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Andrea
Andrea J. Goldsmith
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University

The Next Wave in Wireless Technology: Challenges and Solutions

The demand for wireless communications has enjoyed exponential growth worldwide for decades, and looks to continue unabated into the foreseeable future.  To meet these demands, the next generation of high-performance wireless networks must support a significant increase in data rates, better coverage, greater spectral efficiency, and higher reliability. In addition, applications such as sensor networks, smart structures, and bioengineering need extreme energy efficiency as well as new wireless networking paradigms. Overcoming these technical challenges will require significant breakthroughs in wireless component and system design.  This talk will describe these design challenges along with recent innovations in wireless technology that may provide the solutions.  

Biography

Andrea Goldsmith is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and was previously an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech. She is also co-founder and CTO of 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 communication and information theory, MIMO systems and multihop networks, cross-layer wireless system design, and wireless communications for distributed control. 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 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 is an elected member of the Board of Governors for both societies. She is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Communications Society, 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 and is an inaugural recipient of Stanford's postdoc mentoring award.



Robert

Gerhard Fettweis

Vodafone Chair
TU Dresden













Current Frontiers in Wireless Communications: Fast & Green & Dirty

Yesterday, we believed the cellular phone would be the “black hole” of integration, encompassing all wireless standards, allowing communication over an increasing number of air interfaces. Today we see that we were wrong: e.g. DVB enabled phones have very little market share, UWB is currently out, and NFC penetration is very low. A better insight into the factors deciding on the success or failure of the diverse solutions on offer is needed for the marketing departments. The “wireless roadmap” of the past gives us researchers valuable input towards understanding what sort of solutions will be needed in the future, as we try identifying the hottest research challenges. The three major topics to be detailed in the talk are:

How to enable high cellular data rates with increased spectral efficiency and fairness
How to overcome analog impairments with the aid of the “dirty RF” paradigm
How grave is the challenge of designing “green radio”

These challenges will no doubt keep future generations of researchers busy.

Biography

Gerhard Fettweis earned his PhD degree from Aachen University of Technology (RWTH) in 1990. He is IEEE Fellow, and active in organizing conferences (e.g. IEEE ICC 2009) and workshops. From 1990 to 1991, he was Visiting Scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, developing signal processing innovations for IBM’s disk drive products. From 1991 to 1994, he was a Scientist with TCSI Inc., Berkeley, CA, responsible for signal processor development projects for cellular phone chip-sets. Since 1994, he holds the Vodafone Chair at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. During this time, the chair has spunout eight start-ups: Systemonic, Radioplan, Signalion, InCircuit, Dresden Silicon, Freedelity, RadioOpt, Blue Wonder Communications.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Onsite Registration
  5 April 2009
 
Tutorials
   5 April 2009
 
Welcome Reception
   5 April 2009
 
Keynote Presentation
  Andrea J. Goldsmith

  6 April 2009
 
Technical & Panel
  Sessions

  6 - 8 April 2009
 
Evening Panel
   6 April 2009
 
Keynote Presentation
  Gerhard Fettweis

  7 April 2009





ANDREA J. GOLDSMITH
Stanford University

Robert

GERHARD FETTWEIS
Vodafone Chair
TU Dresden