Luxul Wireless
MI Technologies
MultiWave Sensors, Inc.
Nebens LLC
PCTEL
Quintel Solutions
Redline Communications
Remcom - Product Demo
SkyCross
Spectrum Bridge
TESSCO Technologies
The Q-Track Corp.
Townsend and Townsend and Crew
University of Cincinnati

Track 1 and Track 2 will run simultaneously

7:00 AM - Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:05 AM - Opening Address

8:10 AM - Keynote Presentation

Cross-Layer Design of Smart Antenna Systems
Smart Antenna Systems use the additional degrees of freedom offered by their multiple antennas to exploit, among other things, multipath in the propagation environment. Therefore, by construction, antenna design of smart antenna systems cannot be assessed by simple performance metrics such as gain, polarization and efficiency alone. Learn state of the art design for antennas in terminals and for base stations. Examples of actual product designs for WiMAX and IEEE 802.11n will be given. Finally, hear recommendations on research topics to further the state of the art.

Nicholas E. Buris, President • Nebens LLC

9:15 AM - Breakout Sessions

Comparing Handset Antenna Implementation Challenges Between WiMAX and LTE
4G promises to deliver the fastest data rates by optimizing MIMO operation, which adds to existing challenges of supporting multi-band frequencies for voice, data, etc. Finding the space in a sleek mobile device for multiple antennas is challenging enough, but interference issues for MIMO and lower frequency bands such as 700 MHz that physically demand a larger antenna can make this engineering challenge even more difficult. SkyCross will compare handset implementation techniques and challenges between WIMAX and LTE.

Paul Tornatta, Chief Technical Officer • SkyCross

Standard 7-Band Surface Mount Loop Antenna Promises Potential for Slim Mobile Phones
The 0.5-wavelength mode of the loop path form a wide bandwidth of 310 MHz for the antenna’s lower band to cover GSM850/900 operation. The other modes of the loop form a very wide bandwidth of larger than 1 GHz for the antenna’s upper band to cover GSM1800/1900/UMTS/WLAN/WiMAX operation. Discover how the proposed antenna is a promising candidate for slim mobile phone applications.

Marc Harper, Principal Antenna Designer • Antenova

10:00 AM - Networking Break in Exhibit Hall

10:45 AM - Breakout Sessions

The WiMAX Tipping Point: Highly Configurable Antenna Solutions at a Low Cost
Discover the importance of creating a flexible WiMAX platform, and how WiMAX OEMs and operators can make significant progress in this feat by implementing high-performance, low-cost antennas. Learn how spectrum allocation, and subscriber density and site coverage influence WiMAX RF network engineering, and ultimately, antenna design and selection. Hear how network technology is expected to evolve to meet the needs of mobile WiMAX, and the role antennas play in enabling OEMs and operators to deploy, adjust and optimize mobile WiMAX coverage for higher data rates cost effectively.

Martin Mannion, VP of Advanced Technology, Antenna Product Group • PCTEL

Advancements in Directional Antenna Alignment Techniques
Hear a review of traditional directional antenna alignment techniques as well as emerging technologies. The different techniques will be referenced to multiple antenna categories, which are based on alignment precision requirements.
A case study will be presented using an emerging technology, a GPS compass alignment tool. A step-by-step procedure will be documented from site deployment to the verification report and will discuss associated benefits such as average alignment times and error checking.

Bruce Clifford, President • MultiWave Sensors, Inc.

11:30 AM - Breakout Sessions

The Migration to LTE and the Impact on Infrastructure
Learn the findings of a recently completed study regarding the impact on communications network infrastructure when LTE-DO is overlaid on an existing operational wireless communications network. The presentation will address the nine fundamental findings and will provide some level of detail for each finding. Attendees will obtain an awareness of the complexity involved in the pending LTE overlay and will be able to avoid specific deployment pitfalls as a direct result of that awareness.

Jake MacLeod, Principal VP and CTO • Bechtel Communications

Leveraging New Technologies to Extend Performance of Existing Wireless Infrastructure
Hear a discussion of Circular Polarization technology and the role it has played in the company's antennas and complementary wireless solutions. Luxul has worked closely with NAVSEA, a branch of the US military, to develop a wireless solution to meet the strict military requirements.

Vaughn Staheli, VP Engineering • Luxul Wireless

12:15 PM - Luncheon

1:15 PM - Breakout Sessions

A Technical Primer on Near-Field Electromagnetic Ranging
Learn about the historic roots of near-field electromagnetic ranging from Edison’s wireless induction telegraph and Hertz’s discovery of the dipole fields to the present. It will further discuss how the Friis Propagation Law can be extended to the case of electrically small antennas operating in the near-field. The talk will then summarize advances in system architecture and performance over five generations of near-field electromagnetic ranging systems. Finally, the presenter will review the current and anticipated future performance of these systems.

Dr. Hans Schantz, Chief Technical Officer • The Q-Track Corp.

Bluetooth Technology: Low Energy, High Speed and Everything In Between
2009 marks a year of expansion and growth for the Bluetooth SIG and for the wireless PAN. Bluetooth wireless technology is moving into high speed and low energy solutions, while keeping the experience and expertise on standard development achieved over the last 10 years of Bluetooth success. Hear new specifications as well as discuss applications these specifications will enable and highlight how the wireless PAN will change moving forward.

Sean Meckley, Marketing Program Manager/ Market Research Analyst • BLUETOOTH SIG

2:00 PM - Breakout Sessions

Antennas for Portable Satellite Communication Terminals: How Trends in End-User Requirements Affect Antenna Design
Hear an overview of antennas currently used on portable satcom terminals such as dipole, helical, segmented parabolic dish, flat plate, folding flat plate, modular segmented flat plate, etc. Advantages and disadvantages of each antenna type will be discussed. Learn the current trends in antenna design with the indication on how current changes in complete satcom systems affect antenna design.

Vlad Stoiljkovic, Business Development Manager • Cobham Technical Services

Accelerating Over-the-Air Testing of Devices with Small Antennas: An Alternative Approach to Antenna Pattern Measurements
This presentation will challenge the traditional mindset that antenna patterns are necessary for accurate antenna testing. The presenter will show that for small antennas used in mobile phones, WLAN equipment, PDAs and Bluetooth devices, the traditional measurement steps that require antenna patterns are unnecessary. Hear new, accurate ways to measure these small antennas that are up to 20 times faster depending on the type of test and communication protocol when antenna patterns are bypassed.

Jeffrey Fordham, Vice President • MI Technologies

2:45 PM - Networking Break in Exhibit Hall

3:00 - 3:15 PM - Product Demo in Exhibit Hall -- Booth #12

Remcom will present its new generation of GPU acceleration, XStream for XFdtd Release 7.  XStream enables electromagnetic simulation problems to be solved up to 300 times faster than a modern 64-bit CPU by leveraging the powerful graphics processing units (GPUs) available in modern video cards to make ultra-fast FDTD numerical computations.  Learn more about this technology and its potential to save months of simulation time in getting research results or products to market.  Remcom will also discuss the benefits of XF7, which now includes XStream technology built in at no additional cost.  

3:30 PM - Breakout Sessions

TEM-Horn Broadband High Power Antennas Operating in the Frequency Range from 100 MHz to 10 THz
Learn the latest design and application of broadband high power TEM-Horn antennas operating from 100 MHz to 10 THz while using only four antennas. Learn ther advantages of presented antennas, and considering the performance of presented TEM-Horn broadband high power antennas, applications of the antennas will be discussed.

Andrew S. Podgorski, President • ASR Technologies, Inc.

Design of UHF RFID Systems with the Aid of Computational Electromagnetics
Though radio frequency identification (RFID) systems have been in use for various applications in the past, currently they are gaining popularity due to their application to retail supply chain management systems. Learn the options for the EM characterization of such systems with the aid of full wave or hybrid numerical methods. Analysis of RFID tags, readers, tag placement, tag/reader coupling and tag/reader systems in complex environments will be addressed.

Dr. CJ Reddy, President • EM Software & Systems, Inc.

4:15 PM - General Panel Discussion

The Road to 4G: Antenna Challenges, Opportunities & Strategies
Fourth generation cellular systems employ smart antenna designs and algorithms to mitigate multipath and optimize the link in a communication system. This panel will discuss design challenges, the proper performance comparisons of multiple antenna systems, and measurement challenges.

Panel Moderator: Nicholas E. Buris, President • Nebens LLC

Panelists:
Mats Andersson, CEO • Bluetest
Jeff Shamblin, VP of Advanced Technology • Ethertronics, Inc.
David C. Wittwer, PhD, Principal RF Engineer, Research Center • Galtronics Corporation Ltd.

5:15 PM - Cocktail Reception

Track 1 and Track 2 will run simultaneously

7:30 AM - Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:10 AM - Keynote Presentation

Waking the Venture Capital World to the Importance & Value of Antenna Innovation: What VCs Focus on and How to Attract Capital
The dramatic expansion of mobile systems over the past decade has made wireless a primary communications medium for a majority of the world’s population. Yet, as the wireless industry continues to experience exponential growth, capacity and reliability problems have begun to plague network operation.
Advances in antenna technology will directly impact virtually all major industry challenges from scarce spectrum to limited handset battery life. In short, next-generation antenna systems are fundamental to the long-term viability of mobile broadband services. Discover the needs for antenna innovation, and how developing companies can best engage venture investors.

John Dooley, Managing Director • Jarvinian Venture Fund

9:15 AM - General Panel Discussion

Reducing Cost of Ownership Through Innovative Antenna Technology
Locate, optimize and track fixed or mobile wireless communications focuses on a new, innovative technology that has multiple applications in various vertical markets. This radio and wireless technology agnostic system supports WiMAX, point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, fixed-to-mobile and mobile-to-mobile deployments.

Bob Peterson, CEO • Broadband Antenna Tracking Systems, Inc.
Kevin Suitor, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development • Redline Communications
Scott Mcclure,  Business Unit Manager • TESSCO Technologies

10:00 AM - Networking Break in Exhibit Hall

10:35 AM -Breakout Sessions

Are You Sitting on a Gold Mine? Turning Patent Expenses Into Profits
Discover how to view your intellectual property (IP), especially patent, portfolio as a revenue source instead of just an expense, revenue drain or revenue protector. Topics to be covered in the presentation include: determining whether profiting from your IP portfolio should be part of your business plan, driving IP development with monetizing your portfolio in mind, and strategies for developing and enforcing an IP portfolio as a profit center.

Shane Hunter, Partner • Townsend and Townsend and Crew

Ku-band Phase Shifters for Antenna Array Using Thin-Film BaSrTiO3 Capacitors
Analog phase shifter allows commercial and military RF communications manufacturers to significantly decrease the number of components required for multi-mode systems, reducing circuit complexity and cost. Learn about a Ku-band phase shifter design for Ku-band antenna array. It employs the all-pass network using thin-film BST technology. Especially, this phase shifter consists of two individually designed all-pass networks with different center frequencies. Numerical and experimental data shows that this new structure has better insertion loss and phase shift compared to previous designs.

Nan Ni, Senior RF Engineer • Agile RF, Inc.

11:20 AM - Breakout Sessions

Antennas for Multi-Band, Multi-Mode Applications
With the coming of LTE and other 4G technologies in the near future, continued improvements in efficiency and bandwidth are being demanded from the antenna. This session will present a case study showing the complexities of bringing the 700 MHz and 2.6 GHz bands into the handset while continuing to service the existing bands resident in today’s handset. Several active antenna methods and measured data will be presented, which will show significant improvement in bandwidth and efficiency as required from the main antenna in the next-generation multi-band, multi-mode handset.

Jeff Shamblin, VP of Advanced Technology • Ethertronics, Inc.

The Future of Carbon Nanotubes in Wireless Applications
Carbon nanotubes are proving to be a revolutionary raw material for the US industries and research laboratories involved in nanotechnology. This is due to the truly unique physical and electrical properties of carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes are as strong as steel but have about seven times less density than copper. Learn the recent advances that have substantially changed the way people can think about carbon nanotubes; advances that could potentially have a tremendous impact on many applications in today’s world.

Dr. David Mast, Professor • University of Cincinnati

12:05 - PM Luncheon

1:05 PM - Breakout Sessions

Utilizing the Secondary Spectrum Market to Enhance Wireless Network Performance
The explosion in wireless, especially wireless data/Internet, has created an increase in the need for high bandwidth and low cost backhaul. WiMAX and LTE deployments will increasingly be driven by smartphones and other high bandwidth users and applications. Learn about the challenges for 3G and 4G implementations and how the entire ecosystem of antenna, radio and tower professionals will be able to overcome and profit from them. Additionally, Rick Rotondo, CMO and co-founder of Spectrum Bridge, will discuss how businesses can identify and acquire spectrum to help them enhance their solutions sales capabilities and grow market share and margins.

Rick Rotondo, CMO & Co-Founder • Spectrum Bridge

Bridging the Manufacturing Gap Between Macro and Micro to Build Complex, Miniature, Dielectric Cell Phone Antennas
Discover why there is a manufacturing gap in producing complex devices with multiple materials at the miniature scale. Such is the case with today’s dielectric cell phone antennas. These structures must be built for high performance, and more rugged and complex than ever before. They must be built with multiple materials and have high bandwidth, yet they must be forged to a miniature scale no larger than a grain of rice. Attendees will learn that the real “small form factor” is at work inside the phone. This is where monumental change and enhancements in functionality are taking place. Arthur Chait will describe the premium “real estate” inside the phone and show why counter-balancing features must be engineered to accommodate the limits on space.

Arthur Chait, President & CEO • EoPlex Technologies

1:50 PM - General Session

RF Exposure Prediction in Relation to Safety Codes
Multi site, multi antenna, multi frequency prediction of code compliance (OET Bulletin 65, Safety Code 6, etc) can easily be predicted using 3D Software. This allows easy presentation to approving bodies (along with public hearings) for applicable permits and site approvals. Attend this presentation to discover an application that can perform this task from 30 MHz to 150 GHz.

Guenther Schweigl, Director, Sales & Marketing • i2s Technologies, Inc.

2:25 PM - General Session

Leveraging Antenna Technology to Better Deploy 4G (LTE)
This session will focus on various implementation approaches for overlaying 4G on existing 2G and 3G (GSM/UMTS/HSPA & CDMA 1xRTT/DO) networks. The pros and cons of different approaches will be presented. The problem of how to best design antenna systems for cell sites that have physical limitations due to heavy tower loading will be explored. The challenge of maintaining 2G/3G service quality while launching 4G service will be examined. Finally, the advantages of 4xn MIMO will be discussed.

Keith Radousky, CTO – Americas • Quintel Solutions

3:05 PM - Conference Conclusion