Monday, 11 January, 2010

RWS Session - MO4E
Time: 15:20 - 17:00
Place: Gallery
Title: "Green Wireless Technology"

Organizer: Alessandro Cidronali

The explosion of wireless connectivity for data, voice and multimedia contents has determined a pervasive growth of heterogeneous networks that provides continuous maximum potential performance. At present, the absence of a real time cross-layer resource management strategy makes the wireless network operate at its almost maximum power level, regardless of the user real estate and needs. Thus the wireless network should be capable to reconfigure its parameters as a function of the actual users’ demand, in terms of quality of the signal and quantity of the channels (number of users).

Recently strategies capable to track the traffic and then make the single base station able to decide whether to switch itself on\off or modulate its output power level have been introduced. The challenge consists in making this operation consistent with the overall network efficiency: it doesn’t make sense to increase the complexity over a given level if this will increase power consumption or if some part of the whole network is driven in an inefficient state. An enabler technology consists of a wireless front-end capable of maintaining high level of efficiency over a broad band and for peak power that might be adjusted according with the network requirements.

This panel focuses the issues related to the energy efficiency through a wireless network, analyzing the strategies and technologies capable to reduce the entire power budget while preserving the interconnectivity, beyond the consolidated paradigm of efficient RF PA design.

Tuesday, 12 January, 2010

RWS Session - TU4E
Time: 15:20 - 17:00
Place: Gallery
Panel Session: "60 GHz Technologies"

Organizer: Prof. Dariush Mirshekar

60 GHz has become an important band for high speed wireless communications. Join the panel in a lively discussion of the applications that can be served and technology developments required to fulfill the promises of the 60 GHz band.

Thursday, 14 January, 2010

Panel Session
Time: 15:20 - 17:00
Place: Gallery
Title: "Who Killed UWB and Will it Rise a Third Time?"

Organizer: Upkar Dhaliwal

Need we say more? Who knew it died so many times and keeps rising again? Why did they kill it? Should it ever have been promoted? This should be an interesting and lively discussion that you will want to take part in.