Multigigabit Wireless Multimedia Communications: Future and Core Technologies

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Joint Seminar
Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineeering
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
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Title:	"Multigigabit Wireless Multimedia Communications: Future and Core
	Technologies"

Professor Vijay K. Bhargava, FRSC, FIEEE
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Candidate for IEEE Communications Society President-Elect


Date	:  	20 May 2010 (Thu)
Time 	:  	11:00am - 12:noon
Venue 	:  	Classroom 2502 (2/F Lifts 25-26),HKUST


*Abstract:*

The millimeter wave technology has been known for several decades but was 
mainly used for military communications. In this presentation we 
specifically focus on 60 GHz band as recently a massive unlicensed 
spectrum up to 9GHz has been allocated worldwide in this band for civilian 
communication. This spectrum is a very promising candidate for 
multigigabit wireless transmission systems including wireless personal 
area network (WPAN) as well as Wireless local area network (WLAN) usage. 
The effective interference level in this band is less severe then those 
WLAN systems deployed in the congested WiFi bands (2-2.5 GHz and 5-5.8 
GHz). As a result, higher frequency reuse can be achieved, leading to a 
very high throughput network. After summarizing the current status of 
standardization activities for 60 GHz band we will focus on a series of 
technical challenges that need to be resolved before the full deployment 
of multigigabit wireless multimedia communications. These include 60 GHz 
propagation and antennas, CMOS circuit design, modulation schemes, 
LDPC-based error correction schemes and MAC layer design.

*Biography:*

*Vijay Bhargava*, an IEEE volunteer for three decades is a 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. He has held short term visiting appointments at the University 
of Hong Kong and the City University of Hong Kong. Twice, during his 
sabbatical year, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong 
University of Science and Technology.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of 
the Royal Society of Canada. Vijay has served as the IEEE Vice President 
for Regional Activities Board, now known as Member and Geographic 
Activities (MGA) Board. During his tenure the program known as Graduates 
of the Last Decade (GOLD) was conceived and he assisted IEEE Presidents in 
negotiating sister society agreements in India, Japan and Russia. He 
assisted IEEE Hong Kong Section in the establishment of their Information 
Theory Chapter Vijay 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 2007-2009. 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 is a candidate for 
IEEE Communications Society President-Elect in the forthcoming election.