Wireless “WHITE SPACE” PRESENTATION: San Diego IEEE Meeting topic for July 16
| June 30, 2014 | Posted by Frank Gomez under CN, COMSOC, CS, EDCAS, MTT/APS |
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To All Our IEEE Foothill Section members, especially those interested in Communications (ComSoc):
Here is information about an upcoming event in San Diego IEEE Section that should be of interest to you. It looks at the possible usage of so-called “white spaces” which are located between allocated bands in the RF spectrum that are currently used for wireless communication, and other communication. Cognitive radio has, as one of its goals, to set up a system whereby this “white space could be used” on a time shared basis. Questions to be addressed are (1) what would be the architectures, procedures and protocols for sharing this “white space”, and (2) who would be the Traffic Cop to enforce these rule? So we recommend that you attend this meeting to gather pertinent information on this “timely” topic.
Please contact Dr Murat Karsi, San Diego BTS Chapter Chair (mkarsi@ieee.org
(760)-419-8524) for further meeting information.
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2014
WhiteSpace Communications
From Rural Broadband to Cognitive M2M
Speaker: Dr. Apurva Mody,
Chairman, IEEE 802.22 WG WRAN
Chairman, Whitespace Alliance
IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and Communication Society San Diego Chapters Technical Meeting
Program:
Regulators all over the world have realized the importance of WhiteSpaces. WhiteSpaces are the un-used or under-utilized portions of the spectrum. There is an on-going debate on licensed vs license-exempt use of this spectrum. Currently 73% of the people in the world do not have internet access. Nearly 3.5 Billion people live in rural areas with hardly any internet availability. License-exempt use of WhiteSpaces enabled through Cognitive Radio (CR) technology has the potential to change all that and benefit many emerging economies. Other Machine to Machine (M2M) applications will drive up the volumes. WhiteSpace spectrum can support a wide variety of applications including regional and rural area broadband access, local area networks, hot-spots, health-care applications, cellular off-load, smart utility networks, remote control and monitoring applications, home-land security, disaster-recovery, IPTV etc. Skeptics exist but recently, CR related research has seen an explosive growth all over the world, and software radio defined test-beds and prototypes are being tested and deployed in many parts of the world already. This talk will focus on IEEE 802.22 (Wi-FAR) Standard and WhiteSpace Alliance activities to promote the eco-system by conducting pilot programs as well as other regulatory outreach activities.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Apurva N. Mody (apurva.mody@ieee.org) is the Chairman of IEEE 802.22 Working Group (WG) on Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRANs) (www.ieee802.org/22). He is also the Chairman of the Whitespace Alliance (www.WhiteSpaceAlliance.org). The IEEE 802.22 Wi-FARTM Standards will support Cognitive Radio (CR) based use of the TV Band WhiteSpaces to enable regional and rural broadband wireless access serving more than 3.5 Billion people. Other Machine to Machine applications will drive the volumes. Under Dr. Mody’ s leadership, the IEEE 802.22 WG is the recipient of the IEEE SA Emerging Technology Award. Dr. Mody received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. His research was based on Receiver Implementation for Multiple Input Multiple Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Systems. Dr. Mody was granted five patents through his Ph. D. research. Since June 2005, he has been also performing research on Cognitive Radio systems. Dr. Mody has contributed to the field of Machine Learning based Cognitive Communications in White as well as Gray Spaces, feature based spectrum sensing, signal classification, co-existence techniques, security for CR based systems, information fusion, game theoretical decision making, policy based management etc. Dr. Mody has played a pivotal role in growing the expertise and market share for his company on CR, Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) related programs. Dr. Mody has been a key contributor on many programs and invited speaker at many Government and commercial events. Dr. Mody has published more than 50 conference and journal publications and is an author of more than 15 US and international patents.
Dr. Mody is the Senior Member of the IEEE, President’ s Fellow while at Georgia Tech, Member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu Honor Societies.
Location:
InterDigital San Diego
9710 Scranton Road, Suite 250
San Diego, CA 92121
Date & Time:
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
6:30 – 7:00 PM – Networking, Food and Refreshments
7:00 – 8:30 PM – Presentation and Q&A.
RSVP:
RSVP is required for attendance. Space is limited.
RSVP : https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_registration/register/26985
Questions:
Murat Karsi,
San Diego BTS Chapter Chair
mkarsi@ieee.org
(760)-419-8524
Cost:
Free for IEEE members, $5 for non-members
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