ed MIMO switching, ATM, and Frame Relay LAN/WAN solutions. Wireless Communications and has made more than 100 He currently designs and provides solutions on advanced contributions to international journals and conference and complex converged networks for Fortune 500 com- proceedings. He was a member of the IEEE 802.11 panies, educational institutions, and security firms. Standardization Working Group on "Multiple antenna channel modeling". He received the IEE Marconi Pre- Johan Skold has been with Ericsson Research since 1989, where he has been involved in the standardization and mium Award in 2001 and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2004 Neal Shepherd Award. evolution of GSM, EDGE and UMTS/HSPA/LTE. Mr. Skold was active in the FRAMES project within the Ron Olexa has designed and developed cellular tele- European 4th Framework program, and initiated the communication systems in major US and European work on EDGE as a GSM evolution within that project markets. He served as the COO of SCT, then moved into and later in standardisation. He was also active in taking the emerging Wireless data industry as CTO of Advanced the WCDMA concept from the FRAMES project into Radio Telecom. He then started an independent consul- the standardization of UMTS/IMT-2000 in 3GPP, and in ting company to provide RF and technical guidance to the development of HSPA and LTE as the evolution of spectrum licensees and companies. More recently he 3G. He is a Senior member of IEEE. implemented one of the world's first WiMax capable networks. He has served on the Board of Directors of Professor Mihaela van der Schaar is Associate Professor EdgeFocus Inc and has authored training material used at the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department. Before for certification by the WiMax forum. this she was a senior researcher at Philips Research in the Netherlands and USA. She has published extensively on Dr. Stefan Parkvall joined Ericsson Research in 1999 multimedia communications, networking, architectures, where he currently serves as senior 