Vehicular Communications and Networks Employing Cognitive Radio

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North Shore Subsection – 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM, Thursday, 12 March

Vehicular Communications and Networks Employing Cognitive Radio

Vehicular networking possesses significant potential for enabling diverse applications associated with traffic safety, traffic efficiency and information provisioning. As the automotive sector continues to evolve and electronic devices become smaller and more powerful, new features are being introduced into the next generation of vehicles. Consequently, we can expect that vehicular communications will become ubiquitous in the foreseeable future, resulting in a significant increase in the bandwidth required by various applications.

However, the issue of wireless spectrum scarcity presently faced by modern society may impose limitations on the amount of bandwidth available to support these vehicular networking applications, thus potentially inhibiting growth in this sector. For generic wireless applications, one solution that has been proposed to remedy the wireless spectrum scarcity issue is the Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) paradigm, where secondary user wireless applications temporarily “borrow” unoccupied wireless bandwidth while simultaneously minimizing their interference to nearby primary user transmissions.

In this presentation, an extension of the DSA paradigm to a vehicular transmission environment, referred to as Vehicular DSA or VDSA, will be presented along with the latest research development and findings.

Speaker : Alexander Wyglinski, PhD, Worcester Polytechnic Institute , IEEE VTS (Vehicular Technology Society) Distinguished Lecturer

Dr. Alexander M. Wyglinski is internationally recognized as an expert in the field of wireless communications, specializing in cognitive and software-defined radio, dynamic spectrum access, cyber-physical systems and security, and wireless system optimization and adaptation. He is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA, and Director of the Wireless Innovation Laboratory (WI Lab). Dr. Wyglinski received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in 1999 and 2005 from McGill University, and his M.Sc.(Eng.) degree from Queen’s University in Kingston in 2000, all in Electrical Engineering. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Wyglinski has published over 35 journal papers, over 80 conference papers, 9 book chapters, and two textbooks. Dr. Wyglinski’s research activities have been or are currently being sponsored by organizations such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) – Space Vehicles Directorate, The MathWorks, Toyota InfoTechnology Center U.S.A., Raytheon, MITRE, NASA Glenn Research Center, and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Wyglinski is a Senior Member of the IEEE, as well as a member of Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the ASEE.

Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA 01801. RSVP to Bill Carakatsane, Cell 781-820-7319 or email bcarakatsane@metrocast.net

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