tor and Dr. Alan Bovik is a Professor at the University of Austin in Texas in the Departments of Electrical and Computer auditor in ACTS, ESPRIT and IST frameworks, besides Engineering, Computer Sciences and Biomedical Engi- several national agencies worldwide, and was part of the COST Domain Committee on ICT. He was the Chair- neering. He is the inventor or co-inventor of, amongst other well-known inventions, Order Statistic Filters and man of the Technical Program Committee of the Image Modulation Model. He has published over 450 PIMRC'2002. He is part of the Expert Advisory Group technical articles and holds two U.S. patents. Dr Bovik and of the Steering Board of the European eMobility has received many awards, including the Technical platform. Achievement Award and the Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Erik Dahlman has been with Ericsson Research since Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is 1993 and where he currently holds a position of Senior a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Optical Society Expert in the area of Radio Access Technologies. He has of America and has been involved in numerous pro- been heavily involved in the development and standard- fessional society activities. He is also a registered Pro- ization of 3G radio-access technologies, including fessional Engineer in the State of Texas and is a frequent WCDMA, HSPA, and LTE, both within local standard- consultant to legal, industrial and academic institutions. ization bodies such as ETSI and ARIB, as well as within the global 3GPP organization. Bruno Clerckx is currently Senior Engineer at Samsung Electronics in Korea. He has been working on 3GPP LTE Dr. Ed da Silva is a former Tenured Academic for the RAN 1 and is currently involved in IEEE 802.16m. He Open University Telematics Department and Professor previously held a visiting research position at the Smart and Head of the Electrical Department at Etisalat Col- Antennas Research Group (Information Systems Labo- lege. He spent over fifteen years in the industry in the ratory), Sta