Wireless Future - Trends and Challenges

SPEAKER: Dr. Yrjo Neuvo, Professor, Technology Advisor, Nokia Corporation, Helsinki, FinlandABSTRACT: This year there will be more than 3 Billion cellular phone users and we expect 90% of the world's population of about 6 Billion people to live within mobile phone coverage by 2010. Already for some years the majority of digital camera modules have been integrated in mobile phones. Connection to your emails and the Internet based services around the world is conveniently provided by your cell phone. This talk gives first a brief overview of current trends in cellular phones usage addressing the key characteristics of both emerging and developed markets. With increasing processing capabilities and broadband data rates the cell phone is turning into a multimedia computer with imaging, music, video, graphics, GPS and TV capabilities. Second part of the talk will address some relevant challenges for the research community emerging from the desire to further increase the data rates, performance and versatility of use. Energy management is a very broad multidisciplinary challenge covering practically all technologies from semiconductor technologies to wireless protocols and software architecture. The quest for ever increasing data rates challenge, in addition to wireless telecommunications theory, RF integration and antenna designs. The role of SW is playing an increasingly important role in wireless terminals bringing up issues like open source, security and SW productivity.BIO: Yrjo Neuvo, Ph.D., Professor and Technology Advisor, previously Executive Vice President and CTO of Nokia Corporation, has been responsible for product development and technologies of mobile phones. He was a member of the Nokia Group Executive Board of Nokia during 1993-2005. Before joining Nokia, he gained international academic recognition as a professor of signal processing at Tampere University of Technology. He was a National Research Professor at the Academy of Finland and visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his doctorate from Cornell University. During his academic years he has published over 400 scientific articles. Dr. Neuvo has been and is a member of several international research and innovation policy related working groups and committees. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a member of Academia Europeae, the Swedish Academy of Technical Sciences, two Finnish Academies and holds three honorary doctorates. He was general Chairman of 1988 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, First IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Digital Signal Processing in 1993, the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Communications and the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications.Hosts: Keith Chugg, chugg@usc.edu AND Sanjit Mitra, skmitra@usc.edu

Location: Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Memorial Hall (of Philosophy) (MHP) - 106

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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