Following global spread of Wideband CDMA (W-CDMA) commercial service, the era of high-speed mobile Internet has come. In this session, high-speed packet wireless access techniques and its standardization activities in 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and 3GPP2 are presented. Further, aiming at future cellular and wireless LAN systems with affinity to full-IP based core network, broadband air interface and radio access network (RAN) configuration are aggressively investigated. Thus, recent research activities of broadband air interfaces and RAN techniques are presented along with migration scenarios to the future systems beyond IMT-2000.

Mamoru Sawahashi
Director, IP Radio Network Development Department
NTT DoCoMo

Dr. Sawahashi joined NTT Electrical Communications Laboratories in 1985, and in 1992 he transferred to NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc. (now NTT DoCoMo, Inc.). Since joining NTT, he has been engaged in the research of modulation/demodulation techniques for mobile radio as well as the research and development of wireless access technologies for W-CDMA mobile radio and broadband wireless packet access technologies for beyond IMT-2000. He is also currently serving as editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

Mikael Gudmundson, Program Director, UMTS Evolution, Ericsson Research, joined Ericsson AB in 1994 and has been working in the area of 3G since then. From 1994 to 2000, he was actively involved in 3G research and standardization. From 2000 to 2003, he managed the WCDMA RAN product management department. From 2003 to 2004, he was in charge of Ericsson's activities for the AT&T Wireless' WCDMA introduction in the United States. Since December 2004, he has been responsible for Ericsson's 3G RAN Evolution program.

Panyuh Joo, Samsung

Russell Klabouch, Vice President, International Sales, General Bandwidth, has more than 20 years' experience in the datacom and telecom industries. He has a firm background in IP networking, having been managing director of international sales for Avici Systems, which sells large-scale core IP/MPLS routers for carrier infrastructures. In addition, he has held senior sales and marketing roles at companies such as Telco Systems and General Datacom. Mr. Klabouch also has experience introducing new products into new markets, with specific focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

Joseph Nowack, Motorola Labs