SEMI-ANNUAL RESEARCH REVIEW PRESENTATIONS

November 4 - 5, 2004 Eucalyptus Point, UCSD

• November 4, 2004
• November 5, 2004
  
  

November 4, 2004

"Smart" Sensor Networks for Visual Context Capture and Interactivity
8:00 AM - 9:20 AM

• "Networked Sensor Tapestry (NeST) Architecture based Sensory Information Capture”"
  Speaker: Anh Nguyen (Advisor: Professor Mohan Trivedi)
• “Hardware friendly phase-correlation motion estimation”"
  Speaker: Sanjeev Kumar (Advisor: Professor Truong Nguyen)
• “Preliminary Results for Energy-Efficient Routing”"
  Speaker: Vinod Menon (Advisor: Professor Tony Acampora)
• “On the channel estimation errors on the performance of wireless scheduling protocols”"
  Speaker: Minkui Liu (Advisor: Professor Ramesh Rao)
• “Adaptive Transmission Scheduling for Energy-Efficient Wireless Networks”"
  Speaker: Arvind Santhanam (Advisor: Professor Rene Cruz)
• “Model-based Error Correction in Wireless Sensor Networks”"
  Speakers: Shoubhik Mukhopadhyay and Debashis Panigrahi (Advisor: Professor Sujit Dey)

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Error-Resilient Multimedia Communications for Wireless Channels
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

• "Network Routing Capacity"
  Speaker: Jill Cannons (Advisor: Professor Kenneth Zeger)
• "Multivariate Interpolation Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes beyond the Guruswami-Sudan Radius"
  Speaker: Farzad Parvaresh (Advisor: Professor Alexander Vardy)
• "The performance of a Java-based speech recognizer"
  Speaker: Nikola Jevtic (Advisor: Professor Alon Orlitsky)

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High-Bandwidth Wireless Spaces
10:40 AM - 12:00 PM

• "Overview and System Software for High-Bandwidth Wireless Spaces"
  Speaker: Professor Joe Pasquale
• "A New Distributed MIMO Approach for Smart Space Networks"
  Speaker: Professor Anthony Acampora
• "High speed Transport and a Driving Application"
  Speaker: Apurva Sharma (Advisor: Professor Andrew Chien)
• "Context Visualization Environment (CoVE) for Telepresence"
  Speakers: Tasha Vanesian and Evan Schumacher (Advisor: Professor Mohan Trivedi)
• "Silicon-based Millimeterwave Transceiver Circuits for 60 GHz GBPS Communications"
  Speaker: Rahul Kodkani (Advisor: Professor Larry Larson)

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Ultra-Wideband Technology
1:00 PM - 2:20 PM

• "Spectral-Encoded UWB Communication Systems: Channel Estimation in the Presence of Narrow-Band Interference"
  Speaker: Claudio da Silva (Advisor: Professor Laurence Milstein)
• "Performance of UWB Systems with Beamforming for Interference Mitigation"
  Speaker: Matteo Sabattini (Advisor: Professor Laurence Milstein)
• "UWB Ad-hoc Networks: Resent Results and Future Directions"
  Speaker: Professor Anthony Acampora
• "A coding technique for spectral shaping of Ultra-Wideband Pulse position Modulated Signals"
  Speaker: Joe Jamp (Advisor: Professor Larry Larson)
• "A CMOS Receiver for Multi-Band OFDM Based UWB Systems"
  Speaker: Mahim Ranjan (Advisor: Professor Larry Larson)

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Application & Network-Aware Multi-Layer Adaptation of Wireless Protocols & Architectures
2:30 PM - 3:50 PM

• "Introduction"
  Speaker: Sujit Dey
• "Dynamic Platform Management for Configurable Platform-Based System-on-Chips"
  Speaker: Krishna Sekar (Advisor: Professor Sujit Dey)
• "An Architecture for Multi-Access Services in HeterogeneousWireless Networks"
  Speaker: Kameswari Chebrolu (Advisor: Professor Ramesh Rao)
• "Dynamic Adaptations to Improve Quality of Service Provisioning in 802.11e Networks"
  Speaker: Naomi Ramos (Advisor: Professor Sujit Dey)
• "Analytical Model for CSMA-based Wireless Networks"
  Speaker: Eric Wong (Advisor: Professor Rene Cruz)

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Mobile OFDM Communications
4:00 PM - 5:20 PM

• "New results in OFDM-PM: Continuous phase, noncoherent reception, and flat fading"
  Speaker: Steve Thompson (Advisor: James Zeidler)
• "Analysis of modified polynomial channel estimation for OFDM systems in time-dispersive fading channels"
  Speaker: Ron Wang (Advisors: Professor John Proakis and Professor James Zeidler)
• "Comparison of multicarrier techniques"
  Speaker: Andrew Ling (Advisor: Professor Laurence Milstein)
• "Radix-2^2 IntFFT VLSI architecture"
  Speaker: Wei-Hsin Chang (Advisor: Professor Truong Nguyen)

November 5, 2004

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Low-Power Mixed-Signal Circuits for Wireless Transceivers
8:00 AM - 9:20 AM

• "Techniques for Low-Power High-Performance Fractional-N Synthesis"
  Speaker: Ashok Swaminathan (Advisor: Professor Ian Galton)
• "Wide Bandwidth/High Accuracy/Wide Dynamic Range RF Power Detectors"
  Speaker: Marcus Pan (Advisor: Professor Larry Larson)
• "High Performance Monolithic RF Filters Using Bond Wire Inductors"
  Speaker: Himanshu Khatri (Advisor: Professor Larry Larson)

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Digitally Controlled Transmitters for Next Generation Communications Systems
9:30 AM - 10:50 AM

• "Dual Dynamic Bias Control and Memoryless Digital Predistortion for WCDMA Handset Power Amplifiers"
  Speaker: Junxiong Deng (Advisor: Professor Larry Larson)
• "Experimental Assessment of the Limits of Predistortion"
  Speaker: Paul Draxler (Advisor: Professor Peter Asbeck)
• "Measurement of Load Impedance for Adaptive Amplifiers"
  Speaker: Dr. Dongjiang Qiao (Collaborator: Professor Peter Asbeck)
• "FPGA-Based Digital Generation of Microwave Signals"
  Speaker: Jeremy Rode (Advisor: Professor Peter Asbeck)

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MIMO Wireless Communication Systems
11:00 AM - 12:20 PM

• "Capacity Analysis of MIMO Systems with Unknown Channel State Information"
  Speaker: Jun Zheng (Advisor: Professor Bhaskar Rao)
• "A Low Complexity MIMO-OFDM Transmission System"
  Speaker: Carson Pun (Advisor: Professor Truong Nguyen)
• "An Agenda for Research in Cooperative Transmission"
  Speaker: Yoav Nebat (Advisor: Professor Rene Cruz)
• "On Signal Detection at the Downlink of a Multi-cell, Multi-antenna TDD-CDMA System"
  Speaker: Yiannis Spyropoulos (Advisor: Professor James Zeidler)
• "Effect of Channel Estimation Errors on Transceiver Optimization for Correlated MIMO Rayleigh Channels"
  Speaker: Preeti Nagvanshi (Advisors: Professor Elias Masry and Laurence Milstein)

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