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PLENARY
SPEAKERS
Tuesday, 7 December
2010 14:00 • 15:30
Session I: Optical &
Information Theory
Chair: Haitao
Xia, LSI Corporation,
USA
Prof. Vincent W. S.
Chan (IEEE/OSA
Fellow)
Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor, MIT,
USA
Title:
Optical Flow Switching - a faster,
greener and more frugal network transport
Abstract:
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. 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
Ephremides (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. He is especially interested in Wireless
Networks and Energy Efficient Systems.
Tuesday, 7 December
2010 14:00 • 15:30
Session II: Access
Networks
Chair: Jianwei Huang,
Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
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:
Dynamic
Spectrum Management (DSM) is the application of multi-user
communications’ signal processing to the problem of cross-talking
transmission paths. 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. 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. 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. He is also the Hitachi Professor Emeritus at Stanford
University, where he held a tenured endowed professorship before
retiring after 25 full-time years. Cioffi received his BSEE,
1978, Illinois; PhDEE, 1984, Stanford; Honorary
Doctorate, University of Edinburgh 2010; Bell Laboratories,
1978-1984; IBM Research, 1984-1986; EE Prof., Stanford,
1986-present. Cioffi also founded Amati Com. Corp in
1991 (purchased by TI in 1997 for its DSL technology) and was
officer/director from 1991-1997. 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.
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.
He is on the advisory boards of Focus Ventures, Wavion, SiTune, and
Quantenna. 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. 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.
Akyildiz (ACM/IEEE Fellow)
Ken Byers
Distinguished Chair Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology,
USA
Title:
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 Politècnica 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
2010 14:00 • 15:30
Session I: Broadband
Networks
Chair: Kejie Lu,
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, USA
Prof. Mohsen
Kavehrad (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: 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. 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.
Prof. Gee-Kung
Chang (IEEE/OSA Fellow)
Georgia Research
Alliance and Byers Eminent Scholar Chair Professor in Optical
Networking, Georgia Institute of Technology,
USA
Title:
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.
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 on Convergence of Optical
Wireless Access Network, and a most recent one
on Very 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
2010 14:00 • 15:30
Session II: Wireless
Networking
Chair: Yanchao Zhang,
Arizona State University, USA
Prof. H. Vincent
Poor (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:
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 examining this 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. 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. 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. 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 Want (ACM/IEEE Fellow)
Senior
Principal Engineer, Intel Labs, USA
Title:
Smart Phones: A Revolution in Mobile
Computing
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,
to the next level of possibility.
Bio:
Dr. Roy Want is a Senior Principal Engineer
at Intel Labs, Santa Clara, California, and 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 14:00 • 15:30
Session I: Multimedia
Communications
Chair: Bin Wei,
AT&T Labs, USA
Prof. Aggelos K.
Katsaggelos (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. 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).
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).
Dr. Philip A.
Chou (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. But the television,
invented in 1926 as the visual counterpart to the telephone, did not
have the expected impact. “Television” 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. 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.
However, we are now at the threshold of rapid changes in visually
immersive human-to-human communication. 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. 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. 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 14:00 • 15:30
Session II: Wireless
Technology
Chair: Andrea Conti,
University of Ferrara, Italy
Prof. Andrea
Goldsmith (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.
Prof. Peter
Grant (IEEE/IET/RAEng Fellow)
Emeritus
Regius Professor of Engineering, University of Edinburgh,
UK
Title:
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. Indications will be given for the total power
consumption of (UK) cellular GSM and 3G networks. 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.
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 “green radio” system design credentials with significantly
reduced CO2 emissions. 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.
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 “green
radio” 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. He was appointed as the first head to form and
integrate the School of Engineering at University of Edinburgh,
leading it from 2002 - 2008. Before that he served as
Head of Electronics from 1999 - 2002.
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 Engineering, Royal
Society of Edinburgh and he was elected one of the first four
fellows of the European Association for Speech, Signal and
Image Processing (EURASIP), having previously served there as
President 2000-2002. He was also awarded, in 2004, the 82nd
IEE Faraday Medal. 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. In 2009 he was made
an officer of the order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's
birthday honours list.
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