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CONFERENCE REGISTRATION INFORMATION EUROPEAN MICROWAVE WEEK 2017, 8th - 13th October, Nuremberg, Germany Register Online at www.eumweek.com ONLINE registration is open from 1st June 2017 up to and during the event until 13th October 2017. ONSITE registration is open from 16:00 on 7th October 2017. ADVANCE DISCOUNTED RATE (up to and including 8th September) STANDARD RATE (from 9th September & Onsite). Reduced rates are offered if you have society membership to any of the following*: EuMA, GAAS, IET or IEEE. EuMA membership fees: Professional € 25/year, Student € 15/year. If you register for membership through the EuMW registration system, you will automatically be entitled to discounted member rates. Reduced Rates for the conferences are also offered if you are a Student/Senior (Full-time students 30 years or younger and Seniors 65 or older as of 13th October 2017). The fees shown below are invoiced in the name and on behalf of the European Microwave Association. EuMA’s supplies of attendance fees in respect of the European Microwave Week 2017 are exempted from German VAT under Article 4 no. 22a German VAT Act. ADVANCE REGISTRATION CONFERENCE FEES (UP TO AND INCLUDING 8TH SEPT.) CONFERENCE FEES ADVANCE DISCOUNTED RATE Society Member (*any of above) Non Member 1 Conference Standard Student/Sr. Standard Student/Sr. EuMC € 470 € 130 € 660 € 190 EuMIC € 360 € 120 € 510 € 170 EuRAD € 320 € 110 € 450 € 160 2 Conferences EuMC + EuMIC € 670 € 250 € 940 € 360 EuMC + EuRAD € 640 € 240 € 890 € 350 EuMIC + EuRAD € 550 € 230 € 770 € 330 3 Conferences EuMC + EuMIC + EuRAD € 810 € 360 € 1140 € 520 STANDARD REGISTRATION CONFERENCE FEES (FROM 9TH SEPT. AND ONSITE) CONFERENCE FEES STANDARD RATE Society Member (*any of above) Non Member 1 Conference Standard Student/Sr. Standard Student/Sr. EuMC € 660 € 190 € 930 € 270 EuMIC € 510 € 170 € 720 € 240 EuRAD € 450 € 160 € 630 € 230 2 Conferences EuMC + EuMIC € 940 € 360 € 1320 € 510 EuMC + EuRAD € 890 € 350 € 1250 € 500 EuMIC + EuRAD € 770 € 330 € 1080 € 470 3 Conferences EuMC + EuMIC + EuRAD € 1140 € 520 € 1600 € 740 WORKSHOP AND SHORT COURSE FEES (ONE STANDARD RATE THROUGHOUT) FEES STANDARD RATE Society Member (*any of above) Non Member Standard Student/Sr. Standard Student/Sr. Half day WITH Conference registration € 100 € 80 € 130 € 100 Half day WITHOUT Conference registration € 130 € 100 € 170 € 130 Full day WITH Conference registration € 140 € 110 € 180 € 130 Full day WITHOUT Conference registration € 180 € 140 € 240 € 170 Other Items STATE RECEPTION – 11TH OCT 2017 Tickets for the State Reception are free, but are limited. They are available for delegates on a first-come, first-served basis. Proceedings on USB Stick All papers published for presentation at each conference will be on a USB stick, given out FREE with the delegate bags to those attending conferences. The cost for an additional USB stick is € 50. International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies (8 issues per year) International Journal combined with EuMA membership: € 67 for Professionals or € 57 for Students. Partner Programme and Social Events Full details and contacts for the Partner Programme and other Social Events can be obtained via the EuMW website www.eumweek.com. EUROPEAN MICROWAVE WEEK WORKSHOPS & SHORT COURSES SUNDAY 8th October Half Day SS-01 EuMC Full Day WS-01 EuMC Full Day WS-02 EuMC/EuMIC Full Day WS-03 EuMC Full Day WS-04 EuMC Full Day WS-05 EuMC/EuMIC Full Day WS-06 EuMC/EuMIC Full Day WS-07 EuMC Full Day WS-08 EuMC/EuMIC Full Day WS-09 EuMC/EuMIC Full Day WS-10 EuMC Full Day WS-11 EuMC Half Day WS-12 EuMC Full Day WS-13 EuMC Half Day WS-14 EuMC Half Day WS-15 EuMC MONDAY 9th October Full Day WM-01 EuMC Full Day WM-02 EuMC Full Day WM-03 EuMC Half Day WM-04 EuMC Half Day WM-05 EuMC Half Day WM-06 EuMC Half Day WM-07 EuMC Full Day WM-08 EuMC TUESDAY 10th October Full Day WTu-01 EuMC/EuMIC WEDNESDAY 11th October Half Day SW-01 EuMC/EuRAD Half Day WW-01 EuMC Half Day WW-02 EuMIC/EuRAD Half Day WW-03 EuMC/EuMIC THURSDAY 12th October Half Day WTh-01 EuMC/EuRAD Full Day WTh-02 EuRAD Full Day WTh-03 EuMC/EuMIC FRIDAY 13th October Full Day SF-01 EuRAD Half Day SF-02 EuMC/EuRAD Half Day SF-03 EuRAD Full Day WF-01 EuRAD Half Day WF-02 EuMC Half Day WF-03 EuMC/EuRAD Half Day WF-04 EuRAD Full Day WF-05 EuMC Full Day WF-06 EuMC/EuRAD Half Day WF-07 EuMC/EuRAD Half Day WF-08 EuMC/EuRAD SPECIAL FORUMS & SESSIONS Date Time Title Location No. of Days Fee Wednesday 11th October 08:30 - 18:30 Defence, Security & Space Forum St. Petersburg 1 € 20 for delegates (those registered for EuMC, EuMIC or EuRAD) Monday 9th - Wednesday 11th October 08:30 - 17:50 European Microwave Student School Neu Delhi 3 € 40 Monday 9th - Wednesday 11th October 08:30 - 17:50 European Microwave Doctoral School Singapur 3 € 80 € 60 for all others (those not registered for a conference)
Test & Measurement ETSI Standards and the Measurement of RF Conducted Output Power of Wi-Fi 802.11ac Signals Figure 1: 802.11ac MIMO configuration www.ar-worldwide.com The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) have recently introduced a revised set of compliance standards for wideband data transmission equipment, examples of which are IEEE 802.11, RLANs, Bluetooth®, Zigbeeand other related technologies. The updated ETSI standards address equipment operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM band, and 5 GHz RLAN band, are harmonized European standards under the new Radio Equipment Directive (RED), which has superseded the R&TTE Directive. The directive demands that equipment meets certain essential requirements before they can be placed onto the market in the European Union in order to ensure that their presence within the spectrum does not create harmful interference. A key requirement of the standards is the measurement of RF conducted output power, which brings with it certain challenges. The wide bandwidth, high throughput nature of 802.11ac signals generates far more testing challenges than the legacy 802.11a/g/n/b signals. These challenges drive new measurement and instrument requirements which can be properly handled by wideband RF power sensors such as the Boonton RTP5006 real-time peak power sensor. The Wi-Fi 802.11ac Signal - Bandwidth Requirements The 802.11ac Wi-Fi protocol is driving the next generation of high throughput wireless systems. Raising data rates up to a maximum of 6.93 Gbps, it transmits at 5 GHz, and enables devices to support channels with bandwidths of 20, 40 and 80 MHz. It also includes wider channel bandwidths of non-contiguous 80+80 MHz and contiguous 160 MHz configurations. These wide bandwidths present measurement challenges to the compliance laboratories whose job it is to verify that the equipment under test performs according to the specifications outlined in the ETSI standards. Peak power sensors with at least as much bandwidth as the signal they are measuring must be used in order to ensure accurate power measurements. Many power sensors have less than the required bandwidth to capture the entire 160 MHz band limiting their ability to capture short bursts or fast transitions. Modulation The 802.11ac standard uses Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), which employs a large number of closely spaced subcarriers modulated at a low data rate. The orthogonality of the subcarriers means that there is no mutual interference, and the transmitted data is shared amongst the carriers in order to give high immunity against selective fading from multipath effects. The sub-carriers are spaced 312.5 kHz apart, so a 20 MHz channel has 64 subcarriers and a 160 MHz channel has 512 sub-carriers. Each subcarrier is individually modulated using a standard scheme such as Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK), Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK), 16 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM), 64 QAM or 256 QAM. As well as digitally modulated signals already having higher crest factors than analogue signals, higher orders of modulation such as 256 QAM bring more technical challenges with them for design engineers, including the need for more processing power to decode the symbols, and ADCs with increased dynamic range due to the fact that smaller changes in amplitude must be detected. In order to properly capture signals with these modulation schemes, a power sensor must have a wide dynamic range and be able to measure both peak and average power for crest factor measurements. MIMO Technology MIMO processing (Multiple Input Multiple Output), is employed in 802.11ac utilizing up to eight antennas at both the transmitter and the receiver in hf-praxis 8/2017 47
