Guest Speakers

Title: "Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade"

Dr. Ian F. Akyildiz
Broadband and Wireless Networking Lab
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Final Presentation: Ian_F_Akyildiz_WiMob2005.zip

Abstract:

Key technologies such as Wireless Sensor Networks, Sensor and Actor networks, WiMAX, Wireless Mesh Networks, Hybrid Networks, will be presented and several research challenges will be highlighted. Predictions about the wireless technology development for the next decade will be listed.

Biography:

IAN F. AKYILDIZ is the Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor and Director of Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology since 20 years. Professor Akyildiz is Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, and Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) journal.

Professor Akyildiz is an IEEE Fellow (1995), an ACM Fellow (1996). He received several IEEE and ACM Awards including IEEE Leonard Abraham Best paper award from IEEE JSAC in 1997, IEEE Best Tutorial paper award in 2003, IEEE Harry Goode Memorial Award (IEEE Computer Society), 2003 ACM SIGMOBILE award for his pioneering contributions in mobility and resource management in wireless networks, ACM Best Distinguished Lecturer Award in 1994, Georgia Tech Faculty Research Author Award in 2004 and School of ECE/Georgia Tech Distinguished Faculty Award in 2005.

Dr. Akyildiz guest edited several special issues and organized many leading conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM 1998, IEEE ICC 2003, ACM MOBICOM 1996 and 2002 and many others. His current research interests are Wireless Sensor Networks, Next Generation Wireless Networks and Interplanetary Internet.
 

Prof. David Haccoun
Department of Electrical Engineering
École Polytechnique de Montréal

Final Presentation: David_Haccoun_WiMob2005.zip

Abstract:

The talk will cover basic concepts and elements of error control coding, highlighting the advantages of using error control coding to improve the reliability and efficiency of communications links. The theoretical limits of coding and their trade-offs are presented together with some examples of classical (i.e. non iterative) error control systems.

The 1993 breakthrough of Parallel Concatenated Codes (Turbo Codes) and iterative decoding are presented, including the coding and decoding structures, interleavers, implementation complexity, decoding latency and error performance bounds.

Finally a novel class of Convolutional Self-Doubly–Orthogonal Codes (CSO2C) which can be decoded using a very simple iterative threshold decoding algorithm is presented. No interleaver is used at neither the encoder nor the decoder, substantially reducing the implementation complexity and allowing very high speeds while providing excellent error performances.

Biography:

DAVID HACCOUN received the Engineer and B.A.Sc. degrees (Magna Cum Laude) in Engineering Physics from École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, Canada,in 1965, the S.M. degree in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T., Cambridge, MA,in 1966, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1974.

Since 1966 he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, where he is Professor of Electrical Engineering, since 1980. He was the founding Head of the Communication and Computer Section in 1980. He was a Visiting Research Professor at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, INRIA Laboratories, Paris, France, Ecole de Technologie Supérieure in Montreal, the University of Victoria, Victoria ,Canada,and at the Advanced Study Institute of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. From 1990 to 2002, he was a Researcher at the Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research, under the National Centers of Excellence of the Government of Canada. His research interests include communication theory, theory and applications of error-control coding, wireless mobile and personal communications, and digital communications systems by satellite. He is the author or co-author of a large number of journal papers and conferences papers in these areas. He holds a US patent on an Error Control Technique, is a co-author of the books The Communications Handbook ( CRC Press, 1997 and IEEE Press, 2001), The Encyclopedia of Telecommunications ( J.Wiley, 2003), and Digital Communications by Satellite: Modulation, Multiple-Access and Coding (J.Wiley, 1981). A Japanese translation of that book was published in 1984.

Dr Haccoun is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada ,and Member of the Order of Engineers of Quebec, Canada ; Sigma Xi ;The New York Academy of Sciences; the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. He is a Member of the Board of the Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada, and of the Telecommunications Engineering Management Institute of Canada, Montreal, Canada.
 

Title: "Some Aspects of the Future of Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications"

Dr. Pierre Boucher
Director of the Ericsson Research Centre
Ericsson Research Canada

Final Presentation: Pierre_Boucher_WiMob2005.zip