International Workshop on LTE Evolution,
Dresden, June 18th 2009

The International Workshop on LTE Evolution took place on June 18th 2009 alongside IEEE ICC in Dresden, with over 70 participants. 16 papers were presented, less than 50% of the submitted papers which were mostly of excellent quality. Workshop participants came from Germany, UK, China, USA, Finland, Sweden, Danmark, Austria and other countries.

The lively discussion at the workshop were centred around theoretical analysis, performance prediction, technical feasibility analysis, business models and very concrete technical concepts for the further evolution of LTE beyond Release 8. Focus topics were cooperative multipoint (COMP) for uplink and downlink, and relaying.
The workshop programme also included
life field demos of uplink and downlink COMP within the EASY-C LTE-Advanced testbed in Dresden.

The prospects of the mid and long term future of warless was discussed at a panel discussion. The participants were Reinaldo Valenzuela (Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, Director Wireless Research), Dirk Gerstenberger (Ericsson and 3GPP RAN#1 Chairman), Klaus-Juergen Krath (T-Mobile, Senior Vice President Radio Networks Engineering & Quality), and Gerhard Fettweis (Vodafone Chair Technische Universitaet Dresden). The discussion was moderated by Ralf Irmer (Vodafone, Advanced Radio and Trials, Group R&D)

This workshop was organized by members of the EASY-C project. The workshop topics were aligned to the work programme of EASY-C and this was a good opportunity to exchange views between leading experts from various research institutions and companies from all over the world.

The workshop papers are available on IEEE explore.

Website

More information can be found at www.lte-evolution-2009.org.