Personal Wireless Communications, 2000 IFIP TC6/WG6.8 Working Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (PWC’2000), September 14–15, 2000, Gdańsk, Poland IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series, Vol. 51

There are numerous factors contributing to the dynamic growth of wireless communication systems we've been observing in the past 10 years, the most important being the increasing network user mobility and the technological advances in high-speed data transmission over radio channels. Research centres and standards-making institutions the world over conduct works on 3G integrated systems of person-to-person and person-to-computer communications, wireless counterparts of classical LAN, ATM and IP architectures, satellite and access networks as well as advanced service platforms like W AP and other concepts. Among the many commercial and non-profit organisations professionally involved in the development of the new information infrastructure, of particular influence is the International Federation for Information Processing. Within its Technical Committee TC-6, a working group WG 6.8 has been set up to co-ordinate IFIP activities in the area of wireless communications. It has done so, among others, by arranging regular meetings of academic and industrial researchers, known as IFIP TC-6 WG 6.8 Workshops on Personal Wireless Communications (pWC). Such workshops were held in recent years in Prague, Frankfurt/M, Tokyo and Copenhagen, and their success has resulted in the promotion of PWC to the status of IFIP Working Conference.

Wireless Internet Architectures: Selected Issues (invited paper).- A Modified CDMA/PRMA Medium Access Control Protocol for Voice Users in LEO Systems.- Packet Scheduling in Wireless LANs — A Framework for a Noncooperative Paradigm.- MAC Protocol for Wireless ATM — Channel Reservation Methods.- Quality of Service Aspects of Transport Technologies for the UMTS Radio Access Network (invited paper).- Resource Allocation in a Cellular CDMA Environment.- An Improved Speech and Channel Coding for GSM System.- A Picocellular CDMA/TDD Overlay on GSM.- Design of Interoperability Checking Sequences Against WAP.- A Comparative Study on Distributed Location Management Strategies in Wireless Networks.- Resource Allocation in Cellular Wireless Systems (invited paper).- Evaluation of Traffic Carried by ATM Wireless Access Link Controlled by MEDIAN Protocol.- Minimum GPRS Bandwidth for Acceptable H.261 Video QoS.- A Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 Networks in the Presence of Hidden Stations.- An Overview of Activities on Wireless Networks in the European Project COST 257 (invited paper).- End-to-End and Redirection Delays in IP Based Mobility.- Agent Based Seamless IP Multicast Receiver Handover.- Predistortion for Solid State Amplifier of Mobile Radio Systems.- Adaptive Antenna Technique for Mobile Communication.- Robust Noise Reduction and Echo Cancellation.- Estimation of The Channel Impulse Response for GSM System.- Keyword Index.