COST 290 "Traffic and QoS Control in Multimedia Wireless Networks"

PLEASE fill in and return asap to COST 290 chair:

E-mail: yk@cs.tut.fi


COUNTRY:

Spain


Organization:

Departamento IngenierÌa de Comunicaciones
University of Malaga


Org-address:

ETSI TelecomunicaciÛn
Campus Universitario de Teatinos, s/n
E-29070 Malaga
EspaÒa (Spain)


Representative

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Family-name,

Aguayo-Torres

Given-name,

M. Carmen

Degrees and positions

Telecommunication Engineer, University of Malaga, 1994
Doctor in Telecommunication Engineering, University of Malaga, 2001
Assistant Professor, 1995-2002
Associate Professor, 2002-

tel.:

+34952132759

fax.:

+34952132027

E-mail:

aguayo@ic.uma.es

URL:

www.ic.uma.es

<http address of personal or organizational www page, where relevant information 
(wrt the expertise, projects, etc.) could be found>


Activity related to the proposed action:


In our group, works about adaptive modulation have been carried out from 1997, applied to both flat and frequency 
selective channels. Our research for single-user schemes tackled the study of feasible full discrete schemes with 
conditions that can be applied for distinct services (average or instantaneous target BER, minimum transmission 
delay). Works over both flat and frequency selective fading channels have been carried out, employing Adaptive 
OFDM when suitable.

For three and half years (January 2002-June 2003) our group collaborated with NOKIA SPAIN S.A. in the "Engineering 
Center for Mobile Communications" in Malaga. Research about link adaptation, radio resource management, end-to-end 
QoS, and transmission of multimedia services in 2.5G and 3G mobile networks was carried out in that time.

Currently our research focuses on multi-user schemes. Specifically, the Spanish MCYT supports a project entitled 
"Adaptive Multicarrier Transmission and Multiple Access Techniques over Shared Variant Environments with 
QoS objectives". Several doctors and students work in the study of cross-layer mechanisms for QoS provision, 
simultaneously adapting to the variant service conditions and channel quality.



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