Despite of great improvements in e.g. mobile cellular networks during the past decade, the changes in the future may be even more dramatic in wireless networks development. Several enabling basic technological barriers seem to become solved in the near future. This will potentially cause dramatic changes the way commercial wireless networks will function and deliver services for users. In this presentation, an overview of critical enabling technologies which are foreseen to change the future wireless access is given.

Host: Behnaam Aazhang

Biography of Matti Latva-aho:
Matti Latva-aho (SM’06) was born in Kuivaniemi, Finland in 1968. He received the M.Sc., Lic.Tech. and Dr. Tech (Hons.) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oulu, Finland in 1992, 1996 and 1998, respectively. From 1992 to 1993, he was a Research Engineer at Nokia Mobile Phones, Oulu, Finland. During the years 1994 - 1998 he was a Research Scientist at Telecommunication Laboratory and Centre for Wireless Communications at the University of Oulu. Currently he is Professor of Digital Transmission Techniques at the University of Oulu. Prof. Latva-aho was Director of Centre for Wireless Communications at the University of Oulu during the years 1998-2006. His research interests include future broadband wireless communication systems and networks. Prof. Latva-aho has published more than 150 conference or journal papers in the field of wireless communications. He has been TPC Chairman for PIMRC’06, TPC Co-Chairman for ChinaCom’07 and General Chairman for WPMC’08. He acted as the Chairman and vice-chairman of IEEE Communications Finland Chapter in 2000 – 2003.