ECE Graduate Seminar - Dr. Andrew Klein, WPI
Cooperative Diversity: Overcoming Throughput & Reliability Bottlenecks in Wireless Networks
Date: Wednesday, Spetember 26, 2007
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: Atwater Kent, room 232
Abstract:
Multipath fading is one of the chief impairments to reliable communication in mobile wireless networks, and the key to overcome fading is through diversity. We will discuss traditional diversity techniques, along with some of their shortcomings. Then, we will show how cooperation among radios can enable gains in throughput and reliability. After a tutorial introduction to cooperative communications, several specific topics of interest in the area of cooperative radios will be presented. In addition, we will talk broadly about the mathematical tools and courses which are useful for conducting research in this area, as well as the broader areas of signal processing, communications theory, information theory, and networking.
Professor Klein received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Ph.D. degree from Cornell University. He has worked at several Silicon Valley wireless startup companies, including ComSilica (now Broadcom) from 2000-2001. Recently, he was the recipient of a Chateaubriand Scientific Fellowship as a postdoctoral researcher at LSS/Supelec, outside Paris, France. His current research interests include cooperative communication networks, free-space optical communications, adaptive parameter estimation, and statistical signal processing for wireless communications.
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