- Princeton University
Abstract:
During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, telecommunications
underwent revolutionary changes as first the telegraph, and then the
telephone, emerged and transitioned to wireless transmission. Now, at
the advent of the Twenty-First Century, an even more revolutionary
transition is taking place as the Internet moves into the wireless
domain. Like its predecessors, today's wireless revolution is being
made possible by major strides in electro-technology. In particular,
the current drive to push system capacity, quality of service, and
mobility, well beyond their preconceived limits, is being enabled by
striking innovations in signal processing methods and technology. This
talk will provide an overview of these developments in the context of
their impact on emerging and future wireless communications
applications such mobile multimedia communications, wireless broadband,
and sensor networks.
Bio:
H. Vincent Poor (Ph.D., Princeton 1977) is the George Van Ness Lothrop
Professor in Engineering at Princeton University, where he is engaged
in research and teaching in the areas of communications and signal
processing with applications in a variety of fields, including wireless
networking. He is the author of more than 500 publications in these
areas, including the recent book, "Wireless Communication Systems:
Advanced Techniques for Signal Reception."
Dr. Poor is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and is a
Fellow of the IEEE, the Optical Society of America, and other
organizations. In 1990, he served as President of the IEEE Information
Theory Society. He has recently received the NSF Director’s Award
(2002) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002-03). He is currently on
sabbatical leave from Princeton, dividing the year among Imperial
College, Stanford and Harvard.
