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To foster the scientific, educational and professional advancement of our members in the fields of electronic communications and signal processing.

Recent Events

Jan 16th, 2012 (Mon) - Autonomous Aero-Visual and Sensor Based Inspection Network for Power Grid and Asset Monitoring


6:00 PM Social
6:30 PM Dinner 

7:15 PM Presentation
Location:

Doubletree Club Hotel - Orange County Airport
7 Hutton Centre Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92707-5794



Abstract:

We describe a theoretical and experimental program to develop the inspection and monitoring functions using various sensors along with development and usage of needed visual sensor and MAV technology for persistent intelligence, reconnaissance, maintenance and surveillance for obscured or logistically challenging assets in non-urban environments such as US Power Grid. The system is self-monitoring. This sophisticated mechanism requires a real-time operation to sustain the quality-of-service. We discuss issues in design and information propagation in such sensor clustered topology, optimization for power-aware networking, and link and node capacity assignment to achieve the desired goals.



Biography:

Arun K. Somani is currently Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University, Ames, IA. He earned his MSEE and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1983 and 1985, respectively. He has worked as Scientific Officer for Govt. of India, New Delhi from 1974 to 1982 and as a faculty member at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA from 1985 to 1997.

 Professor Somani's research interests are in the area of computer system design and architecture, dependable computing and networking, WDM-based optical networking, and reconfigurable and parallel computer systems and use of information technology for infrastructure applications. He has ~300 technical papers, several book chapters, one book, and has supervised more than 60 MS and more than 25 PhD students. He has served on several program committees in various capacities, IEEE distinguished visitor and IEEE distinguished tutorial speaker. He has delivered several key note speeches, tutorials and distinguished and invited talks all over the world. In 1999, he was elected a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to “theory and applications of computer networks.” He has been awarded a Distinguished Scientist member grade of ACM in 2006.
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Past Events

Oct 24th, 2011 (Mon) - Positive Train Control by Jeff Young


Sept 12th, 2011 (Mon) - Biologically-inspired and Nano-scale Communication and Networking by Comsoc Distinguished Lecturer: Professor Falko Dressler 


April 25th, 2011 (Mon) - What's All This LTE Stuff About? by Dwight Borses


Mar 28th, 2011 (Mon) - In Flight Entertainment and Communications by Pierre Schuberth.


Feb 8th, 2011 (Tue) - Healthcare IT Standards for Interoperability by Mr. Gora Datta
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Oct 14th, 2010 (Thu) - Cognitive Networks/Dynamic Spectrum Access in Wireless Networks by Dr. Zhensheng Zhang


May 19th, 2010 (Wed) - Strategies in Software Design, Development and Testing of RF and Wireless Communications Products by Scott Teigen

March 25, 2010 (Thu) - Converged Services and Next Generation Networks
by Dr. Bhumip Khasnabish

May 19, 2009 - Advances in Broadband Access Communications

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May 8, 2008 - BROADBAND OVER POWERLINE: ADVANCES AND APPLICATIONS

 

 

 

 
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