Technical Program
IEEE CAS Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking >> Technical Program

  Registration
  Breaks/Food
  Keynote Speaker
  Plenary Speakers
  Poster Sessions
Wednesday, August 8
4:00 - 9:00 pm Registration
7:00 - 9:00 pm Welcoming Reception (Food Provided)
Thursday, August 9
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks:
Dr. Jeffrey C. Kantor, Vice President of Research and Graduate Studies, University of Notre Dame
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jerry Foschini, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Expressing Signals In Spacetime For Efficent Wireless Communication
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Plenary Session 1 [Circuits, Devices & Systems for Wireless Communications]
10:30 - 11:00 Rajit Manohar (Cornell Univ)
Asynchronous VLSI for Wireless Communication Systems
11:00 - 11:30 Joy Laskar (Georgia Tech)
Next Generation Communication Modules
11:30 - 12:00 Barry Lin (EIC Corp)
Recent Developments in Key Components for Wireless Communications
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (provided)
1:30 - 3:00 Plenary Session 2 [Signal Processing]
1:30 - 2:00 Naofal Al-Dhahir (AT&T Shannon Laboratory)
Exploiting the Structure of Space-Time Codes
2:00 - 2:30 Dr. Ruey-wen Liu (University of Notre Dame)
Multi-User Blind Channel Equalization and Signal Discrimination by NIA Matched Filters
2:30 - 3:00 Dr. Lang Tong (Cornell University)
Signal Processing and Networking: A Cross-Layer Design Perspective
3:00 - 5:00
Poster Session 1 (refreshments provided)
 
6:00 - 7:00 Reception
7:00 - 9:00 Workshop Banquet
Friday, August 10
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Steve Weinstein NEC-USA
Extending the Wireless Internet into the LAN Environment
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Plenary Session 3 [Networking]
10:30 - 11:00 Wayne Stark (Univ. of Michigan)
Low Energy Wireless Communication System Design
11:00 - 11:30 Anthony Ephremides (Univ. of Maryland)
A Review of Energy-Efficient Ad-Hoc Wireless Networking
11:30 - 12:00 Dr. Raychaudhuri (Rutgers University)
Scalability Issues in Broadband Wireless Networks
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (provided)
1:00 - 2:30
Poster Session 2 (dessert/coffee provided)
 
2:30 - 4:00 Panel Discussion [Business opportunities and technical challenges in new circuits,systems and networks]
4:00 Closing Statement and Workshop Ends

Contributed Poster Presentations

(All posters will be displayed for the whole duration of the workshop, and poster viewing will take place during both Poster Sessions).
  1. Structured MMSE Equalization in Single- and Multi-User Detection Schemes for High-Speed CDMA Forward Link with Sparse Multipath Channels, Samina Chowdhury and Michael D. Zoltowski, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

  2. Associative Amplitude Modulation with Built-In Noise Immunity, Ron Spencer, Huseyin Dinc, and Taner Sumesaglam, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University

  3. Solutions for the Realisation of Radio-Mobile Systems: Intellectual Properties and Platforms, G. Bollano, D. Ettorre, P. Garino, M. Turolla, and S. Vercelli, Telecom Italia Lab (TILAB), Italy

  4. Exploiting FPGA Reconfiguration to Implement an Adaptive Demodulator, Sandeep Mukthavaram and Joseph B. Evans, Department of Electrical and Computer Science, University of Kansas

  5. Integrated Receiver Design for Bluetooth, Wenjun Sheng, Bo Xia, Ahmed Emira, and Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio, Electrical Engineering Department, Texas A&M University

  6. Quality of Voice in Wireless Data Networks, R. Bhagavathula, J. Phillip, and R. Pendse, Electrical Engineering Department, Wichita State University

  7. A Fractional Dual Modulus Prescaler for Fast Settling and Low Spur Wireless Frequency Synthesizers, Yiwu Tang, Yingjie Zhoua, Mohammed Ismail, and Steve Bibyk, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University and Motorola Inc.

  8. Wireless Sensor Networks for Dense Spatio-Temporal Monitoring of the Environment: A Case for Integrated Circuit, System, and Network Design, Brent W. West and Paul G. Flikkema, Department of Electrical Engineering, Northern Arizona University

  9. Mobile Speed Based Uplink Link Closed Loop Power Control Algorithm with Adaptive Power Control Updating Frequency and Step Size, Seungbeom Lee and Sin-Chong Park,School of Engineering, Information and Communications University, Korea

  10. A Fully Integrated Single-CHIP CMOS RFIC for Bluetooth / ISM Applications, G. Levy, B. Allison, T. Caviglia, M. Cavin, J. Ebner, P. Farrell, C. Frost, D. Georgantas, M. Hufford, S. Lindsay, J. Matsuzaki, M. Mengele, J. Notor, A. Piovaccari, C. Ramsey, and S. Williams, Tality – Analog Mixed-Signal RFIC Design Group

  11. A New IMD3 Reduction Approach based on Composite Effect of gmand gds, Sin Sai Weng, Lai Keng Chong, Chiang Kuok Vai, Choi Wai Wa, Tam Kam Weng, and R. P. Martins, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, China

  12. Flexible Modulation in GSM Base-Station Technology, Michael McCarthy and P. J. Cregg, Department of Engineering Technology, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland and Lucent Technologies, Dublin, Ireland

  13. Digital Modulator Constellation Rotation, Michael McCarthy and P. J. Cregg, Department of Engineering Technology, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland and Lucent Technologies, Dublin, Ireland

  14. Twisted Filter Banks for Communication Applications, Andreas Klappenecker, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University

  15. Adaptive System for Engine Noise Cancellation in Hands-free Cellular Phones, Georgi Iliev, Department of Telecommunications, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

  16. Intelligent Network Routing and Bandwidth Allocation for Sensor and Satellite Networks, Payman Arabshahi, Andrew Gray, and Tsun-Yee Yan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

  17. A Simple and Reliable Method for Evaluation of Receiver Performance, Ji Hoon Kim and Hyung Joun Yoo, School of Engineering, and Communications University, Korea

  18. Largest Magnitude Coefficient Selection: An Algorithm for Signal-to-Noise Ratio Scaling of Precompressed Video, Ugur Sezer, Seyfullah Halit Oguz, and Parameswaran Ramanathan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison and EMC Corporation, Media Solutions Group

  19. Reconfigurable Radio Receiver Frontends for Mobile Communications Systems, Chris J.M. Verhoeven and Chris van den Bos, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, University of Technology, The Netherlands

  20. Pilot Aided Frequency Offset Estimator for Communication Channels, Mohamed Rezki, Lesley Sabel, and Izzet Kale, Department of Electronic Systems University of Westminster, London, UK

  21. The Elliptically Generalized DFT and FFT, James J. Soltis, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Windsor, Canada

  22. A Cell-Network Type SC DC-DC Converter for Mobile Equipments, K. Egushi, T. Tabata, H. Zhu, F. Ueno, and T. Inoue, Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Kumamoto National College of Technology, Japan; Department of Computer Science, Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University, Japan; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kumamoto University, Japan; Department o Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sojo University, Japan

  23. A Fading Filter Approximation to Enable State-Space Modelling and Joint Data / Channel Estimation of (Time-Varying) Frequency Selective Channels with Antenna Arrays, Serdar Özen and Michael D. Zoltowski, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

  24. CMOS-Based Multiplier Using Redundantly-Represented Binary-Coded High-Radix Numbers, Toru Tabata, Fumio Ueno, Kei Eguchi, and Hongbing Zhu, Department of Electronic Control, Kumamoto National College of Technology, Japan; Faculty of Engineering, Sojo University, Japan; Faculty of Engineering, Kokusai Gakuin University, Japan

  25. Stochastic Bounds in a GPS System Fed with Leaky Bucket Regulated Markov Modulated Fluid Sources, Min Xie, Brahim Bensaou, and Kee Chaing Chua, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore; Science Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  26. Algorithms for Blind Equalization and Channel Identification, Han-Fu Chen, Hai-Tao Fang, and Xi-Ren Cao, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  27. A 1V, 5.8GHz CMOS Low Noise Amplifier with Transformer Coupling, Wu-shiung Feng, Chih-Chun Tang, Ming-Hong Lai, and Chen-Hsien Hsu, Department of Electronic Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taiwan; Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University

  28. Routing Algorithm for Efficient Spectrum Reuse on Wireless Multihop Networks, Hiroshi Tamura, Noriyoshi Matsumoto, Masakazu Sengoku, and Shojo Shinoda, Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan; Department of Information Engineering, Niigata University, Japan; Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Communication Engineering, Chuo University, Japan

  29. A Noise-Independent Adaptive Filter for Channel Equalization and Signal Discrimination, Ruey-wen Liu, Liang Song, Bo Hu, and Xie-Ting Ling, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame; Electronic Engineering Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  30. A Novel Semi-Blind DS / CDMA Scheme for Third Generation Wireless Communication System, Liang Song, Ruey-wen Liu, and Xie-Ting Ling, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame; Electronic Engineering Department, University, Shanghai, China

  31. Adaptive Guard Channel Assignment for Cellular Networks, Derong Liu and Yi Zhang Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago

  32. Robust Chaotic PN Sequence Generation Techniques, Daniel Leon, Sina Blakir, Michael W. Hoffman, and Lance C. Perez, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

  33. A New Blind Frequency Offset Estimation Algorithm for Use in the TDMA Cellular/PCS Environment, Mohsen Sarraf, Nima Brardjanian, Sheng-Jen Tsai, Alex Matusevich, and Walid Nabhane, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies.

  34. Multimedia TranScaling for the Wireless Internet, Hayder Radha and J. R. Deller, Jr., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University.