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We are privileged to have a distinguished
speaker like Alexander Gelman - Chief Scientist, Panasonic
Princeton Laboratory,Director of Standards, IEEE Communications
Society, Member of IEEE Standards Board -
Talk outline: The Challenge of Consumer Communications and Networking
Consumer networking presents a technological challenge - it is a tough distributed pervasive computing problem. Typical platforms for networked Consumer Electronics (CE) are resource-starved; users tend to be highly mobile; network access, if available, tends to be highly opportunistic. Users desire high degree of connectivity and desire communications with peers and access to content as well as sharing content and exchange services among each other any time, anywhere, by anybody. In this, consumers do not need to depend on service providers beyond opportunistic IP bearer service. Applications can be left to the market place and not managed by the infrastructure/service providers. We present consumer-desired application scenarios and devise an approach to realization of a true Peer-to-Peer consumer-networking paradigm. We illustrate deployment scenarios of Peer-to-Peer Multimedia applications, based on P2P protocols. Critical enabling mechanisms like session control, presence and location management, security and others are based on P2P principles; employ P2P SIP and its extensions. Highlights of ComSoc Technical Activities–Supporting Competitive Research For the past several years our industry exhibited shortened “time-to-market” cycles for new technologies. Often applied research is conducted simultaneously with development and in synchronism with standardization. “Just in time inventions” became a way of life. In order to operate in this environment ComSoc must evolve from a strictly scholarly group catering mostly to pre-competitive research into a “full service” society that facilitates all stages of the technology value chain: from basic research to standards. Dr. Gelman will present ComSoc current standards portfolio and the methodology by which we can impalement standardization projects and facilitate relevant to standards research
Bio SketchAlexander D. Gelman (ME, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, City University of New York) is the Chief Scientist at Panasonic Princeton Research Laboratory managing research programs in consumer communications and networking. During 1984-1998 Alex was with Bellcore, as Director, Residential Internet Access Architectures Research. He pioneered DSLAM/Router architecture for DSL-based Broadband Access, consulted Bell Atlantic on the ADSL trial, architected Telia's DSL Multimedia and Internet Access trial. Alex has numerous publications, holds some of the earliest DSL system patents, e.g. on xDSL-based Access Router. He organized ComSoc conferences and workshops, served as editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, JSAC, and JCN. Alex has served on the Inaugural Steering Committees for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and the ICME. He initiated the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conferences, ComSoc’s Power Line Communications technical activities, creation of ComSoc’s Standards Board, sponsorship of standardization in the areas of PLC and cognitive radio. Alex served as Chair of the Multimedia Technical Committee, VP-Society Relations, and VP-Membership Development, on the Board of Governors of IEEE Standards Association. Currently Alex is a member of IEEE Standards Board, member of the IEEE Transnational Committee, and serves as ComSoc’s Director of Standards.
DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION PDF Talk outline: The talk will be divided in two halves. During the fist half of the talk, John Santhoff will focus on Ultra Wideband (UWB) applications and 802.15.3. During the second half, John Santhoff will talk about the technical details of Pulse~LINK design philosophy and requirements when they designed their chipset. The use of UWB technology opens new applications for UWB over both wireless and wired communications channels. By using a hybrid network consisting of both wireless and wired medias, this technology is able to extend and expand the delivery of HDTV, multi-channel Audio and High Data Rate digital data seamlessly throughout the home. At short-range, it achieves Gigabit data rates enabling unprecedented connectivity of "video-centric" technologies such as wireless 1394b and HDMI/DVI. Pulse~LINK is a pioneer on implementing this technology. During the presentation John Santhoff will discuss briefly on the Pulse~Link C-Wave platform and how they have been able to utilize multi-Giga sample DAC's and ADC's thus reducing physical layers to software abstractions for both wired and wireless communications. Their chipset solution is the first step towards a Software Defined Cognitive Radio (SDCR) architecture, seamlessly bridging and integrating one platform for both wired and wireless devices to communicate throughout the home. Biography: John Santhoff – Pulse~LINK Founder and Chief Technology Officer John Santhoff is the architect of Pulse~LINK’s Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology, with over thirty years experience in electronics and communications. He founded Pulse~LINK, Inc. in June 2000 and currently serves as the as Chief Technology Officer and board member of the Company. Under Mr. Santhoff’s technical vision and guidance Pulse~LINK has pioneered and developed a 1 Gbps UWB chipset supporting both wireless and wired applications for the secure seamless distribution of HDTV, multi-channel audio and digital content throughout the home using wireless, in-home coax cable and powerline. Mr. Santhoff has been a speaker and panelist at numerous conferences and has been an active participant in the IEEE standards process for 802.11, 802.15.3 and 802.22. He is the author of over 100 patents filed globally on UWB technology and the originator of several significant developments within the UWB industry such as the "Common Signaling Mode" for UWB and UWB over band limited wired channels. Mr. Santhoff served as a member of the US governments delegation to the ITU representing the United States on regulatory issues related to international global deployment of UWB technology. He was named EE Times "Innovator of the year" for 2005 and was a finalist for Ernst & Young’s "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2005. Mr. Santhoff is also the inventor and innovator behind Pulse~LINK's exclusive development of UWB communications over band limited channels such as in-home Coax cable, power lines and Phone-Lines. The UWB over coax cable technology has been designed to act as a broadband backbone for the distribution of digital content throughout the home at data rates up to 1 Gigabit. Pulse~LINK's in-home UWB power line communications solution is capable of supporting hundreds of megabits of data
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IEEE Communications & Signal Processing Societies Orange County Joint Chapter
We are privileged to have a distinguished speaker like Dr. Louay Jalloul give us a talk on IEEE 802.16e (WIMAX)..
Talk outline:
The past decade has witnessed an unprecedented growth in the use of wireless communications. While most of the current usage has focused on voice, high speed data seems to be the driving force behind the recent development of the wireless communications standards. We now see an emergence of a nation wide deployment in the United States of 1X-EV-DO, Europe’s 3GPP/wideband CDMA (HSDPA, HSUPA, and the long-term evolution) as well as the IEEE 802.16e standard which was completed at the end of 2005.
In this talk we focus on the WiMAX profile (which is a subset of the features standardized under 802.16e). Several key features in WiMAX system are addressed in this talk, namely orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), adaptive modulation and coding, multi-user scheduling, and the use of multiple-input multiple output antenna (MIMO) systems. We follow a systems approach in evaluating the performance of a WiMAX system in a single frequency reuse multi-cell network deployment. System performance is described in terms of spectral efficiency, sector throughput, user throughput, range and coverage.
Biography:
Louay M.A. Jalloul has been a senior director of technology at Beceem Communications Inc. (Santa Clara, California, a leading Silicon Valley start-up offering semiconductor solutions for the broadband wireless communications market) since September 2005. Prior to Beceem, he was an associate professor at the department of electrical and computer engineering, the American University of Beirut. From 2001 till 2004, he was the director of systems architecture at Morphics Technology Inc., (Campbell, California, acquired by Infineon Technologies in April 2003) where he worked on the design of the cellular signal processor for CDMA systems. He was with Motorola Inc. from 1993 until 2001, where he worked on CDMA product development. He made many significant contributions to CDMA standards bodies, including the early concepts for the high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) and CDMA2000 evolution to voice and data (1XEV-DV).
He received his B.S. degree from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, M.S. degree from the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, and the Ph.D. degree from Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, all in electrical engineering.
Dr. Jalloul received numerous engineering awards for his innovations to Motorola products and has 21 issued U.S. patents. Dr. Jalloul is a senior member of the IEEE, member of Eta Kappa Nu and is listed in American Men and Women of Science.
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IEEE Communications & Signal Processing Societies Orange County Joint Chapter
We have been privileged to have a distinguished speaker like Prof. Nitin H. Vaidya give us a talk in the exciting field of multi-channel wireless networks.
Talk outline:
Wireless technologies, such as IEEE 802.11a, provide for multiple non-overlapping channels. Typical multi-hop wireless network configurations have only used a single channel for the network. The available network capacity can be increased by using multiple channels. However, the number of interfaces per node is expected to remain smaller than the number of channels, and therefore a single node cannot simultaneously use all the channels.
In this talk, we present the capacity of general multi-channel networks wherein the number of interfaces per node may be smaller than the number of channel. Under this scenario, we show that for a random network of n nodes, there is no capacity degradation even with only one interface per node, as long as the number of channels is less than O(log n).
Thus, in theory, multiple channels can improve network capacity significantly even with a small number of interfaces per node. However, in practice, many challenges have to be addressed before the capacity improvement can be realized. We present practical protocols for utilizing multiple channels that address many of these challenges. One set of protocols has been designed for the scenario where each node may have only one interface. Another set of protocols has been designed for the scenario where each node has multiple interfaces. We will present results from simulations that demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed protocols in significantly increasing network capacity. The talk will also discuss our work on implementing selected protocols on a wireless testbed.
This talk is based on joint research with graduate students Pradeep Kyasanur and Jungmin So. Biography: Nitin Vaidya received the Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is presently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He has held visiting positions at Microsoft Research, Sun Microsystems and the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay. His current research is in wireless networking and mobile computing. He has co-authored papers that received awards at the ACM MobiCom and Personal Wireless Communications (PWC) conferences. Nitin's research has been funded by various agencies, including the National Science Foundation, DARPA, Motorola, Microsoft Research and Sun Microsystems. Nitin Vaidya is a recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Nitin has served on the committees of several conferences, including as program co-chair for 2003 ACM MobiCom and General Chair for 2001 ACM MobiHoc. He has served as an editor for several journals, and presently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM. For more information, please visit http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/~nhv/.
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