News in 2004

Dr. Frank Bossen, had made a significant contribution with his H.264/AVC, which was adopted recently as a new standard in media compression. H.264 is a high compression digital video codec standard written by the ITU-T video coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as the product of a collective partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). His invention was a highly efficient video codec based on an innovation in specific arithmetic coding.

Dr. Moo Ryong Jeong who has been a member of IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access Working Group for a few years has recently made significant contributions to the working group. Dr. Jeong has written proposal drafts to the standards board for 802.16e about a method for MSS to determine service flows that may generate paging in addition to a method for MSS to determine service flows that may generate traffic indication, and resource retention preference for MSSs in idle mode. His proposals were recently accepted and will be finalized in late this May.