Instructor:
Shiau-He (Shawn) Tsai, Patrick Hosein, Anthony C.K. Soong, Ericsson Wireless Communications
Sang, G. Kim, Byung K. Yi , LG Electronics

Abstract:
The wireless communication industry is currently in a state of transition from second generation (2G) to third generation (3G) systems -- a move from circuit-switched, mainly voice services to multi-media services that include voice, packet data and video. The CDMA2000 family of standards is based upon code division multiple access (CDMA) technology and is one of the defined modes in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 3G wireless standard. The early revisions of the CDMA2000 standard support high-speed data transmission (with peak rate of 643.2 kbps on the forward and 480 kbps on the reverse link) using dedicated data channels. The latest revision, Revision D (commonly referred to as 1xEV-DV), was completed in March 2004 and significantly increases the efficiency of the air interface by introducing high-speed packet data channel support in both the forward (with peak rate of 3.091 Mbps) and reverse (with peak rate of beyond 1.8 Mbps) links while maintaining backward compatibility with previous revisions. This tutorial covers a number of key features of 1xEV-DV. It will discuss extensively the support for high-speed packet data in both the forward (base station to mobile) and reverse (mobile station to base station) link. The former includes the design of the high-speed shared data channel, its components (Hybrid-ARQ, link adaptation, adaptive modulation and coding, scheduling, sector-switching, channel supervision, control/hold etc.), MAC design, signaling changes and the effect of mixing data and voice services. The latter includes the design of the new reverse high-speed packet data channel and its components, the flexible MAC design and signaling changes. Detail discussions into the enabling technologies and how 1xEV-DV exploits these technologies to improve the spectral efficiency of both forward and reverse link are also presented as well as system performance simulation results and implementation issues.

Instructor Bios:
Shiau-He (Shawn) Tsai [S'96, M'00] received his B.S. degree from Catholic Fu-Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1991, and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A., in 1995 and 2000, respectively.
From 1991 to 1994, he served as Second Lieutenant in the R.O.C. Army and worked as a full-time lab administrator in Catholic Fu-Jen University. From 1995 to 2000, he was a teaching and research assistant in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and participated in the Small Unit Operations and the Global Mobile Computing programs of the Defense Advanced Research Agency. He also helped the establishment of the Spread Spectrum and Satellite Communications Lab. He is currently a Staff Engineer at Ericsson Wireless Communications, San Diego, CA. Dr. Tsai has published more than 10 journal and conference papers. His research interests include spread spectrum and satellite communications, error control coding, digital signal processing, and wireless fading channels.

Sang G. Kim [S'93, M'01] was born in Nam Won, Korea, on November 11, 1964. He received the B. S. and M. S. degrees in electronics engineering from Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul, Korea in 1987 and 1989, respectively, and the M.S. and D. Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from The George Washington University, Washington D.C. in 1993 and 2000 under the supervision of Dr. R. Pickholtz, respectively. From 1987 to 1989, he was a teaching assistant at Sung Kyun Kwan University. He was a research assistant in 1996 and 2000 and was a teaching assistant from 1995 to 2000 at the George Washington University. He joined Advanced Systems Engineering (ASE) Group in Hughes Network Systems (HNS), Germantown, Maryland, as a Senior Member of Technical Staff. He was involved in the design of physical layer for early entry (EE) Inmarsat multimedia communication system and in the system level design of the next generation satellite communication network. He joined the Standards Group of LG Electronics, San Diego, California, as a Senior Research Scientist in 2002. He is actively involved in the physical layer activity of 3GPP2 and in the research activity for beyond third generation (B3G) wireless communications systems. He was the recipient of the best paper award from the Journal of Communications and Networks in 1999. His research interests include multiuser communication, channel coding, wireless data networks, and antenna array processing.

Patrick Hosein [SM '99] attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained S.B (Math), S.B (EE), S.M (EECS), E.E and Ph.D (EECS) degrees. He is presently a Principal Engineer at Ericsson Wireless Communications in San Diego. Prior to this he was a Principal Technical Staff Member at AT&T Laboratories in New Jersey. His present technical interests include the design, modeling, analysis and simulation of resource management algorithms for wireless networks.

Byung K. Yi, Senior Executive Vice President of LG Electronics has over thirty years of experience in research and development of space systems and communications systems. He has been working on the third and fourth generation wireless communications systems. He is currently serving as a TSG-C chair of the 3GPP2, developing cdma2000 air interface specifications, and served as a co-chair of the Working Group 5 of the 3GPP2 TSG-C, developing 1xEV/DV wireless standards. He was in charge of small satellite system engineering for distributed low earth orbiting telecommunication and remote sensing applications at Orbital and CTA as a Chief Engineer. He was responsible for the company R&D management and technology assessment at the Fairchild Space Company and developed the Brilliant Pebble's life jacket (spacecraft bus) system of the SDIO program, which is currently rekindled as Missile Defense System. He has been an only industrial participant of the CCSDS 1A (Coding) and 1B (Modulation) panel since 1986, developing international space communication standards. His interests are wireless and space communication systems, iterative decoding, and space system engineering. He taught at The George Washington University graduate courses - Data Communication Network, Error Control Coding, Information Theory, and Communication Theory. He holds five U. S. patents and one international patent in the areas of iterative decoding and handoff schemes of the cellular-based system.

Anthony C.K. Soong [S'88, M'91, SM'02] received the B.Sc. degree in animal physiology and physics from the University of Calgary, and the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering, the M.Sc. degree in biomedical physics and Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta. He is presently with Ericsson Wireless Communications Inc. in Boulder and acts as Ericsson's lead representative to the Physical Layer Working Group (WG3) of the IS2000 standardization body (3GPP2). His research interests are in statistical signal processing, robust statistics, wireless communications, spread spectrum techniques, and physiological signal processing.
Dr. Soong is a senior member of the IEEE. He has published numerous scientific papers and has over 20 patents granted or pending. He has served on the technical program committee of major conferences in the area of communication engineering and is a technical reviewer for the IEEE Trans. on Communications, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Communication Letters.