Författare: Matthew Baker

Dr Stefania Sesia, NXP semiconductors, Valbonne, France Dr Sesia joined Philips/NXP Semiconductor Research and Development center in Sophia Antipolis, France in 2005. She has been participating to 3GPPRAN 4 and RAN 1 standardization meetings and is the author of several international IEEE conference and journal papers, inventor of numerous US and European patents, and contributions to 3GPP. Her research interests are in the field of communication theory and coding theory and well as system level aspects. Dr Issam Toufik, NXP semiconductors, Valbonne, France Dr Toufik is currently a Research and Development Engineer at NXP semiconductors, Sophia Antipolis, France. His current research interests are in the area of digital communications, MIMO-OFDM systems, multiple-access, resource allocation, and implementation aspects of digital communication systems. He is the author of several international IEEE conference and journal papers and inventor of numerous patents related to OFDM-MIMO systems. Mr Matthew Baker, Philips Research, Redhill, UK Mr Baker has over 10 years experience of conducting leading-edge research into a variety of wireless communication systems and techniques with Philips Research, including propagation modelling, DECT, ETSI BRAN and UMTS. He has been actively participating in the standardisation of both UMTS WCDMA and LTE in 3GPP since 1999, where he has been active in RAN working groups 1, 2, 4 and 5, and has contributed several hundred proposals. He has been the leader of the Philips RAN standardisation team for the last 4 years. He is the author of several international conference papers and inventor for numerous patents. He is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.