COUNTRY: Turkey Organization: Middle East Technical University, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Org-addres: Inonu Bulvari, ANKARA 06531, Turkey Representative Family-name, Baykal Given-name, Buyurman Degrees and positions, Prof., Communications and networking area tel.: +90 312 210 4582 fax.: +90 312 210 1261 E-mail: buyurman@metu.edu.tr URL: www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~baykal ADD YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION HERE------------ Activity related to the proposed action: Expertise: -Handoff, IP mobility, next generation wireless network architectures -Power and bandwidth efficient communication techniques -Communication in fading channels Activity: -Joint design of transport, access and physical layers -Definition of novel core network architectures -Handoff and QoS-aware mobility