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DoCoMo Capital, Inc. has arrived and is getting settled. They are busy looking at investment possibilities. They also have launched their new website; please visit www.docomo-capital.com to find out more about their business.

Dr. Jon Crowcroft, a professor from University of Cambridge, came to give us a talk during the summer advisory board meeting. The events were very successful and the labs received valuable advice from advisors that we will utilize as we continue to grow forward.

Mr. Takanori Utano, CTO of NTT DoCoMo, Inc., visited our labs in early July and gave us a talk. He shared the insights of DoCoMo in Japan, and his expectations of the labs. There was Q&A session which interacted with our researchers and clarified their questions. At the end of his talk, we were confident that we are and will continue to be a very valuable resource for them on a multitude of levels. He also mentioned that we would continue collaborating with NTT DoCoMo in Japan.

A few of our summer interns have returned to their hometowns. We hope that they had a great time working with us this summer and hopefully they can utilize their experiences with us in their future.

Mr. Eisuke Miki, the new CEO of DoCoMo Communications Laboratories USA, Inc.. Mr. Miki joined NTT Electronical Communications Laboratories in 1985. Since then, he has been in the midst of two major technology tracks from development through deployment. His perfectionist personality suits NTT DoCoMo’s culture. He has had a twenty year career at NTT and NTT DoCoMo combined together. His contribution to PHS and FOMA was a great success. He joined DoCoMo Communications Laboratories USA, Inc. in January 2005 where he was named President & CEO in April 2005. Please read our featured article of Mr. Miki in this July issue and find out more about him and his message to DoCoMo USA Labs.

DoCoMo Capital officially opened it's doors in it's location in San Jose, CA. on July 1, 2005. DoCoMo capital will be seeking groundbreaking new technology for potential venture investments. The focus of DoCoMo Capital is to discover and invest in new mobile services and technologies in the U.S. in its ongoing quest in developing and leading a new wave of next generation advanced mobile communication technologies. DoCoMo USA Labs and NTT DoCoMo will support this new company.

Don't forget to check out the 1st book by DoCoMo USA Labs is now available at Wiley Publishers and amazon.com's web site. "Next Generation Mobile Systems: 3G & Beyond", Minoru Etoh (Editor), ISBN:0-470-09151-7, Hardcover, 404 pages, May 2005.

Description: Written by a highly acclaimed team of researchers at DoCoMo USA Labs, 4G Mobile Networks: Technologies for Mobile Communications of the Future covers a broad spectrum of areas pertaining to the development of 4G communication networks. The book is split into four sections: vision for 4G mobile networks; mobile network technologies; middleware and applications and security.

Radio Access Technologies for mobile networks
IP mobility
Evolution of wLAN
Middleware
Wireless web services
Terminal software
Security

The book offers an international perspective of the work being carried out in Japan and Europe, as well as the USA and places the research being carried out by DoCoMo in the context of these developments.

This title will be indispensable for communications engineers in corporate R&D departments, CTOs, telecommunications managers with responsibility for business development. Researchers in EE and CS Mobile Communications departments will also find this title of immense value.

We have had a few patents issued from the US Patent and Trademark Office. Some others are issued in Japan as well. We are very proud to those of you whom contributed their time and efforts for DoCoMo USA Labs and NTT DoCoMo, Inc to help make this possible.

Dr. Frank Bossen, has 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.

In other news, 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.

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We are expanding and are seeking enthusiastic, innovative research staff to contribute to our labs progress towards becoming a world class research establishment. If you are interested in being part of our future-leading team please visit the Careers section of our website.

This month's edition of "Communications" the e-Newsletter of DoCoMo USA Labs shows our new focus to continually provide informative industry news, interesting interviews, and NTT DoCoMo news to our readers.