IEEE ComSoc Technical Seminar - Mon, Jul 12 1999

Dave Michelson (dmichelson@ieee.org) Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:42:47 -0700 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:42:47 -0700
From: Dave Michelson <dmichelson@ieee.org>
Subject: IEEE ComSoc Technical Seminar - Mon, Jul 12 1999



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         IEEE ComSoc (Vancouver) - Upcoming Technical Seminar
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                 BCIT - Building SW 5, Theatre 1845 

                   Mon, Jul 12, 1999, 7:30-9:00 pm 



             INDOOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM DESIGN

                         Dr Kevin W Sowerby

          Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering 
                    The University of Auckland            

                                         
Abstract 

The provision of indoor wireless communication services presents many
challenges to radio systems engineers - even to those experienced in
outdoor cellular system design. Many factors must be considered,
including: the three dimensional arrangement of cells and interferers;
the differences between the uplink and the downlink; the irregular
propagation environment; the correlation of radio signals; the
flexibility in locating base stations (or ports); and, the ability to
deliberately modify the environment. 

Research, like that conducted at the University of Auckland, continues
in the fields of indoor propagation mechanism identification and
modeling, reliability measurement and assessment, traffic
characterisation, and system capacity estimation. However, the challenge
for the practicing engineer is to synthesise effective and efficient
communication systems that will cope with (and take advantage of) the
indoor environment. This seminar will overview indoor wireless
communications research at the University of Auckland and will discuss
an approach that uses optimisation techniques to design effective indoor
systems. 


About the Speaker: 

Kevin Sowerby received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Auckland in 1989. After a year as a Leverhulme Visiting
Fellow at the University of Liverpool, UK, he returned to Auckland to
begin an academic teaching career. Now a Senior Lecturer, he has
supervised a number of masters and doctoral research students in the
general field of communication systems, with particular emphasis on
wireless system anaylsis and design. In 1997 he took a sabbatical and
spent eight months with the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group at
Virginia Tech, USA and four months in the School of Engineering Science
at Simon Fraser University. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of
Simon Fraser University and is also Chair of the IEEE Communications
Society's New Zealand Chapter. 

No-Host Dinner

You can also meet the speaker at a no-host dinner before the talk.  Meet
us at 6:00 PM at Earl's, 4361 Kingsway in Burnaby. All are welcome,
although notice would be appreciated so that I can ask for a table of
appropriate size.

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Dave Michelson        
dmichelson@ieee.org      Tel: (604) 985-0214