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MOBILE ANTENNA SYSTEMS CONFERENCE OEM Solutions for New Mobility & Technology Mobile Antenna Systems 2012 brings the industry together to evaluate new market opportunities, implement new technologies and discover future applications and technical developments. This symposium will have four tracks to address the antenna market including Antenna Design, Integration & Manufacturing, 4G Developments & Insights, Emerging & Growth Applications, and Supporting Technology & Integration. Each track is designed to cover the latest advancements in the applications, technology, materials, and economic development of antennas and antenna systems. Conference Program Tuesday, September 18th 8:00 AM Keynote Presentation through lower frequency plasma antennas. The presentation will be on plasma antennas as antennas in mobile systems. This will include plasma antenna applications in GPS aided and GPS free positioning, multihop meshed wireless distribution network architecture, reconfigurable beamwidth and lobe number, adaptive directionality, and cell tower settings. Dr. Theodore R. Anderson, CEO Haleakala Research and Development, Inc. 11:25 AM The Year of LTE Barely 10 years after the first 3G wireless systems were deployed in the world, we are seeing the emergence of the next step in wireless evolution, LTE (Long Term Evolution). This year, there has been an acceleration in deployment of LTE around the world. It features a new OFDMAbased air interface and an all-IP network architecture, plus spectrum flexibility, better support for cell edge users and other improvements over 3G. This session will describe selected highlights of LTE, deployment status and current issues related to LTE such as VOLTE (voice-over-LTE). We will also take a quick look down the road at LTE-Advanced. Daniel Wong, Ph.D., President • Daniel Wireless LLC 9:00 AM Keynote Presentation Base Station Antenna Evolution & Revolution The Role of Antenna Technology on the 4G Service Provider Business Case One of the critical challenges facing 3G and 4G Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) is how to deal with the anticipated growth in mobile data consumption. 4G service providers are faced with the challenge of reducing their cost-per-bit economics as they try to deal with the impact of this “mobile data tsunami”. Antenna technology can play a significant role in improving the performance of 4G networks which contributes to cost reduction. This session will examine improvements in antenna technology and their impact on the business case of 4G (LTE) service provider. A case study will be showed using the Wireless 20/20 WiROI tool to illustrate the impact of technological improvements on the 4G business case. Haig Sarkissian, Consultant • Wireless 20/20 10:00 AM 10:45 AM Networking Break / Exhibit Hall Opens Attend this presentation to hear how the mobile cellular base station antenna has evolved over the last two decades, from single band vertical polarized to multi-band cross-polarized with electrical tilt features. Most operators now run services across four or five bands and over the next decade there will be more bands plus higher order MIMO antenna techniques to exploit for spectral efficiency gains, to satisfy the ever increasing demand for data. In addition to all this, operators and OEM vendors are exploring the deployment benefits of active antennas for LTE and LTE-Advanced. How will base station antennas evolve over this decade? David Barker, CTO • Quintel Technology Ltd. 12:05 PM Optimizing and Sustaining Antenna Performance Plasma Antennas in Mobile Systems Plasma antennas have more degrees of freedom than metal antennas making their applications have enormous possibilities. Plasma antennas use partially or fully ionized gas as the conducting medium instead of metal to create an antenna. The advantages of plasma antennas are that they are highly reconfigurable and can be turned on and off. Higher frequency plasma antennas can transmit and receive Historically, changes in antenna orientation have been discovered through feedback from customer complaints, statistics read by an RF engineer, trial and error through software parameter changes, and costly site visits by tower crews to verify if a specific antenna’s orientation has changed. Time is lost and wasted in the troubleshooting process, while wireless customers are negatively affected by the antenna’s improper alignment. Today, with data rates increasing for smart phones and wireless Internet devices, antenna positioning and performance is even a more crucial component of quality service. Improper antenna alignment can cause dropped calls, blocked calls, and handover failures. For years antennas have installed and align with the use of a very inaccurate magnetic compass. Only recently GPS Antenna Alignment Tools and monitoring devices have surfaced in the industry. The topic of discussion is how these new devices can help operators optimize their antenna performance and also sustain that performance for the life of the antenna. Enzo Dalmazzo, President • 3Z Telecom 12:35 PM Lunch 14 ANTENNA SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY FALL 2012 WWW.ANTENNASONLINE.COM http://WWW.ANTENNASONLINE.COM

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Antenna Systems & Technology - Fall 2012
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Editor’s Choice
Performance Evalutaion of Antenna Integration of Mobile Devices Through Full-Wave Analysis
Base Station Antenna Evolution and Revolution
Antennas
Mobile Antenna Systems 2012 - Conference Preview
Manufacturing/Design
Components
Test & Measurement
Wireless Communication
Industry News
Marketplace

Antenna Systems & Technology - Fall 2012