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8 December

8:00-9:30

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8:00-10:00

IF&E - I.T.P.
Mathworks
Comm Theory & 4G Wireless Systems
(Part 1)
GRB 320 D/E

Tutorial – Receivers, Transmitters & Noise
GRB 310 C/F

IF&E - I.T.P.
MathWorks
Comm Theory & 4G Wireless Systems
(Part 2)
GRB 320 D/E

IF&E - I.T.P.
Dense Small Cell Deployments in Future Radio Access Networks
GRB 320 A/B

9:30–10:00

COFFEE BREAK

10:00-12:00

Executive Forum
on Cloud Computing

10:00–10:30

COFFEE BREAK

COFFEE BREAK

10:30-12:00

KEYNOTE

KEYNOTE

12:00-13:30

AWARDS LUNCHEON

12:00-13:30

LUNCH BREAK

LUNCH BREAK

13:30-15:30

 

13:30-15:30

IF&E - I.T.P.
National Instruments
Test Bed Framework
GRB 320 D/E

Tutorial – Receivers, Transmitters & Noise
GRB 310 C/F

IF&E - I.T.P.
Emergency Response: AT&T Disaster Recovery
GRB 320 C/F
 

IF&E - I.T.P.
National Instruments
Test Bed Framework
GRB 320 D/E

IF&E - I.T.P.
Cyber Security
GRB 320 A/B

15:30-16:00

COFFEE BREAK

15:30-16:00

COFFEE BREAK

COFFEE BREAK

16:00-18:00

 

16:00-18:00

Tutorial – Receivers, Transmitters & Noise
GRB 310 C/F


IF&E - I.T.P
Real Time Tracking & Transport Location
GRB 320 C/F
 

IF&E
NASA on Space Power Efficiency
GRB 310 A/B

 

 


Wednesday, 7 December 2011 • 8:00 – 10:00 • Room: GRB 320 D/E

How Basic Communications Theory Turns into a 4G Wireless System (Part 1)

Organizer: Dhadesugoor R. Vaman, Prairie View A&M University
Presenter: Dr. Houman Zarrinkoub, Ph.D., and Idin Motedayen-Ava, Mathworks

Starting from underlying mathematical principles, we will discuss the iterative process of analysis, design and optimization involved in the development and implementation of major components of 4G LTE wireless systems. The demonstration example will start with a simple communications system composed of just a modem (modulation and demodulation) and an AWGN (additive-white-Gaussian-noise) channel and progressively add components to approach a bare bones prototype of a 4G LTE system.

Highlights of the presentation include:
• Modeling, simulation and visualizing the performance of the communications system in MATLAB
• Using the Communications System Toolbox to incorporate components such as Modulators, Chanel models,
  Convolution coding/Viterbi Decoder, Turbo Encoder/Decoder, MIMO and OFDM into your model
• System-level throughput analysis with adaptive modulation based on channel characteristics
• Accelerating the speed of your MATLAB simulation at each step through parallel processing, code generation
  and using efficient algorithms
 


Wednesday, 7 December 2011 • 8:00 – 10:00 & 13:30 – 15:30 & 16:00 – 18:00 • Room: GRB 310 C/F

Tutorial on Radio Receivers, Transmitters, Modulation and Noise – A Review of the Fundamentals

Organizer: Dhadesugoor R. Vaman, Prairie View A&M University
Presenter: W. Ransom Siler, P.E. LLC

This tutorial presents the fundamental building blocks that lead to understanding the latest generation of receivers, transmitters and modulation systems used in mobile radio, microwave, satellite, WiFi, HSPA, LTE and other OFDMA/FDMA/TDMA wireless communications systems. The objective is to provide engineers, technicians and project managers with a fundamental understanding of radio receivers/transmitters and the modulation and coding used to convey information in existing and emerging communications systems. The tutorial includes practical examples of basic and advanced receiver and transmitter designs.

Topics Covered

• Several Pages from Radio History
• 100 Years of Digital Radio Modulation
• Basic Receivers & Transmitters
• Fundamentals of Amplitude Modulation
• Introduction to Mixers
• Advanced Receivers
• Variations of Amplitude Modulation
• I&Q Modulation & Demodulation
• Frequency/Phase Modulation
• Channelization, Access & Duplex methods
• “Digital” Modulation Methods
• Introduction to OFDM
• Fundamentals of FEC & Noise
• Examples of 4G Technology
 
 



Wednesday, 7 December 2011 • 13:30 – 15:30 & 16:00 – 18:00 • Room: GRB 320 C/F

AT&T Mobility Application Workshops on Emergency Response: AT&T Disaster Recovery and Real Time Tracking & Transport Location

Presenters: David Ellis, AT&T Industry Solutions Practice Transportation/AVL and Singh Lin, AT&T Mobility Applications Consultant

AT&T recognizes that many wireless customers are faced with today’s economic challenges and budget constraints that directly impact their ability to serve and perform as an organization. In light of this situation, AT&T is making network investments like 4G LTE and is focused on delivering applications that transform operations in areas such as improving safety, driving operational efficiency, increasing worker productivity, preparing for disaster recovery and strengthening public relations.

Two workshops will provide examples of these mobility solutions. One will focus on the next generation of emergency communications. Another workshop will discuss mission critical business solutions for government and small to medium businesses that have vehicles fleets/critical assets. Example of equipment and devices will be displayed during the workshop.

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Wednesday, 7 December 2011 & Thursday, 8 December 2011 • 13:30 – 15:30 • Room: GRB 320 D/E

Open, Programmable Rapid Prototyping and Test Bed Framework

Organizer: Dhadesugoor R. Vaman, Prairie View A&M University
Presenters: Douglas Kim, Ph.D., and Mike Trimborn, National Instruments

Around the world, wireless consumers’ insatiable demand for bandwidth has spurred unprecedented levels of investment from both the public and private sectors to explore new ways to expand network capacity to meet the rising demand. Industry analysts postulate that demand will indeed outpace capacity and it’s simply a matter of when. Against this backdrop, wireless researchers equipped with burgeoning budgets continue to put forth ideas to address the capacity challenges investigating techniques spanning all areas of the network from the wireless physical layer to heterogeneous networks encompassing pico and femto cells, and relays.

In reality, wireless service providers may not rely on one “silver bullet” to solve the capacity issues but rather employ a combination of techniques as the demand curve is clearly exponential with no inflection point in sight. Although many of these ideas hold much promise, the time required to transition from computer simulation to actual deployment in a real network can take several years.

Service providers need proof that new ideas will work to guide investments and set priorities. Simulations, necessary as a first step in design process, stop short in terms of comprehending many network and channel conditions, and therefore deployment to hardware is equally necessary to further research in these important areas. As researchers know all too well, the transition from simulation to a working prototype is not straightforward and very time-consuming. Why? The tools necessary to develop new concepts are available but the transition to a working prototype requires a completely different set of tools and skills, and offer loose hardware integration if any. As a result, the prototyping exercise can be frustrating and expensive.

National Instruments has been working on this problem for several years and will demonstrate a graphical approach to communications systems design with open modular hardware and software to expedite the transition from concept to prototype and to reduce the time to deployment. These tools offer a unique combination of tight hardware integration yet offer an open platform to accommodate different design languages and technologies to enable researchers to rapidly prototype their concepts.
 


Thursday, 8 December 2011 • 8:00 – 10:00 • Room: GRB 320 D/E

How Basic Communications Theory Turns into a 4G Wireless System (Part 2)

Organizer: Dhadesugoor R. Vaman, Prairie View A&M University
Presenters: Dr. Houman Zarrinkoub, PhD, and Idin Motedayen-Ava, MathWorks

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technologies are at the heart of major 4G communication standards such as WiMAX and LTE.

Because of the complexities of the underlying technologies many companies are adopting advanced modeling and simulation tools from the MathWorks to accelerate innovation in implementing and optimizing next generation of wireless systems. Using models of real-world systems, this seminar will demonstrate all of the major stages of functional design and simulation of a communication system, from the design specification all the way to code running on embedded signal processing hardware.

This seminar provides you with an opportunity to understand how MATLAB, Simulink, Communications System Toolbox, and other MathWorks tools, can be used to:
• Model and explore design specifications through simulation
• Generate C code from your MATLAB model with MATLAB Coder
• Prototype and test your model as a standalone desktop C/C++ application
• Generate VHDL or Verilog code to implement the design using FPGAs
 


Thursday, 8 December 2011 • 8:00 – 10:00 • Room: GRB 320 A/B

Dense Small Cell Deployments in Future Radio Access Networks

Organizer & Moderator: Jie Zhang, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

With rapidly-growing smartphones and tablets, mobile operators have experienced tremendous data traffic increase in recent years. It is predicted that this trend will continue at least until 2020 with a CAGR of 80-100%. Hence, the traffic (mostly data) carried by a mobile operator’s network in 2020 could be over 1000 times of that in 2010. This exponential traffic growth presents a huge challenge to the mobile industry. On top of meeting this traffic increase, operators have obligations to cut energy consumptions, which normally compromise spectrum efficiency in macrocell scenarios.

Dense small cell deployment is one of the most promising ways to meet the exponential traffic growth. In this panel session, experts from operators, vendors and academia will discuss the challenging issues arising from dense small cell deployment such as interference, mobility management, SON, backhauling, and etc. The green aspect of small cell deployment will also be discussed. Further, dense small deployment will be compared with other approaches in terms of delivering capacity. Finally, various dense small cell deployment scenarios will be illustrated by some indoor and joint indoor-outdoor wireless network planning and optimisation tools.
 


Thursday, 8 December 2011 • 13:30 – 15:30 • Room: GRB 320 A/B

Cyber Security: Trust in the Reliability and Security of Cyberspace

Organizer: Dhadesugoor R. Vaman, Prairie View A&M University
Presenter: Karl F. Rauscher, CTO, EastWest Institute (EWI)

Cyberspace is essential for the continued operation of governments, businesses and lifestyles worldwide. Being able to trust that cyberspace will perform as expected is therefore essential to national security, economic stability and public safety. However, as the pace of technological advances has outpaced our policies and practices to ensure the needed trust, criminals, unintended limitations and even natural causes are regularly the source of disappointment for stakeholders at all levels and across all sectors. Indeed the growing, aggregate concerns around the security of cyberspace are a very real threat that could derail the pace and direction of the progress now being made.

This forum will take on the most pressing challenges in cyberspace that require integrated progress in technology and policy in order to address growing gaps of mistrust. Focus areas will include: the integrity of ICT development environments and supply chains, the limitations in the resilience of the Global Undersea Communications Cable Infrastructure (GUCCI) - including no alternative, dealing with the inherent and ever-present limitation of source attribution. Thought leaders from around the world will be invited to play an active part in this forum that will seek to include balanced representation from government, business and research institutions.
 


Thursday, 8 December 2011 • 16:00 – 18:00 • Room: GRB 310 A/B

Part I: Aerospace Power Technology for Possible Terrestrial Energy Systems Applications
(Photovoltaics; Fuel Cells; Energy Storage Systems; Stirling Convertors; Gas Turbines; Advanced Energy Systems; Nuclear Technology)

Part II: The Influence of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Program on the Development of Fuel Cell Technology


Organizer: Dhadesugoor R. Vaman, Prairie View A&M University
Presenters: Dr. Valerie Lyons, Chief, Power and In Space Propulsion Division, NASA Glenn Research Center
Dr. John H. Scott, Chief, Energy Conversion Branch, NASA Johnson Space Flight Center

In the first part, the presentation looks at Aerospace power and propulsion systems research and development being performed at NASA. This research could have tremendous impact in producing reliable, sustainable, low cost energy systems for terrestrial needs. Some recent accomplishments and plans for further development will be presented.

In the second part, the presentation looks at the fuel cells from the time of their invention in the 19th century through the middle of the 20th. The fuel cells remained a “solution in search of a problem.” Though technology developers mounted a number of successful laboratory and field demonstrations, there was during this period, no application for which fuel cells were the optimal energy storage technology. Beginning in the 1960’s, however, fuel cells were determined to be the best energy storage solution for NASA’s Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle Programs. Human spaceflight thus provided the “problem” for which the fuel cell “solution” had been searching. The development efforts thereby funded by NASA provided the impetus for the development of a substantial fuel cell industry. This industry then grew significantly when interest in “green power” and “The Hydrogen Economy” developed during the 1990’s. Fuel cell technology is thus one of Human Spaceflight’s more effective “spinoffs.” Much of NASA’s fuel cell development efforts since that time have been focused on “spinning in” commercially developed fuel cell technology for spacecraft applications.

 



 


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