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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180720T110000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180507T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180507T160000
DTSTAMP:20260427T182030
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180504T130000
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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:20260427T182030
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180323T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180323T120000
DTSTAMP:20260427T182030
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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:20260427T182030
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171116T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T182030
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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:20260427T182030
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:20260427T182030
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:20260427T182030
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:20260427T182030
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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:20260427T182030
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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:20260427T182030
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170504T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170504T153000
DTSTAMP:20260427T182030
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170126T190000
DTSTAMP:20260427T182030
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20161125T160000
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SUMMARY:Sensor Data Fusion\, Levels\, Models and Approaches
DESCRIPTION:Friday November 25\, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. Behzad Moshiri\, senior member of IEEE and Professor at University of Waterloo & University of Tehran\, will be presenting “Sensor Data Fusion\, Levels\, Models and Approaches”. \nSpeaker: Professor Behzad Moshiri\nUniversity of Waterloo\nUniversity of Tehran\nSenior Member of IEEE\nMember of ISIF \nDay & Time: Friday\, November 25\, 2016\n3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. \nLocation: BA1230\, Bahen Centre\, 40 St. George Street \nAbstract: In this talk a review on sensor data fusion concept and multi-sensor array which is usually referred as sensor data fusion will be presented. Generally\, “Sensor Data Fusion” as well as “Information Fusion” concepts deal with the synergistic combination of data or information provided by various knowledge sources such as sensors or information extractors\, in order to provide a better understanding of a given scene or obtaining an accurate knowledge discovery. The use of sensor data fusion concept has advantages such as “Redundancy”\, “Complementary”\, “Timeliness” and “Less Costly Information”. The advantages of multiple-sensor data fusion approaches in terms of cost\, accuracy and reliability will be explained. Fusion characterization addressing the application domain\, fusion objective\, fusion process input-output (I/O) characteristics and sensor suite configuration will be shown. In this seminar the different levels and models of Data Fusion will be presented and also different conventional and intelligent data fusion approaches will be introduced. Finally\, some typical examples on applications of sensor data fusion in different fields such as Robotics\, Process Control\, Information Technology and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) will be presented. \nBiography: Behzad Moshiri received his B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in 1984 and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in control systems engineering from the University of Manchester\, Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)\, U.K. in 1987 and 1991 respectively. He joined the school of electrical and computer engineering\, University of Tehran in 1992 where he is currently professor of control systems engineering. He was the member of ISA (Canada Branch) in 1991-1992. He has been the member of ISIF since 2002 and senior member of IEEE since 2006. Dr. Moshiri is adjunct professor in department of electrical and computer engineering at university of Waterloo since 2014. His research collaborations with university of Waterloo\, university of Toronto and university of Ryerson have been initiated since 2007 and the applications of sensor data fusion methods in different disciplines were the core and main field of research ties with colleagues in above mentioned universities during last decade. He is the author/co-author of more than 300 articles including 100 journal papers and 21 book chapters. His fields of research include mechatronics\, automation\, advanced industrial control design\, smart sensing system design\, broad spread of applications of “sensor/data fusion” as well as “information fusion” concepts in mechatronics\, process control\, robotics\, information technology\, bioinformatics\, biomedical engineering and intelligent transportation systems (ITS).
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/sensor-data-fusion-levels-models-and-approaches/
LOCATION:BA1230\, Bahen Centre\, 40 St. George Street
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20161114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20161114T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T182030
CREATED:20210430T002608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T005857Z
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SUMMARY:IoT Advancement and impact on the future of Health and Wellness
DESCRIPTION:Monday November 14\, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. Fawzi Behmann\, President\, TelNet Management Consulting\, Inc.\, will be presenting “IoT Advancement and impact on the future of Health and Wellness”. \nSpeaker: Fawzi Behmann\nPresident\, TelNet Management Consulting\, Inc.\nIEEE NA ComSoc Vice Chair \nDay & Time: Monday\, November 14\, 2016\n4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. \nLocation: BA B026\nBahen Centre for Information Technology\nUniversity of Toronto\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nAbstract: The acceleration in communications technology has impacted our work\, home\, transportation\, commerce\, education and with no exception has increased adoption in healthcare. \nThis presentation will introduce the concept of IoT and architectural evolution from a pre-IoT to Collaborative IoT impacting many markets such as home\, health\, automotive\, enterprise\, transportation and infrastructure. This will be enriched by several examples. \nThe talk will then focus on healthcare and wellness exploring current and emerging solutions at hospitals\, clinics\, care centers and homes. Solution building blocks include sensing\, aggregation\, and data analytics. \nExamples of some of the adjacent technologies such as Drone\, Wearables\, 3D\, and Robot will be highlighted. \nFinally the talk will conclude with some of the factors and challenges to deliver scalable solutions\, delivering better quality of services and experience. These include development platforms\, 5G\, virtualization\, collaborative applications and security. \nTakeaway Points:\n· Understanding of rapid evolution of technology and impact in critical healthcare areas\n· Examples of use cases in healthcare & nutrition.\n· Considerations for scalable and secure networks. \nBiography: Fawzi is a visionary\, thought leader\, author and contributor in advancing adoption of technology in serving humanity. Fawzi spent over 30 years in industry and held various executive and leadership positions with Tier 1 companies in the areas of communications and networks spanning Semiconductor\, communication systems and service provider. Fawzi was a principle architect and championed the definition and the developing of integrated pre-IoT telecom alert system and networking management solution at Teleglobe Canada. He was a senior product manager with Nortel Networks for product release for enterprise\, broadband edge and core nodes. Fawzi also served as the Director of Strategic Marketing with Motorola/Freescale for SoC networking & Communications product line in Austin\, Texas. \nFawzi is passionate about technology automation and has founded TelNet Management Consulting Inc. in 2009 offering consulting services in the areas of technology trends and positioning for smart networking and IoT/GIS solutions. Examples included Solar Energy\, Public Safety – emergency response systems. He organized and chaired workshops\, tutorials and was a distinguished speaker on key topics such as IoT\, 5G\, virtualization and Big Data/Analytics. Fawzi is a board member with several companies and had several publication including a recent book on the subject of future IoT “Collaborative Internet of Things for Future Smart Connected Life and Business” published by Wiley\, June 2015 http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118913744\,subjectCd-EEJ0.html \nFawzi is active in international forums and standards activities with ITU\, ITRS and IEEE Fawzi is a senior member of IEEE\, and is currently the ComSoc NA vice chair\, CTS Conference & PACE Chair\, and ComSoc/SP/CS Austin chapter chair. He was the recipient of several awards from Industry and IEEE including CEO Freescale Diamond Chip Award in 2008\, and IEEE ComSoc Chapter of the year award in 2015 and Outstanding R5 member award for 2013\, 2014 and 2015. He is currently serving as Conference chair for IEEE Central and organized sessions and workshops at BHI\, Himss\, Smart Tech on IoT and healthcare. \nFawzi holds a Bachelor of Science with honors and distinction from Concordia University\, Montreal; Masters in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo\, Ontario and Executive MBA from Queen’s University\, Ontario Canada.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/iot-advancement-and-impact-on-the-future-of-health-and-wellness/
LOCATION:BA B026 Bahen Centre for Information Technology University of Toronto 40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20161114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20161114T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T182030
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SUMMARY:Will 2020 witness a significant impact empowered by IoT\, 5G and virtualization?
DESCRIPTION:Monday November 14\, 2016 at 12:00 p.m. Fawzi Behmann\, President\, TelNet Management Consulting\, Inc.\, will be presenting “Will 2020 witness a significant impact empowered by IoT\, 5G and virtualization?”. \nSpeaker: Fawzi Behmann\nPresident\, TelNet Management Consulting\, Inc.\nIEEE NA ComSoc Vice Chair \nDay & Time: Monday\, November 14\, 2016\n12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. \nLocation: BA 2179\nBahen Centre for Information Technology\nUniversity of Toronto\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nAbstract: Several technologies are converging empowering IoT and delivering a greater impact and advance services to multiple markets by 2020’s.This presentation will introduce the concept of IoT and architectural evolution from a pre-IoT to Collaborative IoT impacting many markets such as home\, health\, automotive\, enterprise\, transportation and infrastructure. This will be enriched by several examples. \nAdvancement in computing processing power\, cloud based services and virtualization have resulted in an environment and platform for convergence some of the key technologies for development and deployment of new products\, applications and services that will have a great impact on improving business processes and quality of life. \nThe talk will provide various examples and scenarios at different areas such as home\, health & wellness\, car\, building\, infrastructure and city. \nSolution building blocks include sensing\, aggregation\, and data analytics. Examples of some of the adjacent technologies such as 3D\, Robot\, Drone and Wearables will be highlighted. Finally the talk will conclude with some of the factors and challenges to deliver scalable solutions\, delivering better quality of services and experience. These include development platforms\, 5G\, virtualization\, collaborative applications and security. \nTakeaway points:\n· Understanding of rapid evolution of IoT & and other related technologies.\n· Emerging of ecosystem cloud based big data/analytics – use cases.\n· Considerations for scalable and secure networks. \nBiography: Fawzi is a visionary\, thought leader\, author and contributor in advancing adoption of technology in serving humanity. Fawzi spent over 30 years in industry and held various executive and leadership positions with Tier 1 companies in the areas of communications and networks spanning Semiconductor\, communication systems and service provider. Fawzi was a principle architect and championed the definition and the developing of integrated pre-IoT telecom alert system and networking management solution at Teleglobe Canada. He was a senior product manager with Nortel Networks for product release for enterprise\, broadband edge and core nodes. Fawzi also served as the Director of Strategic Marketing with Motorola/Freescale for SoC networking & Communications product line in Austin\, Texas. \nFawzi is passionate about technology automation and has founded TelNet Management Consulting Inc. in 2009 offering consulting services in the areas of technology trends and positioning for smart networking and IoT/GIS solutions. Examples included Solar Energy\, Public Safety – emergency response systems. He organized and chaired workshops\, tutorials and was a distinguished speaker on key topics such as IoT\, 5G\, virtualization and Big Data/Analytics. Fawzi is a board member with several companies and had several publication including a recent book on the subject of future IoT “Collaborative Internet of Things for Future Smart Connected Life and Business” published by Wiley\, June 2015 http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118913744\,subjectCd-EEJ0.html \nFawzi is active in international forums and standards activities with ITU\, ITRS and IEEE Fawzi is a senior member of IEEE\, and is currently the ComSoc NA vice chair\, CTS Conference & PACE Chair\, and ComSoc/SP/CS Austin chapter chair. He was the recipient of several awards from Industry and IEEE including CEO Freescale Diamond Chip Award in 2008\, and IEEE ComSoc Chapter of the year award in 2015 and Outstanding R5 member award for 2013\, 2014 and 2015. He is currently serving as Conference chair for IEEE Central and organized sessions and workshops at BHI\, Himss\, Smart Tech on IoT and healthcare. \nFawzi holds a Bachelor of Science with honors and distinction from Concordia University\, Montreal; Masters in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo\, Ontario and Executive MBA from Queen’s University\, Ontario Canada.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/will-2020-witness-a-significant-impact-empowered-by-iot-5g-and-virtualization/
LOCATION:BA 2179 Bahen Centre for Information Technology University of Toronto 40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160812T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160812T120000
DTSTAMP:20260427T182030
CREATED:20210430T002604Z
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SUMMARY:Sparsity Constrained Estimation Using Spike and Slab Priors
DESCRIPTION:August 12\, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Prof. Vishal Monga\, Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University\, will be presenting “Sparsity Constrained Estimation Using Spike and Slab Priors”. \nSpeaker: Prof. Vishal Monga\nAssociate Professor\, Pennsylvania State University\, University Park \nDay & Time: Friday August 12th\, 2016\n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room BA 7129 (tentatively)\nBahen Centre for Information Technology\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nAbstract: We address sparse signal\, i.e. image recovery in a Bayesian estimation framework where sparsity is enforced on reconstruction coefficients via probabilistic priors. In particular\, we focus on the popular spike and slab prior which is considered the gold standard in the statistics literature. The optimization problem resulting from this model has broad applicability in recovery\, regression and classification problems and is known to be a hard non-convex problem whose existing solutions involve simplifying assumptions and/or relaxations. We propose an approach called Iterative Convex Refinement (ICR) that aims to solve the aforementioned optimization problem directly allowing for greater generality in the sparse structure. Essentially\, ICR solves a sequence of convex optimization problems such that sequence of solutions converges to a sub-optimal solution of the original hard optimization problem. Applications will be considered in image classification as well as image reconstruction. \nBiography: Vishal Monga is a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park\, PA. He was with Xerox Research from 2005-2009 and his doctoral work in Electrical Engineering was completed at the University of Texas\, Austin in Aug 2005. His research interests are in computational imaging\, statistical signal processing and convex optimization approaches to estimation problems. Prof. Monga is an elected member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Prof. Monga is a recipient of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. Four of his papers have won best paper or Top 10 percent awards at IEEE Signal Processing conferences. He is a 2016 recipient of Joel and Ruth Spira Foundation Teaching Excellence award. He holds 40 US patents.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/sparsity-constrained-estimation-using-spike-and-slab-priors/
LOCATION:Room BA 7129 (tentatively) Bahen Centre for Information Technology
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160727T140000
DTSTAMP:20260427T182030
CREATED:20210430T002603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T002802Z
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SUMMARY:Finding Common Ground: Channel Analysis and Receiver Models for Diffusive Molecular Communication
DESCRIPTION:July 27\, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Adam Noel\, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa\, will be presenting “Finding Common Ground: Channel Analysis and Receiver Models for Diffusive Molecular Communication”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Adam Noel\nPostdoctoral Fellow\nUniversity of Ottawa \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, July 27\, 2016\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room BA 1200\n40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, M5S 2E4 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nAbstract: Diffusive molecular communication (MC) is a promising strategy for the transfer of information in synthetic networks of “small” devices (on the scale of living cells or smaller). If such devices could communicate\, then it would potentially enable applications such as cooperative diagnostics in medicine\, bottom-up fabrication in manufacturing\, and sensitive environmental monitoring. Results in this domain can also contribute to our understanding of diffusive signaling in natural biological systems and the diseases that develop when the signaling malfunctions. Diffusion based MC for synthetic networks faces challenges such as infinite inter-symbol interference and constrained computational resources in “simple” transceivers\, but also interesting opportunities such as the possibility to manipulate the channel response via chemical means. This presentation highlights our contributions to the modeling and analysis of diffusion-based MC systems\, including derivations of the channel impulse response and the development of simulation tools. We describe our recent work to find a unifying analytical framework for the two most common but distinct receiver models\, where molecules are either absorbed by the receiver surface or passively diffuse through it. We also discuss some of our on-going work to bridge the gap between the realism of existing analytical models and the availability of relevant experimental data. \nBiography: Adam Noel is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa. His Ph.D. and postdoctoral work are on the study of molecular communication\, where he has focused on channel modeling\, system design\, and simulation methods. He has received the support of NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships and is currently holding an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. He also received a Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC 2016. Dr. Noel received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2009 from Memorial University in St. John’s\, Newfoundland and Labrador\, and both the M.A.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2011 and 2015\, respectively. In 2013 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Institute for Digital Communication at Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen\, Germany.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/finding-common-ground-channel-analysis-and-receiver-models-for-diffusive-molecular-communication/
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160704T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160704T140000
DTSTAMP:20260427T182030
CREATED:20210429T230403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T001713Z
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SUMMARY:What can physical-layer security do for you?
DESCRIPTION:July 4\, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Matthieu Bloch\, Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology\, will be presenting “What can physical-layer security do for you?”. \nSpeaker: Matthieu Bloch\nAssociate Professor\, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering\nGeorgia Institute of Technology \nDay & Time: Monday\, July 4\, 2016\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG LG21\n245 Church St.\, Toronto\, ON\, M5B 2K3 \nAll are welcome – No registration necessary \nAbstract: The conventional approach to ensure confidential communications relies on public-key/private-key protocols\, which operate on error-free data after the physical-layer has been established. While the effectiveness of this approach in traditional settings is unquestionable\, new systems are emerging where treating confidentiality as an overlay feature of top of reliability may not be the most appropriate solution. In particular\, modern wireless networks\, which comprise heterogeneous nodes with limited computational and energy resources\, would benefit from the integration by design of confidentiality in the physical-layer\, especially if this can be done in a cost-effective way. In this talk\, we will provide a perspective on what physical-layer security can realistically do for wireless communication systems. Our objective will be not only to review the challenges faced by physical-layer security but also to present some of our recent research activities in the areas of information theory\, coding theory\, and wireless systems that suggest potential solutions to overcome these challenges. \nBiography: Matthieu Bloch is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the Engineering degree from Supélec\, Gif-sur-Yvette\, France\, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology\, Atlanta\, in 2003\, the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science from the Université de Franche-Comté\, Besançon\, France\, in 2006\, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008. In 2008-2009\, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame\, South Bend\, IN. Since July 2009\, Dr. Bloch has been on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, and from 2009 to 2013 Dr. Bloch was based at Georgia Tech Lorraine. His research interests are in the areas of information theory\, error-control coding\, wireless communications\, and cryptography. Dr. Bloch is a member of the IEEE and has served on the organizing committee of several international conferences; he was the chair of the Online Committee of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2011 to 2014. He is the co-recipient of the IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Information Theory Society 2011 Joint Paper Award and the co-author of the textbook Physical-Layer Security: From Information Theory to Security Engineering published by Cambridge University Press.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/what-can-physical-layer-security-do-for-you/
LOCATION:Room ENG LG21\, 245 Church St.\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160506T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160506T163000
DTSTAMP:20260427T182030
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SUMMARY:Cloud Radio-Access Networks: Coding Strategies\, Capacity Analysis\, and Optimization Techniques
DESCRIPTION:Friday May 6th\, 2016 at 3:30 p.m. Prof. Wei Yu\, IEEE Fellow\, will be presenting an IEEE Distinguished Lecture\, “Cloud Radio-Access Networks: Coding Strategies\, Capacity Analysis\, and Optimization Techniques”. \nSpeaker: Prof. Wei Yu\nIEEE Fellow\nIEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors (2015-17)\nIEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2015-16) \nDay & Time: Friday\, May 6th\, 2016\n3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. \nLocation: Room BA 1230\nBahen Centre for Information Technology\nUniversity of Toronto\, St. George Campus\n40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nAbstract: Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is an emerging wireless cellullar architecture in which the base-stations (BSs) take advantage of high-capacity backhaul links to upload signal processing and computation to a cloud-computing based central processor. The C-RAN architecture offers an enabling platform for the centralized joint encoding and joint decoding of user messages and a capability for intercell interference mitigation across the BSs. In this talk\, we address the capacity analysis and optimization technique for C-RAN while specifically taking into account the finite capacity constraint on the backhaul links. In the uplink\, the C-RAN architecture can be modeled as a multiple-access relay channel. We analyze a compress-and-forward scheme in which the BSs quantize the received signals and send the quantized signals to the central processor using Wyner–Ziv coding. We also propose a successive convex optimization approach for optimizing the quantization noise covariance matrix. In the downlink\, the C-RAN architecture can be modeled as a broadcast relay channel. We compare the message-sharing strategy versus compression-based strategy for this setting\, and show how compressive sensing and weighted minimum mean-squared error (WMMSE) techniques can be used to solve a network utility maximization problem involving joint user scheduling\, BS clustering and beamforming in a user-centric message-sharing C-RAN design. \nBiography: Wei Yu (S’97-M’02-SM’08-F’14) received the B.A.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Waterloo\, Waterloo\, Ontario\, Canada in 1997 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University\, Stanford\, CA\, in 1998 and 2002\, respectively. Since 2002\, he has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Toronto\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada\, where he is now Professor and holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Information Theory and Wireless Communications. His main research interests include information theory\, optimization\, wireless communications and broadband access networks. \nProf. Wei Yu currently serves on the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors (2015-17). He is an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2015-16). He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2010-2013)\, as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications (2009-2011)\, as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2004-2007)\, and as a Guest Editor for a number of special issues for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing. He was a Technical Program co-chair of the IEEE Communication Theory Workshop in 2014\, and a Technical Program Committee co-chair of the Communication Theory Symposium at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) in 2012. He was a member of the Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2008-2013). Prof. Wei Yu received a Steacie Memorial Fellowship in 2015\, an IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2015\, an IEEE ICC Best Paper Award in 2013\, an IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2008\, the McCharles Prize for Early Career Research Distinction in 2008\, the Early Career Teaching Award from the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering\, University of Toronto in 2007\, and an Early Researcher Award from Ontario in 2006. He is recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters. \nProf. Wei Yu is a Fellow of IEEE. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/cloud-radio-access-networks-coding-strategies-capacity-analysis-and-optimization-techniques/
LOCATION:Room BA 1230\, 40 St. George Street\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Communications
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SUMMARY:Molecular Communication: Theoretical Limits and Experimental Implementations
DESCRIPTION:Thursday April 28th\, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. Dr. Nariman Farsad\, Post-doc Fellow\, Stanford University\, will be presenting “Molecular Communication: Theoretical Limits and Experimental Implementations”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Nariman Farsad\nPost-doc Fellow\, Stanford University \nDay & Time: Thursday\, April 28th\, 2016\n2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room BA 1190\nBahen Centre for Information Technology\nUniversity of Toronto\, St. George Campus\n40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Eman Hammad \nAbstract: Molecular communication is a new and bio-inspired field\, where chemical signals are used to transfer information instead of electromagnetic or electrical signals. In this paradigm\, the transmitter releases chemicals or molecules and encodes information on some property of these signals such as their timing or concentration. The signal then propagates the medium between the transmitter and the receiver through different means such as diffusion\, until it arrives at the receiver where the signal is detected and the information decoded. This new multidisciplinary field can be used for in-body communication\, secrecy\, networking microscale and nanoscale devices\, infrastructure monitoring in smart cities and industrial complexes\, as well as for underwater communications. Since these systems are fundamentally different from telecommunication systems\, most techniques that have been developed over the past few decades to advance radio technology cannot be applied to them directly. \nIn this talk\, we first explore some of the fundamental limits of molecular communication channels. In particular\, we explore the fundamental capacity limits of the molecular timing channels\, where information is encoded in the time of release of chemical signals. We also evaluate how capacity scales with respect to the number of particles released by the transmitter. Then\, optimal detection in molecular timing channels is briefly discussed. We conclude the talk by presenting some of the recent experimental implementations of molecular communication systems. \nBiography: Nariman Farsad received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from York University\, Toronto\, Canada in 2010 and 2015\, respectively. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University\, where he is a recipient of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship. Nariman has won the second prize in 2014 IEEE ComSoc Student Competition: Communications Technology Changing the World\, the best demo award at INFOCOM’2015\, and was recognized as a finalist for the 2014 Bell Labs Prize. He has been an Area Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communication–Special Issue on Emerging Technologies in Communications\, and a Technical Reviewer for a number of journals including IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing\, and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He was also a member of the Technical Program Committees for the ICC’2015\, BICT’2015\, GLOBCOM’2015\, and GLOBCOM’2016.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/molecular-communication-theoretical-limits-and-experimental-implementations/
LOCATION:BA 1190\, 40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON
CATEGORIES:Communications
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SUMMARY:IEEE Standards Development EcoSystem and ComSoc Standards and Standards related Activities
DESCRIPTION:Monday April 4th\, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. Dr. Alexander D. Gelman\, Director of Standardization Programs Development\, IEEE Communication Society\, will be presenting “IEEE Standards Development EcoSystem and ComSoc Standards and Standards related Activities”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Alexander D. Gelman\nDirector of Standardization Programs Development\nIEEE Communication Society \nDay & Time: Monday\, April 4th\, 2016\n6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. \nLocation: BA 1230\, Bahen Centre for Information Technology\n40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nRefreshments in BA 1200 at 5:30 p.m. \nContact: Eman Hammad \nAbstract: In this presentation the IEEE and ComSoc Standards Activities are positioned and explained as a part of the IEEE total value proposition and the IEEE role in technology evolution from a concept to R&D and to standards and deployment. IEEE Standards Activities ecosystem will be explained. We will address the role and modus operandi of IEEE Standards Association and the role of Technical Societies and Councils\, Industry and Academia in the IEEE standardization activities. It will be a tutorial of how the IEEE Standardization cuisine works and how any materially or professedly interested party can participate in the standardization process. We will highlight the unique IEEE standardization process and IEEE standards-related policies. Sample communications and networking standardization and pre-standardization projects in such areas as PLC\, Smart Grid\, IoT\, SDN\, Big Data and 5G will be addressed. ComSoc standards–related technical activists\, such as conferences and publications will be discussed. \nBiography: Alexander D. Gelman received M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the City University of New York. Presently he is CTO of NETovationsconsulting group that supports industry in competitive research and intellectual property management in areas of communications and networking. During 1998-2007 Alex worked the Chief Scientist of the Panasonic Princeton Research Laboratory\, managing research programs in consumer communications and networking; during 1984-1998 worked at Bellcore\, most recently as Director-Internet Access Architectures Research. Alex has numerous publications and several patents. He pioneered multi-point Multimedia Communications and DSL applications for managed services (IPTV). Alex holds some of the earliest system patents inVoDand DSL areas\, e.g. on xDSLInternet Access Router. He managed research projects that included competitive industrial research as well as standardization in industry consortia and global standards development organizations. Alex is a seasoned IEEE and ComSocvolunteer. He is a cofounder the IEEE conference on Consumer Communications and Networking (CCNC)\, helped to acquire for ComSocthe International Symposium on Power Line Communications (ISPLC)\, the IEEE Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing\, IEEE-SIIT and IEEEBlackSeaComconferences; served on the inaugural Steering Committee for Transactions on Multimedia and the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) and IEEE-CSCN; initiated a Communications Standards Supplement to the IEEE Communications Magazine asan incubation phase for IEEE Communications Standards Magazine; chaired the Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications\,served four terms as ComSocVice President. Alex initiated several standardization projects and initiated the ComSocStandards Board\, served as ComSocDirector of Standards. During his term ComSocreceived the IEEE Standards Association Entity Standards Sponsor award. Alex served on IEEE-SA BoGand on Standards Board and its New Standards\, Standards Review\, Patents and Industry Connections committees\, e.g. representing TAB in 2008\, 2010\, and in 2012. In 2008 Alex chaired TAB’s Ad Hoc Committee on Standards. Alex architected ComSocStandards Activities Council and was elected the first ComSocVice President -Standards Activities. Alex is a recipient of MMC TC Distinguished Service award and ComSocDonald W. McLellan Meritorious Service Award. And IEEE-SA Standards Medallion.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ieee-standards-development-ecosystem-and-comsoc-standards-and-standards-related-activities/
LOCATION:BA1230\, Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, 40 St. George Street\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Communications
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SUMMARY:Free Spectrum – Unlicensed Options
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday November 25\, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Dr. Srikanth will be presenting “Free Spectrum – Unlicensed Options”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Srikanth\nCKO\, Nanocell Networks\nAU-KBC Research Centre\, MIT Campus\, Chennai\, India\nRyerson Communications Lab \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, November 25\, 2015\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 460\n245 Church St.\, Ryerson University\, Toronto \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Communications Society \nContact: Eman Hammad\, Email:eman.hammad.ca@ieee.org \nAbstract: The use of unlicensed bands by operators has been looming for quite some time with no clear approaches prevalent across the globe. Wi-Fi technologies have been thought of as the only way for operators to use unlicensed band due to its popularity in devices. Recently\, many companies have evinced interested in standardizing LTE-technologies in the unlicensed bands as this can solve the teething problems with respect to using Wi-Fi based technologies. The reaction from the Wi-Fi camp has been a challenge as it views LTE-unlicensed solutions as disruption to their business. The carrier community prefers LTE-unlicensed solutions as it gives them better control over operations in unlicensed band apart from better performance. In this course\, we shall introduce the various unlicensed options available to carriers and others. Topics to be covered: \n• Why unlicensed bands for service providers\n• Wi-Fi\, its evolution and its role including Wi-Fi calling\n• LTE in unlicensed bands – motivation\n• LTE-U; key points\n• 3GPP LAA; key approaches and status\n• 3GPP LWA; LTE-Wi-Fi aggregation\n• Qualcomm MuLTEfire \nBiography: Srikanth obtained his B.E.\, degree from College of Engineering\, Anna University\, Chennai\, and MASc and PhD degrees from University of Victoria\, British Columbia\, Canada. \nHe worked as a scientist at the KBC Research Foundation/AU-KBC Research Centre\, in Chennai\, India and most of his work is focused on OFDM based technologies. From 2004-2007 he was awarded a Young Scientist Fellowship by the Government of India to work on technologies related to upgrades on 802.11 and 802.16 standards. He has closely monitored the progress of the 802.11 and 802.16 standards and is familiar with the various proposals which were submitted for consideration for the 802.11n extension. He is currently the chief knowledge officer of nanocell networks and is also a consultant to Airtight Networks while being a visiting faculty at MIT\, Chennai. He is a co-investigator of a research project funded by Govt. of India with faculty from IIT\, Chennai and IIT\, Mumbai \nSrikanth began his career as a research associate at the University of Victoria\, British Columbia\, \nCanada working in the area of DSL and CDMA Systems. After this Ph. D.\, he joined Harris Corporation and worked on baseband algorithms for various wireless standards including IS-136 and 1S-95 systems. He has consulted on various areas of OFDM systems and has also been involved in the setting up of a test lab for 802.11. He has 3 US patents issued in the area of \nWLANs\, OFDM\, and OFDMA systems. Srikanth trains global teams of corporates on the latest WLAN\, cellular standards\, and IOT. He has also been involved in the IEEE WCET course book preparation.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/free-spectrum-unlicensed-options/
LOCATION:Room ENG 460\, Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Communications
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SUMMARY:Terrestrial Broadcast vs. LTE-eMBMS: Competition and Cooperation
DESCRIPTION:Monday November 16\, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. Marco Breiling\, IEEE BTS distinguished lecturer\, will be presenting “Terrestrial Broadcast vs. LTE-eMBMS: Competition and Cooperation”. \nSpeaker: Marco Breiling\nIEEE BTS Distinguished Lecturer\nChief Scientist of the Broadband & Broadcast (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS)\, Germany Erlangen) \nDay & Time: Monday\, November 16\, 2015\n5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. \nLocation: Room BA7180\nBahen Centre for Information Technology\, University of Toronto\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Communications Society \nContact: Eman Hammad\, Email:eman.hammad.ca@ieee.org \nAbstract: While the broadcast world is reinforcing its armoury by introducing new and highly advanced standards like DVB-T2/-NGH and ATSC 3.0\, the pressure by the mobile communications business is ever increasing. As users consume more unicast content or switch over to satellite TV or IPTV\, the user base for terrestrial TV is shrinking\, whereas the data rates requested by the users in mobile communications networks explode. \nMoreover\, the mobile communications armoury now includes LTE-eMBMS as a broadcast mode\, which can handle cases\, where many users want to consume the same content. Consequently\, the mobile network operators ask for a reallocation of the UHF broadcast bands to standards such as LTE (digital dividend II and more). If we assume that there is a future for broadcast over terrestrial transmission\, this talk will shed some light about the question what technical (not commercial!) advantages conventional terrestrial broadcast standards like DVB have over eMBMS and vice versa. This leads to the question\, whether the best aspects of both can be combined by having both networks cooperate. A final aspect discussed is the idea of distributing eMBMS content by satellite using\, e.g.\, DVB-S2. \nBiography: After conducting studies at the Universität Karlsruhe/Germany (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – KIT)\, the Norges Tekniske Høgskole (NTH) in Trondheim/Norway\, the Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique (ESIEE) in Paris and the University of Southampton/England\, Marco Breiling graduated with a Dipl.-Ing. degree from KIT in 1997. He earned his PhD degree (with highest honor) for a thesis about turbo codes from Universität Erlangen/Germany in 2002. \nSince 2001\, he has been working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen in the field of satellite and terrestrial communications. He currently holds the position of the broadband & broadcast department’s chief scientist.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/terrestrial-broadcast-vs-lte-embms-competition-and-cooperation/
LOCATION:Room BA7180\, Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, University of Toronto
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151114T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151114T183000
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SUMMARY:IEEE 5G Toronto Summit
DESCRIPTION:Recently\, IEEE Communication Society has developed a strategic framework based on the principles that embrace Industry’s interests and priorities while integrating IEEE and ComSoc’s objectives. In order to engage industry members with high value and innovative technologies\, IEEE Communication Society plans to hold a series of high impact one day Summits in emerging technology areas (e.g.\, SDN/NFV\, 5G\, IoT\, Big Data\, and Cybersecurity). The first summit was held at Princeton Univertity in May 2015 (see photos\, slides\, and videos).The upcoming IEEE Toronto 5G Summit is the second one in the series\, and will be held at University of Toronto on Saturday\, November 14\, 2015. This one day summit will provide a platform for the industry leaders\, innovators\, and researchers from the industry and academic community to collaborate and exchange ideas in this emerging technology that may help in driving the standards and rapid deployment. \nThe Summit is sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and co-sponsored by the IEEE Toronto Chapter. \nKeynote Speakers: \nDr. Ivo Maljevic\nTelus \nJavan Erfanian\nBell Canada \nDr. Xavier Costa\nNEC Lab Europe \nDr. Peiying Zhu\nHuawei \nDay & Time: Saturday\, November 14\, 2015\n8:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. \nLocation: Bahen Centre for Information Technology (BCIT)\, Auditorium BA1160 (1st floor) \n40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 Building \nhttp://map.utoronto.ca/marker/bahen-centre \nOfficial Website & Registration: http://www.5gsummit.org/toronto/
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ieee-5g-toronto-summit/
LOCATION:Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, 40 St. George Street\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Communications
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