Wireless Access for Mobile Internet




Arogyaswami Paulraj

Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus
Stanford University

Huang Engineering Center, Room 300
Stanford University
Friday, November 12, 2010

Abstract

As internet access migrates from desk tops to hand held devices, it brings anywhere-anytime-location based convenience to the already vast range of fixed internet services. Also, mobile machine to machine communications will be a new growth opportunity for Internet connectivity. The current smart phone and pad/tablet platforms offer only a small glimpse of what the future holds.

The orders of magnitude growth in demand for data throughput will place huge demands on wireless connectivity - both LAN and WAN. This talk will outline these challenges for wireless technology and suggest some approaches for tackling them.

Speaker Bio

Arogyaswami Paulraj is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His group has developed many key fundamentals of a new field called space-time communications theory and has helped shape a worldwide research and development focus on this technology.

Paulraj's career in India included development of military sonar systems (1971-82), massively parallel computers (1987-91), and the founding three national level laboratories -- Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Center for Advanced Computing, and Central Research Laboratories (1986-91). He has received over a dozen national awards in India for his contributions and is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering.

Paulraj moved to Stanford University in 1992, and his interests has since focused on space-time wireless communications. He is the author of over 320 research papers and holds thirty US patents in wireless. He has authored two books in wireless.

In 1999, Paulraj founded Iospan Wireless Inc., which pioneered MIMO- OFDMA fixed wireless technology and developed chip sets for fixed wireless systems. Iospan was acquired by Intel Corporation in 2002. In 2004, Paulraj co-founded Beceem Communications, Inc. to develop base band and RF chips sets for WIMAX 802.16e standard. The company has emerged as the leading supplier of Mobile WIMAX chip sets worldwide.

Paulraj is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering where he was elected for his pioneering leadership in MIMO wireless. He received the IEEE Technical Achievement Award in 2003 and several best paper awards from the IEEE and is a Fellow of the IEEE. He was recently acclaimed as the “father of WIMAX” by Business Week.

Paulraj currently serves on Board of Directors for 3 wireless companies and on several advisory boards of companies, universities and foundations.

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