Enabling Green Communication in Future Generation of Cooperative and Cognitive Wireless Systems

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Joint Seminar
Electronic & Computer Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering Department
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Speaker:	Professor Vijay K. Bhargava
		University of British Columbia
		Vancouver, Canada
		President-Elect, IEEE Communications Society

Title:		"Enabling Green Communication in Future Generation of
		 Cooperative and Cognitive Wireless Systems"

Date:		Thursday, 16 Dec 2010

Time:		11:00am - 12:00noon

Venue:		Rm 2303 (via lifts 17-18), HKUST

Abstract:

In this talk, we present techniques to enable green communications in 
future generation of wireless systems that will rely on cooperation and 
cognition to meet increasing demand of high data rate. So far, achieving 
high data rate has been the primary focus of research in cooperative and 
CR systems, without much consideration of energy ef.ciency. However, many 
of these techniques significantly increase system complexity and energy 
consumption. Escalating energy costs and environmental concerns have 
already created an urgent need for more energy-ef.cient "green" wireless 
communications. Therefore, we have to be proactive in designing 
energy-ef.cient solutions for cooperative and cognitive networks, which 
will potentially drive the future generation of wireless communication. In 
this talk, we plan to address the energy consumption issues while meeting 
growing data rate requirements in these networks. We focus on several 
important topics that are crucial towards reducing the energy consumption 
of the cognitive and cooperative networks. These topics include low energy 
spectrum sensing, energy ef.cient resource management, energy aware medium 
access control and routing, and ef.cient cross layer design. Further, we 
will discuss various uncertainty issues that need to be taken into 
consideration while addressing energy ef.ciency in these systems.

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BIOGRAPHY:

Vijay Bhargava, an IEEE volunteer for three decades, is Professor in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of
British Columbia in Vancouver, where he served as Department Head during
2003-2008. Previously he was with the University of Victoria (1984-2003)
and Concordia University (1976-84). He received his Ph.D. from Queen's
University. As a distinguished speaker for the IEEE Communications
Society, the IEEE Information Theory Society and as a senior level IEEE
volunteer, he has lectured in 66 countries and assisted IEEE Presidents in
negotiating sister society agreements in India, Japan and Russia. He has
rudimentary knowledge of several languages and is an eager student of
different cultures and societies.

Vijay served as the Founder and President of "Binary Communications Inc."
(1983-2000). He has provided consulting services to several companies and
government agencies. He is a co-author (with D. Haccoun, R. Matyas and P.
Nuspl) of "Digital Communications by Satellite" (New York: Wiley: 1981)
which was translated in Chinese and Japanese. He is a co-editor (with S.
Wicker) of "Reed Solomon Codes and their Applications" (IEEE Press: 1994),
a co-editor (with V. Poor, V. Tarokh and S. Yoon) of "Communications,
Information and Network Security" (Kluwer: 2003) a co-editor (with E.
Hossain) of "Cognitive Wireless Communication Networks" (Springer: 2007)
and a co-editor (with E. Hossain and D.I Kim) of "Cooperative Wireless
Communications Networks", a forthcoming Cambridge University Press
Publication.

Vijay has served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory
Society and the IEEE Communications Society. He has held important
positions in these societies and has organized conferences such as
ISIT'95, ICC'99, VTC 2002 Fall. He has served as an Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Communications. He played a major role in the creation of
the IEEE Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) and IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications, for which he served as the
editor-in-chief during 2007, 2008 and 2009. In 2010, he was appointed for
a two year term as the IEEE Communications Society Director of Journals.
He is a past President of the IEEE Information Theory Society.

Vijay Bhargava has been elected to serve as IEEE Communications Society
President-Elect during 2011 and as President during 2012 and 2013.