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News and Activities
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upcoming and prior meetings, the press releases and
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Upcoming
Workshops
June 14, 2013,
Washington DC. Optimal Coevolution
of Mobile Broadband Technology and
Spectrum Policy. Hosted by Center
for Business and Public Policy, Georgetown
University, Washington DC. Administration
perspective on spectrum, standardization
efforts to accommodate new spectrum policy,
leveraging new bands, FCC perspective, investor
considerations, consumer benefits.
October 30,
2013, Dallas TX. M2M/Internet of Things: Cloud
Support and Service-Level APIs. Collocated with 4G World. Cloud architectures, protocols,
device-side OS fragmentation, languages and
frameworks, impact on cellular capacity,
unlicensed versus licensed, security
architectures. Details available soon.
Workshop
Topics Under Consideration
- Mobile
application API consolidation (device,
cloud).
- M2M platforms and service-layer APIs.
- “The last 100 feet” – short range radio
architectures.
- VoLTE (CSFB, application interaction, IMS,
QoS, OTT voice).
- Spectrum sharing and cognitive radio.
- IPv6.
- Mobile management architectures.
Prior Meetings
The PCCA has held
meetings since 1993. This section lists
meetings beginning in 2000. Click on the
meeting to see the agenda.
March 27,
2013, Plano (Dallas) TX. Connected
Vehicle. Hosted by
AT&T. Translation
of vehicle connections to revenue
opportunities, LTE in the connected car,
the importance of HTML5, evolution of
automotive ecosystems, and Tizen IVI.
October 23,
2012, Hillsboro, OR. Big Data and
Mobility. Hosted by Intel. What
big data is, capabilities, architecture,
examples of mobility and big data,
security and privacy, implications for
design of future mobile devices,
opportunities and dangers as big data
moves to mobile devices.
June 26,
2012, Seattle, WA. Data Offload. Hosted
by NetMotion Wireless. Technical
developments, Wi-Fi offload architectures,
client-side connection management,
policy-based control, Hotspot 2.0, etc..
Contact us if you would like to present.
February 1,
2012, Plano (Dallas), Texas.
LTE-Advanced. Hosted by Ericsson.
Performance, deployment, spectrum bands,
multimode, Wi-Fi co-existence, IPv6, QoS,
more. Contact us if you would like to
present.
October 26,
2011. Portland, OR. Mobile Cloud
Computing. Hosted by PCCA. Cloud
computing aspects unique to mobile,
security, HTML 5, developments by leading
vendors, operators perspectives, supporting
network APIs, bandwidth and latency
considerations, cloud models, smartphones
vs. tablets, Web 4.0, symbiotic Web.
June 28, 2011.
Richmond (Vancouver) BC, Canada. Open Source
in the Embedded World. Hosted by
Sierra Wireless. Applications,
licensing models, open source trends for
embedded OS's, fragmentation considerations,
developer resources, etc.
February 2,
2011. San Diego, CA. Femtocell Workshop.
Hosted by Qualcomm. Architectures,
interference management, pros/cons versus
Wi-Fi approaches, obtainable capacity
gains, 3G vs. 4G, consumer versus
enterprise, application implications,
business models, regulator requirements
(e.g., CALEA, 911).
October 27,
2010. Dallas, TX. LTE Workshop. Hosted by
Huawei. Performance, trials,
self-optimizing/organizing networks,
femtocells, 3GPP release versions,
handover, voice support, IPv4/IPv6, policy
management including business cases,
antennas, LTE to LTE-Advanced migration.
June 23, 2010.
Atlanta, GA. M2M Workshop. Hosted
by AT&T. Form factors, security,
certification, soft and platform SIMs,
addressability, billing, management, other
considerations.
March 10,
2010, Seattle, WA. Mobile Broadband
Network Constraints, QoS, and
Optimization. Hosted by NetMotion
Wireless. Examination of network capacity
versus rapidly growing demand, and the
role of optimized applications and
quality-of-service architectures.
November 5,
2009. Portland, Oregon. Emerging Mobile
Platforms. Hosted by PCCA.
Examination of new mobile platform
categories such as Mobile
Internet Devices (MIDs) and smartbooks.
Topics will include form factors, hardware
considerations, OS, networking and
applications.
June 24, 2009.
San Francisco Bay Area. Multi-Network
Operation. Hosted by iPass.
Connection management, OS interfaces for
querying/managing network types, bandwidth
management, application optimization,
billing models, IEEE 802.21, IEEE 1900.4,
Generic Access Network (GAN).
March 4, 2009.
Dallas, Texas. HSPA+/LTE. Hosted
by 3G Americas. Market evolution, HSPA
evolution, mobile broadband in notebooks
technology developments, LTE details, LTE
deployment strategies, toward LTE Advanced,
IMT Advanced, LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC),
device evolution, wireless broadband
application architectures.
October 8,
2008. Hillsboro, Oregon. WiMAX and Open
Wireless Networks (Meetings and
Demonstrations). Hosted by
Intel. Analysis of capabilities,
evolution, security, subscription models,
activation, and voice/multimedia support.
June 11, 2008. Austin,
TX. Advances in Ultra-Wideband (UWB) and
Wireless USB (Meeting and Demonstrations). Hosted by MCCI. Examination of
directions, standardization, applications, and
challenges with UWB and Wireless USB.
February
19-20, 2008. Dallas, TX. Fixed Mobile
Convergence. Hosted by Ericsson. Meeting and
workshop. Analysis of developments,
standards and technology, including
approaches based on IMS, UMA, and femto
cells.
October
10, 2007. San Diego, CA. Multi-Radio Wireless
Devices. Hosted by Novatel Wireless. RF
considerations, antenna considerations,
connection managers, OS support, application
management, co-existence protocols.
June 12-13,
2007, Dallas, TX. HSPA. Sponsored by 3G
Americas. This meeting and workshop will focus
on latest HSDPA/HSUPA capabilities, devices
and applications. The meeting will also
examine developments in Evolved EDGE, HSPA
Evolution and 3GPP LTE. HSPA workshop June 13
hosted by AT&T.
February 27-28,
2007, San Diego, CA. CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev A
Meeting and Workshop. Hosted by
Qualcomm. This meeting will emphasize EV-DO
Rev A, but will also examine evolution of
CDMA2000, details of the technology,
capabilities, devices and applications.
September 20,
2006, Seattle, WA. Mobile Computing
Policy. Hosted by NetMotion Wireless.
This meeting will examine mobile computing
policies that dictate what networks to use,
which applications have access and other
aspects of connectivity.
May 17,
2006, Boston, MA. IP Multimedia Subsystem
(IMS). Hosted by Tatara Systems.
The meeting will cover current industry
adoption and directions, architecture and
protocols, application road map, standards,
interoperability, issues and opportunities.
This will be a full-day meeting.
Feb 2,
2006. San Francisco, CA. Municipal and Mesh
Wi-Fi Networks. Hosted by iPass.
The meeting will examine deployments,
technologies, architectures, standards,
relation to other networks such as 3G and
WiMAX, interoperability, best applications,
and recommendations for best growth of this
market.
September
13, 2005. San Diego. Embedded Wireless
WAN. Hosted by Sierra Wireless.
Interoperability, standardization, issues
and opportunities.
May
12, 2005, Seattle, WA. Connection
Managers. Hosted by NetMotion
Wireless. Connection managers, wireless
management interfaces for applications and
other items affecting the user experience
with wireless networks.
Feb
1, 2005, San Francisco, CA. Ultra
Wideband. Hosted by MCCI. Ultra
Wideband (UWB) and related technologies,
including Wireless USB.
November
16-17, 2004. Redmond, WA. UMTS.
Hosted by Cingular Wireless. UMTS and HSDPA.
Meeting and workshop.
June
16-17, 2004. Hosted by Flash Networks.
Newark, New Jersey. Wireless Optimization,
including TCP optimization, Web
acceleration, e-mail acceleration, and VPN
optimization.
February
11-12, 2004. Hosted by Qualcomm. San Diego,
CA. Topic: 1XEV-DO (and 1XEV-DV) in detail,
including interoperability workshop.
November
12 , 2003. Hosted by iPass. San Francisco
Bay Area. Topics: Hotspot Technical
Developments, Service Continuity.
August
19-20, 2003. Hosted
by Cingular Wireless.
Indianapolis, IN. Topic: EDGE
technology in detail, including
interoperability workshop.
May
28, 2003. Redmond, WA. Hosted by
Microsoft. Topic: Tethering and
personal-area networking developments
including Bluetooth, IR, USB and ultra
wideband (UWB).
Feb
4-6, 2003. San Francisco, CA. Special
joint meeting with The Open Group. Topic:
Mobile IP, Application Persistence and
Roaming. Special workshop: Enterprise
adoption of Cellular Data - Barriers and
Solutions.
November 6,
2002. Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina. Hosted by IBM. Wireless hot
spots: client considerations and
cellular integration.
July 16, 17,
2002. Redmond/Bellevue, Washington.
Hosted by Intel. Enterprise applications
and cellular-data networks. GPRS
workshop on July 16, hosted by
VoiceStream Wireless.
April 24,
2002. San Francisco, CA. Hosted by
Qualcomm. CDMA2000, Wireless VPNS,
Wireless Security.
January 16,
2002. Las Vegas, NV. Hosted by NetMotion
Wireless. Integration of wireless
personal-area, local-area and wide-area
networks.
November
7 2001. Java for mobile platforms:
interfaces, application considerations,
interoperability.
August
23, 2001. Redmond, WA. Hosted by AT&T
Wireless Services. PDA Platforms and
Wireless Networking.
May
23, 2001. Boynton Beach, Florida. Hosted
by Motorola. GPRS Interoperability.
February
7 and 8, 2001. Maui, Hawaii. Joint meeting
with Mobile Computing Promotion Consortium
of Japan. Wireless Data Interoperability.
October
18. Santa Clara. Mobile Management.
Co-hosted by the Wireless Data Forum and
the Open Group.
August
23, 2000. Redmond, WA. Wireless Device
Interface Issues
May
31, 2000. Chicago. The Impact of Internet
Standards on Wireless Networks
March 1, 2000.
New Orleans. VPNs and Wireless
Press Releases
January
19, 2009. MOBILE BROADBAND POISED FOR
EXPLOSIVE GROWTH. HSPA+ and LTE, two leading
mobile broadband technologies, to be
examined in PCCA conference, along with
emerging mobile broadband applications.
May
7, 2008. Ultra-Wideband Wireless Technology
Poised to Fundamentally Change Local Device
Interaction.
May
1, 2007. CELLULAR NETWORKS TO ACHIEVE
HIGHEST EVER DATA PERFORMANCE THIS YEAR -
PCCA MiniConference to Examine Details of
HSUPA and Other HSPA Advances.
August
16, 2006. MOBILE COMPUTING INDUSTRY
LEADERS TO EXAMINE EMERGING TOPICS OF
MOBILE COMPUTING POLICY AND NETWORK ACCESS
CONTROL - NetMotion Wireless hosts PCCA
symposium to address mobile computing
policy for
controlling network/application access on
mobile intelligent nodes
April
19, 2006. Mobile Computing Industry Leaders
To Discuss IMS Opportunities And Convergence
Challenges - Tatara Systems hosts PCCA
Symposium to address IMS technology updates,
applications and deployment status
Jan
17, 2006. Municipal and Mesh Wi-Fi Leaders
Gather To Discuss Industry Evolution -
February 2 Symposium Organized by the
Portable Computer and Communications
Association to Address the Technologies that
will Drive Adoption
March
28, 2002. Portable Computer and
Communications Association
Announces
Participants
for April 23 and 24 Symposium on CDMA
2000, Wireless VPNs and Wireless
Security.
April
25, 2000. Personal Computer and
Communications Association Meeting to
Focus on New Internet Standards and
Wireless Networks.
January
11, 2000. Personal Computer and
Communications Association to Explore
Urgent Wireless Data-to-Virtual Private
Network Issues at Special Meeting in New
Orleans, March 1; Meeting Coincides with
CTIA's Wireless 2000.
Newsletter
Beginning
in
2000, the PCCA newsletter was distributed in a
soft-copy format. Since 2004, the newsletter
has been published on an occasional basis.
January,
2008.
PDF
Format.
September
26,
2003. Volume 8, number 3. MS Word
format. PDF
format.
June 26, 2003.
Volume 8, number 2. MS Word
format. PDF
format.
March 8 , 2003.
Volume 8, number 1. MS Word
format. PDF
format.
December 10, 2002.
Volume 7, numbers 3-4. MS Word
format. PDF
format.
June 19, 2002.
Volume 7, number 2. MS Word
format. PDF
format.
March 11, 2002.
Volume 7, number 1. MS Word
format. PDF format.
December 20, 2001.
Volume 6, number 4. MS Word
format. PDF
format.
September 21, 2001.
Volume 6, number 3. MS Word
format. PDF format.
June 18, 2001.
Volume 6, number 2. MS Word
format. PDF format.
March 5, 2001.
Volume 6, number 1. MS Word
format. PDF
format.
November 29, 2000.
Volume 5, number 4. MS Word
format. PDF
format.
September 8, 2000.
Volume 5, number 3. MS Word
format. PDF format.
April 14, 2000.
Volume 5, number 2. MS Word
format. PDF
format.
February 11, 2000.
Volume 5, number 1. MS Word
format. PDF
format.
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