[CPCC] TALK: "WI-FI: WHAT'S NEXT" PAUL S. HENRY, AT&T LABS-RESEARCH

[Ender Ayanoglu]

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

		           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.