[CPCC] TALK: Vincent Poor February 18 at 5 PM

[Ender Ayanoglu]

California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
                The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
          Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing

                         Distinguished Speaker

                           H. Vincent Poor
                  George Van Ness Lothrop Professor
                        Princeton University

                         February 18, 2004
                             Wednesday
               McDonnell-Douglas Engineering Auditorium
                                5 PM


          SIGNAL PROCESSING IN COMMUNICATIONS: ISSUES AND TRENDS


Abstract:

Rapidly escalating demands for higher capacity and advanced services in
communication networks are forecast for the foreseeable future.  Advanced
signal processing is one of the primary enablers that will allow these
demands to be met, especially in the shared channels that are increasingly
used in wireless and broadband networks.  This talk will discuss some of
the primary challenges arising in this context, and the principal areas
of research that are addressing these challenges.  In particular, using
the framework of multiuser detection,  issues and recent developments in
four key areas will be discussed: turbo processing,
multiple-input/multiple-
output (MIMO) systems, cross-layer design, and quantum communications.


Speaker's Biography:

H. Vincent Poor (Ph.D., Princeton 1977) is the George Van Ness Lothrop
Professor in Engineering at Princeton University. Prior to joining the
Princeton faculty in 1990, he was on the faculty of the University of
Illinois from 1977.  His primary research interests are in the area of
statistical signal processing, particularly as applied to wireless
communication networks.  Among his publications in this area is the
recent book, Wireless Communication Systems: Advanced Techniques for
Signal Reception (Prentice-Hall, 2004).

Dr. Poor is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and is a
Fellow of the IEEE and other organizations. He is currently on sabbatical
leave as a Guggenheim Fellow, dividing his time among Imperial College,
Stanford and Harvard.


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