Welcome to the
2008 Global Congress on Communications, Propagation, and Electronics (GC-CPE 2008). This event is intended to represent a major forum for researchers, professionals and students from all over the world to meet in the beautiful and culturally rich city of Amman in Jordan to present their latest research results and to exchange new ideas and practical experiences.
Scope
GC-CPE 2008 main scope includes, but is not limited to the following areas: Photonics and Optoelectronics; Optical Fiber Communications; Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation; Communication Circuits and Sub-Systems; Data and Computer Communications;
GC-CPE 2008 is planned to feature special sessions, keynote talks and tutorial sessions by leading experts, paper presentations, poster shows, demo shows, discussion panels, as well as other interesting technical activities.
Jordan
Coming to Jordan represents a unique opportunity to witness the embrace of history and future. As small in area as it is, Jordan has a rich history spanning thousands of years, a history that a tourist can only admire. Places like Petra and the Dead Sea are only examples of the many one-of-a-kind places to visit in Jordan. On top of all that, Jordan, as a peaceful country in a turbulent area, enjoys extreme levels of safety and security. Jordanian people are internationally known for generosity, hospitality and cultural awareness and tolerance.
Amman
Amman, the beautiful capital of Jordan, is a living model of a large and modern city that has all kinds of tourist attractions.
Enjoy attending GC-CPE 2008 at Holiday Inn Amman Hotel, in Amman, Jordan.
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Enjoy moderate registration fees, and register up to two papers for the same registration fee. Students receive substantial registration discounts.
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Have the possiblity to extend and publish your conference papers with some of the top journal publishers.
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Only full paper submissions are allowed at all our conferences. No summary or abstract submissions are allowed. Conference topic coverage includes the most current and exciting fields of knowledge and research.
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Papers can be accepted to our conferences only after rigorous peer reviewing.
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Our outstanding reviewing process is facilitated by careful selection of technical program committee members from among the best international experts. Each submitted paper is subject to no less than two peer reviews before it can be considered for acceptance.
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Published papers of GC-CPE 2008 are indexed by Google Scholar. More indexing is on the way.
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From Point-to-Point to Distributed MIMO Systems: Challenges of Multiuser Systems
Summary
Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) has proved to provide benefits for increasing both, system capacity and reliability (i.e. bit error rate improvement). The present tutorial teaches how to achieve these gains in the different MIMO configurations. In the presentation the basic concepts of MIMO point-to-point systems evolve towards the currently more challenging distributed MIMO systems. One of the practical problems of point-to-point MIMO systems is that many times the antenna separation is not enough in order to exploit all the degrees of freedom of a MIMO channel. Therefore, in many situations distributed MIMO systems present more practical interest. The tutorial classifies distributed MIMO systems in: multiuser communications and relaying networks. The former requires of a centralized node either in the access channel or in the broadcast channel. The latter uses different nodes or users as relays, acting as a virtual MIMO. The tutorial focuses mainly on multiuser MIMO systems but also presents and studies the challenges of relaying MIMO at PHY and MAC layer.
Speaker
Prof. Ana Perez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Full professor at UPC in the TSC Department. She has been leader of 18 projects and author of more than 25 journal papers and more than 150 conference papers. She is member of Eurasip Board of Directors and SPTM committee of IEEE Signal Processing Society. Currently she is vicepresident for research at UPC.
