Two pre-conference tutorials and four pre-conference workshops will take place on Tuesday 15 June at the Sheraton Firenze:

- Tutorial: Short-Range Ranging and Localization: Theory and Experimental Results (09:00 - 13:00)

- Tutorial: Multiple Antenna Systems from Optimum Combining to MIMO Networks: a Random Matrix Theory Approach (14:00 - 17:00)

- Context-awareness in Smart Environments (09:00 - 18:00)

- Fixed-mobile Convergence: A 2010 Update (09:00 - 17:00)

- eMobility/RAS Workshop & Cluster Meeting (09:00 - 17:30)

- Future Internet Workshop & Cluster Meeting (09:00 - 18:00)

It is necessary for all participants (presenters and delegates) to pre-register for either the tutorial, workshop or the cluster meeting as part of online registration. Participants will each pay one contribution of €50 towards the cost of two coffee breaks, lunch and a name badge for the day.

Participation in the Cluster meetings is restricted to participants in running projects. Participation in Workshops is open to all participants.

Tutors: D. Dardari et al., WiLAB - Wireless Communications Laboratory, University of Bologna at Cesena, Italy

The need for accurate geolocation has intensified in recent years, especially in cluttered environments (inside buildings, in urban canyons, under tree canopies, and in caves), where the Global Positioning System (GPS) is often inaccessible.

The ultrawide bandwidth (UWB) technology offers potential for achieving high positioning accuracy in cluttered environments due to its high time resolution and ability to penetrate obstacles.

In this tutorial, the theoretical fundamental limits in ranging and localization based on the UWB technology as well as practical schemes will be explained. The main ranging/localization error sources will be illustrated. Some results derived from experimentation in real environments will be shown to investigate the effect of system parameters on ranging and positioning accuracy.

Tutors: Marco Chiani, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy & Moe Win, Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Multiple antenna systems can exploit the spatial resource to mitigate multipath, to reduce multiuser interference, and to increase spectral efficiency. This tutorial provides the basic principles and applications of multiple antenna systems, including MIMO and distributed MIMO, and their analysis based on random matrix theory. The effect of space and time correlation on the capacity of MIMO channels will first be presented for a point-to-point link. In network scenarios, where many users employ MIMO, we discuss how the capacity decreases due to the presence of MIMO interferers. Applications include wireless cellular systems, high-speed wireless LAN, WiMAX, as well as energy-constrained multi-node wireless systems.

This tutorial provides the basic principles and applications of multiple antenna systems, including MIMO and distributed MIMO, and their analysis based on random matrix theory

The ubiquity of mobile devices and proliferation of wireless networks will allow everyone permanent access to the Internet at all times and all places. The increased computational power of these devices has the potential to empower people to generate their own applications for innovative social and cognitive activities in any situation and anywhere. This wireless connection is not limited to user devices, almost any artefact from clothing to buildings can be connected and collaborate. Furthermore new sensor technologies and wireless sensor networks provide environmental intelligence and the capability to sense, reason and actuate. This leads to the exciting vision of the interconnection of artefacts embedded in our real environment, forming a society of "intelligent things" and "smart spaces". The workshop discusses the main concepts and role that context-awareness and context aware systems will play in this vision and the significance for future networks and future Internet. This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners in academia and industry to share recent results on context-awareness, as well as to foster collaboration and coordination in future EU research efforts.

This workshop is being jointly organised by C-Cast, PERSIST and SENSEI FP7 projects.

The workshop will revisit the subject of fixed-mobile convergence, refine the definition of convergence and overview the latest integrated wired-wireless solutions for various network domains. The workshop is organized by ALPHA, FUTON, Omega and BONE projects.

The RAS Cluster Meeting will take place on Tuesday morning.

The EU Commission is currently preparing the revised work program of Framework Program 7 for the period 2011 and 2012. Framework Program 7 will be finalised in the last period 2013 by a new work program. Discussions on Framework Program 8 from 2014 onwards are already ongoing between the EU Commission, Member States and stakeholders. Major research topics are research areas, the respective allocation of funding budget and instruments for the implementation of the program. It is the objective of this workshop to address the environment of the ICT sector and discussions on Framework Program 8 and to involve the views of the audience. The results of the workshop will be used in discussions with the EU Commission and national authorities to present the interests of the ICT sector.

The presentations will be given by members of the e Mobility Steering Board