PLENARY SPEAKERS
Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:00 •ن15:30
Session I:ن Optical & Information Theory
Chair:ننHaitao Xia, LSI Corporation, USAن
Prof. Vincent W. S. Chan (IEEE/OSA Fellow)
Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor, MIT, USA
Title:ن
Optical Flow Switching - a faster, greener and more frugal network transport
Abstract:ن
Present-day networks are being challenged by dramatic increases in bandwidth demand of emerging applications. We will explore a new network architecture, ”optical flow switching”, that will enable significant data rate growth, power-efficiency and cost-effective scalability of next-generation networks. In particular, we will address the most important remaining open problem of an implementable optical flow switching architecture: the scalable control plane.
Bio:
Vincent W. S. Chan, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor of EECS, MIT, received his BS(71), MS(71), EE(72), and Ph.D.(74) degrees in EE all from MIT. From 1974 to 1977, he was an assistant professor, EE, at Cornell University. He joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1977 and had been Division Head of the Communications and Information Technology Division until becoming the Director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (1999-2007). In 2008, he helped formed and is currently a member of the Claude E. Shannon Communication and Network Group at the Research Laboratory of Electronics of MIT.
In July 1983, he initiated the Laser Intersatellite Transmission Experiment Program and in 1997, the follow-on GeoLITE Program. In 1989, he formed the All-Optical-Network Consortium among MIT, AT&T and DEC.ف He also formed and served as PI the Next Generation Internet Consortium, ONRAMP among AT&T, Cabletron, MIT, Nortel and JDS, and a Satellite Networking Research Consortium formed between MIT, Motorola, Teledesic and Globalstar. He has founded in 2009 and is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of a new IEEE/OSA Journal: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. He has served on the boards and technical advisory boards of many commercial companies and government agencies and is currently a Member of the Corporation of Draper Laboratory. He is also an elected member of Eta-Kappa-Nu, Tau-Beta-Pi and Sigma-Xi, the Fellow of the IEEE and the Optical Society of America.
Throughout his career, Professor Chan has spent his research focus on communication and networks, particularly on free space and fiber optical communication and networks and satellite communications. His work has led the way to the first successful laser communication demonstration in space and early deployment of WDM optical networks. His recent research emphasis is on heterogeneous (satcom, wireless and fiber) network architectures with stringent performance demands, such as those encountered in the defense and other medical, financial and R&D communities.
Prof. Anthony Ephremidesف(IEEE Fellow)
Cynthia Kim Professor of Information Technology, University of Maryland, USA
Title:
TO SCHEDULE OR NOT TO SCHEDULE?
-The conundrum of channel access-
Abstract:
A basic question in wireless networks is whether the users who share a common channel should schedule their access or transmit randomly. This question is intimately related to the issues of power and transmission rate control as well as to the issue of what the performance measure is.
We formulate the access problem in a layerless fashion and chart a methodical way of solving it. Ultimately, the resulting trade-offs are difficult to resolve, but in certain cases useful insights emerge that shed light into the resource allocation problem at its fundamental level.
Bio:
Anthony Ephremides holds the Cynthia Kim Professorship of Information Technology at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Maryland in College Park where he holds a joint appointment at the Institute for Systems Research, of which he was among the founding members in 1986. He obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1971 and has been with the University of Maryland ever since.
He has held various visiting positions at other Institutions (including MIT, UC Berkeley, ETH urich, INRIA, etc) and co-founded and co-directed a NASA-funded Center on Satellite and Hybrid Communication Networks in 1991. He has been the President of Pontos, Inc, since 1980 and has served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1987 and as a member of the IEEE Board of Directors in 1989 and 1990. He has been the General Chair and/or the Technical Program Chair of several technical conferences (including the IEEE Information Theory Symposium in1991 and 2000, the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in 1986, the ACM Mobihoc in 2003, and the IEEE Infocom in 1999). He has served on the Editorial Board of numerous journals and was the Founding Director of the Fairchild Scholars and Doctoral Fellows Program, a University-Industry Partnership from 1981 to 1985.
He has received the IEEE Donald E. Fink Prize Paper Award in 1991 and the first ACM Achievement Award for Contributions to Wireless Networking in 1996, as well as the 2000 Fred W. Ellersick MILCOM Best Paper Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the 2000 Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award from the Institute for Systems Research, and the Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize from the University of Maryland in 2001, and a few other official recognitions of his work. He also received the 2006 Aaron Wyner Award for Exceptional Service and Leadership to the IEEE Information Theory Society.
He is the author of several hundred papers, conference presentations, and patents, and his research interests lie in the areas of Communication Systems and Networks and all related disciplines, such as Information Theory, Control and Optimization, Satellite Systems, Queueing Models, Signal Processing, etc.ف He is especially interested in Wireless Networks and Energy Efficient Systems.
Tuesday, 7 December 2010ف 14:00ف•ن15:30
Session II:ن Access Networks
Chair:ن Jianwei Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China ن
Dr. John M. Cioffi (NAE member, IEEE Fellow/RAEng Fellow)
Chairman and CEO, ASSIA Inc, USA
Hitachi Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, USA
Title:
Dynamic Spectrum Management
Abstract:ن
Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) is the application of multi-user communications’ signal processing to the problem of cross-talking transmission paths.هه DSM has been used with significant success in binders of cross-talking DSL circuits, and is a predecessor to dynamic spectrum access in wireless transmission.ه This talk will focus on the methods used for the 3 standardized levels of DSM, which address (1) outages and transmission-path stability, (2) politeness and adaptive power-spectra control, and (3) coordinated vector (or multiple-input, multiple-output) removal of crosstalk noise.هه DSM thus provides signal-processing opportunities in integrated circuits and network-management software that will be described.
Bio:
John M. Cioffi is Chairman and CEO of ASSIA Inc, a Redwood City, CA based company pioneering DSL management software sold to DSL service providers, specifically known for introducing Dynamic Spectrum Management or DSM.ه He is also the Hitachi Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, where he held a tenured endowed professorship before retiring after 25 full-time years.ه Cioffi received his BSEE, 1978,ه Illinois; PhDEE,ه 1984, Stanford; Honorary Doctorate, University of Edinburgh 2010;ه Bell Laboratories, 1978-1984; IBM Research, 1984-1986; EE Prof., Stanford, 1986-present.هه Cioffi also founded Amati Com. Corp in 1991 (purchased by TI in 1997 for its DSL technology) and was officer/director from 1991-1997.ه At Amati, Cioffi designed the world's first ADSL and VDSL modems, which design today accounts for roughly 98% of the worlds over 300 million DSL connections.ه Cioffi is an inventor on the basic patents on the widely licensed ADSL design, VDSL, Dynamic Spectrum Management, and vectored DSLs.
Cioffi currently is also on the Board of Directors of Alto Beam, Teranetics, and ClariPhy.ه He is on the advisory boards of Focus Ventures, Wavion, SiTune, and Quantenna.ه Various other awards include IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (2010), International Marconi Fellow (2006); Member, United States National Academy of Engineering (2001); International Fellow United Kingdom's Royal Academy of Engineering (2009); IEEE Kobayashi Medal (2001); IEEE Millennium Medal (2000); IEEE Fellow (1996); IEE JJ Tomson Medal (2000); 1999 U. of Illinois Outstanding Alumnus and 2010 Distinguished Alumnus.ه Cioffi has published several hundred technical papers and is the inventor named on over 100 aditional patents, many of which are heavily licensed in the communication industry.
Prof. Ian F. Akyildizه(ACM/IEEE Fellow)
Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Title:ه
NANONETWORKS: A New Frontier in Communications
Abstract:
Nanotechnology is enabling the development of devices in a scale ranging from one to a few one hundred nanometers. Nanonetworks, i.e., the interconnection of nano-scale devices, are expected to expand the capabilities of single nano-machines by allowing them to cooperate and share information. Traditional communication technologies are not directly suitable for nanonetworks mainly due to the size and power consumption of existing transmitters, receivers and additional processing components. All these define a new communication paradigm that demands novel solutions such as nano-transceivers, channel models for the nano-scale, and protocols and architectures for nanonetworks. In this talk, first the state-of-the-art in nano-machines, including architectural aspects, expected features of future nano-machines, and current developments are presented for a better understanding of the nanonetwork scenarios. Moreover, nanonetworks features and components are explained and compared with traditional communication networks. Novel nano-antennas based on nano-materials as well as the terahertz band are investigated for electromagnetic communication in nanonetworks. Furthermore, molecular communication mechanisms are presented for short-range networking based on ion signaling and molecular motors, for medium-range networking based on flagellated bacteria and nanorods, as well as for long-range networking based on pheromones and capillaries. Finally, open research challenges such as the development of network components, molecular communication theory, and new architectures and protocols, which need to be solved in order to pave the way for the development and deployment of nanonetworks within the next couple of decades are presented.
Bio:
Ian F. Akylidiz received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively. Currently, he is the Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Director of Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory and Chair of the Telecommunication Group at Georgia Tech.
Dr. Akyildiz is also an Honorary Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering at the Universitat Politगcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, since June 2008. Also since March 2009, he is an Honorary Professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier) in 2003, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Physical Communication (PHYCOM) Journal (Elsevier) in 2008, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of Nano Communication Networks (NANO-COMNET) Journal (Elsevier) in 2010. Dr. Akyildiz serves on the advisory boards of several research centers, journals, conferences and publication companies. Dr. Akyildiz is an IEEE FELLOW (1996) and an ACM FELLOW (1997). He received numerous awards from IEEE and ACM. His current research interests are in Nanonetworks, Cognitive Radio Networks, and Wireless Sensor Networks.
Wednesday, 8 December 2010ه 14:00ه•ن15:30
Session I:ن Broadband Networks
Chair:ن Kejie Lu, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagez, USA
Prof. Mohsen Kavehradن(IEEE Fellow)
W. L. Weiss Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering
Director of CICTR, Center for Information and Communications Technology Research
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Title:ن Let There Be Light and Sustainable Energy-Efficient Wireless Applications
Abstract:
As we step further into the 21st century, the demand for sustainable energy-efficient technology grows higher. The important area of electric lighting, currently dominated by decades-old incandescent and fluorescent sources, is being taken over by White Light Emitting Diodes (WLED), which are solid state devices with greater energy-saving. Replacement of current inefficient lighting by these LEDs will result in reduction of global carbon dioxide emissions, a major cause of global warming, among other things. The LED holds the potential, in the field of photonics, to be as transformational as the transistor was in electronics.نن This core device has the potential to revolutionize how we use light, including not only for illumination, but communications, sensing, navigation, imaging and many more applications. In this presentation, we will highlight some of the potentials.
Bio:
Dr. Kavehrad joined Penn State in January 1997 as the W. L. Weiss Endowed Chair Professor. He is the founding director of Center for Information and Communications Technology Research. His prior work experience includes working for Fairchild Industries, GTE (Satellite Corp. and Labs.) and Bell Laboratories before joining the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Ottawa in March 1989 as a Professor and Director of Photonic Networks and Systems Thrust in the Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO). During 1997-1998 he was also the CTO and a Vice President at Tele-Beam Inc., State College, PA. He has been a senior consultant to NTT, Nortel and AT&T Shannon Research Labs and consultant to a score of other major corporations and government agencies. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. His works have been published in over 350 refereed journal and conference papers, several books and book chapters, and he holds several key issued patents in his work areas.
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Prof. Gee-Kung Changن(IEEE/OSA Fellow)
Georgia Research Alliance and Byers Eminent Scholar Chair Professor in Optical Networking, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Title:ن
Multi-dimensional Convergence of Broadband Access Technologies in the 21st Century
Abstract:
With the rapid growth of bandwidth demand of emerging data and high definition digital video services, radio-over-fiber technology has gained tremendous momentum due to its ability to increase network capacity, bit rate, coverage, and mobility by seamlessly integrating optical fiber and wireless access systems. Owing to globally available multi-gigahertz bandwidth for wireless transmission, the millimeter-wave (mm-W) bands at 60-90 GHz with negligible interference with existing radio-frequency wireless services are playing a vital role for next generation very high throughput wireless local area networks (WLAN) and wireless personal area networks (WPANs). Several industrial and standardization efforts have been established, such as IEEE 802.15.3c (WPAN), ECMA-387, and IEEE 802.11ad (WLAN), to usher in global use of multi-gigabit MM-Wave wireless technology. In this talk, we will highlight recent progresses in system design and experimental demonstration of converged multi-band and multiple services wireless and wired access technologies based on optical millimeter wave signal generation, processing, and low-cost mm-W transceiver for multi-gigabit data transport in wireless over fiber access networks.
Bio:
Prof. Gee-Kung Chang is the Byers Endowed Chair Professor in Optical Networking in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology and an Eminent Scholar of Georgia Research Alliance. At Georgia Tech, he serves as the co-director of 100G Optical Networking Center and an Associate Director of Georgia Tech Broadband Institute. He served as the leader of Optoelectronics thrust of NSF-ERC of Microsystems Packaging Research Center at Georgia Tech. Prof. Chang received a B.S. degree in Physics from National Tsinghua University in Taiwan and a Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Chang devoted a total of 23 years of service to the Bell Systems' Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Telcordia where he served in various research and management positions including Director and Chief Scientist of Optical Internet Research. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he served as Vice President and Chief Technology Strategist of OpNext, Inc., in charge of technology planning and product development strategy for high-speed optoelectronic and photonic components and systems.
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Dr. Chang has co-authored 56 U.S. and international patents and published more than 350 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He received Bellcore President's Award in 1994, won R&D 100 Award in 1996, and elected as a Telcordia Fellow in 1999 for his pioneering work in MONET and NGI optical networking projects. He was elected to Fellow of Photonics Society of Chinese American in 2000. He is a Fellow of IEEE Photonic Society, and a Fellow of Optical Society of America (OSA) for his key contributions in DWDM Optical Networking and Optical Label Switching Technologies.
Dr. Chang has been a key contributor in many IEEE and OSA conferences and committees. He has served four times as the lead guest editor for special issues of Journal of Lightwave Technology sponsored by IEEE LEOS and OSA; the first one was published in December 2000 on Optical Networks, the second in November 2004 on Metro and Access Networks, the third in 2007 onنConvergence of Optical Wireless Access Network,نand a most recent one onنVery High Throughput Wireless over Fiber Technologies and Applications. He was also a guest editor for Radio over Optical Fiber Networks for JOCN sponsored by OSA. He organized and moderated two international workshops this year on the theme of 'Wireless over Optical Access Networks' for OECC 2007 and APOC 2007. He has been active in championing this new interdisciplinary broadband Wireless over Fiber Access networking technologies by presenting invited papers on Super Broadband Optical Wireless Access Network Architecture, Technologies, and Applications in OECC'05, LEOS'06, MWP'07, OFC'08, 2009 IEEE LEOS Summer Conference on ROF Technology, 2009 Frontier in Optics of OSA Annual Meeting, and 2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium. He has been invited many times as plenary speaker to deliver keynote messages on Convergence of Broadband Wireless and Optical Access Networks including: 2009 IEEE ICCSC in Shanghai, 2009 SPIE Photonics West in San Jose, 2009 Asian-Pacific Microwave Photonics in Beijing, 2010 IEEE Globecom in Miami, and IEEE 2011 ICCCN in Maui.
Dr. Chang has devoted his career to develop and push high performance computing and high throughput communications system technologies towards ever smaller dimensions (from hundreds kilometers down to meters and centimeters ) through optimized design and integration of electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic components for broadband optical and wireless access networks. His current research interests cover: 100G transport network, DWDM and optical label switching system, broadband optical access networks, microwave and millimeter wave photonics, radio over fiber systems and very-high-throughput wireless over fiber networks.
Wednesday, 8 December 2010ن 14:00ن•ن15:30
Session II:ن Wireless Networking
Chair:ن Yanchao Zhang, Arizona State University, USA
Prof. H. Vincent Poorن(NAE member, AAAS/IEEE/OSA Fellow)
Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University, USA
Title:
Physical Layer Security in Wireless Networks
Abstract:ن
Security in wireless networks has traditionally been considered to be an issue to be addressed at the higher layers of the network. However, with the emergence of ad hoc and other less centralized networking architectures, and networks (such as sensor networks) having low-complexity nodes, there has been an increase in interest in the potential of the wireless physical layer to provide communications security. The idea that the physical properties of a communications channel, rather than secret keys or trusted authorities, can provide security dates to Wyner’s 1975 study of the wire-tap channel. But, recent work has taken these early ideas and expanded on them considerably, by examiningهthis potential in a variety of basic wireless network architectures, and by considering the issues of fading, code design for secure transmission, feedback, authentication, secure network coding, among many others.ه This talk will review recent work and open issues in this field.
Bio:
H. Vincent Poor is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he is also Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. His interests lie in the areas of statistical signal processing, stochastic analysis and information theory, with applications in wireless networks and related fields. Among his publications in these areas are the recent books Quickest Detection (Cambridge, 2009) and Information Theoretic Security (Now Publishers, 2009). Dr. Poor is a member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering of the UK.ه He is also a Fellow of the IEEE and other scientific and technical organizations. He received a received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and the IEEE Education Medal in 2005.ه Recent recognition of his work includes the 2007 Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications, and the 2009 Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, both from the IEEE Communications Society.
Dr. Roy Wantه(ACM/IEEE Fellow)
Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Labs, USA
Title: Smart Phones: A Revolution in Mobile Computing
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Abstract: The Smart Phone is not just a communication device, it is the most successful and ubiquitous computer the world has ever seen. This presentation will review the status of the Smart Phone as a computing platform, discuss its strengths and weaknesses, and look to the future for evolutionary opportunities. In particular, the discussion will focus on two nascent technologies: Dynamic Composition, the ability to wirelessly build a logical computer on the fly from nearby resources; and Context-Aware computing, sensing the local environment and the state of the user, to automatically customize applications to the current situation . We will examine how both of these approaches hold the promise to revolutionize today�s mobile computing experience,㺡 to㺡 the next level of possibility.
Bio:
Dr. Roy Want is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel Labs, Santa Clara, California, and㺡Director of the Next-Generation Platforms Lab (NPL). His research interests include mobile & ubiquitous computing, wireless protocols, hardware design, embedded systems, distributed systems, automatic identification and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). Want received his BA in computer science from Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK in 1983 and continued research at Cambridge into reliable distributed multimedia-systems. While at Olivetti Research (1988-91) he developed the first in-building location system called the Active Badge, launching his interest in location-based services. He joined Xerox PARC's Ubiquitous Computing program in 1991 and led a project called PARCTab, one of the first context-aware computer systems. At PARC Want managed the Embedded Systems area and earned the title of Principal Scientist. He joined Intel Research in 2000 as a Principal Engineer. He is also the author, or co-author, of more than 60 publications in the field of mobile and distributed systems; and has over 60 patents issued in these areas. Want is very involved in the research community through program committees and invited talks. He is Chair of ACM SIGMOBILE, Editor-in-chief Emeritus for IEEE Pervasive Computing, and a Fellow of both the IEEE and ACM.
Thursday, 9 December 2010㺡 14:00㺡䅗㺿15:30
Session I:㺿 Multimedia Communications
Chair:㺿 Bin Wei, AT&T Labs, USA
Prof. Aggelos K. Katsaggelos㺿(IEEE/SPIE Fellow)
Professor, Northwestern University, USA
Title:
Video Transmission: Recent Results, Challenges, and Opportunities
Abstract:
Supporting video communication over lossy channels such as wireless networks and the Internet is a challenging task due to the stringent quality of service (QoS) required by video applications and the many channel impairments. Two important QoS characteristics for video are the degree of signal distortion and the transmission delay. Another important consideration is the cost associated with transmission, for example, the energy consumption in the wireless channel case and the cost for differentiated services in the Internet (with DiffServ) case.
In this presentation we consider a cross-layer resource-utility allocation and scheduling framework for balancing the requirements of different applications. Our goal is to provide acceptable content-aware QoS while taking into account system constraints. We discuss a general framework that allows a number of "resource/distortion" optimal formulations for balancing the requirements of various applications.㺿 Examples include multi-user video streaming, robust streaming of scalable video and peer-to-peer multimedia streaming. We conclude the presentation with some of the grand opportunities and challenges in designing and developing video communication systems.
Bio:
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos received the Diploma degree in electrical and mechanical engineering from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from Georgia Tech, in 1981 and 1985, respectively.
In 1985, he joined the EECS Department at Northwestern University, where he is currently a Professor. He was the holder of the Ameritech Chair of Information Technology (1997-2003). He is also the Director of the Motorola Center for Seamless Communications, a member of the Academic Staff, NorthShore University Health System, and an affiliated faculty at the Department of Linguistics and he has an appointment at the Argonne National Laboratory.
He has published extensively in the areas of multimedia processing and communications and he is the holder of 16 international patents. He is the co-author of Rate-Distortion Based Video Compression (Kluwer, 1997), Super-Resolution for Images and Video (Claypool, 2007) and Joint Source-Channel Video Transmission (Claypool, 2007).
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Among his many professional activities Dr. Katsaggelos was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (1997-2002), a BOG Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (1999-2001), and a member of the Publication Board of the IEEE Proceedings (2003-2007). He is a Fellow of the IEEE (1998) and SPIE (2009) and the recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000), the IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (2001), an IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (2001), an IEEE ICME Paper Award (2006), an IEEE ICIP Paper Award (2007) and an ISPA Paper Award (2009). He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2007-2008).
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Dr. Philip A. Chou㺿(IEEE Fellow)
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, USA
Title:
The Future of Human Communication
Abstract:
The invention of the telephone in 1876 was a major leap forward in making human-to-human communication more natural and immersive, leading to the quick decline of the telegraph.㺿 But the television, invented in 1926 as the visual counterpart to the telephone, did not have the expected impact.㺿 䄛Television䄥 quickly morphed into the broadcast medium it is today, while the visual counterpart to the telephone, now called video telephony, did not reach the market until the 1960s, when the AT&T Picture Phone proved to be a commercial failure.㺍 Eighty years after its invention, video telephony has changed little, except that we are now seeing little images on computer screens instead of dedicated devices.㺍 However, we are now at the threshold of rapid changes in visually immersive human-to-human communication.㺍 In this talk, I will show how recent telepresence systems are just a harbinger of the many changes to come.
Bio:
Philip A. Chou received the BSE degree from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1980, and the MS degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1983, both in electrical engineering and computer science, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1988. From 1988 to 1990, he was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. From 1990 to 1996, he was a Member of Research Staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in Palo Alto, CA. In 1997 he was manager of the compression group at VXtreme, an Internet video startup in Mountain View, CA, before it was acquired by Microsoft in 1997. From 1998 to the present, he has been a Principal Researcher with Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, where he currently manages the Communication and Collaboration Systems research group. Dr. Chou has served as Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University 1994-1995, Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington 1998-2009, and Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2006.
Dr. Chou has longstanding research interests in data compression, signal processing, information theory, communications, and pattern recognition, with applications to video, images, audio, speech, and documents. He served as an Associate Editor in source coding for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 1998 to 2001, as a Guest Editor for special issues in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in 1996, 2004, and 2011, respectively. He was a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing technical committee (IMDSP TC), where he chaired the awards subcommittee 1998-2004. Currently he is chair of the SPS Multimedia Signal Processing TC, member of the ComSoc Multimedia TC, member of the IEEE SPS Fellow selection committee, and member of the TMM and ICME Steering Committees.㺍 He was the founding technical chair for the inaugural NetCod 2005 workshop, special session and panel chair for ICASSP 2007, publicity chair for the Packet Video Workshop 2009, and technical co-chair for MMSP 2009.㺍 He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and the IEEE Computer, Information Theory, Signal Processing, and Communications societies, and was an active member of the MPEG committee. He is the recipient, with Tom Lookabaugh, of the 1993 Signal Processing Society Paper Award; with Anshul Seghal, of the 2002 ICME Best Paper Award; with Zhourong Miao, of the 2007 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Best Paper Award; and with Miroslav Ponec, Sudipta Sengupta, Minghua Chen, and Jin Li, of the 2009 ICME Best Paper Award. He is co-editor, with Mihaela van der Schaar, of the 2007 book from Elsevier, Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks.
Thursday, 9 December 2010㺍 14:00㺍䅗㺿15:30
Session II:㺿 Wireless Technology
Chair:㺿 Andrea Conti, University of Ferrara, Italy
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Prof. Andrea Goldsmith㺿(IEEE Fellow)
Professor, Stanford University, USA
Title:
The Road Ahead for Wireless Technology: Dreams and Challenges
Abstract:
Wireless technology has enormous potential to change the way we live, work, and play. Future wireless networks will support Gigabit per second multimedia communication between people and devices with high reliability and uniform coverage indoors and out. Wireless technology will also enable smart and energy-efficient homes and buildings, automated highways and skyways, and in-body networks for analysis and treatment of medical conditions. The shortage of spectrum will be alleviated by advances in cognitive and software-defined radios. There are many technical challenges that must be overcome in order to make this vision a reality. This talk will describe what the wireless future might look like and some of the innovations and breakthroughs that are required to realize this vision.
Bio:
Andrea Goldsmith is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and was previously an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech. She founded Quantenna Communications Inc., and has previously held industry positions at Maxim Technologies, Memorylink Corporation, and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Her research includes work on wireless information and communication theory, MIMO systems and multihop networks, cognitive radios, sensor networks, cross-layer wireless system design, wireless communications for distributed control, and communications for biomedical applications. She is author of the book ``Wireless Communications'' and co-author of the book ``MIMO Wireless Communications,'' both published by Cambridge University Press. She received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley.
Dr. Goldsmith is a Fellow of the IEEE and of Stanford. She has received several awards for her research, including the National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lectureship, the IEEE Comsoc Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Stanford Terman Fellowship, the National Science Foundation CAREER Development Award, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. In addition, she was a co-recipient of the 2005 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society joint paper award. Dr. Goldsmith currently serves as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and as editor for the Journal on Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory and in Networks. She previously served as an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and for the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, as well as guest editor for several IEEE journal and magazine special issues. Dr. Goldsmith participates actively in committees and conference organization for the IEEE Information Theory and Communications Societies and has served on the Board of Governors for both societies. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for both societies, the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and was the technical program co-chair for the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. She also founded the student committee of the IEEE Information Theory society, is an inaugural recipient of Stanford's postdoc mentoring award, and was elected to serve as Stanford's faculty senate chair for the 2009/2010 academic year.㺿
Prof. Peter Grant㺿(IEEE/IET/RAEng Fellow)
Emeritus Regius Professor of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK
Title:㺿
Green Radio - The Case for More Efficient Cellular Base-stations
Abstract:
This presentation will discuss the power drain or efficiency of mobile terminals and base-stations to define the issues with current cellular systems operation, particularly in base-station or access point designs.㺿 Indications will be given for the total power consumption of (UK) cellular GSM and 3G networks.㺿 These issues are set to increase with the move from predominantly speech and text messaging to the increased roll out of smart-phones and mobile broadband, where the much higher data rate transmission requirements are not balanced by consequent increase in revenue. This is the primary driver for lower transmission energy per delivered bit.㺿
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The second half of the presentation will review the approaches under investigation to improve the overall efficiency of base-stations and alleviate the high power drain to achieve 䄛green radio䄥 system design credentials with significantly reduced CO2㺍 emissions.㺍 The talk will address issues such as large versus small cell designs, definition of and highlight the benefits of employing femtocells, deploying relaying to delaying less urgent transmissions and save transmission power drain, employing sleep modes in the base-station when traffic volume is low, moving to use lower frequencies at modest load to exploit lower loss propagation conditions and finally how can we improve the overall efficiency of the base-station power amplifier.
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This presentation is set in the context of industrial experiences in the Virtual Center of Excellence in Mobile Communications (Mobile VCE), an industry-UK government funded 䄛green radio䄥 research program conducted in 4 UK Universities in collaboration with 11 international industrial wireless sponsoring and program monitoring companies which includes the major service providers, equipment manufacturers etc.
Bio:
Prof Peter Grant was on staff at Edinburgh from1971 until his retirement in 2009. He is now a Senior Honorary Professorial Fellow at the same University. Before joining Edinburgh, he worked at the UK for Plessey and Hughes for 5 years.㺍 He was appointed as the first head to form and integrate the School of Engineering at University of Edinburgh, leading it from 2002 - 2008.㺍㺍 Before that he served as Head of Electronics from 1999 - 2002.㺍
Peter Grant has three "doctorates", a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1975, an honorary DEng (Doctor of Engineering) from the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in 2006 and another honorary DEng from Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh in 2007.
He holds five Fellowships from: IEEE, IEE/IET, Royal Academy of㺍 Engineering, Royal Society of Edinburgh and he was elected one of the㺍 first four fellows of the European Association for Speech, Signal and㺍 Image Processing (EURASIP), having previously served there as President 2000-2002.㺍 He was also awarded, in 2004, the 82nd IEE Faraday Medal.㺍 He served as a director of the Mobile VCE from 2007-2009.
Professor Grant was in 2007 appointed to be the 8th Regius Professor of Engineering at The University of Edinburgh. "Regius" i.e. regal chair appointments are conferred by the Queen of Great Britain.㺍 In 2009 he was made an officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's birthday honours list. |
