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- Emergence of Wireless LAN-PAN-HAN Industry |
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Speakers
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Kaveh
Palhavan, Professor of ECE and CS, Director
of Center for Wireless Information Network Studies,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609
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Duration
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1/2
Day
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Start
Time
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9h00 |
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Abstract
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Broadband
ad-hoc wireless network industry started with the
introduction of wireless LAN in the early 1980's
to respond to the increasing number of computer
terminals in the offices and manufacturing floors
and the need to interconnect these terminals. In
the recent years increasing number of terminals
in the home environment has created a new wave of
interest to broadband indoor networks for in-home
applications that are referred to as wireless home
area networks (HAN). In addition wireless personal
area networks (PAN) have added a new dimension to
wideband local access, which has opened a window
of opportunity for a number of innovative applications
to emerge. This tutorial provides an understanding
of the forces behind the evolution of the wireless
LAN-HAN-PAN market and technologies from the early
days of its infancy up to its current sudden growth.
The course starts with wireless LANs from the point
of view of the computer communication industry,
military, and telecommunication service providers.
Then it explains the existing IEEE 802.11 technologies
and trends in HIPERLAN-2 and IEEE 802.15 WPAN for
Bluetooth and HomeRF. The short course also addresses
evolving location aware services and indoor geolocation
as well as interference between Bluetooth and 802.11.
The textbook for the course is the Principles of
Wireless Networks – A Unified Approach, K. Pahlavan
and P. Krishnamurthy, Prentice Hall, 2002. The material
presented in the course provides an overview of
the industry and most of this material has been
presented as keynote speeches in a number of conferences.
The details of the technical material are covered
in the five last chapters of the book.
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Short
Biography of the Speaker(s):
Kaveh Pahlavan, is a Professor of ECE, a Professor of CS,
and Director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies,
Worcester Polytechnic Intitute, Worcester, MA. He is also a visiting
Professor of Telecommunication Laboratory and CWC, University
of Oulu, Finland. His area of research is broadband wireless indoor
networks. He has contributed to numerous seminal technical publications
in this field. He is the principal author of the Wireless Information
Networks, John Wiley and Sons, 1995. He has been a consultant
to a number companies including CNR Inc, GTE Laboratories, Steinbrecher
Corp., Simplex, Mercurry Computers, WINDATA , SieraComm, 3COM,
and Codex/Motorola in Massachusetts; JPL, Savi Technologies, RadioLAN
in California, Airnoet in Ohio, United Technology Research Center
in Connecticut, Honeywell in Arizona; Nokia, LK-Products, Elektrobit,
TEKES, and Finnish Academy in Finland, and NTT in Japan. Before
joining WPI, he was the director of advanced development at Infinite
Inc., Andover, Mass. working on data communications. He started
his career as an assistant Professor at Northeastern University,
Boston, MA. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal
on Wireless Information Networks. He was the founder, the program
chairman and organizer of the IEEE Wireless LAN Workshop, Worcester,
in 1991 and 1996 and the organizer and technical program chairman
of the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile
Radio Communications, Boston, MA, 1992 and 1998. He has also been
selected as a member of the Committee on Evolution of Untethered
Communication, US National Research Council, 1997 and has lead
the US review team for the Finnish R&D Programs in Electronic
and Telecommunication in 1999. For his contributions to the wireless
networks he was the Westin Hadden Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at WPI during 1993-1996, was elected as a
fellow of the IEEE in 1996 and become a fellow of Nokia in 1999.
From May of December of 2000 he was the first Fulbright-Nokia
scholar at the University of Oulu, Finland. Because of his inspiring
visionary publications and his international conference activities
for the growth of the wireless LAN industry he is referred to
as one of the founding fathers of the wireless LAN industry. Details
of his contributions to this field are available at www.cwins.wpi.edu.
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