Dr Jyrki Penttinenhas worked in technical management and expert positions with TeliaSonera Finland, Xfera Spain, Nokia / NSN Mexico, Spain and USA, and as a freelancer and telecom consultant via Finesstel Ltd in Europe and Latin America. His focus areas have included GSM, UMTS and LTE cellular and digital mobile TV, radio and core network planning, optimization, standardization and research. Currently, he works in mobile security area as Program Manager with Giesecke & Devrient America Inc. with special interest in M2M and MVNO environment. He is also active lecturer and contributor to technical publications. Dr Penttinen obtained his MSc (EE), LicSc (Tech) and DSc (Tech) degrees at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, in 1994, 1999 and 2011, respectively. In his free time, he enjoys writing books (presented in www.tlt.fi), practicing archery and communicating via Morse code at his ham radio stations.
Dr Mohmmad Anashas over 9 years of systems design engineering and product management experience working on 4G/LTE wireless networks at Nokia Networks and consumer electronics and wearable devices at Flextronics. His original contribution has resulted in several patent applications on 3GPP LTE capacity and coverage improvements. He has received a PhD for his novel contribution on uplink radio resource management for QoS provisioning in LTE in 2009 from Aalborg University, Denmark. His current interests are in the area of Internet of Things.
Dr Francesco Davide Calabreseis a wireless system specialist with more than 8 years of experience from both, academy and industry. He earned his PhD from the University of Aalborg with a dissertation on Scheduling and Link Adaptation for the Uplink of SC-FDMA Systems. For a few years his main interests remained within the design and optimization of L2 and L3 algorithms for WCDMA and LTE until the last couple of years, when his focus has shifted toward the design of self-learning system algorithms based on novel Machine Learning techniques.
Mr Ryszard Dokuczalreceived his Master’s degree in Microsystems Electronics and Photonics from Wro- claw’s University of Technology, Poland. He joined NSN (now Nokia Networks) in 2008 and since then has been involved in several projects focused on network dimensioning, higher sectorization, baseband dimen- sioning and testing RU20/RU30 features. In 2012 he joined 3GPP standardization team and he is a RAN1 delegate focusing on 3G aspects (UL MIMO, HetNet, FEUL).
Dr Jacek G´orareceived his Master of Science in Microsystems Engineering from the Wrocław University of Technology in 2008. He obtained his doctoral degree in Communication Technologies from the Pozna´n University of Technology in 2013. Since 2009 he has been with the Nokia Networks (previously called NSN) where he works as a radio research engineer. He is the author of around 40 technical publications.
Mr Jukka Hongistois a Solution Architect at Mobile Broadband with Nokia. Starting in circuit switched data services in mobile networks, Jukka later held various positions as Packet Core specification, standardization and competence manager. He then moved on to Packet Core system product management, where he was in charge of Evolve Packet Core (EPC) network architecture planning and standardization for mobile packet networks. Jukka has long experience from 2G/3G/LTE and IP technologies. Since 2007 he has been focused on the mobile voice evolution, targeting industry wide solutions like Voice over LTE – VoLTE. He has worked as a packet switched voice Solution Architect by managing voice-related requirements to products,
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introducing solutions to mobile operators, doing patents for new solutions, helping standardization and has held seminars for related topics. You can follow Jukka at https://twitter.com/JukkaHongisto.
Mr Tero Jalkanenhas worked for TeliaSonera since 2001 as Senior R&D Specialist. He has been involved in the development of various IP based mobile technologies since graduating in 1998, especially the inter- operator (roaming, interworking, interconnection) related aspects of networks as well as services. He has had standardization experience since 1999 with WAP Forum (later OMA) as well as a number of “semi-official” international industry interest groups. He has been involved with GSM Association since 2001 in various working groups, task forces and projects. His expertise includes IMS, SIP, SIP-I, IM, Presence, PoC, Video Share, Image Share, ENUM, WLAN and MMS. He has been heavily involved in the development of GRX and IPX as well as RCS. Tero holds around 20 patents and has the position of Rapporteur for multiple GSM Association Permanent Reference Documents.
Mr Juha Kalliolives in Finland and currently works for Nokia. Juha has been in the field of telecommunica- tions for 20 years and has held various positions in SW development, product specification and architectural design.
Mr Ilkka Keisalahas worked with mobile operator TeliaSonera (earlier Sonera) since 1998. He has worked in different R&D activities during this time, especially related to Wi-Fi and 3G areas. These activities also include GSMA driven projects. Currently his focus areas are M2M and Mobile ID. Mr Keisala obtained his BSc (tech) at Metropolia, University of Applied Science, Espoo, Finland in 1999. He previously worked as an air traffic controller and a commercial pilot.
Dr Jaroslaw Lachowskiis an experienced researcher, technical and project leader. Throughout his personal career, Jaroslaw has focused on radio access research in HSPA, HSPA enhancements (LTHE), LTE & LTE-A technologies. His interest lies predominately in topics such as Self Organizing Networks (SON), HetNet, Interference Management, Mobility, Traffic Steering and HSDPA Multiple Antennas. He is a recognized expert in those areas with innovative track record proven through IPR generation, patents, scientific publications and various 3GPP and book contributions (e.g., LTE Self-Organizing Networks (SON): Network Management Automation for Operational Efficiency).
Dr Patrick Marschreceived his Dipl.Ing and Dr.Ing degrees from Technische Universit¨at Dresden, Germany, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. He was the technical project coordinator of the project EASY-C, where the world’s largest research test beds for LTE-Advanced were established. After heading a research group at TU Dresden, Germany, he is now a research team manager within Nokia Networks, Wrocław, Poland. He has (co-)authored 50+journal and conference papers, has received three best paper awards, been editor of or contributor to several books and has been awarded the Philipp Reis Prize for pioneering research in the field of Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP).
Mr Michał Materniareceived his Master of Optical Telecommunications degree from Wroclaw’s Technical University, Poland. He started his career in NSN in 2006 where he has been involved in multiple research projects focusing on system level aspects of 3G, 4G and beyond 4G. His research area ranges from mobility aspects through deployment research and interference management. He is now a senior radio research engineer in Nokia Networks, Wrocław, Poland, and is leading a Multi-RAT/Multi-Layer work package in 5G project METIS.
Dr Guillaume Monghalgraduated in 2005 from French engineering school Telecom Sud-Paris and obtained a Master’s degree in Mobile communications at Aalborg University. He further pursued his education at Aalborg University and in cooperation with Nokia’s network division with a PhD study, which concluded with graduation in June 2009 and then a post doc. Since May 2010, Guillaume Monghal has been working at Intel
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Mr Olli Ramula is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and has worked for 20 years in mobile telecommunications. His work experience includes network deployment, network maintenance and R&D. Mr Jouko Rautioserved in a Finnish Air Force radar unit and then studied at the Oulu University, Finland and did his Master’s thesis on antenna measurements. Having worked in several positions in Telecom Finland (later Sonera Corporation and currently a part of TeliaSonera), mainly in radio network development for mobile telephone services, he has specialized in the EMF area. He has been issued one patent of radio technology and has contributed to two books and written for various magazines. Mr Rautio has been a lecturer in several courses on antenna, radio network and EMF topics and was the Vice Chairman of the trade association EMF Advisory Board in 2001–13. In autumn 2013 he started working on sustainability issues. Mr Marcin Rybakowskireceived his Master’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunication in 2003 with specialization in Mobile Telecommunication at Wroclaw’s University of Technology, Poland. He worked after graduation for Becker Avionics in Poland and Fujitsu Laboratories in Japan as RF Design and Test Engineer. He joined Siemens (now Nokia Networks) in 2006 and since then has been involved in features verification of Base Station and Active Antenna Systems for WCDMA (HSPA) networks. In 2012 he joined Radio Research team and was involved in HSPA research and 3GPP standards development with the focus on Smartphone Signaling, Machine to Machine Communication and Heterogeneous Networks. He is now focusing on millimeter wave deployment research and propagation modeling for future 5G systems. Mr Szymon Stefa ´nski is a team leader in the Research Department at DATAX in Wrocław, Poland. He received a degree in electronic and telecommunication from the Wrocław University of Technology, Poland. He is currently working towards his PhD degree in telecommunication at Pozna´n University of Technology. His research interests are focused on self-optimization in telecommunication systems.
Mr Luis Angel Maestro Ruiz de Temi ˜nograduated in Mobile Communications from Miguel Hernandez University, Elche, Spain, in July 2007. From September 2007 to January 2009 he worked as a research assistant in the Electronic Systems Department of Aalborg University, where he collaborated with Nokia, Networks Business Unit in the development of solutions for upcoming LTE-A systems. In February 2009, he joined Nokia where he has held different positions. Currently he is heading the Smart Labs team that focuses on studying the interaction between smartphones, mobile operating systems and applications with LTE and UMTS radio networks.
Mr Ali Yaverreceived his Master’s degree in Wireless Systems in 2007 from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. He joined NSN in 2009 and since then he has been involved in several 3G and 4G projects conducting back office research for 3GPP standardization. Currently he is part of the NSN’s 5G research program. His research interests include mobility, radio resource management and multi-cell connectivity. Other contributors to this book:
Mr. Maciej Januszewski Mr. Damian Kolmas Mr. Michal Panek Mr. Krystian Safjan Mr. Stanisław Strzy˙z Ms. Agnieszka Szufarska Mr. Pertti Virtanen