September 2004 Vol. 2 No. 9

Laboratory Strategies

• Environment and Energy are the Key Words in the 21st Century

R&D Spirits

• Aiming for Top Visual Inspection Equipment through One-of-a-kind Technology

Special Feature : Fourth-generation Wireless Access Technologies

• Overview of the Fourth-generation Mobile Communication System
• Broadband Packet Wireless Access
• Wireless QoS Control Technologies
• IP-based Mobility Management Technology

Regular Papers

• Ionic Liquids for Lithium Secondary Batteries

Letters

• Improvements to WIPAS (Wireless IP Access System) for Application-area Expansion
• Media Asset Management (MAM) System for Efficient Content Management Using Metadata

Global Standardization Activities

• Trends in Standardizing Protection against Electromagnetic Environment Effects in ITU-T SG5

R&D Information

• Development of the World's Fastest 10-Gbit/s Packet Classification and Forwarding Board for Advanced Processing on High-speed Networks