Wireless Future - Telenor

Per Hjalmar Lehne (42) obtained
his MSc from the Norwegian Institute
of Science and Technology
in 1988. He has since been with
Telenor R&D working with different
aspects of terrestrial mobile
communications. 1988 – 1991 he
was involved in standardisation of
the ERMES paging system in
ETSI as well as in studies and
measurements on EMC. His work
since 1993 has been in the area
of radio propagation and access
technology. He has participated in
the RACE 2 Mobile Broadband
Project (MBS), COST 231, and
COST 259. From 1998 he was
leader of Telenor R&D’s smart
antenna project. He is currently
involved in work on 4th generation
mobile systems and the use
of MIMO technology in terrestrial
mobile networks.
per-hjalmar.lehne@telenor.com
Telektronikk 1.2001
Introduction
PER HJALMAR LEHNE
The International Telecommunications Union
– ITU – is facing increasing competition in having
the global leadership in telecom standardisation.
Several regional and more industry-based
fora have taken the lead in some aspects. Among
other things, this is caused by the way the ITU
works and the fact that standards traditionally
have taken a very long time to develop. Other
fora have found ways to work that make the lead
time from idea to standard much shorter. This is
probably the greatest threats to ITU’s position.
In this issue of Telektronikk’s Status section, we
focus on the work in ITU and the significance it
still has. The first paper is written by Anne Lise
Lillebø and gives a comprehensive report of the
major results from the ITU World Telecommunications
Standardisation Assembly (WTSA),
which was held in Montreal, Canada in September
– October 2000. An important outcome is
the introduction of the so-called Alternative
Approval Process (AAP) – also called the “fasttrack
approval process”. ITU reforms were in
general an important issue here.
In the second paper, Arve Meisingset gives a
personal view on Standardisation Policy, especially
focused on ITU-T, based on his broad
experience from several years of active participation.
He draws a complex and confusing picture
of international technology development
and standardisation, and points out the need for
better co-ordination between the different actors
on this scene.
The third paper is of a technical character. Terje
Henriksen gives an introduction to Network
Level Modelling in ITU. He describes the Reference
Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-
ODP) from different viewpoints: the enterprise,
the information, the computational and the engineering
viewpoint, as well as the functionality
viewpoint.
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