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SUMMARY:IEEE VDL: Localization in Drone Assisted and Vehicular Networks
DESCRIPTION:Join the IEEE Kingston Communications Society Chapter for the Virtual Distinguished Lecture: Localization in Drone Assisted and Vehicular Networks\, presented by Shahrokh Valaee. \nContact: IEEE Kingston ComSoc \nAbstract: \nThe next generation of wireless systems will employ networking equipment mounted on mobile platforms\, unmanned air vehicles (UAV)\, and low orbit satellites. As a result\, the topology of 6G wireless technology will extend to 3D vertical networking. With its extended service\, 6G will also give rise to new challenges which include\, the introduction of intelligent reflective surfaces (IRS)\, the mmWave spectrum\, the employment of massive MIMO systems\, and the agility of networks. Along with the advancement in networking technology\, user devices are also evolving rapidly\, with the emergence of highly capable cellphones\, smart IoT equipment\, and wearable devices. One of the key elements of 6G technology is the need for accurate positioning information. The accuracy of today’s positioning systems is not acceptable for many applications of future\, especially in smart environments. In this talk\, we will discuss how positioning can be a key enabler of 6G\, and what challenges the next generation of localization technology will face when integrated within the new wireless networks. \nSpeaker(s): Shahrokh Valaee \nBiography: Shahrokh Valaee is a Professor with the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Toronto\, and the holder of Nortel Chair of Network Architectures and Services. He is the Founder and the Director of the Wireless and Internet Research Laboratory (WIRLab) at the University of Toronto. Professor Valaee was the TPC Co-Chair and the Local Organization Chair of the IEEE Personal Mobile Indoor Radio Communication (PIMRC) Symposium 2011. He was the TCP Chair of PIMRC2017\, the Track Co-Chair of WCNC 2014\, the TPC Co-Chair of ICT 2015. He has been the guest editor for various journals. He was a Track Co-chair for PIMRC 2020 and VTC Fall 2020. From December 2010 to December 2012\, he was the Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. From 2010 to 2015\, he served as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Currently\, he is an Editor of Journal of Computer and System Science. Professor Valaee is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada\, and a Fellow of IEEE.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ieee-vdl-localization-in-drone-assisted-and-vehicular-networks/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210527T120000
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SUMMARY:Integrated Terrestrial-Aerial-Satellite Networks: Key Enabler for the Super Smart Cities of the Future
DESCRIPTION:There have been rapid and exciting developments in recent years in satellite networks\, in particular\, in LEO mega-constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink. Although less visible\, exciting developments have also been taking place in a certain type of aerial networks known as the high-altitude platform station (HAPS) systems\, such as the formation of HAPS Alliance which brings together the connectivity and aerospace industries. It is worth noting that the satellite and aerial networks discussions have been occurring exclusively in the context of remote and rural connectivity. A major concern in this context is the rather questionable business case; there is limited revenue in rural and remote regions. In this talk\, a novel vision will be presented for an integrated terrestrial-aerial-satellite networks architecture as a key enabler for the super smart cities of 2030s and beyond \nSpeaker: Dr. Halim Yanikomeroglu \nBiography: Dr. Halim Yanikomeroglu is a Professor at Carleton University\, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1998. He contributed to 4G/5G technologies and standards; his research focus in recent years has been on 6G and non-terrestrial networks (NTN). His extensive collaboration with industry resulted in 37 granted patents. He supervised or hosted in his lab around 140 postgraduate researchers. He co-authored IEEE papers with faculty members in 80+ universities in 25 countries. He is a Fellow of IEEE\, Engineering Institute of Canada\, and Canadian Academy of Engineering\, and an IEEE Distinguished Speaker for Communications Society (ComSoc) and Vehicular Technology Society (VTS). He is currently chairing the IEEE WCNC (Wireless Communications and Networking Conference) Steering Committee; he is also a member of PIMRC Steering Committee and ComSoc Emerging Technologies Committee. He served as the General Chair of two VTCs and Technical Program Chair/Co-Chair of three WCNCs. He chaired ComSoc Technical Committee on Personal Communications. He received several awards for his research\, teaching\, and service including IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Prize (2021)\, IEEE VTS Stuart Meyer Memorial Award (2020)\, and IEEE ComSoc Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award (2018).
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/integrated-terrestrial-aerial-satellite-networks-key-enabler-for-the-super-smart-cities-of-the-future/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210518T200000
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SUMMARY:IEEE VDL: Deep Learning for Physical Layer Communications: An Attempt towards 6G
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the IEEE Virtual Distinguished Lecture “Deep Learning for Physical Layer Communications: An Attempt towards 6G” presented by Prof. Feifei Gao of Tsinghua University\, China. \nContact: IEEE Kingston ComSoc Chapter \nAbstract: \nMerging artificial intelligence into the system design has appeared as a new trend in wireless communications areas and has been deemed as one of the 6G technologies. In this talk\, we will present how to apply the deep neural network (DNN) for various aspects of physical layer communications design\, including the channel estimation\, channel prediction\, channel feedback\, data detection\, and beamforming\, etc. We will also present a promising new approach that is driven by both the communications data and the communication models. It will be seen that the DNN can be used to enhance the performance of the existing technologies once there is model mismatch. More interestingly\, we will show that applying DNN can deal with the conventionally unsolvable problems\, thanks to the universal approximation capability of DNN. With the well-defined propagation model in communication areas\, we also attempt to explain the DNN under the scenario of channel estimation and reach a strong conclusion that DNN can always provide the asymptotically optimal channel estimations. We have also build test-bed to show the effectiveness of the AI aided wireless communications. In all\, DNN is shown to be a very powerful tool for communications and would make the communications protocols more intelligently. Nevertheless\, as a new born stuff\, one should carefully select suitable scenarios for applying DNN rather than simply spreading it everywhere. \nBiography: \nProf. Gao’s research interest include signal processing for communications\, array signal processing\, convex optimizations\, and artificial intelligence assisted communications. He has authored/ coauthored more than 150 refereed IEEE journal papers and more than 150 IEEE conference proceeding papers that are cited more than 10000 times in Google Scholar. Prof. Gao has served as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications\, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (Lead Guest Editor)\, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking\, IEEE Signal Processing Letters\, IEEE Communications Letters\, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters\, and China Communications. He has also serves as the symposium co-chair for 2019 IEEE Conference on Communications (ICC)\, 2018 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC)\, 2015 IEEE Conference on Communications (ICC)\, 2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)\, 2014 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC)\, as well as Technical Committee Members for more than 50 IEEE conferences.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ieee-vdl-deep-learning-for-physical-layer-communications-an-attempt-towards-6g/
LOCATION:Kingston\, Ontario\, Canada\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org\, Kingston\, Ontario\, Canada\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210514T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210514T120000
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SUMMARY:ComSoc Distinguished Lecture: AI to Enable Digital Medicine and Detect COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:The IEEE Ottawa Joint Chapter of Communications Society\, Consumer Electronics Society\, and Broadcast Technology Society (ComSoc/CESoc/BTS)\, IEEE Toronto Chapter (ComSoc/BTS)\, IEEE ComSoc Montreal Chapter (ComSoc)\, IEEE Ottawa Educational Activities (EA)\, IEEE Ottawa Women In Engineering (WIE)\, IEEE Ottawa Young Professionals (YP)\, and Algonquin College Student Branch (ACSB) in conjunction with School of Advanced Technology\, Algonquin College are inviting all interested IEEE members and other engineers\, technologists\, and students to ComSoc Distinguished Lecture (webinar) on AI to Enable Digital Medicine and Detect COVID-19. \nFor any additional information please contact: Wahab Almuhtadi or Eman Hammad \nAbstract: \nDigitalize human beings using biosensors to track our complex physiologic system\, process the large amount of data generated with artificial intelligence (AI) and change clinical practice towards individualized medicine: these are the goals of digital medicine. In this talk\, we discuss how to design AI solutions in the clinical space and what are the key aspects to make a difference. We focus on two critical clinical topics that need AI: 1) atrial fibrillation (AF)\, and 2) viral illnesses (COVID-19). AF is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia\, associated with stroke\, heart failure and coronary artery disease. AF detection from single-lead electrocardiography (ECG) recordings is still an open problem\, as AF events may be episodic and the signal noisy. We conduct a thoughtful analysis of recent convolutional neural network architectures developed in the computer vision field\, redesigned to be suitable for a one-dimensional signal\, and we evaluate their performance in the detection of AF using 200 thousand seconds of ECG\, highlighting the potential and pitfall of this technology. We also discuss how to explain (global and local post hoc explanations) this AI model for AF detection using features that are commonly used by a cardiologist. \nTo tackle the problem of COVID-19\, we start with an overview of continuous\, passively monitored vital signs from 200\,000 individuals wearing a Fitbit wearable device for 2 years. This large study provides the baseline for DETECT\, our app-based\, nationwide clinical study enrolling individuals who routinely use a smartwatch or other wireless devices to determine if individualized tracking of changes in heart rate\, activity and sleep can provide early diagnosis and self-monitoring for COVID-19. We analyze data from more than 36\,000 individuals\, showing how we can discriminate (on an individual level) between COVID-19 and other types of infections. We discuss how this can impact both the individual and public health\, and how the use of AI can be a game changer in this fight against the virus. \nSpeaker: Giorgio Quer \nGiorgio Quer is the Director of Artificial Intelligence at the Scripps Research Translational Institute\, where he is leading the Data Science and Analytics team within the All of Us Research Program’s Participant Center (NIH). \nHis research focuses on artificial intelligence and probabilistic modeling applied to heterogeneous data signals\, in order to extract key information and make predictions on future occurrences based on past data. He is involved in several digital medicine initiatives within the Scripps Research Digital Trials Center. For the DETECT study\, he is developing algorithms to predict COVID-19 and other viral infections from wearable sensor data. He is responsible for collaborations with several industry partners\, studying changes in heart rate and sleep data monitored by commercial wearable devices. He is also interested in the detection and modeling of atrial fibrillation from single-lead ECG signals. He is leading the collaboration with the Halicioglu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego towards the development of new AI models for health data. \nHe received his Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Padova\, Italy\, and he continued his studies as a Postdoctoral researcher with the Qualcomm Institute at the University of California San Diego. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications society.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/comsoc-distinguished-lecture-ai-to-enable-digital-medicine-and-detect-covid-19/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200730T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200730T193000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
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SUMMARY:Measurement\, Control and Protection in Smart Grid Energy Management Systems for Smart Buildings in a Smart City
DESCRIPTION:Webinar by the IEEE Ottawa Section\, Instrumentation & Measurement Society Chapter (IMS)\, Power and Energy Society Ottawa Chapter (PES)\, Reliability Society and Power Electronics Society Joint Chapter (RS/PELS)\, Communications Society\, Consumer Electronics Society\, and Broadcast Technology Society Joint Chapter (ComSoc/ CESoc/BTS)\, and IEEE Ottawa Educational Activities (EA). \nDay & Time: Thursday\, July 30\, 2020\n6:30 p.m. ‐ 7:30 p.m. \nSpeaker: Prof. Saifur Rahman \nOrganizers: IEEE Ottawa Section\, Instrumentation & Measurement Society Chapter\, Power and Energy Society Chapter\, Reliability Society and Power Electronics Society\, Broadcast Technology Society Join Chapter\, IEEE Ottawa Educational Activities\, IEEE Toronto WIE \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Ayda Naserialiabadi \nAbstract: Smart grid is a modern electric system with its architecture\, communications\, sensors\, measurements\, automation\, computing hardware and software for improvement of the efficiency\, reliability\, flexibility and security. In particular\, the smart grid\, when fully deployed\, will facilitate the (i) increased use of digital information and measurement\, control & protection technologies\, (ii) deployment and grid-integration of distributed energy resources (DERs)\, (iii) operation of demand response and energy efficiency programs\, and (iv) integration of consumer-owned smart devices and technologies. Different non-linear controls\, such as back-stepping control\, feedback linearization\, model predictive control\, and sliding mode control are applied to control DERs\, and their grid integration. Another control technique gaining application in the smart grid space is based on multi-agent systems (MAS) which provide autonomy\, reactivity and proactivity. As speedy communication facilities\, such as fiber-optics\, microwave\, GSM/GPRS\, 4G/5G are becoming the integral parts of the functioning smart grid\, the integration of MAS in smart grid applications is becoming simple and feasible. This lecture focuses on the measurement & control issues of the smart grid and how MAS can provide an efficient tool to address such issues. In addition\, an overview of the related challenges and opportunities for energy efficient building operation and management with deployment experience in the US will be provided. \nRegister: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/236481 \nBiography: Prof. Saifur Rahman is the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute (www.ari.vt.edu) at Virginia Tech\, USA where he is the Joseph R. Loring professor of electrical and computer engineering. He also directs the Center for Energy and the Global Environment (www.ceage.vt.edu). He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Millennium Medal winner. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. In 2006\, he served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the Vice President for Publications. He is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) and has lectured on renewable energy\, energy efficiency\, smart grid\, electric power system operation and planning\, etc. in over 30 countries. He was IEEE Power and Energy Society President 2018-2019 and is now a candidate for IEEE President-Elect 2021. \nHe chaired the US National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering\, 2010-2013. He conducted several energy efficiency projects for Duke Energy\, Tokyo Electric Power Company\, US National Science Foundation\, US Department of Defense\, State of Virginia and US Department of Energy.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/measurement-control-and-protection-in-smart-grid-energy-management-systems-for-smart-buildings-in-a-smart-city/
LOCATION:Toronto\, Ontario Canada
CATEGORIES:Communications,Instrumentation & Measurement,Power & Energy,Power Electronics,Women in Engineering
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SUMMARY:Introduction to NLP for Classification Task – Session 4
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, July 29\, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.\, IEEE Toronto WIE\, Computational Intelligence Society\, and IM/RA will be hosting “Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Classification Task – Session 4”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, July 29\, 2020\n6:00 p.m. ‐ 8:00 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Computational Intelligence Society\, IM/RA Society \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Ayda Naserialiabadi\, Younes Sadat Nejad \nAbstract: Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Classification Task is a series of workshops hosted by IEEE Toronto Section\, WIE\, Computational Intelligence Society\, Instrumentation Measurement/Robotics Automation Chapter and Ryerson Advanced AI lab. \nOur main goal is to get started on NLP classification tasks for competition and explore duplicate question detection and sentiment analysis tasks. \nIn this session\, we will be focusing on RNN and LSTM. \nRegister: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/236479 or https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/236480 for more details and to register.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/introduction-to-nlp-for-classification-task-session-4/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom Toronto\, Ontario Canada
CATEGORIES:Communications,Instrumentation & Measurement,Signals & Computational Intelligence,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200715T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200715T200000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
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SUMMARY:Introduction to NLP for Classification Task - Session 2
DESCRIPTION:Recorded Material:\nVideo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gBUK_NtU3kSNblsGaYouLHyfDHlxr1tt/view\nPowerPoint: 2.IntroductiontoNLP\,Kagle \nOn Wednesday\, July 15\, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.\, IEEE Toronto WIE and Computational Intelligence Society will be hosting “Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Classification Task – Session 2”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, July 15\, 2020\n6:00 p.m. ‐ 8:00 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Computational Intelligence Society \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Ayda Naserialiabadi\, Younes Sadat Nejad \nAbstract: Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Classification Task is a series of workshops hosted by IEEE Toronto Section\, WIE\, Computational Intelligence Society\, Instrumentation Measurement/Robotics Automation Chapter and Ryerson Advanced AI lab. \nOur main goal is to get started on NLP classification tasks for competition and explore duplicate question detection and sentiment analysis tasks. \nIn the second session\, we will introduce the concept of deep learning\, and then specifically focus on Natural Language Process. We will also introduce Kaggle Account as an environment for python coding. \nRegister: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/235444 or https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/235447 for more details and to register.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/introduction-to-nlp-for-classification-task-session-2/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Communications,Instrumentation & Measurement,Signals & Computational Intelligence,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200709T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200709T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
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SUMMARY:TORONTO COMSOC SUMMER TALKS: Integrated Access and Backhaul for 5G and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:The IEEE Toronto ComSoc Chapter is thrilled to continue its Summer Talks Series hosting Dr. Behrooz Makki\, a Senior Researcher in Ericsson Research\, Gothenburg\, Sweden. In his talk\, Dr. Makki will discuss integrated access and backhaul for 5G and beyond. \nDay & Time: Thursday\, July 9\, 2020\n12:00 p.m. ‐ 1:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Behrooz Makki \nOrganizers: IEEE Communications Society Toronto Chapter \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: IEEE ComSoc Toronto Chapter \nAbstract: The number of devices requesting for wireless communications is growing exponentially. Network densification via the deployment of many base stations (BSs) of different types is one of the mechanisms that can be employed to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth/capacity in wireless networks. However\, deploying fiber to the small cells may be expensive and impractical when the number of small cells increases. For this reason\, as well as because of the traffic jams and infrastructure displacements caused by fiber optic installation\, millimeter wave (mmw)-based wireless backhaul is currently considered as an alternative\, providing (almost) the same rate as fiber optic with significantly less price and no digging. With this background\, integrated access and backhaul (IAB) networks\, where the operator can utilize part of the radio resources for wireless backhauling\, has recently received considerable attention. The purpose of IAB is to replace existing backhaul systems with flexible wireless backhaul using the existing 3GPP bands providing not only backhaul but also existing cellular services in the same node. This creates more flexibility and reduces the implementation cost. For 5G NR\, IAB is currently considered as a work item in 3GPP\, and it is known as one of the main novelties of 5G. In this talk\, we review the main backhauling techniques\, and present the main motivations/standardization agreements on IAB. Moreover\, We present comparisons between the IAB networks and the cases where all or part of the small access points are fiber-connected. Finally\, we study the robustness of IAB networks to environmental effects and verify the effect of the blockage\, the tree foliage\, the rain as well as the antenna height/gain on the coverage rate of IAB setups\, as the key differences between the fiber-connected and IAB networks. As we show\, IAB is an attractive setup enabling 5G and beyond. \nBiography: Behrooz Makki received his PhD degree in Communication Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology\, Gothenburg\, Sweden. In 2013-2017\, he was a Postdoc researcher at Chalmers University. Currently\, he works as a senior researcher in Ericsson Research\, Gothenburg\, Sweden. \n\nBehrooz is the recipient of the VR Research Link grant\, Sweden\, 2014\, the Ericsson’s Research grant\, Sweden\, 2013\, 2014 and 2015\, the ICT SEED grant\, Sweden\, 2017\, as well as the Wallenbergs research grant\, Sweden\, 2018. He is a Senior Member of IEEE since Aug. 2019. Also\, Behrooz is the recipient of the IEEE best reviewer award\, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications\, 2018. Currently\, he works as an Editor in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters\, IEEE Communications Letters\, the journal of Communications and Information Networks as well as the associate editor of Frontiers in Communications and Networks. He was a member of European Commission projects “mm-Wave based Mobile Radio Access Network for 5G Integrated Communications” and “ARTIST4G” as well as various national and international research collaborations. His current research interests include integrated access and backhaul\, hybrid automatic repeat request\, Green communications\, millimeter wave communications\, and backhauling. He has co-authored 57 journal papers\, 45 conference papers and 40 patent applications. \n\nRegister: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/233754 for more details and to register.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/toronto-comsoc-summer-talks-integrated-access-and-backhaul-for-5g-and-beyond/
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200708T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200708T193000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
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SUMMARY:Introduction to NLP for Classification Task – Session 1
DESCRIPTION:Recorded Material:\nVideo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gBUK_NtU3kSNblsGaYouLHyfDHlxr1tt/view?usp=sharing\nPowerPoint: 1-Intro to Python\, Data Science Libraries\, and Pytorch \nOn Wednesday\, July 8\, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.\, IEEE Toronto WIE and Computational Intelligence Society will be hosting “Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Classification Task – Session 1”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, July 8\, 2020\n6:00 p.m. ‐ 7:30 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Computational Intelligence Society \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Ayda Naserialiabadi\, Younes Sadat Nejad \nAbstract: Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Classification Task is a series of workshops hosted by IEEE Toronto Section\, WIE\, Computational Intelligence Society\, Instrumentation Measurement/Robotics Automation Chapter and Ryerson Advanced AI lab. \nOur main goal is to get started on NLP classification tasks for competition and explore duplicate question detection and sentiment analysis tasks. In session 1\, we will be covering the introduction to Python\, Data Science Libraries and Pytorch. \nRegister: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/233944 or https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/233942 for more details and to register.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/introduction-to-nlp-for-classification-task-session-1/
CATEGORIES:Communications,Instrumentation & Measurement,Signals & Computational Intelligence,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200618T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200618T190000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T233729Z
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SUMMARY:Toronto ComSoc Summer Talks: A Career in Engineering\, Past & Future Reflections
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, June 18\, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.\, Dr. Thamir (Tom) Murad will be presenting  “Toronto ComSoc Summer Talks: A Career in Engineering\, Past & Future Reflections”. \nDay & Time: Thursday\, June 18\, 2020\n6:00 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Thamir (Tom) Murad\, Ph.D.\, P.Eng. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto ComSoc Chapter \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: IEEE Toronto ComSoc Chapter \nAbstract: The IEEE Toronto ComSoc Chapter is thrilled to kick-off its Summer Talks Series hosting Dr. Tom Murad\, the Vice Chair\, Ontario Society of Professional Engineers “OSPE“ ‘s Board of Directors. Dr. Murad currently is the Country Lead for Engineering and Technology for Siemens Mobility. In this talk\, we look forward to Dr. Murad as he shares his reflections on his career in engineering with insights into the future on how to remain relvant and combine passion with leadership. \nRegister: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/232207 for more details and to register. \nBiography: Dr. Thamir (Tom) Murad\, Ph.D.\, P.Eng.\nVice Chair\, Ontario Society of Professional Engineers “OSPE“ ‘s Board of Directors \nTom has been a licensed engineer since 1998 and has extensive years of experience in the profession. He currently is the Country Lead for Engineering and Technology for Siemens Mobility\, previously the founder and Head of Siemens Canada Engineering & Technology Academy (SCETA)\, as well as the Country Lead for Engineering\, Technology and Academics for Siemens. \nTom has been a great advocate for the Engineering profession by sharing his experience and expertise with many committees and organizations’ Boards. \nHe is a member of the Ontario Government’s Post Secondary Education Quality Assessment board “ PEAQB “\, the Ryerson University Faculty of Engineering Advisory Council\, Humber College Applied Technologies Dean’s Board\, PEO’s Experience Review Committee\, Past chair of the IEEE -Toronto Section’s Executive Committee\, and the Past Chair of Halton Champions of Innovation Round Table. \nDr. Murad also has been a member of the Board of Directors for IEEE Canada\, the German Canadian Centre for Innovation & Research\, the Green Centre Canada\, and Fielding Environmental. His contributions to the profession have been recognized by PEO\, which gave him the Order of Honour\, and he was also named a Fellow of Engineers Canada. \nMost Recently\, He has been awarded the IEEE Canada J.M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award in 2019\, OPEA (Joint PEO and OSPE) Best Engineering Achievement Award in 2017\, and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce Golden Award for Best Skill Enhancement Project in 2016 . \nTom has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering\, as well as a Ph.D. of Engineering\, specializing in Power Electronics & Industrial Controls from Loughborough University of Technology in the U.K. \nTom’s Passion has been always in Engineering Skills development \, and he is Nationally recognised and awarded as a visionary and an Advocate for Innovative approach to work Integrated Learning and Education programs.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/toronto-comsoc-summer-talks-a-career-in-engineering-past-future-reflections/
CATEGORIES:Communications
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SUMMARY:MIMO Signalling: Knowing the Classics Can Make a Difference
DESCRIPTION:Thursday June 6th\, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. Prof. Wing-Kin (Ken) Ma\, Chinese University of Hong Kong\, will be presenting an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture “MIMO Signalling: Knowing the Classics Can Make a Difference”. \nDay & Time: Thursday June 6th\, 2019\n10:00 a.m. ‐ 11:00 a.m. \nSpeaker: Prof. Wing-Kin (Ken) Ma\nChinese University of Hong Kong \nOrganizers: IEEE Signal Processing Chapter Toronto Section\nIEEE Communications Chapter Toronto Section \nLocation: Room BA-2135\, University of Toronto\nhttp://map.utoronto.ca/building/080 \nContact: Mehrnaz Shokrollahi\, Yashodhan Athavale\, Michael Zara\, \nAbstract: In this talk the speaker will share two stories of how his research was benefitted by learning from the basics. The first story concerns physical-layer multicasting\, a topic that has been dominated bybeamforming and optimization techniques. We will see how the classical concept of using channel coding to fight fast fading effects gives spark to rethink multicasting\, and how that leads to a stochastic beamforming approach that goes beyond what beamforming achieves. The second story considers one-bit massive MIMO precoding\, an emerging and challengingtopic. Current research on this topic mostly focuses on optimization\, often in a sophisticated\, if not complicated\, manner. We will see how the traditional idea of Sigma-Delta modulation for DAC of temporal signals can be transferred to the spatial case\, leading to one-bit massive MIMO precoding solutions that are simple and have quantization error well under control. \nBiography: Wing-Kin (Ken) Ma is a Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests lie in signal processing\, optimization and communications. His mostrecent research focuses on two distinct topics\, namely\, structured matrix factorization for data science and remote sensing\, and MIMO transceiver design and optimization. Dr. Ma is active in the Signal Processing Society. He served as editors of several journals\, e.g.\,Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing\, Lead Guest Editor of a special issue in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine\, to name a few. He is currently a member of the Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (SPCOM) Technical Committee. He received Research Excellence Award 2013– 2014 by CUHK\, the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award\, the 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award\, and the 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Best Paper Award. He is an IEEE Fellow and is currently an IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/mimo-signalling-knowing-the-classics-can-make-a-difference/
LOCATION:Room BA-2135\, University of Toronto
CATEGORIES:Communications,Signal Processing
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190523T130000
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SUMMARY:ComSoc Industry Visit: Siemens RUGGEDCOM
DESCRIPTION:IEEE Toronto ComSoc Chapter in partnership with IEEE Toronto Industrial Relations are inviting all interested to a unique opportunity to visit Siemens RUGGEDCOM Facility at 300 Applewood Crescent\, Concord\, ON L4K 4E5. \nRUGGEDCOM is a Canadian based company that is a subsidiary of Siemens. RUGGEDCOM networking products are designed to meet\, even surpass internationally recognized industry standards for fast\, reliable\, standardized communications in numerous mission-critical industrial applications around the world. \nDuring the visit we will get to take a factory tour\, meet with an R&D engineer and tour the R&D lab. RUGGEDCOM will host us for a lunch afterwards. \nDay & Time: Thursday May 23rd\, 2019\n10:00 a.m. ‐ 1:00 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto ComSoc \nTransportation: The location is not far from Vaughan Metropolitan Centre (TTC). registered individuals are welcome to coordinate their own transportation to the location. \nMeeting point: We plan to meet inside the building entrance at 10am. \nRegister: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/198904 \nLocation: Siemens Ruggedcom\, 300 Applewood Crescent\nConcord\, Ontario\, Canada L4K 4E5 \nContact: Toronto_Chapter@comsoc.org
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/comsoc-industry-visit-siemens-ruggedcom/
LOCATION:Siemens Ruggedcom\, 300 Applewood Crescent\, Concord\, ON L4K 4E5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190401T160000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
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SUMMARY:Security in SDN/NFV and 5G Networks-Opportunities and Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Monday April 1st\, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. Dr. Ashutosh Dutta\, Director\, Industry Outreach-IEEE Communications Society\, will be presenting an IEEE ComSoc distinguished lecture “Security in SDN/NFV and 5G Networks-Opportunities and Challenges”. \nDay & Time: Monday April 1st\, 2019\n3:00 p.m. ‐ 4:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Ashutosh Dutta\, Director\, Industry Outreach-IEEE Communications Society\, IEEE 5G Initiative Founding Co-Chair and Senior Scientist JHU/APL (Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Lab) \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto ComSoc \nLocation: Room Number: BA 4287\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nAbstract: Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are the key pillars of future networks\, including 5G and Beyond that promise to support emerging applications such as enhanced mobile broadband\, ultra low latency\, massive sensing type applications while providing the resiliency in the network. Service providers and other verticals (e.g.\, Connected Cars\, IOT\, eHealth) can leverage SDN/NFV to provide flexible and cost-effective service without compromising the end user quality of service (QoS). While NFV and SDN open up the door for flexible networks and rapid service creation\, these offer both security opportunities while also introducing additional challenges and complexities\, in some cases. With the rapid proliferation of 4G and 5G networks\, operators have now started the trial deployment of network function virtualization\, especially with the introduction of various virtualized network elements in the access and core networks. These include elements such as virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC)\, virtualized IP Multimedia Services (vIMS)\, Virtualized Residential Gateway\, and Virtualized Next Generation Firewalls. However\, very little attention has been given to the security aspects of virtualization. While several standardization bodies (e.g.\, ETSI\, 3GPP\, NGMN\, ATIS\, TIA) have started looking into the many security issues introduced by SDN/NFV\, additional work is needed with larger security community involvement including vendors\, operators\, universities\, and regulators. This tutorial will address evolution of cellular technologies towards 5G but will largely focus on various security challenges and opportunities introduced by SDN/NFV and 5G networks such as Hypervisor\, Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)\, SDN Controller\, Orchestrator\, Network slicing\, Cloud RAN\, and security function virtualization. This tutorial will also highlight some of the ongoing activities within various standards communities and will illustrate a few deployment use case scenarios for security including threat taxonomy for both operator and enterprise networks. In addition\, I will also describe some of the ongoing activities within IEEE Future Network initiative including roadmap efforts and various ways one can get involved and contribute to this initiative. \nBiography: Ashutosh Dutta is currently Senior Wireless Communication Systems Research Scientist and JHU/APL Sabbatical Fellow at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs (JHU/APL)\, USA. Most recently he served as Principal Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs in Middletown\, New Jersey. His career\, spanning more than 30 years\, includes Director of Technology Security and Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T\, CTO of Wireless at a Cybersecurity company NIKSUN\, Inc.\, Senior Scientist in Telcordia Research\, Director of Central Research Facility at Columbia University\, adjunct faculty at NJIT\, and Computer Engineer with TATA Motors. He has more than 90 conference and journal publications\, three book chapters\, and 30 issued patents. Ashutosh is co-author of the book\, titled\, “Mobility Protocols and Handover Optimization: Design\, Evaluation and Application” published by IEEE and John & Wiley that has recently been translated into Chinese Language. Ashutosh served as the chair for IEEE Princeton / Central Jersey Section\, Industry Relation Chair for Region 1 and MGA\, Pre-University Coordinator for IEEE MGA and vice chair of Education Society Chapter of PCJS. He co-founded the IEEE STEM conference (ISEC) and helped to implement EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) projects in several high schools. Ashutosh currently serves as the Director of Industry Outreach for IEEE Communications Society and is the founding co-chair for IEEE 5G initiative. He also serves as IEEE Communications Society’s Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-2018. Ashutosh serves as the general co-chair for the premier IEEE 5G World Forum. He was recipient of the prestigious 2009 IEEE MGA Leadership award and 2010 IEEE-USA professional leadership award. Ashutosh obtained his BS in Electrical Engineering from NIT Rourkela\, India\, MS in Computer Science from NJIT\, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Henning Schulzrinne. Ashutosh is a senior member of IEEE and ACM.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/security-in-sdn-nfv-and-5g-networks-opportunities-and-challenges/
LOCATION:Room Number: BA 4287\, 40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20181206T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20181206T153000
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SUMMARY:Integrated Terrestrial/Aerial 6G Networks for Ubiquitous 3D Super-Connectivity in 2030s
DESCRIPTION:Thursday December 6th\, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu\, Carleton University\, will be presenting a ComSoc distinguished lecture: “Integrated Terrestrial/Aerial 6G Networks for Ubiquitous 3D Super-Connectivity in 2030s”. \nDay & Time: Thursday December 6th\, 2018\n2:00 p.m. ‐ 3:30 p.m. \nSpeaker: Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu\nCarleton University \nOrganizers: ComSoc IEEE Toronto \nLocation: Bahen Centre\, Room BA1230\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact:  ComSoc IEEE Toronto \nRegister: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/183175 \nAbstract: As the 5G standards are currently being developed with a scheduled completion date of late-2019\, it is time to reinitiate a brainstorming endeavour followed by the technical groundwork towards the subsequent generation (6G) wireless networks of 2030s. \nOne reasonable starting point in this new 6G discussion is to reflect on the possible shortcomings of the 5G networks to-be-deployed. 5G promises to provide connectivity for a broad range of use-cases in a variety of vertical industries; after all\, this rich set of scenarios is indeed what distinguishes 5G from the previous four generations. Many of the envisioned 5G use-cases require challenging target values for one or more of the key QoS elements\, such as high rate\, high reliability\, low latency\, and high energy efficiency; we refer to the presence of such demanding links as the super-connectivity. \nHowever\, the very fundamental principles of digital and wireless communications reveal that the provision of ubiquitous super-connectivity in the global scale – i.e.\, beyond indoors\, dense downtown or campus-type areas – is infeasible with the legacy terrestrial network architecture as this would require prohibitively expensive gross over-provisioning. The problem will only exacerbate with even more demanding 6G use-cases such as UAVs requiring connectivity (ex: delivery drones)\, thus the need for 3D super-connectivity. \nIn this talk\, we will present a 5-layer vertical architecture composed of fully integrated terrestrial and aerial layers for 6G networks of 2030s: \n– Terrestrial HetNets with macro-\, micro-\, and pico-BSs\n– Flying-BSs (aerial-/UAV-/drone-BSs); altitude: up to several 100 m\n– High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) (floating-BSs); altitude: ~20 km\n– Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) satellites; altitude: 200-1\,000 km\n– Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellites; altitude: 35\,786 km \nIn the absence of a clear technology roadmap for the 2030s\, the talk has\, to a certain extent\, an exploratory view point to stimulate further thinking and creativity. We are certainly at the dawn of a new era in wireless research and innovation; the next twenty years will be very interesting. \nBiography: Halim Yanikomeroglu is a Professor at Carleton University. His research covers many aspects of communications technologies with emphasis on wireless networks. He supervised 20 PhD students (all completed with theses). He coauthored 360+ peer-reviewed research papers including 120+ in the IEEE journals; these publications have received 11\,000+ citations. He is a Fellow of IEEE\, a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications Society\, and a Distinguished Speaker for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He has been one of the most frequent tutorial presenters in the leading international IEEE conferences (29 times). He has had extensive collaboration with industry which resulted in 25 granted patents (plus more than a dozen applied). During 2012-2016\, he led one of the largest academic-industrial collaborative research projects on pre-standards 5G wireless\, sponsored by the Ontario Government and the industry. He served as the General Chair and Technical Program Chair of several major international IEEE conferences.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/integrated-terrestrial-aerial-6g-networks-for-ubiquitous-3d-super-connectivity-in-2030s/
LOCATION:Bahen Centre\, Room BA1230\, 40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180720T120000
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SUMMARY:Integration of Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, July 20th at 11:00 a.m.\, The IEEE Toronto ComSoc Chapter and University of Toronto – ECE are inviting all interested to the distinguished lecture titled: “Integration of Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids”. \nDay & Time: Friday\, July 20\, 2018\n11:00 a.m. ‐ 12:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Prof. Ying-Jun Angela Zhang\nChinese University of Hong Kong \nLocation: 40 St George Street\nToronto\, Ontario\nCanada M5S 2E4\nBuilding: Bahen Centre for Information Technology\nRoom Number: BA4164 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Communication Society \nAbstract: The recent surge in electric vehicle adoption worldwide brings both challenges and opportunities to the electricity power grid. In this talk\, we will first introduce our recent work on coordinated electric vehicle charging when the knowledge of future events is unknown. We will then show how the battery systems in electric vehicles can contribute to stabilizing the grid frequency. \nBiography: Ying-Jun Angela Zhang (S’00-M’05-SM’10) received her PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\, Hong Kong in 2004. Since 2005\, she has been with Department of Information Engineering\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong\, where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her research interests include mainly wireless communications systems and smart power systems\, in particular optimization techniques for such systems. She serves as the Chair of the Executive Editor Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Previously\, she served many years as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications\, IEEE Transactions on Communications\, Security and Communications Networks (Wiley)\, and a Feature Topic in the IEEE Communications Magazine. She has served on the organizing committee of major IEEE conferences including ICC\, GLOBECOM\, SmartgridComm\, VTC\, CCNC\, ICCC\, MASS\, etc.. She is now the Chair of IEEE ComSoc Emerging Technical Committee on Smart Grid. She was a Co-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communications Technical Committee and the IEEE Communication Society GOLD Coordinator. She was the co-recipient of the 2014 IEEE ComSoc APB Outstanding Paper Award\, the 2013 IEEE SmartgridComm Best Paper Award\, and the 2011 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award on Wireless Communications. She was the recipient of the Young Researcher Award from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. As the only winner from engineering science\, she has won the Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2006\, conferred by the Hong Kong Institution of Science. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of IET and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE ComSoc.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/integration-of-electric-vehicles-in-smart-grids/
LOCATION:40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180507T160000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
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SUMMARY:ComSoc Distinguished Lecture: Machine Learning in Digital Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 7th at 3:00 p.m.\, Dr. Giorgio Quer\, Sr. Research Scientist at the Scripps Research Institute and Director of Artificial Intelligence at the Scripps Translational Science Institute will be presenting a distinguished lecture: “Machine Learning in Digital Medicine”. \nDay & Time: Monday\, May 7\, 2018\n3:00 p.m. ‐ 4:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Giorgio Quer\nSr. Research Scientist\, Scripps Research Institute\, San Diego\, California\nDirector of Artificial Intelligence\, Scripps Translational Science Institute\nSenior Member of the IEEE\, Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications society \nLocation: Room BA1210\nBahen Centre for Information Technology\n40 St George St.\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nOrganizer: Communications Society \nAbstract: Digitalize human beings using biosensors to track our complex physiologic system\, process the large amount of data generated with artificial intelligence (AI) and change clinical practice towards individualized medicine: these are the goals of digital medicine. At Scripps\, we promote a strong collaboration between computer scientist\, engineers\, and clinical researchers\, as well as a direct partnership with health industry leaders. We propose new solutions to analyze large longitudinal data using statistical learning and deep convolutional neural networks to address different cardiovascular health issues. Among them\, one of the greatest contributors to premature morbidity and mortality worldwide is hypertension. It is known that lowering blood pressure (BP) by just a few mmHg can bring substantial clinical benefits\, but the assessment of the “true” BP for an individual is non-trivial\, as the individual BP can fluctuate significantly. We analyze a large dataset of more than 16 million BP measurements taken at home with commercial BP monitoring devices\, in order to unveil the BP patterns and provide insights on the clinical relevance of these changes. Another prevalent health issue we investigated is atrial fibrillation (AFib)\, one of the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia\, which is associated with stroke\, hospitalization\, heart failure and coronary artery disease. AFib detection from single-lead electrocardiography (ECG) recordings is still an open problem\, as AFib events may be episodic and the signal noisy. We conduct a thoughtful analysis of recent deep network architectures developed in the computer vision field\, redesigned to be suitable for a one-dimensional signal\, and we evaluate their performance for the AFib detection problem using 200 thousand seconds of ECG recording\, highlighting the potential of this technology. Looking to the future\, we are investigating new applications of existing wearable devices\, requiring advanced processing and clinical validation\, and we are participating to the All of Us research program\, an unprecedented research effort to gather data from one million people in the USA to accelerate the advent of precision medicine. \nBiography: Dr. Giorgio Quer is a Sr. Research Scientist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego\, California\, and he is the Director of Artificial Intelligence at the Scripps Translational Science Institute. \nHe received the B.Sc. degree\, the M.Sc. degree (with honors) in Telecommunications Engineering and the Ph.D. degree (2011) in Information Engineering from University of Padova\, Italy. In 2007\, he was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Wireless Communication at the University of Oulu\, Finland. During his Ph.D.\, he proposed a solution for the distributed compression of wireless sensor networks signals\, based on the joint exploitation of Compressive Sensing and Principal Component Analysis. From 2010 to 2017\, he was a visiting scholar at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and then a postdoc at the Qualcomm Institute\, University of California San Diego (UCSD)\, working on cognitive networks protocols and implementation. \nHe is a Senior Member of the IEEE\, a member of the American Heart Association (AHA)\, and a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications society. His research interests include wireless sensor networks\, network optimization\, compressive sensing\, probabilistic models\, deep convolutional networks\, wearable sensors\, physiological signal processing\, and digital medicine.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/comsoc-distinguished-lecture-machine-learning-in-digital-medicine/
LOCATION:Room BA1210\, Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, 40 St George St.\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180504T140000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
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SUMMARY:ComSoc Distinguished Lecture: Advances and Challenges in 5G Wireless Security
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 4th at 1:00 p.m.\, Prof. Yi Qian\, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Nebraska‐Lincoln will be presenting a distinguished lecture: “Advances and Challenges in 5G Wireless Security”. \nDay & Time: Friday\, May 4\, 2018\n1:00 p.m. ‐ 2:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Prof. Yi Qian\nDept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering\nUniversity of Nebraska‐Lincoln\, USA \nLocation: Room Number: ENG LG02\nGeorge Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\n245 Church Street.\, Toronto\, ON M5B 2K3 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nOrganizer: Communications Society\, Ryerson University \nAbstract: Wireless communication technologies are ubiquitous nowadays. Most of the smart devices have Cellular\, Wi‐Fi\, Bluetooth connections. These technologies have been developed for many years; nonetheless\, they are still being enhanced. More development can be expected in the next 5 years\, such as faster transmission data rate\, more efficient spectrum usage\, lower power consumption\, etc. Similarly\, cellular networks have been evolved for several generations. For example\, GSM as part of 2G family\, UMTS as part of the 3G family\, and LTE as part of 4G family. In the next few years\, 5G cellular network systems will continue the evolution to keep up with the fast‐growing needs of customers. Secure wireless communications will certainly be part of other advances in the industry such as multimedia streaming\, data storage and sharing in clouds\, mobile cloud computing services\, etc. This talk covers the topics on security for next generation mobile wireless networks\, with focusing on 5G mobile wireless network systems\, followed by a discussion on the challenges and open research issues in the area. \nBiography: Dr. Yi Qian received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University. He is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Nebraska‐Lincoln (UNL). Prior to joining UNL\, he worked in the telecommunications industry\, academia\, and the government. Some of his previous professional positions include serving as a senior member of scientific staff and a technical advisor at Nortel Networks\, a senior systems engineer and a technical advisor at several start‐up companies\, an assistant professor at University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez\, and a senior researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology. His research interests include information assurance and network security\, network design\, network modeling\, simulation and performance analysis for next generation wireless networks\, wireless ad‐hoc and sensor networks\, vehicular networks\, smart grid communication networks\, broadband satellite networks\, optical networks\, high‐speed networks and the Internet. He has a successful track record to lead research teams and to publish research results in leading scientific journals and conferences. Dr. Yi Qian is a member of ACM and a senior member of IEEE. He is serving on the editorial board for several international journals and magazines\, including serving as the Associate Editor‐in‐Chief for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and IEEE Communications Society. He is serving as the Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE International Conference on Communications 2018.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/comsoc-distinguished-lecture-advances-and-challenges-in-5g-wireless-security/
LOCATION:Room Number: ENG LG02\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\, 245 Church Street.\, Toronto\, ON M5B 2K3
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180504T120000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
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SUMMARY:ComSoc Seminar: Beef Up the Edge\, How to Build a More Powerful IOT System
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 4th at 11:00 a.m.\, Prof. Yuguang “Michael” Fang\, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Florida and fellow of the IEEE\, will be presenting a communications seminar: “Beef Up the Edge\, How to Build a More Powerful IOT System”. \nDay & Time: Friday\, May 4\, 2018\n11:00 a.m. ‐ 12:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Prof. Yuguang “Michael” Fang\nDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Florida\nFellow of the IEEE \nLocation: Room Number: ENG460\nGeorge Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\n245 Church Street.\, Toronto\, ON M5B 2K3 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nOrganizer: Communications Society\, Ryerson University \nAbstract: Connected things in various cyber-physical systems (CPSs)\, namely IoTs\, enable us to sense physical environments\, extract intelligent information\, and better regulate physical systems we heavily depend on in our daily life. Unfortunately\, how to design effective and efficient systems to meet specific applications with diverse quality of service requirements is of paramount importance but highly challenging due to the spatial and temporal variations of user traffic\, network spectrum resource\, computing capability\, storage\, and device types. One holistic design approach from the end-to-end perspective seems to be in dire need. \nIn this talk\, the speaker will discuss various related problems and challenges in a connected world and then present a novel collaborative network architecture to enabling connected things to effectively harvest in-network capability (spectrum\, energy\, storage\, and computing power) in a cognitive fashion and intelligently manage the spectrum efficiency\, energy efficiency\, and yes\, security! By pushing in-network capability in communications\, computing\, and storage to the edge\, this network architecture provides an effective and robust approach to IoT. \nBiography: Dr. Yuguang “Michael” Fang received MS degree from Qufu Normal University\, Shandong\, China in 1987\, PhD degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1994 and PhD degree from Boston University in 1997. He was an assistant professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology from 1998 to 2000. He then joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida in 2000 and has been a full professor since 2005. He held a University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professorship (2006-2009\, 2017-2020)\, a University of Florida Term Professorship (2017-2019) and Changjiang Scholar Chair Professorship awarded by the Ministry of Education of China (is currently affiliated with Dalian Maritime University). \nDr. Fang received the US National Science Foundation Career Award in 2001 and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2002\, 2015 IEEE Communications Society CISTC Technical Recognition Award\, 2014 IEEE Communications Society WTC Recognition Award\, and multiple Best Paper Awards from IEEE Globecom (2015\, 2011 and 2002) and IEEE ICNP (2006). He has also received 2010-2011 UF Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award\, 2011 Florida Blue Key/UF Homecoming Distinguished Faculty Award\, and the 2009 UF College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2013-2017)\, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless Communications (2009-2012)\, and serves/served on several editorial boards of journals including IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2003-2008\, 2011-2016)\, IEEE Transactions on Communications (2000-2011)\, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2002-2009). He has been actively participating in conference organizations such as serving as the Technical Program Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM’2014 and the Technical Program Vice-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM’2005. He is a fellow of the IEEE (2008) and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2015).
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/comsoc-seminar-beef-up-the-edge-how-to-build-a-more-powerful-iot-system/
LOCATION:Room Number: ENG460\, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\, 245 Church Street.\, Toronto\, ON M5B 2K3
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180323T120000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
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SUMMARY:ComSoc Seminar: “Coding Near Shannon-Theoretic Limits in Control”
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 23rd at 11:00 a.m.\, Professor Victoria Kostina\, California Institute of Technology\, will be presenting an IEEE ComSoc seminar: “Coding Near Shannon-Theoretic Limits in Control”. \nDay & Time: Friday\, March 23\, 2018\n11:00 a.m. ‐ 12:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Professor Victoria Kostina\nCalifornia Institute of Technology \nLocation: Room GB221\, Galbraith Building\, University of Toronto\n35 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 1A4 \nContact: Toronto_Chapter@comsoc.org \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Communications Society \nAbstract: We adopt a Shannon-theoretic view of remote stochastic linear control\, showing coding theorems linking the amount of information passed through the feedback loop to several operational scenarios of interest. The controller aims to minimize a quadratic cost function in the state variables and control signal\, known as the linear quadratic regulator (LQR)\, while communicating to the system via a rate-limited channel. For several channels of interest\, namely\, variable-length rate-limited noiseless channels\, rate-limited packet drop channels\, Gaussian channels\, and biomolecular channels\, we propose coding strategies that can approach these information-theoretic limits. \nBased on joint works with B. Hassibi\, A. Khina\, A. Khisti\, E.R. Gårding\, G. M. Pettersson\, Y. Nakahira\, F. Xiao\, J. C. Doyle. \nBiography: Victoria Kostina joined Caltech as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in the fall of 2014. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Moscow institute of Physics and Technology (2004)\, where she was affiliated with the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences\, a Master’s degree from University of Ottawa (2006)\, and a PhD from Princeton University (2013). She is a recipient of the 2013 Princeton Electrical Engineering Best Dissertation Award\, the 2015 Simons-Berkeley research fellowship\, and the 2017 NSF CAREER award. Her research interests lie in information theory\, theory of random processes\, coding\, wireless communications\, and control.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/comsoc-seminar-coding-near-shannon-theoretic-limits-in-control/
LOCATION:Room GB221\, Galbraith Building\, University of Toronto\, 5 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 1A4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171121T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171121T150000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
CREATED:20210430T012926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T215639Z
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SUMMARY:ComSoc Tutorial: “Cooperative Self-Driving Vehicles”
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 21st at 1:00 p.m.\, Shahrokh Valaee\, Professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto\, will be presenting “ComSoc Tutorial: Cooperative Self-Driving Vehicles”. \nDay & Time: Tuesday\, November 21\, 2017\n1:00 p.m. ‐ 3:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Shahrokh Valaee\nProfessor\, Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Toronto \nLocation: Room SF (B560) Basement\nSandford Fleming Building\n10 King’s College Road\, Toronto\, M5S 3G8 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nOrganizer: Communications Society \nAbstract: We are witnessing the emergence of autonomous Vehicles\, which intend to be an assistant to\, or completely replace the driver. Unfortunately\, we also notice accidents that such self-driving vehicles are involved in. Engineers wonder whether autonomous driving can provide a safe driving experience. In this talk\, we will show that autonomous driving will indeed be the start of a new chapter for automobiles that will pave the path for the more advanced Connected Car technology. Autonomous vehicles use advance sensing to enhance safe driving. However\, sensing quickly loses its effectiveness in high speeds\, severe weather conditions\, and non-line-of-sight. In a recent tragedy\, a Tesla car could not detect a truck and crashed into it resulting in fatal accident. Most of such accidents can be prevented if wireless communication and networking is available for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication. But\, what is the most appropriate communication technology that can be used in cars and also be attractive for future buyers? In this talk\, we will review the techniques and challenges for cooperative communication in Connected Vehicles. We will discuss the IEEE1609 and IEEE802.11p suite of standards\, and C-V2X. The talk will discuss the shortcoming of these technologies in addressing the most challenging problem of interference management in vehicular communication. We will show how the concept of pseudo-orthogonality\, network coding and compressive sensing can reduce congestion on the wireless channel. \nBiography: Shahrokh Valaee is a Professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is the founder and the Director of the Wireless and Internet Research Laboratory (WIRLab) at the University of Toronto. Professor Valaee is the Lead TPC Chair of PIMRC 2017\, and has served as Networks Track Co-Chair of WCNC 2015\, TPC Co-Chair of ICT 2014\, Tutorial Chair of PIMRC2014\, Co-Chair of the Wireless Networks Track of WPMC 2012\, and the TPC chair of PIMRC 2011\, among other conference chairing activities. He has served as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications\, and IEEE Signal Processing Letters\, and as a guest editor for several journals including IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine\, Wiley Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing\, and EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. He is currently serving as an Editor of Journal of Computer and System Science and the Area Editor of Localization and Location Based Services of Springer Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks. Professor Valaee is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. His research includes\, vehicular networks\, localization and tracking\, and cellular systems.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/comsoc-tutorial-cooperative-self-driving-vehicles/
LOCATION:Room SF (B560)\, 10 King’s College Road\, Toronto\, M5S 3G8
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171116T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
CREATED:20210430T012926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T215619Z
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SUMMARY:ComSoc Technical Seminar: Through-the-Earth Mine Communications Theory & Practice
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 16th at 4:00 p.m. Ekaterina Korolkova\, senior teacher in the Siberian Federal University in the Department of Radio Electronics\, will be presenting “ComSoc Technical Seminar: Through-the-Earth Mine Communications Theory & Practice”. \nDay & Time: Thursday\, November 16th\, 2017\n4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Ekaterina Korolkova\nSenior Teacher\, Department of Radio Electronics\, Siberian Federal University\nLead Engineer in Research and Manufacturing Company “Iridium” (Russian Federation) \nLocation: Room ENG 460\, Ryerson University\n245 Church St\, Toronto\, ON M5B 1Z4 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Communication Society \nAbstract: Safety is an important factor in the mining industry. Through-The-Earth technology can provide communication both in everyday usage and in a case of emergency. Developing the TTE communication systems raises a lot of questions about main system specifications such as a transmitting frequency\, current and antenna geometry. This talk is about TTE system experiment in the Republic of Kazakhstan (“Irtishskaya mine”)\, researches in finding appropriate system specifications and antenna geometry\, and finally the implementation of designed system in October 2017. Also we will speak about some propagation difficulties in the real mine and some engineering difficulties connected with mine electromagnetic environment. \nIn this talk we will represent experimental and numerical modeling results. We compare widely used loop antenna and grounded dipole antenna. One of the most interesting novel results is the influence of the antenna grounding depth to the signal level in the mine. \nBiography: Ekaterina Korolkova is a senior teacher in the Siberian Federal University in the Department of Radio electronics teaching “Power supply of electrical systems”\, “Networks and radio systems and information protection” and “Computer networks and Internet technologies”. Also she is a lead engineer in Research and Manufacturing Company “Iridium” which is designing radio electronics and doing research works in the field of seismic prospecting and seismic communications. She graduated from Irkutsk state university of railways in 2011 and for 5 years has been working in JSC “Russian Railways” projecting different telecommunication systems for the railways. In 2011-2015 completed Postgraduate studies in the field of system analysis\, management and information processing. In 2013 had a title of “Engineer of a year 2013” nomination in “Youth engineering”. Now she is working on the designing the TTE mine communication system which in October 2017 was successfully implemented in the Republic of Kazakhstan in the mine “Irtishskiy”. Ekaterina’s research interests are in areas of mine and cell communication systems\, radio electronics\, signal propagation and through-the-earth communication systems.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/comsoc-technical-seminar-through-the-earth-mine-communications-theory-practice/
LOCATION:Room ENG 460\, Ryerson University\, 245 Church St\, Toronto\, ON M5B 1Z4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171021T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171022T160000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
CREATED:20210430T012923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T215253Z
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SUMMARY:Cyber Security of the Digital Substation: Hands-on Training
DESCRIPTION:IEEE Toronto Industrial Relationships\, Communication Society chapter and University of Toronto Electrical Engineering Department are excited to invite all interested to a two-days hands-on workshop on: \nCyber Security of the Digital Substation: Hands-on Training\nFacilitated by Steel McCreery\, Integration Application Specialist II Communications\, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories \nDay & Time: Saturday & Sunday\, October 21-22\, 2017\n4-hour workshop (10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.) on Saturday\n6-hour workshop (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) on Sunday \nLocation: Room BA 7180\nBahen Centre for Information Technology\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nCost: $10.00 + Tax (event is of limited capacity to 24 seats because of equipment limitations).\nRegister at https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/47504. \nRequirements: Participants should bring their own laptop that has a 10/100 Base T Ethernet port and have administrator rights for their computer to configure the Ethernet port IP address. \nWorkshop Agenda: Saturday Oct. 21 (10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.) – Ethernet Fundamentals\nThis four hour session will focus on the practical aspects of implementing Ethernet-based LANs within the substation.\nTopics include:\n– OSI model\n– Ethernet media and topologies commonly used within substations\n– Ethernet hub operation and CSMA/CD\n– Switch learning and operation\n– SEL-2730M Managed 24-Port Ethernet Switch hardware overview and ordering options\n– Hands-on lab exercises using the SEL-2730M Switches include:\n– Login and account management\n– Configuration of QoS (VLANs and priority)\n– Configuration and testing of Rapid Spanning Tree protocol (RSTP)\n– Time permitting the class will have a brief overview of the routing process: ( IPv4 addressing \, DHCP \, DNS\, ARP\, routing process) \nSunday Oct. 22 (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) – Cyber security\nIn this session\, participants will:\n– Discover that sensible cybersecurity is not difficult.\n– Learn how to set up a virtual private network (VPN) to provide confidential communications and maintain data integrity.\n– Understand the importance of authentication.\n– Configure firewall rules to prevent malicious traffic from entering or exiting private networks to protect cyber assets.\n– Understand the role of syslog to report and collect device events.\n– Learn the methods to secure both Ethernet and wireless communications. \nTrainer Biography: Steel McCreery \nIntegration Application Specialist II Communications with Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories since May 2012. McCreery provides communications and automation applications engineering support to sales\, consultants\, utility and industrial customers in addition to SEL’s internal Engineering Services team. \nProfessional Experience Summary:\n– Professional with thirty three years of applications experience in the areas of data communication\, automation and training.\n– Developed national and international training centres for GE Multilin\, Siemens and Omron.\n– The Sales Applications Engineer for Data Communications\, Automation and Networking products.\n– Extensive experience in the design and commissioning of control systems and communication networks for industrial and electrical power utility applications.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/cyber-security-of-the-digital-substation-hands-on-training/
LOCATION:Room BA 7180\, Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, 40 St George St
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171012T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171012T113000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
CREATED:20210430T012922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T215201Z
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SUMMARY:Industrial Relations and Toronto ComSoc Chapter: Site Visit G&W/Survalent
DESCRIPTION:Note: This event has been rescheduled from the original date. The new day and time is Thursday\, October 12\, 2017. \nIEEE Toronto is thrilled to present a tour of the Manufacturing Facility of G&W Canada and Survalent in Brampton. This event is a joint event between IEEE Toronto Industrial Relations and Toronto ComSoc Chapter. \nDay & Time: Thursday\, October 12\, 2017\n9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. \nLocation: 7965 Heritage Rd\, Brampton\, ON L6Y 0B3 \nContact: Maryam Alsomahi \nOrganizers: Industrial Relations\, Communication Society Chapter \nRVSP: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/47131 \nAbstract: G&W Electric has been a global supplier of electric power equipment since 1905. Our product offerings include overhead and underground distribution switches\, Lazer® Automation solutions\, reclosers\, distribution and transmission cable accessories\, and current limiting system protection devices. Combining cutting-edge design and manufacturing technology with world-class ISO certified quality systems; G&W specializes in custom solutions to meet specific customer requirements. \nSo whether you are searching for cable terminations and joints\, simple manual switching\, automation for smart grid applications\, or the latest in renewable energy solutions\, join G&W for a tour of their SF6 and Solid Dielectric manufacturing process. \nFees & Notes:\n$10 for non-IEEE members and free for IEEE members.\n1. Attendees are required to bring their own safety shoes and glasses. However\, G&W can loan glasses and toe caps for those who don’t have them. For safety purposes\, attendees are not allowed to wear shorts or open shoes.\n2. Please add a note if you are able to drive/carpool or if you need a ride.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/industrial-relations-and-toronto-comsoc-chapter-site-visit-gw-survalent/
LOCATION:7965 Heritage Rd\, Brampton\, ON L6Y 0B3
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170927T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170927T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
CREATED:20210430T012921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T214617Z
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SUMMARY:Molecular Bringing Precision to Measurements for Millimeter-wave 5G Wireless: Conducted and free-field modulated-signal measurements
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday September 27\, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. Dr. Kate A. Remley from Wireless Systems Group\, NIST\, will be presenting “Molecular Bringing Precision to Measurements for Millimeter-wave 5G Wireless: Conducted and free-field modulated-signal measurements”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday September 27\, 2017\n12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (Light lunch will be served) \nSpeaker: Dr. Kate A. Remley\nWireless Systems Group\, NIST \nLocation: Room BA 4287\nBahen Centre for Information Technology\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Arin Minasian \nOrganizers: IEEE Communications Society \nEvent Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/47045 \nAbstract: At millimeter-wave frequencies and for wide modulation bandwidths\, the hardware performance of both modulated-signal sources and vector receivers becomes increasingly nonideal. These nonidealities make test and validation of devices\, circuits and systems not only more important\, but also more difficult. This is especially true because future systems will likely push the limits of modulation complexity and bandwidth to increase data throughput. We will discuss calibration and measurement techniques to correct millimeter-wave modulated-signal measurements illustrating that traditional assumptions at microwave frequencies may not be adequate at millimeter-wave frequencies. \nBiography: Kate A. Remley (S’92-M’99-SM’06-F’13) was born in Ann Arbor\, MI. She received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oregon State University\, Corvallis\, in 1999. From 1983 to 1992\, she was a Broadcast Engineer in Eugene\, OR\, serving as Chief Engineer of an AM/FM broadcast station from 1989-1991. In 1999\, she joined the RF Technology Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)\, Boulder\, CO\, as an Electronics Engineer. She is currently the leader of the Metrology for Wireless Systems Group at NIST\, where her research activities include development of calibrated measurements for microwave and millimeter-wave wireless systems\, characterizing the link between nonlinear circuits and system performance\, and developing standardized test methods for RF equipment used by the public-safety community. \nDr. Remley was the recipient of the Department of Commerce Bronze and Silver Medals\, an ARFTG Best Paper Award\, and is a member of the Oregon State University Academy of Distinguished Engineers. She was the Chair of the MTT-11 Technical Committee on Microwave Measurements from 2008 – 2010 and the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Microwave Magazine from 2009 – 2011\, and is the Chair of the MTT Fellow Nominating Committee.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/molecular-bringing-precision-to-measurements-for-millimeter-wave-5g-wireless-conducted-and-free-field-modulated-signal-measurements/
LOCATION:Room BA 4287\, 40 St George St\, Toronto M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170926T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170926T160000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
CREATED:20210430T012921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T214451Z
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SUMMARY:Molecular Communication in Mobile Systems
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday September 26\, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. Professor Robert Schober\, Institute for Digital Communications\, will be presenting “Molecular Communication in Mobile Systems”. \nDay & Time: Tuesday September 26\, 2017\n3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Professor Robert Schober\nInstitute for Digital Communications\nFriedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg\, Germany \nLocation: Room BA 2165\nBahen Centre for Information Technology\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Arin Minasian \nOrganizers: IEEE Communications Society \nEvent Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/47028 \nAbstract: Molecular communication (MC) is an emerging research area offering many interesting and challenging new research problems for communication engineers\, biologists\, chemists\, and physicists. MC is widely considered to be an attractive option for communication between nanodevices such as (possibly artificial) cells and nanosensors. Possible applications of the resulting nanonetworks include targeted drug delivery\, health monitoring\, environmental monitoring\, and “bottom-up” manufacturing. \nIn this talk\, we give first a brief introduction to MC and nanonetworking. The main focus of the talk is on stochastic channel modelling for mobile MC systems where the transmitter and/or receiver are not fixed but move subject to diffusion and flow. Metrics such as the mean\, autocorrelation function\, and probability density function of the channel impulse response will be investigated and the notion of coherence time in MC is introduced. Subsequently\, the implications of time-variant channels for MC system design are studied\, and corresponding channel estimation and non-coherent detection schemes are developed. The talk concludes with a summary of potential topics for future work. \nBiography: Robert Schober (S’98\, M’01\, SM’08\, F’10) was born in Neuendettelsau\, Germany\, in 1971. He received the Diplom (Univ.) and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Friedrich-AlexanderUniversity of Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU)\, Germany\, in 1997 and 2000\, respectively. From May 2001 to April 2002 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto\, Canada\, sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). From 2002-2011\, he was a Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC)\, Vancouver\, Canada. Since January 2012 he is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor and the Chair for Digital Communication at FAU. His research interests fall into the broad areas of Communication Theory\, Wireless Communications\, and Statistical Signal Processing. \nDr. Schober received several awards for his work including the 2002 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award of the German Science Foundation (DFG)\, the 2004 Innovations Award of the Vodafone Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications\, the 2006 UBC Killam Research Prize\, the 2007 Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation\, the 2008 Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research from UBC\, a 2011 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship\, and a 2012 NSERC E.W.R. Stacie Fellowship. In addition\, he received several best paper awards. Dr. Schober is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. From 2012-2015 he served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He is currently the Chair of the Steering Committee of the new Communication Society (ComSoc) journal IEEE Transactions on Molecular\, Biological and Multiscale Communication and serves on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE. Furthermore\, he is a Member-at-Large of the Board of Governors and a Distinguished Lecturer of ComSoc.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/molecular-communication-in-mobile-systems/
LOCATION:Room BA 2165\, 40 St George St\, Toronto\, M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170613T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170613T160000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
CREATED:20210430T012917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T212021Z
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SUMMARY:IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecture: Topology Preserving Maps: A Localization-Free Approach for 2-D and 3-D IoT Subnets
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday June 13\, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. Prof. Anura Jayasumana\, Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society\, will be presenting a distinguished lecture “Topology Preserving Maps: A Localization-Free Approach for 2-D and 3-D IoT Subnets”. Note refreshments begin at 2:00 p.m. \nDay & Time: Tuesday June 13\, 2017\n2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Refreshments\n3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Lecture \nSpeaker: Prof. Anura Jayasumana\nDept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering\nColorado State University\, Ft. Collins\, CO 80523 USA \nLocation: Room BA 2135\n40 St. George Street\nToronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nEvent Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/45777 \nAbstract: Driven by higher potency and lower cost/size of devices capable of sensing\, actuating\, processing and communicating\, the Internet of Things and of Everything promises to dramatically increase our ability to embed intelligence in the surroundings. Subnets of simple devices such as RFIDs and tiny sensors/actuators deployed in massive numbers in 2D and complex 3D spaces will be a key aspect of this emerging infrastructure. Most techniques for self-organization\, routing and tracking in such networks rely on distances and localization in the physical domain. While geographic coordinates fit well with our intuitions into physical spaces\, their use is not feasible in complex environments. Protocols based on geographical coordinates do not scale well to 3D either. We present a novel localization-free coordinate system\, the Topology Coordinates (TC). Interestingly\, geographic features such as voids and shapes are preserved in the resulting Topology-Preserving Maps (TPMs) of 2-D and 3-D networks. Ability to specify virtual cardinal directions and angles in networks is a radical change from the traditional approaches. A novel self-learning algorithm is presented to provide network awareness to individual nodes\, a step toward large-scale evolving sensor networks. Application of TCs to social networking will be illustrated. \nBiography: Anura Jayasumana is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University\, where he also holds a joint appointment in Computer Science. He is the Associate Director of Information Sciences & Technology Center at Colorado State. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. His research interests span high-speed networking to wireless sensor networking\, and anomaly detection to DDoS defense. He has served extensively as a consultant to industry ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies. He received the B.Sc. degree from the University of Moratuwa\, Sri Lanka and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Michigan State University. Prof. Jayasumana has supervised 20+ Ph.D. and 50+ M.S. students\, holds two patents\, and is the co-author over 250 papers. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Mountain States Council of the American Electronics Association.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ieee-comsoc-distinguished-lecture-topology-preserving-maps-a-localization-free-approach-for-2-d-and-3-d-iot-subnets/
LOCATION:Room BA 2135\, 40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170607T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170607T150000
DTSTAMP:20260427T164956
CREATED:20210430T012917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T211911Z
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SUMMARY:Robust Beamforming Design: A New Approach
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday June 7\, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. Mostafa Medra\, PhD. Candidate\, will be presenting “Robust Beamforming Design: A New Approach”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday June 7\, 2017\n2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Mostafa Medra\, PhD. Candidate\nDept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering\nMcMaster University \nLocation: Room BA 2145\n40 St. George Street\nToronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nEvent Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/45778 \nAbstract: Due to the increasing demand for higher data rates\, spatial multiplexing received a lot of attention. The ability of a base station to do beamforming so that it can serve multiple users at the same time slot and frequency can provide significantly higher rates. When the channel state information is assumed to be perfectly known at the transmitter\, designs as the zeroforcing\, regularized zero-forcing and maximum ratio transmission can be applied. Those conventional methods are typically of low complexity. In reality the channel state information is estimated and estimation errors are inevitable. Many beamforming designs tried to incorporate the channel uncertainty model into the design problem. While those robust designs normally work better than the conventional designs\, their computational complexity is usually much higher. Today we will provide a new approach to dealing with robust beamforming design that is of low- complexity and performs significantly better than both conventional and current robust methods. \nBiography: Mostafa Medra (S’06-M’16) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees\, both in Electrical Engineering\, from Alexandria University\, Alexandria\, Egypt in 2009 and 2013\, respectively. Since the fall of 2013\, he has been working towards his Ph.D. degree at McMaster University\, Hamilton\, Ontario\, Canada. He held a research position with the Spirtonic research team in 2012-2013\, working on digital signal processing for non-destructive testing using ultrasonic waves. His current research interests include MIMO communications\, optimization\, wireless communications and signal processing.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/robust-beamforming-design-a-new-approach/
LOCATION:Room BA 2145. 40 St. George Street. Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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SUMMARY:IEEE Toronto ComSoc: Watson IOT Platform Hands-On Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Thursday May 4\, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. Gayathri Srinivasan\, IBM Business Development Executive\, will be presenting “IEEE Toronto ComSoc: Watson IOT Platform Hands-On Workshop”. \nDay & Time: Thursday May 4\, 2017\n1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. \nSpeaker: Gayathri Srinivasan\nBusiness Development Executive\nIBM Watson Internet of Things Academic Initiative \nLocation: Galbraith Building\, Room Number: GB202\nUniversity of Toronto\, 35 St George St\nToronto\, ON M5S 1A4 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto ComSoc \nRegister: Register for free at https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/44896 \nAbstract: The IEEE Toronto Section and University of Toronto – ECE are inviting all interested IEEE members and other engineers\, technologists and students to our FIRST hands-on workshop: Watson IoT Platform hands-on. \nWorkshop agenda:\n1. Presentation: IoT Overview\n2. IBM Bluemix overview\n3. IoT Starter app using Watson IoT boilerplate on Bluemix\n4. Work with simulated devices/sensors\n5. Learn the basics of Node-Red application development environment\n6. Learn to create dashboards\n7. Real-time-insights: Use sensor value thresholds to determine actions and text alerts\n8. Use Watson APIs (Watson text to speech & Language Translation) capabilities for the alert\n9. Explore weather insights\n10. Learn to add additional nodes to the node-red environment including dashboard\n11. General Q&A \nBiography: Gaya Magie is a Business Development Executive leading the IBM Watson Internet of Things Academic Initiative. Gaya collaborates with educational institutions world wide to help faculty and students build IoT skills leveraging IBM resources and platforms available for academia. Gaya has been with IBM since 2001 and has over 18 years of industry experience across various aspects of the business\, including development\, support\, project management\, product management\, partner relations and sales. In 1996\, Gaya received her Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University in India. Gaya pursued her higher education in the US and in 1998\, received a Master’s degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University. As an IBM employee and continuing to pursue her higher education\, Gaya received her Master’s in Business Administration in Global Management.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ieee-toronto-comsoc-watson-iot-platform-hands-on-workshop/
LOCATION:Room GB202\, 35 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 1A4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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SUMMARY:Innovations in Communications
DESCRIPTION:Thursday January 26\, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. the IEEE Toronto Communication Society is inviting all interested IEEE and other engineers\, technologists and students to our FIRST technical/social event themed “Innovations in Communications”. \nSpeaker: Ahmed Alsohaily\, Technology Strategy\, Telus\nPresenting “Low Power Wireless Access for Internet of Things Connectivity” \nAlberto Leon-Garcia\, Professor\, University of Toronto\nPresenting “Enabling Smart Infrastructures with Multitier Cloud Computing on Software-Defined Infrastructure” \nNebu Mathai\, Director\, Strategic Initiatives + Advanced Engineering Cognitive Systems Corp\nPresenting “Cognitive Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations: Emerging Trends and Technologies” \nDay & Time: Thursday\, January 26th\, 2017\n5:00 pm – 7:00+ pm \nLocation: Room SF 2202\, Sandford Fleming Building\n10 King’s College Rd\, Toronto\, ON M5S 3G8 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Communication Society \nKindly RVSP for event and dinner here. \nWe are also extending the invitation to interested volunteers to join our team\, and for interested speakers to contact us. \nSchedule: 5:00 pm – 5:05 pm Opening Remarks\n5:05 pm – 5:30 pm Talk #1: Low Power Wireless Access for Internet of Things Connectivity\n5:30 pm – 5:40 pm Coffee Break\n5:45 pm – 6:15 pm Talk #2: Enabling Smart Infrastructures with Multitier Cloud Computing on Software-Defined Infrastructures\n6:15 pm – 6:45 pm Talk #3: Cognitive Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations: Emerging Trends and Technologies\n6:45 pm – 8:00 pm Dinner and Networking \nTalk #1: Low Power Wireless Access for Internet of Things Connectivity \nAbstract: This talk will discuss the emergence of Low Power Wireless Access (LPWA) connectivity to cater to many Internet of Things (IoT) applications. After providing an overview of LPWA challenges\, potential solutions and innovations\, 3GPP Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) solution will be detailed as prime candidate technology for providing LPWA connectivity. \nBiography: Ahmed Alsohaily (S’13–M’15) received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2015 and is currently the Assistant Director of the Wireless Lab at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in University of Toronto\, where he holds a MITACS Elevate postdoctoral fellowship. He is also a member of the Technology Strategy team at Telus responsible for standardization at 3GPP RAN. He actively contributes to the IEEE ComSoc Standards Development and serves as an advisor to the NGMN Alliance \nTalk #2: Enabling Smart Infrastructures with Multitier Cloud Computing on Software-Defined Infrastructure \nAbstract: In this project we discuss the SAVI approach to integrate IoT\, SDN\, and cloud computing technologies into a platform that can support smart applications. From 2011 to 2016 the NSERC Strategic Network for Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructures (SAVI) investigated the convergence of computing\, networking\, and sensing to create an agile platform for smart applications. We introduce SAVI’s multitier computing cloud that converges computing\, SDN and sensing\, and we describe the testbed that was deployed across Canada and federated with the U.S. We discuss use cases that are operational on SAVI including: service chaining\, testbed-wide orchestration\, intrusion-detection and protection using NFV\, multilayer monitoring and modeling using machine learning\, and a live intelligent transportation dashboard for the Greater Toronto Area \nBiography: Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia is Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics an Electrical Engineering “For contributions to multiplexing and switching of integrated services traffic”. He is also a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received the 2006 Thomas Eadie Medal from the Royal Society of Canada and the 2010 IEEE Canada A. G. L. McNaughton Gold Medal for his contributions to the area of communications. Professor LeonGarcia is author of the leading textbooks: Probability and Random Processes for Electrical Engineering\, and Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and Key Architecture. Leon-Garcia was Founder and CTO of AcceLight Networks in Ottawa from 1999 to 2002. He was Scientific Director of the NSERC Strategic Network for Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructures\, and Principal Investigator of the ORF Research Excellence project on Connected Vehicles and Smart Transportation. \nTalk #3: Cognitive Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations: Emerging Trends and Technologies \nAbstract: Electromagnetic spectrum operations (EMSO; a major component of CEMA\, Cyber Electromagnetic Activities) are fundamental to a variety of defense and public security contexts. Forward-thinking roadmaps have highlighted the need to extend this to cognitive EMSO on dynamic land/water/air/space platforms. \nCurrent solutions for CEMA — all based on COTS technologies — are lacking in several respects. Higher performance solutions have unfavorable size\, weight and power (SWaP) characteristics\, and low agility; the lower-end offers questionable quality of measurement with low flexibility. Additionally\, the lack of sufficient edge computing to handle the high loads of radio signal processing often preclude aggressive real-time online sensing. \nThis talk will present a solution for RF situational awareness that disruptively surmounts these issues in all respects. Rather than employ COTS technologies with poor SWaP and mediocre performance\, we present a custom integrated circuit (IC) that enables ultra-low SWaP with high-performance. Central to the solution is the integration of significant on-chip computing resources that enable processing of high-bandwidth RF data directly at the source. The lack of a hardened algorithmic processing chain enables flexible and rapid reconfiguration of the sensor-actuator personality. On-chip computation further facilitates a very agile loop from the high-level algorithmic processing to the low-level RF\, analog and digital front ends. \nWe will also discuss how this uniquely Canadian technology aligns with and enables advanced defense applications. \nBiography: Nebu John Mathai\, PhD\, PEng\, is the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Advanced Engineering at Cognitive Systems Corp\, a Waterloo\, Ontario company. In this dual-mandate role\, he directs a team at the forefront of advanced radio and computer science/engineering\, while engaging with industrial\, government and defence partners who require the bleeding edge. His team produced the highperformance low-power multi-processor computing architecture that forms the foundation of the company’s cognitive-radio-on-chip offering. Beyond this\, they have developed real-time RF propagation and data fusion tools\, and software suites for advanced cognitive radio sensing and communications applications. He also leads a number of strategic initiatives to anticipate and execute on the RF situational awareness requirements posed by next-generation civilian and defence roadmaps pertaining to electromagnetic spectrum operations.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/innovations-in-communications/
LOCATION:Room SF 2202\, Sandford Fleming Building 10 King’s College Rd\, Toronto\, ON M5S 3G8
CATEGORIES:Communications
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SUMMARY:5G RAN - Standards Developments
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday December 14th\, 2016 at 4:30 p.m. Dr. Ivo Maljevic\, senior member of TELUS technology strategy team\, will be presenting “5G RAN – Standards Developments”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Ivo Maljevic\nSenior Member\, TELUS Technology Strategy Team\, Chief Technology Office\nAdjunct Lecturer\, University of Toronto \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, December 14th\, 2016\n4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. \nLocation: Room BA1230\nBahen Centre for Information Technology\n40 St. George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4\nUniversity of Toronto \nOrganizer: IEEE Communications Society \nContact: Eman Hammad \nAbstract: The 3GPP is in the process of standardizing the next\, 5th generation of mobile communications. This talk provides an up to date overview of the current standardization status and focuses on the Radio Access Network (RAN) part. Specifically\, it addresses the completion timelines of each of the phases (there are 3 phases)\, use cases that are driving the design and architecture options. Additionally\, 5G spectrum\, key performance targets & requirements and air interface proposals and open areas for research are discussed. Finally\, the talk privies an up to data information about the 5G trials conducted so far. \nBiography: Dr. Ivo Maljevic is a senior member of TELUS technology strategy team within the Chief Technology Office\, where he focuses on defining a long-term vision for the RAN\, spectrum strategy and standardization. In terms of broader industry involvement\, in the past he has participated in the Canadian Evaluation Group for the IMT-Advanced proposal\, and now he is actively involved in NGMNs and ATIS 5G initiatives. He also participates in 3GPP RAN sessions. Additionally\, Ivo is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Toronto. Prior to TELUS\, he was with Soma Networks\, and before that\, he worked at Motorola Canada. His areas of expertise include LTE/WiMAX/CDMA wireless systems\, software defined radio\, signal processing\, and digital communications theory.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/5g-ran-standards-developments/
LOCATION:Room BA1230\, 40 St. George Street\, M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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