IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications - (PIMRC 2012)

PIMRC’12 will be in Sydney, Australia – the first time a PIMRC has been held in the southern hemisphere.
The foundation for PIMRC was a 1989 workshop on Mobile Communications organized by Prof Aghvami of King’s College London with the cooperation of the local IEEE Communication Society Chapter. With fewer than 100 participants and about thirty technical papers, the workshop was a successful experience for this new industry that was about to explode. In 1990, King’s College organized a similar successful conference under the name ISSSTA.

The first PIMRC, as an international symposium, also took place in King’s College, with joint sponsorship of the local IEEE Communication Society Chapter and close cooperation with BT laboratories. Dr Rowbotham, director of BT Labs, was the honorary chairman, Prof Aghvami was the organizer and the TPC chair while Dr Kato and Prof Pahlavan were the area coordinators in Far East and North America, respectively. The conference attracted around 200 participants and several prominent figures in the industry.