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Cooperative and Opportunistic Communication
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| Speaker
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Dr. Behnaam Aazhang
Center for Multimedia Communication (CMC), Rice University, Houston, USA
Center for Wireless Communications (CWC) University of Oulu, Finland
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| Day and Time
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007, 11:00 a.m.
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| Location
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ENG LG21 (Lower Ground level), George Vari Centre for Engineering and Computing
(ENG building that is located at the south east corner of Church and Gould Streets)
Ryerson University
245 Church Street, Toronto
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| Organizer
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Communications Chapter |
| Contact
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Xavier Fernando, E-mail:
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| Abstract
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Within the last ten years, there has been a cultural shift from wired landlocked connectivity to pervasive wireless information access. Most mobile devices are now equipped with some form of embedded wireless radio. The market demands for high data rates and increased battery longevity have put tremendous pressure on all aspects of wireless system design. To meet the challenges of next generation wireless system, we need fundamentally new methods to exploit all available dimensions of communication channels as well as network.
Over the last few years, our research group at Rice has focused on emerging systems and network level techniques to increase spectral and power efficiency of communication systems, and extend coverage of wireless networks. The cooperative and opportunistic communication paradigm pools distributed resources of different nodes, such that nodes act like a collaborative system instead of greedy adversarial participants. In this talk, I will first present the cooperative and opportunistic communication methodology and discuss its merits and challenges. The approach will be information theoretic and will consider coding, channel state information, feedback, scheduling, and medium access. I will then present our research contributions in opportunistic wireless network protocols and cooperative coding. I will conclude with our development plans to demonstrate the feasibility of cooperation in the context of a scalable experimental wireless system for mobile broadband Internet.
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| Biography
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Behnaam Aazhang received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In August 1985, he joined the faculty of Rice University, Houston, Texas, where he is now the J.S. Abercrombie Professor, and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In addition, he holds an Academy of Finland Distinguished Visiting Professorship appointment (FiDiPro) at the University of Oulu in Finland. Dr. Aazhang is a Fellow of IEEE, a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Communication Society and also a recipient of 2004 IEEE Communication Society’s Stephen O. Rice best paper award for a paper.
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