[UCI-CalIT2] Seminar March 20 --- Wi-Fi: What's Next?

[Stuart A ROSS]

The Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing,
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering,
The Department of EECS, and 
Cal-(IT)2 UCI Division
                
PRESENT
                             Distinguished Speaker

                              Dr. Paul S. Henry
               Head, Broadband Wireless Systems Research Division
                         AT&T Laboratories -- Research

                               March 20, 2003
                                   1:30 PM
                        McDonnell Douglas Auditorium


                             "WI-FI: WHAT'S NEXT?"


Wi-Fi, also known as 802.11b, has become the preferred technology for
wireless local area networking in both business and home environments. Even
though it was designed primarily for private applications, Wi-Fi is also
being deployed in public places to create so-called hotspots, where Wi-Fi
capable users can obtain broadband Internet access.  This new domain of
application could be the major future market opportunity for Wi-Fi, but in
order to take advantage of it, several key challenges, both technical and
business-related, must be overcome.  In this talk I will outline these
challenges and discuss approaches to solutions.


Speaker's Biography:
Dr. Henry received his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Harvard and
Princeton University, respectively.

Since 1970, Dr. Henry has been with AT&T (Bell) Laboratories, engaged in
research on communications networks and circuits as well as radio astronomy
instrumentation. He is currently Head of the Broadband Wireless Systems
Research Division in Middletown, NJ, where his research interests focus on
bringing high-speed Internet connectivity to mobile and portable computers.

He served as a Technical Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, a Guest
Editor for the Journal of Lightwave Technology and has published papers or
patented inventions in several fields, including wireless systems, data
security, millimeter-wave radio techniques and cosmology.  He is a Fellow of
the IEEE and was a Traveling Lecturer for the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics
Society as well as Keynote Speaker at IEEE Infocom 2002.