Best Student Paper Award in 2002. zation, primarily with architecture questions. The most prevalent examples are GPRS, WCDMA, HSPA, and Dr. Philip A. Chou is a Principal Researcher with LTE-SAE. He has been a key member of 3GPP TSG Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, and man- ages the Communication and Collaboration Systems RAN since 1999. Currently Per is responsible for stan- research group. He has lectured at the Universities of dardization at Developing Unit Radio within the Business Unit Networks, and is also manages a group of systems Stanford, Washington, and the Chinese University of managers working with concept development and Hong Kong. He currently serves as coordinator of the standardization. awards subcommittee of the IEEE SP Society Multi- media Signal Processing technical committee (MMSP Alan Bensky is an electronics engineering consultant with TC). He also serves on the editorial board of the IEEE over 30 years of experience in analog and digital design, Signal Processing Magazine. He is a Fellow of the IEEE management, and marketing. Specializing in wireless and is the recipient of, amongst other awards, the Signal circuits and systems, he has carried out projects for Processing Society Paper Award and the IEEE Trans- a variety of military and consumer applications and led actions on Multimedia Best Paper Award. the development of three patents on wireless distance Luis M. Correia is Professor in Telecommunications at measurement. He has authored two books on wireless Technical University of Lisbon. He has acted as a con- communication and has written several articles in sultant for Portuguese GSM operators and the telecom- international and local publications. Bensky has taught munications regulator. He has authored many papers and electrical engineering courses, gives lectures on radio communications in international journals and confer- engineering topics and is a senior member of IEEE. ences, for which he has served also as a reviewer, editor, and board member. He has served as evalua