[UCI-Calit2] CPCC Distinguished Seminar -- Friday, Jan. 14

[Anna Lynn Spitzer]

Title: Information and Inference in the Wireless Physical Layer

 

Speaker: Prof. Vincent Poor, Princeton University

 

Date: Friday Jan. 14, 2011 

 

Time: 11 a.m. (Refreshments will be served at 10:45)

 

Venue: Donald Bren Hall, Room 6011

 

ABSTRACT

 

Wireless networking applications continue to motivate challenging
problems in information theory, signal processing and other fields. A
salient feature of wireless networks is the close interaction between
the physical layer and the other networking layers. This phenomenon is a
result of the principal distinguishing features of wireless, namely
mobility and the importance of physical properties (diffusion,
interference, fading and radio geometry) in determining link
characteristics. For example, the applications layer interacts
considerably with the physical layer, as is well known through the
importance of quality-of-service in wireless network design. This talk
will explore briefly four research areas, primarily involving
information theoretic or inferential problems, each of which is
motivated by an applications-layer issue. In particular, the four
applications of file transfer, inference, real-time multimedia
transmission, and social networking, will be used to motivate
consideration of four respective research problems involving the
physical layer: physical layer security in data networks, distributed
inference in sensor networks, finite-blocklength capacity in multimedia
networks, and connectivity in small-world networks. Recent progress in
each of these four research areas will be reviewed.

 

SPEAKER'S BIOGRAPHY

 

H. Vincent Poor is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of
Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he is also dean of
the School of Engineering and Applied Science. His current research
interests lie primarily in the area of wireless networking and related
fields. Among his publications in these areas are the recent books
Quickest Detection (Cambridge, 2009) and Information Theoretic Security
(NOW, 2009). Poor is a member of the National Academy of Engineering,
and is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences,
and the Royal Academy of Engineering of the U.K. He has served as
president of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and as editor-in-chief
of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. In 2005, he received the
IEEE Education Medal. Recent recognition of this work includes the 2009
Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award of the IEEE Communications
Society, the 2010 IET Ambrose Fleming Medal for Achievement in
Communications and the 2011 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award.

 

Sponsored by the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing. For
more information, contact Hamid Jafarkhani, 949-824-1755,
hamidj at uci.edu. 

 

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