The IEEE joint Communications and Signal Processing Chapter in Austin is hosting Prof. Angel Lozano for a talk on MIMO and future prospects of wireless communication at the November chapter meeting. Prof. Lozano is from the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Spain and would be visiting Austin during November and has kindly agreed to give a talk at our chapter.
This will be our last chapter meeting for this year. Hope to see you there!

Note: Please register for this event if you will be attending.

Abstract:

Motivated by fundamental information-theoretical results, MIMO (multiple input multiple output) communication emerged with force in the late 1990s and, in record time, made its way into a central feature of commercial wireless systems. We will –briefly– review how MIMO has grown and developed, and assess its current standing. Then, we will examine the challenges faced by wireless systems today and, in particular, by macro-cellular systems: the foundation of the wireless revolution. We will see how MIMO principles are being applied to tackle those challenges, and discuss various competing approaches. Finally, we will speculate on what the future might hold for macro-cellular systems, and on their potential roles in the complex wireless communications landscape that is shaping up.

Speaker Bio:

Angel Lozano is a Professor of Information and Communication Technologies at UPF (Pompeu Fabra University) in Barcelona, Spain, where he teaches and conducts research on wireless communications as head of the WiCom (Wireless Communications) Group. Prof. Lozano received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from UPC, Spain, in 1992 and the Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. Contemporarily, between 1996 and 1998, he also worked for Rockwell Semiconductor Systems (now Conexant Systems) in San Diego, USA. In 1999, he joined Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies, now Alcatel-Lucent) in Holmdel, USA, where he was a member of the Wireless Communications Research Department until 2008. Between 2005 and 2008 he was also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, NY, USA. Prof. Lozano is a senior member of the IEEE. He served as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications between 1999 and 2009, has guest-edited various other IEEE and non-IEEE journal special issues, and is actively involved in committees and conference organization tasks for the IEEE Communications Society. He has further participated in standardization activities for 3GPP, 3GPP2, IEEE 802.20 and the IETF. Prof. Lozano has authored over 85 technical journal and conference papers, as well as one monograph, holds 15 patents, and has contributed to several books. His papers have received two awards: the best paper award at the 2006 IEEE Int’l Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques & Applications, and the Stephen O. Rice prize to the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2008.