 |
Dr. Simon Saunders
Director – Technology
PhD CEng FIET
Simon is an independent specialist in the technology of wireless communications, with a technical and commercial background derived from senior appointments in both industry (including Philips and Motorola) and academia (University of Surrey).
He is an author of over 140 articles, books and book chapters. He has acted as a consultant to companies including BAA, BBC, O2, Ofcom, BT, ntl, Mitsubishi and British Land and was CTO of Red-M and CEO of Cellular Design Services Ltd. Simon speaks and chairs a wide range of international conferences and training courses and has invented several novel wireless technologies. Particular expertise includes in-building wireless systems, radiowave propagation prediction, smart antenna design and mobile system analysis. He currently serves on technical advisory boards of several companies. He has served as Visiting Professor to the University of Surrey, member of the industrial advisory board at University College London and founding chairman of Small Cell Forum (fomerly Femto Forum). He is a member of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board.
Back to top
|
 |
Mark Keenan
Director – Commercial
CEng MIStructE
Mark is a Chartered Structural Engineer and has worked in the wireless telecommunications industry since 1992.
Mark is skilled at managing complex projects, with experience in specification, design, installation and management of major wireless systems in environments as diverse as Heathrow Airport, Wembley Stadium, Ascot Racecourse and numerous corporate offices throughout the UK and The Netherlands.
The wireless systems deployed are a combination of Wi-Fi, Private Mobile Radio, Tetra and Cellular with infrastructures specified and designed to offer maximum flexibility to customers and environments. Mark was Project Director for a major strategic consulting exercise for BAA, creating and delivering their complete wireless strategy. He was also responsible for the UK’s first landlord-owned multi-operator in-building wireless infrastructure in the Bullring Shopping Centre.
Back to top
|
 |
Saul Friedner
Consultant
BEng (Hons.) CEng MIET
Saul has 10 years’ experience in spectrum management having spent most of his time working for Ofcom, the UK communications regulator. Saul’s experience spans across many facets of radio spectrum management including broadcast technical planning, mobile radio planning and licensing, and radio equipment standardisation.
Saul has worked for numerous clients including Ofcom, the British Red Cross and Communities and Local Government. He has extensive knowledge of key technologies such as LTE, WiMAX, TETRA, FM and DAB broadcast systems and other mobile radio systems. His work has included the development of a national frequency plan, TETRA radio coverage verification, spectrum policy and strategy development and a valuation for piece of highly sought-after radio spectrum.
Saul spent two years working for a global engineering consultancy company and brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise of project management and implementation of both large and small scale technical projects.
Back to top
|
 |
Dr. Kostas Konstantinou
Consultant
PhD CEng
Dr. Konstantinou has been with Real Wireless since 2008 as a Technology Consultant providing independent consultancy for the wireless industry on topics such as femtocell modelling, spectrum liberalisation, HSPA, WiMAX and LTE technologies. Dr Konstantinou received his PhD (University of Surrey, 2008) and MEng (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2004) degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, specialising in Telecommunications. He is a C.Eng. (Technical Chamber of Greece). His PhD studies were carried out in collaboration with Vodafone, UK. He has worked as a Statistical Analyst for the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as Commentary Systems Installer for the Athens Olympic Broadcasting Team and as Demonstrator for the University of Surrey.
Back to top
|
 |
Julie Bradford
Consultant
MEng CEng MIET
Julie Bradford has a broad and deep background in a wide range of wireless technologies. As Communications Engineer at QinetiQ Julie developed bespoke modems on Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms and was technical lead on a year-long study on the regulatory implications of Cognitive Radio. At PA Consulting worked on a variety of studies. Several involved LTE, including evaluation of LTE-related patents design of an LTE system architecture and examination of capacity limitations in cellular networks. Most recently she acted as Senior Systems Engineer for Airvana’s UMTS femtocell product range. Julie graduated with a 1st class MEng degree in Electronic Engineering with Business Management from the University of York and was awarded the YES prize for sustained excellence throughout her degree programme. She has also earned a Postgraduate Certificate in Business Management with a distinction from Bath University and is a Chartered Engineer.
Back to top
|
 |
Dr. Charles Chambers
Consultant
PhD
Charles has expertise in applying systems engineering skills
for communication system design and deployment, product development and regulatory issues. He enjoys identifying practical solutions to solve complex problems based existing and foreseeable technical, market and regulatory environments.
Working for operators, regulators and equipment suppliers,
Charles has worked on system definition of satellite mobile systems, mobile network planning, regulatory policy for spectrum management and market analysis. His work has spanned a broad range of wireless technologies including mobile, broadcast, fixed wireless and personal area networks. He has authored 9 patents. Charles gained his degree in Digital Signal Processing at the University of Strathclyde.
.
Back to top
|
|
Dr. Leo Sivridis
Consultant
PhD
Dr. Leo Sivridis is an expert in modelling wireless telecommunication systems. Leo worked for a mobile operator in the Netherlands on the analysis and optimisation of 3G and 4G network performance. Previously Leo worked as a telecom industry analyst, reseraching and authoring reports on business and technical trends within the wireless marketplace.
Leo has extensive experience of wireless network modelling in both Matlab and C++. Issues modelled include resource management in OFDMA wireless networks and multiuser communications. He designed and implemented optimal and suboptimal subchannel allocation algorithms leading to an increase in the system throughput, while accounting for constraints such as transmit power and quality of service.
In analysing cellular network data, Leo was responsible for Layer 3 analysis of drive test data, troubleshooting of issues related to the core network and optimisation of poor-performing cells.
As an industry analyst, Leo authored reports on topics including IP Multimedia Subsystem, Voice Call Continuity, Mobile WiMAX, Femtocells, UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) and TD-SCDMA.
Dr. Sivridis received his Ph.D. from Swansea University, Swansea and his M.Sc. degree in Communications and Radio Engineering from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Kings College London, London, UK. .
.
Back to top
|
 |
Ade Ajibulu
Economic and Regulatory Advice
M.A., M.Phil
Ade Ajibulu has over 20 years experience in the communications sector as an economist and consultant. He is an expert on business planning and strategy, regulation and competition policy in the communications sector.
As a senior consultant for Analysys Limited, Ade advised senior executives in a wide range of companies (e.g. wholesale carriers, ISPs and content providers), regulators and international institutions, including a secondment to the European Commission. His particular fields of expertise in regulation covered pricing, interconnection, network and service cost modelling and universal service policy. On the planning and strategy side, Ade specialised in demand forecasting, competitor assessment, market positioning and scenario planning.
More recently, Ade worked as an economist for Ofcom. He played a key role in Ofcom’s landmark reforms to spectrum management, such as introducing spectrum trading and a more market based approach to allocating spectrum. In particular, Ade was the main economist working on Ofcom’s spectrum auctions, often working at the leading edge of auction design. Ade was also responsible for providing the key economic arguments and evidence to support Ofcom’s liberalisation of 2G spectrum and its recent assessment (March 2011) of future competition in the mobile sector.
Back to top
|
 |
Professor Les Barclay
Radiowave propagation and spectrum regulation expert
OBE, FREng
Professor Les Barclay is a distinguished and widely-recognised professional in fields of radiowave propagation and spectrum regulation. He was formerly Deputy Director for Research and Radio Technology for the UK Radiocommunications Agency (now Ofcom), managing the Agency’s research programme, in particular the National Radio Propagation Programme. He chaired the first Radiocommunication Assembly of the International Telecommunication Union in 1993. He was chairman of CCIR Study Group 6 (ionospheric propagation) from 1978 to 1993, and chairman of ITU-R Study Group 3 (all radiowave propagation) from 1993 to 1997. He is now vice chairman of the ITU-R Co-ordinating Committee for Vocabulary. He has participated as a UK delegate in various World Radiocommunication Conferences.
In 2000 he participated as an expert member in the government-appointed Independent Expert Group on the Safety of Mobile Phones (the Stewart committee), and is now vice chairman of the programme management committee for research projects in this area. He is a visiting professor at the universities of Surrey and Lancaster, is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is chairman of the organising committee for the series of IEE residential courses on radiowave propagation.
Professor Barclay has been awarded the OBE, the Polar Medal and the silver medal of the ITU.
Back to top
|
 |
Charles Brookson
Mobile Security Consultant
CEng FIET M.Inst.SP
Charles has unrivalled knoweldge and experience of mobile security issues and is a very well-known expert in the field. He presently chairs the GSM Association Security Group, having been in that role for over 20 years. In 1986 he chaired the Algorithm Expert Group of GSM and is a regular attendee of 3GPP.
Until recently Charles spent 5 years with ENISA, an EC organisation charged with security, having been on the Director General’s advisory group (PSG).
He also Chairs the ETSI OCG Security Group and runs an annual ETSI Security Workshop. Over the years he has taken a close interest in issues such as Lawful Interception, and many other procedural and technical issues.
Charles worked within BIS, a UK Government Department, responsible for Technical Standards for 12 years. His past experience was as Head of Security for one2one and t-mobile, a UK mobile operator, and before that for 20 years in BT with many years of security experience (including public key, cryptography, international policies and standards) with the final few years in a senior position in the BT Chairman’s Office.
Back to top
|
 |
Ian Vance
Strategic technical and business advice
MBE MSc FREng FIET
Ian Vance works with Real Wireless to deliver technology strategy, management and due diligence services.
Ian is a senior and well-respected technology management professional in the telecommunications industry, with a background as Vice President and Chief Engineer of Nortel plc, responsible for all Nortel products in European markets. He has 38 years experience of the mobile radio, photonics, and semiconductors industry. He is probably best known for his innovative design of the world’s first ‘professional’ radio on a silicon chip, and its use in radiopaging. He also patented Time Division Duplex (TDD) now a technique used throughout the world.
Ian was formerly President of the Federation of the Electronics Industry (FEI) and is now the project monitor for the “HipNet” project, a large consortium under Ericsson’s leadership building an NGN All-IP Test-Bed of a complete telecoms network. He also acts as Chief Technical Advisor and Non Executive Director to On-Communications Ltd. He has extensive experience of due diligence work for some 12 leading VC groups.
Back to top
|
 |
Nick Astley-Cooper
Broadcast Radio Engineering Consultant
BEng CEng MIEE
Nick is Real Wireless’s resident expert on broadcast radio, both DAB, VHF(FM) and MF(AM).
Nick has deep and unique experience in all aspects of real-world broadcast radio planning, gained from his previous experience in Broadcast Radio Technical Licensing at Ofcom, and previously as Deputy Director of Engineering at the Radio Authority. His responsibilities have involved frequency planning, assessment of franchise applications, commissioning of new transmission systems and monitoring of on-air performance. He has designed and developed database software to assess and track measurement data to ensure compliance with licence conditions. He has also acted as the UK focal point for the UK radio industry (transmitter and receiver side) and for licensees when optimising service linkage (DAB to DAB and DAB to FM).
With a background as squadron leader in the RAF and MOD, Nick has proven project- and personnel-management skills and a great appreciation of the practical issues involved in radio engineering in the field.
Back to top
|
 |
Dr. Alejandro Aragón-Zavala
Consulting and Research – Americas
PhD, MSc
Dr. Aragón-Zavala is Real Wireless’s representative in the Americas and conducts consulting and research with us. His interests and expertise include wireless communications, satellite systems, high-altitude platform stations (HAPS), antenna design and indoor propagation. As well as working as a Real Wireless associate, he is Academic Director of the Electronic Engineering undergraduate programmes at Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Querétaro, Mexico.
Dr. Aragón-Zavala obtained an MSc with distinction in Satellite Communication Engineering from the University of Surrey, in the UK, in 1998 and a PhD in Antennas and Propagation from the same university in February 2003, developing a novel in-building wireless design and optimisation methodology. He worked from 2000 to 2003 in Cellular Design Services and Red-M as a senior radio consultant and in-building design tools development engineer.
Dr Aragón-Zavala is the author of more than 25 international journal and conference papers, and co-author of the 2nd edition of the book “Antennas and Propagation for Wireless communication systems” with Prof. Simon Saunders. He is also the author of the book “High-altitude platform systems for wireless communications”, published in late 2008 by Wiley.
Back to top
|
 |
Dr. Tim Brown
Intelligent Antennas for Wireless Communications
PhD, BEng, MIET
Dr. Brown is Real Wireless’ expert in engineering design, testing and research on intelligent antenna systems.
As well as his work with Real Wireless, Tim is a lecturer in mobile communications at the University of Surrey, where he is pursuing projects looking at antenna technologies for MIMO, UWB and beyond. His thesis on diversity antennas for mobile terminals spanned a wide range of challenging problems in antennas and propagation for mobile communications. His experience in intelligent antennas includes work in a world-renowned team in Aalborg University, Denmark. Tim is pursuing research with the intelligent quadrifilar helix antenna (The Quadtenna), invented by Simon Saunders, with great promise for diversity and MIMO applications within terrestrial and satellite mobile communication. He regularly teaches and directs MSc and industrial short courses in antennas and propagation.
Tim has authored several journal papers and his book, “A practical guide to the MIMO radio channel”, is now available.
Back to top
|
 |
Malcolm Hamer
Propagation Modelling Expert
BSc MIET
Malcolm Hamer joined Real Wireless in 2009 following 20 years’ distinguished career with British Telecom. At BT he acted as a subject matter expert on propagation prediction techniques and antennas with applicability to terrestrial and satellite fixed links, and to mobile systems for 3G and WiMAX.
He is a leading specialist in the understanding and development of new propagation algorithms for incorporation into several of the Radio Recommendations maintained by Study Group 3 of the International Telecommunications Union in Geneva. He has represented British Telecom and the United Kingdom at the meetings of this group for many years.
He created a number of new algorithms to correct shortcomings in several of the ITU Recommendations. Having demonstrated a new propagation model for over sea earth station coordination which was incorporated into Appendix 7 of the Radio Regulations, he was then awarded a contract by the UK Radiocommunications Agency (now Ofcom) to work on two further aspects of Recommendations causing problems both of which required a rapid solution. He completely reworked the propagation curve families in a new recommendation, P.1546, into functional forms which enabled the Regional Radio Conference to endorse it as the method for re-planning digital VHF and UHF Services in Europe. In addition, he developed a new algorithm to remove some serious anomalies present in ITU-R P.452, clearing the way for it to become the foundation for the new P.1812 Recommendation.
Back to top
|
 |
Mike Goddard, OBE
International Spectrum Policy Advisor
OBE, BSc, CEng, FIET
Mike Goddard has 40 years’ experience in spectrum planning nationally and internationally in the UK administration. He was a member of the Radiocommunications Agency’s senior management team and was acting Chief Executive of the Agency when its functions were transferred to Ofcom. He was a member of the Board, and for a short period Chairman, of RSI International, a joint venture consulting business in the field of spectrum management. He has played a leading role in the development of spectrum reviews, national spectrum strategies, and more recently the development and implementation of ground-breaking spectrum reform in the public sector. Mike was Director, Spectrum and International Policy, in the United Kingdom’s communications regulator, Ofcom. His responsibilities included the development of the UK’s overall spectrum allocation policy, with particular emphasis on the interface with government departments, and developing and representing the UK’s position in relevant international fora. He represented Ofcom on the UK Government’s high-level Spectrum Strategy Committee and chaired several of the supporting groups. His involvement in international work dates back to 1972 and he has been involved in major ITU conferences since 1977. He led the UK delegation to ITU World Radio Conferences from 1987 to 2007, and to the Regional Radiocommuncations Conference on Digital Broadcasting in 2006. He has also led delegations to three ITU Plenipotentiary Conferences and served as the UK Member of the ITU Council, including one period as vice-chairman of the Council.
He was the first chairman of the European Radiocommunications Committee of CEPT, during which time he was responsible for setting up the European Radiocommunications Office in Copenhagen. He has chaired numerous other international meetings including the regulatory committee of WRC-95, the ITU’s Radio Advisory Group (from its creation for 7 years), and the European Union’s Radio Spectrum Policy Group.
He has advised the Indian Government on spectrum management strategy (as part of an RSI International contract), participated in many bilateral meetings with other regulators from throughout the World discussing approaches to spectrum regulation, and given keynote addresses to spectrum management conferences in Europe and the USA.Mike is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the UK’s Institution of Electrical Engineers. He was awarded an OBE in 2008 for services to technology, in recognition of a distinguished career in the public service and representing the UK’s interests internationally.
Back to top
|
 |
Julius Robson
Wireless Technology Consultant
MSc, BEng (Hons)
Julius Robson is a specialist in evaluating and enhancing the performance of mobile broadband networks. He was a Chairman and spokesperson for the LTE/SAE Trial Initiative, a global forum tasked to consolidate results from different vendors’ early LTE trials, and to benchmark them against industry expectations. He has spoken at key conferences on both peak and ‘real world’ performance of this 4th generation Technology.
Prior to this role, Julius worked for ten years in Nortel’s Wireless Technology Laboratories, developing a deep understanding of antennas and propagation and 4G technologies including OFDM, MIMO, SON and interference management. He then went on to become Nortel’s standards delegate in 3GPP RAN1( Physical Layer) , RAN4 (RF performance) and the LSTI.
Julius is now an associate of Real Wireless, providing LTE/SAE expertise to a wide range of industry clients. He is also currently leading a group within the NGMN Alliance on Backhaul Provisioning in 4G networks, which involves galvanising industry consensus on realistic traffic levels from base stations.
Back to top
|
 |
Stephen Priestman
Wireless Regulation and Policy Associate
BSc CEng MIET ARCM
Stephen Priestman is an experienced professional engineer who has held a number of senior positions in UK government bodies and in European industry, specialising in spectrum management, regulatory and government affairs.
Over the course of his career, Stephen has gained significant experience in the fields of research, broadcast and telecoms engineering, regulation and public policy. He has particular depth of expertise in radio spectrum regulation and policy, as well as broader policy experience in the telecoms area. Until early 2009, he was a senior manager in Vodafone’s Group Public Policy department, with responsibility for coordinating radio spectrum policy across the worldwide Vodafone group of companies and engaging with regulatory and policy making bodies on spectrum issues, particularly in Europe.
Prior to that, he was Director of Telecoms within the UK Sector Skills Council for IT and Telecoms, and also spent a number of years with Alcatel Telecom, where he was a member of the UK’s Broadband Stakeholder Group. During the late 1990’s he was Director of European Regulatory Affairs for Alcatel’s ‘SkyBridge’ broadband satellite project, where he played a major role in achieving SkyBridge’s regulatory objectives at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
Stephen gained a solid grounding in spectrum regulation thanks to a period of several years within the UK Radiocommunications Agency (now part of Ofcom). He managed the RA unit responsible for space services, encompassing licensing, technical studies and international coordination activities. In this position, he acted as head of UK delegation to numerous European and ITU level meetings on space service matters. He was chairman of the UK committee which prepared UK positions on science service issues for ITU meetings, including World Radiocommunication Conferences, as well as being lead spokesman for the UK on telecommunication satellite service matters.
His early career was in broadcast engineering research and development, with a particular focus on radio frequency techniques and satellite transmission. Stephen was a part of the team which developed the UK’s first Direct Broadcast Satellite transmission standard during the 1980’s.
Back to top
|
 |
Ken Ng
Radio Propagation and Cellular Planning Expert
MSc CEng MIET
Ken has been working in the wireless telecommunications for 35 years of which 13 years with Cable and Wireless and then 22 years with T-Mobile. His skill set covers a wide area of radio communications ranging from theoretical analysis to projects implementation. He is skilled in applying theoretical work into a real business and commercial environments.
He had conducted many propagation studies resulting in models for business applications covering rain attenuation at Ku band to 1800MHz propagation in various environments; outdoor and indoor. He was responsible for the propagation models and link budget while working with T-Mobile in addition to the development and operation of an in-house planning tool for the GSM1800 network planning and optimisation.
At Cable and Wireless, he had worked on microwave and troposcatter links design and implementation, produced system specifications such as a CT2 based public telephone system.
At T-Mobile he was a Special Project manager responsible for RAN tasks not following the standard network planning processes such as trials of new technologies, confined space systems and the provision of coverage information to both the regulator and customers. Indoor systems includes the first large scale radio over fibre system in all the terminals of Heathrow, multi-operator high capacity system in the new Wembley Stadium, and many indoor system in public venues such as shopping centres, conference and exhibition centres. Conducted trial of IP based GSM system which has been used extensively in business premises where coverage is inadequate, and femto. He was the in-house expert on coverage, in particular on Ofcom business.
Ken has a wealth of experience working with other internal and external operators, and agents. He was the editor of JOTS (Joint Operator Technical Specification) which has become the UK industry standard for shared indoor systems. He was the technical lead representing the UK operators in the Eurotunnel mobile system projects and was the Everything Everywhere technical lead in the London Underground project.
Back to top
|
 |
John Okas
Strategic Wireless Business Consultancy
John has many years experience in the wireless industry with both equipment vendors (Motorola, ComDev & Racal) and operators (including NTL – now Arqiva). He has also been very involved in the fixed telecoms and IT industries and has held senior positions in the broadcasting infrastructure sector. With initial experience in systems engineering he then moved into product management working with development teams, manufacturing facilities, key customers and country sales organisations to bring new mobile communications and data networking systems to market across Europe. With his wide experience John brings a deep understanding of the major trends and new technologies and their potential impact across the whole ICT and TMT sectors. He is an experienced general manager and board member to CEO level in technology companies and now specialises in strategy development, business planning, managing complex business development projects and developing merger & acquisition opportunities. He is skilled at engaging with engineers at all levels in order to assess complex engineering challenges and the risks faced by stakeholders. He also has broad experience across many related areas including regulation, contract negotiation, market analysis, management of the tendering process and project management. Above all else John is known for solving problems and ‘getting things done’.
Back to top
|
 |
Robert Thorpe
Antenna Engineer
MEng, MIET
Robert Thorpe is an expert Antenna Engineer. He has around a decade’s experience in the design and integration of antennas into portable wireless products. He specialises in the design, integration and verification of antennas for small portable products such as cellphones and laptop computers. Prior to joining Real Wireless Robert worked for Dell computers on antennas for laptop and desktop PCs. His responsibilities included specifying antennas and wireless modules, and working with companies supplying Dell with those products to ensure good performance. He worked on the coexistence and interference problems between different wireless systems within notebook computers. Before that Robert worked for the Cambridge Antenna and RF company Antenova designing multi-band antennas for cellphones and integrating small antennas into wireless devices. Robert has also specified, commissioned and improved Anechoic Chambers for antenna measurement.
Back to top
|
 |
Richard Thanki
Economic Advisor
MA (Oxon)
Richard Thanki is an experienced figure in the economics of telecommunications, and the public policy issues created by rapid change in this sector. He is Real Wireless’ key economic advisor and was formerly with Perspective Associates and with the UK communications regulator, Ofcom. At Perspective, he played pivotal roles in two major spectrum projects. He acted as Kip Meek’s deputy throughout his tenure as the UK government’s Independent Spectrum Broker. Rich led the economic analysis and was the architect of the major mechanisms used to ensure a mutually acceptable outcome in these complex negotiations. He assisted Kip in all of the discussions with stakeholders from industry and the public sector.
In 2009, Rich was the author of a landmark study on the economic value of existing and future allocations of unlicensed spectrum. It showed that unlicensed spectrum was delivering substantial economic benefits and rapid innovation – which existing regulatory structures were incapable of unlocking. This study was commissioned by Microsoft and has influenced thinking in regulatory, policy and commercial circles. Rich was previously a senior associate economist and modeller at Ofcom, where he had deep involvement on a wide range of projects. He was a lead economist on the UK’s ‘digital dividend’ project where he worked on complex auction design and comprehensive economic value assessment. Rich graduated in 2002 from Keble College, Oxford, where he read for a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Back to top
|
 |
Iain Sharp
Wireless Core Network Business and Technology Consultant
MA CEng MIET
Iain Sharp is Real Wireless’s resident expert on GSM, UMTS and LTE core networks, mobile data, multimedia and voice services.
Iain’s expertise in wireless systems was gained through the international standards process. Iain started participation in ETSI GSM during the development of GSM Phase 1 in 1990 and he has been an active contributor to ETSI and 3GPP standards ever since. Iain served four years as vice-chair of the 3GPP Core Networks and Terminals Plenary. Iain has been closely involved in many of the developments of the 3GPP technology family including CAMEL, GPRS, UMTS Core, IMS and LTE Core.
As well as taking a high profile in the standards process Iain has contributed to product roadmap development for leading vendors and solution design for mobile operators. He is particularly interested in how the growth of smartphone technology and new mobile applications like machine to machine impact mobile network design and business models. Iain holds several patents in mobile systems technology.
Iain holds an MA in Electronics and Information Sciences from Cambridge University.
Back to top
|
 |
Damian Bevan
Wireless System Analysis
MEng (Hons), CEng
Damian has worked extensively in the forefront of advanced wireless systems technology within the mobile wireless industry, initially within Nortel’s Wireless Technology Laboratories and latterly for Aceaxis. Aceaxis is a vendor of cellular infrastructure and testing products, primarily Remote Radio Heads (RRH), for WiMAX and LTE wireless Base Stations. Damian specialises in development and modelling of novel wireless signal processing algorithms including adaptive antenna signal processing and MIMO, adaptive modulation and coding, forward error correction etc. He has developed a number of wireless link and network modelling tools to model aspects of the network such as MIMO and interference cancellation, Base Station deployment (e.g. antenna radiation patterns, tilts etc. in 3D), phased array antenna performance, LTE multi-branch RRH calibration, mesh network performance vs. topology etc. He is experienced in the use of Object Orientated approaches within such software models, typically using languages such as Matlab and Python.
Damian has authored or co-authored 25 open publications including peer-reviewed academic journals, conference/ seminar proceedings, project final reports and standards submissions, and has around 25 patents either granted or pending. Damian graduated with a 1st class honours MEng degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Loughborough University in 1991.
Back to top
|
 |
Mike Kennett
Wireless Core Network Business and Technology Consultant
PhD MIET
Mike works with Real Wireless as a Wireless Strategy Consultant, acting in recent years mostly as a consultant on several radio-related projects at airports. These have included extensive cellular and PMR coverage surveys and upgrades to critical radio systems at Heathrow.
Mike joined Red-M in 2002 and was responsible for Red-M’s Wireless Strategy and Spectrum Management services. His work there included service development and delivery of a wide range of projects, some from Ofcom’s Spectrum Efficiency Scheme. He worked extensively with BAA, writing their Radio Management Strategy and assessing the impact of Ofcom proposals.
Prior to joining Red-M Mike was Team Leader for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) within the Spectrum Planning Group of NTL Broadcast (now Arqiva), where he was responsible for several projects associated with improving DTT coverage and assisted the UK regulator in international coordination activity.
Back to top
|
| |
Back to top
|
Dr. Charles Chambers