The IEEE German Chapter on Information Theory and the Ph.D. School CINEMA from the University of Essen jointly organized a workshop on "Advances in Multi-User Communications. The workshop was held at the premises of the German Aerospace Research Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany February 19-20. Michael Schnell from the DLR arranged the program and acted as the local organizer. The workshop was attended by 25 young researchers working in the field of Multiple Access systems. Highlight of the workshop was the lecture by Prof. Vijay Bhargava. Prof. Bhargava was invited as a distinguished lecturer from the IT society. He gave an overview of recent advances in Cellular Wireless Communications. The following presentations were delivered:
- CDMA-Interference in Mobile Satellite Communications
Erich Lutz, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
- Scale Variable Matching Pursuits Approach for Very Low Bit-Rate Video Coding
Hui Li, University of Duisburg
- Reduction of Intersymbol Interference in Synchronous Multi-Code CDMA Systems
Rupert Herzog, University of Munich
- Antenna Diversity for an Uplink CDMA System
Andreas Schmidbauer, University of Munich
- Recent Results for the Optial Or Network
Han Vinck and Peter Gober, University of Essen
- Interleaved FDMA- A New SS Multiple Access Scheme for Mobile Communications
Michael Schnell, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
- Recent Advances in Cellular wireless Communications
Vijay Bhargava, University of Victoria, Canada
- On the Ability of CDMA to combat Log-Normal Fading
Ralf Muller, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg
- Random Access in an OFDMA System
Ramon N. Peterson, University of Ulm
- MC-CDMA and OFDM for Indoor Communications
Michael Nold, University of Ulm
- DS-CDMA: Multi-User Detection Based on Recurrent Neural Networks
Werner Teich, University of Ulm
The workshop included a dinner at a Bavarian style restaurant, a visit to the space mission control center of the DLR and beer sampling in the ancient monastery "Andechs". Workshop proceedings (ISBN 90-74249-19-1) can be obtained from Han Vinck (University of Essen). During the workshop a new steering committee for the IEEE German Chapter on Information Theory was elected. It consists of Martin Bossert as the newly elected chairman, Michael Schnell as the treasurer and Peter de With, Robert Schweikert and Han Vinck as members.