Activity Report of Commission F

 

Reported by Y. Karasawa, the Comm.-F Chair

Nov. 1, 2002

 

1.      Commission meetings in the period of “June. 2002 – Oct. 2002”

 

    (For more detail, please see http://www2.crl.go.jp/pub/ursi-f/.)

 

(1)   No. 465 meeting

   Date: June 28, 2002

   Place: The Univ. Electro-Communications, Tokyo

   Topics:

      “On MIMO propagation channel model”

             by Y. Karasawa,  (Univ. Electro-Comms.)

      “ Experiment-based multipath fading characteristics

             by S. Koya et al., (Tokyo Denki Univ.)

      “Propagation simulator model for CDMA adaptive array

             by K. Kitao et al. (NTT DoCoMo)

(2)   No.466 meeting

   Date: July 24-26, 2002

   Place: A hotel in Sapporo, Sapporo

   This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of the IEICE professional group

   on AP. The 40 papers on antennas, propagation, and radio communication systems

   were presented.

(3)   No. 467 meeting

   Date: Sept. 20, 2002

   Place: NTT DoCoMo R&D Center, Yokosuka

   Topics:

      “Space-time multipath propagation model in urban environments”

             by T. Imai,  (NTT DoCoMo)

      “ Effects of thunderstorm ratio on radiowave propagation in rain

             by C. Ito et al., (Kitami Inst. Tech.)

      “Propagation delay profile model for FWA systems

             by K. Kita et al. (NTT)

(4)   No. 468 meeting

   Date: Oct. 17-19, 2002

   Place: Fukui Univ., Fukui

   This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of the IEICE professional group

   on AP. The 22 papers on antennas and propagation were presented.

 

2.      Meetings to be scheduled

(5)   No. 469 at Tokyo Inst. Tech. on Nov. 08, 2002

(6)   No. 450 at CRL on Dec. 13, 2002

(7)   No. 451 at Kumamoto Univ. on Jan. 23-24, 2003

This meeting will be held under the co-sponsorship of the IEICE professional group on AP.

 

3.      Related International Conferences

(1) GLOBECOM 2002 (Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., November 17-21, 2002)

(2) 2002 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC 2002) (Kyoto, Japan, 19-22 November, 2002)

(3) 2002 Intermediate International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAPi-02) (Yokosuka, Japan, 26-28 November, 2002)

(4) The IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2003-Spring) (Seoul, Korea, Spring, 2003)

(5) 2003 IEEE AP-S International Symposium & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting (Columbus, OH, USA, June 23-June 27, 2003)

(6) IGARSS'03 (Toulouse, France, Date TBD, 2003)

(7) 2004 IEEE AP-S International Symposium & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting (Monterey, CA, USA, 20-26 June, 2004)

(8) The IEEE Annual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2003-Fall) (Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA, Fall, 2003)