RWS 2010
Chairman's Invitation
 Join us for the 5th annual IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS) in historic New Orleans from 10 -14 January 2010. This conference is the centerpiece of the Radio and Wireless Week (RWW), where participants learn about the latest in the wireless technology and network with colleagues while enjoying the historic cosmopolitan city of New Orleans. Great history, great food, great people, and great technical talks. The RWS is organized and sponsored by three societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), Microwave Theory and Techniques, Communications, and Antennas and Propagation. For the second year the European Optical Society has sponsored this conference, manifesting a broad and diverse representation of various technical communities.
The RWS meetings focus on the intersection between radio systems and wireless technology, which creates a unique forum for engineers to discuss hardware design and system performance of the state-of-the-art wireless systems. This tradition is continued with an expanded program that offers the latest information on our traditional subjects of wireless communications and networking, and associated enabling technologies as new services and applications emerge. We have organized the papers into 25 technical oral sessions. To accommodate the expanded technical program, we will continue the three-parallel sessions format for all three days of the RWS symposium with a combination of invited and regular technical papers. A number of papers that require much longer time to discuss their finer points are to be presented under interactive poster sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday. No other parallel sessions are to be held during the poster session. There will be a student paper competition, where the finalists will be judged on Monday.
The other part of RWW is the 10th topical meeting on the silicon monolithic integrated circuits in RF systems (SiRF). See page 3 for details on SiRF. Silicon provides critical building blocks for wireless systems. This year both conferences start on Monday, and there will be a common plenary session on Tuesday. The plenary speaker will be Bob Van Buskirk, president, RFMD Multi-market Products Group (MPG) with a talk on “Gallium Nitride (GaN) – The Power Game Changer”. RWS and SiRF will hold a joint banquet on Wednesday.
Back to the Radio and Wireless Symposium. There will be three focused tracks: RF Power Amplifiers, Biomedical Applications of Microwave Systems, and Sensors and Sensor Networks. In addition to our contributed technical program, we have organized three panel sessions focused on current issues of interest titled “Green wireless technology”, “60 GHz Technologies”, and “Who Killed UWB and will it Rise a Third Time?”. There will be focused sessions including one on Cognitive Radio Architectures for Portable Whitespace Devices. There will be workshops on Sunday afternoon January 10. This year, we will not hold workshops at the end of the week. The topics will include “RF MEMS and Applications”, “Advances in SiGe BiCMOS Technology, Circuit and Applications”, and “Enabling Gb/s 60GHz Wireless Communication”. These topics cover some of the most exciting current topics being discussed in the technical sessions, but workshops are presented in an informal format, offering increased opportunities for exchange among speakers and audience.
There will be a modest exhibit with table top displays to allow vendors to show their latest products to the technical attendees on Monday and Tuesday. With these two conferences and a commercial exhibition all in one place, we offer you, the conference attendee, with convenient opportunities to expand your knowledge in all the technical and commercial aspects of the rapidly changing wireless field. Your suggestions are greatly appreciated to help us organize better meetings.
We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans!
RWW General Chair
Charlie Jackson
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