr Marcus Katz, Chief research scientist, VTR / NOKIA, Finland |
| 09:35 | Coexistence of WiFi, Mesh and WiMAX Anthony Fulgoni, VP International Strategic Sales, Proxim Inc, UK |
| 10:05 | Refreshments and networking break |
| Session 4: The future of wireless technology Chair - Professor Garik Markarian | |
| 10:35 | WiMAX system in aviation security Rainer Koeller, directorate ATM Strategies DAP / SSH, EUROCONTROL, Brussels |
| 10:55 | The evolution of mobile wireless backhaul
Matthew Bocci, director, Technology & Standards, Alcatel-Lucent, UK |
| 11:25 | WiMAX2 as the leading 4G technology: the most recent update from WiMAGIC project
Professor Hikmet Sari, chief scientist, SEQUANS Communications, France |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | Mobile information and policing: an emerging requirement Annette Henley, lead engineer mobile information programme, National improvement agency, UK |
| 13:35 | Panel discussion Chair - Professor Garik Markarian |
| 14:30 | Closing remarks |
| 14:45 | Close of conference |
Organiser
Organised by the Communications TPN
For further information about this event please contact the Communications TPN Assistant Manager.
