The UCLA Narrowband Testbed

Title: The UCLA Narrowband Testbed
Invited Speaker: Prof. Michael P. Fitz , UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Date: FRIDAY, July 11th, 2003
Time: 1pm-2pm
Venue: Room # 4760, Boelter Hall, UCLA
http://www.cens.ucla.edu/seminars/seminar_summer03.html

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slides at: http://www.cens.ucla.edu/censweb/CENS-Seminar-Series/ (Slides
will be available a few minutes before seminar starts.)

Abstract:

The FCC established the 220MHz Narrowband Radio Services Band to stimulate bandwidth efficient wide area wireless communications. An academic testbed has been established in this band and this testbed has realistic performance characteristics (10 mile cell radius, FCC compatible radios, sophisticated coding). This talk will overview the characteristics of the testbed. In particular the infrastructure (base station based) networking, the ad-hoc networking, and the point-to-point space-time modem capabilities will be overview. The purpose of the talk will be to show a mature and programmable physical layer testbed is available with a completely open network environment that we would like to encourage network researchers to work with us on increasing spectral efficiecy.

Michael P. Fitz received his B.E.E. degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, in 1983 and his MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1984 and 1989, respectively. From 1983-1989 he worked as a communication systems engineer for Hughes Aircraft and TRW Inc. In 1989 he ventured into academia and has been on faculty at Purdue University and The Ohio State University (OSU). He currently is a professor at the University of California Los Angeles. Prof. Fitz's research is in the broad area of statistical communication theory and experimentation. He is recipient of the 2001 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award in the Field of Communications Systems. Prof. Fitzs research group currently is interested in the theory of space-time modems and operates an experimental wireless wide area network.