September 21
09:10-09:50 Room A Keynote Speech
Latest Update of UWB Regulation and Standardization for Medical Healthcare and ITSRyuji Kohno
Ryuji Kohno
Director, Professor, Center of Medical Information and Communication Technology, Yokohama National University
Program Coordinator, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(NICT)
Finnish Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro), Centre for Wireless Communications(CWC), University of Oulu, Finland
WEB: http://www.kohnolab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp
Abstract:
A body area netwrok(BAN) and a vehicle radar are latest applications of UWB wireless technology in microwave and milimeter wave bands, respectively. The speaker has been heavily involved in a regulatory committee on UWB and in international standardization on wireless PAN IEEE802.15.3a, 4a and BAN 802.15.6. In this keynote, background and essense of UWB regulation and standard will be introduced as well as remained problems for research, development and business.
Biography:
Ryuji Kohno received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Univ. of Tokyo in 1984. Since 1998 he has been a Professor in YNU. Since 2007, he is also a Finnish Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro) in Univ. of Oulu, Finland. Moreover, he was also a director of SONY ATL during 1998-2002 and was a director of the UWB Tech. Inst. during 2002-2006, currently a program coordinator of Medical ICT Inst. of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) as well as a director of Medical ICT Center in YNU.
He has coordinated as a principal leader MEXT 21st century COE program during 2002-2007 and MEXT Global COE program on “Innovative Integration between Medicine and Engineering Based on ICT,” during 2008-2013.
Prof. Kohno was elected to be a BoG member of the IEEE Information Theory Society three times on 2000, 2002, and 2006. He was an editor of the IEEE Trans. Information Theory during 1995-1998, currently is that of the IEEE Trans. Communications since 1994 and that of the IEEE Trans.
Intelligent Transport Systems since 2000. He is a fellow of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, Communications Engineers), and was a vice-president of Engineering Sciences Society of IEICE, an editor-in chief of the IEICE Trans. Fundamentals and also the vice-president of SITA (Society of Information Theory and its Applications). Prof. Kohno has contributed for organizing many international conferences, such as a TPC co-chair of the IEEE ISSSTA'92, PIMRC'93, Information Theory Workshop (ITW'93), PIMRC'99, IWUWBS’03, and a general chair of IEEE ISIT’03, UWBST&IWUWB’04, IWUWBST’05, ISMICT’06&07, ISSSTA&ISITA2010 and so on. He is also a chair of International Steering Committee of ISSSTA. He was awarded IEICE Greatest Contribution Award and NTT DoCoMo Mobile Science Award in 1999 and 2002, respectively.
September 21
15:00-15:40 Room A Keynote Speech
A Physiologically Produced Impulsive UWB signal: Speech
Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto
Professor, INFOCOM Department
University of Rome La Sapienza
Biography:
Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto obtained her Ph.D. in Telecommunications in 1987 from the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. In 1991, she joined the Faculty of Engineering of University of Rome La Sapienza, where currently she is a Full Professor of Telecommunications at the INFOCOM Department. She has held visiting positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Paris XI, France. In 1994, she received the Mac Kay Professorship award from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include wireless communication systems and speech science. From 1995 to 2000, she directed four European projects for the design of UMTS. Since 2000, she has been active in fostering the development of Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radio communications in Europe, and participated in several pioneering EU projects on UWB communications (within the 5th framework, whyless.com, first funded research project world-wide addressing UWB communications for civil applications, and project UCAN aimed at the design and implementation of UWB ad-hoc networks - within the 6th EU Framework, IP projects PULSERS and PULSERS II which integrated UWB research and development in Europe, IP project LIAISON on to location-based services). During this last decade Dr. Di Benedetto research main focus was on medium access control and management in wireless networks, as well as energy-efficient routing, and location-based optimization of medium access control and routing functions. In particular, participation in the European Network of Excellence HYCON (Hybrid Control: Taming Heterogeneity and Complexity of Networked Embedded Systems) offered the framework for an inter-disciplinary effort with colleagues from “Control Theory” that led to the formulation of hybrid models for complex wireless communication systems operating under coexisting conditions, and increased theoretical research activity in the field of cognitive and coexisting networks. Based in particular on this last rewarding and productive collaboration, Professor Di Benedetto recently promoted and coordinated a proposal for a COST Action on cognitive radio and networks. The proposal, that gathered over 30 partners of 15 countries in Europe, as well as the US, Canada, China, and Australia, ranked first in the COST Information and Communications Technology Domain and was approved in May 2009. The resulting COST Action IC0902 'Cognitive Radio and Networking for Cooperative Coexistence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks' will kick-off in December 2009. In October 2009, Dr. Di Benedetto received the Excellence in Research award 'Sapienza Ricerca', under the auspices of President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano.
September 22
09:40-10:20 Room A Keynote Speech
Miniaturization of Ultra-wideband Antennas
Zhi Ning Chen
Abstract:
Ultra-wideband (UWB) has become the promising wireless technology in commercial applications such as next-generation short-range high-data-rate wireless communications, high resolution imaging, and high accuracy radar. The antenna is one of key designs in UWB wireless systems. This talk starts with a brief introduction of design challenges of UWB antennas, followed by state-of-the-art solutions. Then, the miniaturization technologies of UWB antennas are mainly addressed. The planar designs are highlighted due to their unique merits and wide adoption in practical applications. First, the newly developed technique to achieve the ground plane independent UWB antenna performance, one of the most challenging issues in small antenna design, is addressed. A design example is used to elaborate the mechanism of the method. Based on this concept, the antenna with further reduced size is designed to fit wireless USB dongles. Furthermore, an innovative compact diversity UWB antenna shows the advantage of ground-independence of small antenna in diversity applications. Last, the UWB antennas co-designed with filtering performance by using bandpass/bandstop filters integrated into the antenna is proposed to reduce the overall size of devices and enhance antenna performance. In the end, the trend of UWB antenna R&D is discussed according to applications and market demands with latest updated applications.
Biography:
Dr Zhi Ning Chen received his BEng, MEng, PhD and DoE degrees all in Electrical Engineering from Institute of Communications Engineering (ICE), China and University of Tsukuba, Japan, respectively. During 1988-1995, he worked at ICE as Teaching Assistant, Lecturer and Associate Professor as well as Southeast University, China as Postdoctoral Fellow and later Associate Professor. During 1995-1997, he joined in City University of Hong Kong, China as Research Assistant and later Research Fellow. In 1997, he was awarded JSPS Fellowship to conduct his research at University of Tsukuba, Japan. In 2001 and 2004, he visited University of Tsukuba under JSPS Fellowship Program (senior level). In 2004, he worked at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA as Academic Visitor. Since 1999, he has worked with Institute for Infocomm Research (formerly known as Center for Wireless Communications and Institute for Communication Research) as Member of Technical Staff (MTS), Principal MTS, Senior Scientist, and Lead Scientist. He is currently appointed as Principal Scientist and Department Head for RF & Optical and concurrently Adjunct/Guest Professors at Southeast University, Nanjing University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University and National University of Singapore.
Dr Chen has organized many international technical events as general chairs, technical program committee chairs, and key members of organizing committees. He is the founder of International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT). He has published 270 journal and conference papers as well as authored and edited books entitled Broadband Planar Antennas, UWB Wireless Communication, Antennas for Portable Devices, and Antennas for Base Station in Wireless Communications. He also contributed to the books of UWB Antennas and Propagation for Communications, Radar, and Imaging as well as Antenna Engineering Handbook. He is holding 25 granted and filed patents with 15 licensed deals with industry. He is the recipient of the CST University Publication Award 2008, IEEE AP-S Honorable Mention Student Paper Contest 2008, IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2006, I2R Quarterly Best Paper Award 2004, and IEEE iWAT 2005 Best Poster Award.
His current research interest includes applied electromagnetics, antennas for applications of microwave, mmW, submmW, and THz in communication and imaging systems.
Dr Chen is a Fellow of the IEEE for his contribution to small and broadband antennas for wireless applications.
(www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~chenzn)
September 22
15:00-15:40 Room A Keynote Speech
Design-for-Reliability: A Challenge beyond Bandwidth and Date Rate
Albert Wang
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521, USA
email: aw@ee.ucr.edu, URL: http://lics.ee.ucr.edu
Abstract:
UWB technology, with its ultra wide bandwidth nature, has the potential for extremely high data rate, which would enable wireless video/multimedia streaming with high quality-of-service, highly desired by a broad range of commercial electronics. Electrostatic discharge (ESD) failure and ESD protection design must be considered for any UWB electronics. Design-for-reliability techniques aim to provide adequate ESD protection solutions to UWB ICs without affecting system performance. The ultra wide bandwidth and high data rate natures make ESD protection design for UWB ICs extremely challenging because the inevitable ESD-induced parasitic effects can seriously affect UWB chip performance. This talk outlines key aspects on UWB ESD protection designs, including ESD protection design optimization and characterization, complex ESD-UWB interactions, ESD-UWB co-design, etc. It is clear that co-design technique is critical to design-for-reliability for UWB IC chips.
Biography:
Albert Wang received the BSEE degree from the Tsinghua University, China, and the PhD EE degree from The State University of New York at Buffalo in 1985 and 1996, respectively. From 1995 to 1998, he was a Staff R&D Engineer at National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara. From 1998 to 2007, He was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director for the Laboratory for Integrated Circuits and Systems at the University of California, Riverside, USA. His research interests focus on Analog/Mixed-Signal/RF ICs, Design-for-Reliability, IC CAD and Modelling, SoC, Nano Devices and Circuits, etc. Wang received the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2002. He is the author for the book “On-Chip ESD Protection for Integrated Circuits” (Kluwer, 2002) and 150+ peer-reviewed papers in the field, and holds several U.S. patents. Wang is Editor for the IEEE Electron Device Letters, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II and Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He was Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I and Guest Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. He has been IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the Electron Devices Society and the Solid-State Circuits Society. He is Vice President for IEEE Electron Devices Society. He is committee member for the SIA International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductor (ITRS), the IEEE EDS VLSI Technology and Circuits Committee and the IEEE CAS Analog Signal Processing Technical Committee (ASPTC). He has been serving various committees for numerous IEEE conferences. He is Fellow of IEEE.
September 23
09:40-10:20 Room A Keynote Speech
Millimeter Wave Transceivers on CMOS – Lessons learnt in implementing single chip transceivers for data, radar and biomedical applications.
Stan Skafidas
Professor of Nano-electronics &
Research Group Manager, NICTA VRL
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Melbourne
Biography:
Stan Skafidas received the Doctoral Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1997 at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Prior to joining NICTA Dr Skafidas co-founded Bandspeed, an Austin Texas based company that designs and manufactures semiconductor products for enterprise class wireless systems.
In his role as Chief Technology officer at Bandspeed he was responsible for research and new product development and raised in excess of $50M in venture capital. Dr Skafidas continues to serve on the Board of directors at Bandspeed. Dr Skafidas has served on US Federal Communications Commission's panels that have led to the modification of FCC Part 15 rules governing wireless telecommunications in the US.
In July 2004 Dr Skafidas joined NICTA as program leader of the sensor networks at the Victorian research laboratory.
Dr Skafidas is a member of the IEEE 802.11/802.15 standard committees for Wireless Local and Personal Area networks. Currently Dr. Skafidas is one of the technical editors of IEEE 802.15.3c.
Professor Stan Skafidas is currently professor of nano-electronics at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Research Group manager at NICTA, Australia's national research centre of excellence in Information and Communication Technology.
Professor Skafidas' research interests include: wireless communications systems, systems on a chip, high speed mixed signal and radio frequency microelectronics, wireless power transfer and neural interface circuits. At NICTA professor skafidas leads NICTA's research in the development of the next generation retinal stimulation prosthesis (bionic eye). |
