ECE Graduate Seminar - Dr. Alexander Wyglinski, WPI
Cognitive Radio To The Rescue! How The Wireless Frontier Will Be Won
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Atwater Kent, Room 232
Abstract:
Wireless communication networks have become an integral part of modern society. Due to the growth of this sector, both in terms of the number of end users as well as the plethora of different communication standards available for a wide variety of applications, the wireless industry is beginning to face several serious problems: (1) interoperability, and (2) radio spectrum scarcity. One technology that can resolve these issues is “cognitive radio.” In this presentation, an overview tutorial of cognitive radio technology will be provided, highlighting advances made with respect to agile data transmission, spectrum sensing, real-life hardware implementations, and transceiver optimization techniques. Following this, several cognitive radio research projects currently underway in the Wireless Innovation Laboratory at WPI will be covered. Finally, a list of ECE courses relevant to pursuing research in this field is presented.
Dr. Alexander M. Wyglinski is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. degree from McGill University in 2005, his M.S. degree from Queen's University at Kingston in 2000, and his B.Eng. degree from McGill University in 1999, all in electrical engineering. He is currently a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Professor Wyglinski is very actively involved in the wireless communications research community, especially in the fields of cognitive radio systems and dynamic spectrum access networks. He was a guest editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Cognitive Radio for Dynamic Spectrum Access (May 2007 issue), as well as a technical program committee co-chair for the Second International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CrownCom 2007). He currently serves on the editorial boards of both the IEEE Communications Magazine and the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, as a Technical Program Committee Vice-Chair (Land-Mobile Radio) for the 66th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), and as a technical program committee member on several IEEE and other international conferences in wireless communications and networks.
Professor Wyglinski's current research interests are in the areas of wireless communications, wireless networks, cognitive radios, software-defined radios, transceiver optimization algorithms, dynamic spectrum. access networks, spectrum sensing techniques, and signal processing techniques for digital communications.
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