Wireless Communications Seminar

Algorithms and Architectures

Objective

The Wireless Communications Seminar is a series of seminars whose aim is to create an interactive environment between the developers of wireless communications algorithms and wireless communication architecture and circuit designers. Our goal is to promote the design of practical algorithms and increase understanding of the state-of-the-art wireless algorithms and their complexity demands.

Participants

The target audience for the seminar comprises EE and CS faculty, graduate and post-doctorate students, visiting scholars and industry researchers. The speakers will be from all these participating groups although priority will be given to students to promote active participation and help them benefit from the feedback of a multi-skilled audience.

We will also invite speakers from research groups in other universities and from industry to bring in a diversity of experiences in wireless system design.

We have contacted professors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science interested in wireless technologies from both algorithm and architecture/circuit design sides. The following professors have expressed enthusiasm in participating in the seminar:

• Nicholas Bambos
• John M. Cioffi
• Donald C. Cox
• Andrea Goldsmith
• Thomas Kailath
• Arogyaswami J. Paulraj

• Thomas H. Lee
• Teresa H. Meng (host professor)
• Giovanni De-Micheli
• Bruce Wooley

Topics

The main emphasis of the seminar is state-of-the-art wireless algorithms and their software, hardware or co-ware implementations. There have been several areas of marked importance in wireless communication algorithms in recent years. A non-exhaustive list that highlights some of these areas is as follows (The topics are by no means limited to this list):

• Channel estimation and identification
  • Blind channel identification
  • Channel estimation for multiuser channels
  • Joint channel estimation and data detection
  • Channel estimation for OFDM systems
• Multiuser detection and interference cancellation
  • Soft interference cancellation
  • Low-complexity supoptimal multiuser detectors
  • Adaptive interference cancellation
  • Blind multiuser detection
  • Neural network techniques
• Turbo coding and decoding
• Antennas and array processing
  • Adaptive beamforming
  • Adaptive array processing
  • Antenna diversity combining
  • Real-time antenna processing
• Equalization
  • Equalization of multiuser channels
  • Time-domain equalization
  • Blind equalization techniques
• Space-time coding
• Synchronization
• Dynamic channel assignment

The seminar encourages the design of practical algorithms that will impact the development of future wireless systems.

Interested? Volunteer to be a speaker or coordinator!

We encourage graduate and post-doctorate students and visiting scholars in wireless communications to volunteer to be speakers. This is a great opportunity for them to discuss their research with professors and colleagues from other research groups and industry experts. The audience will be representative of a multitude of experiences in the design of wireless technologies.

We also encourage students to be a coordinator for their research group. Especially in research groups that have potentially at least several speakers, the coordinator will help us coordinate and schedule the talks for his/her research group. If you are interested in being a speaker or coordinator, please email us.

Time and Location

The format of the series will be biweekly talks. We usually host those talks on wireless algorithms in Packard Hall and those on circuits and architectures in the Center for Integrated Systems (CIS).

The talks are intended to be about 30 minutes to leave ample time for discussion and interaction afterwards. (The talks of invited speakers from other universities and industry are usually about 1-1.5 hours as they tend to cover a wider range of research developments).

Refer to the Seminar Schedule for the date, time, location, speaker, title and abstract for each talk.

Other communications seminars at Stanford

The Stanford Networking Seminar provides a forum for networking research at Stanford, and the Stanford Security Seminar addresses issues of computer security.