Keynote Speakers
Plenary Speaker
Vijay
Bhargava, IEEE Communications Society President-Electan and an
IEEE volunteer for three decades, is Professor in the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of
British Columbia in Vancouver, where he served as Department
Head during 2003-2008. As a distinguished speaker for the IEEE
Communications Society, the IEEE Information Theory Society and
as a senior level IEEE volunteer, he has lectured in 66
countries and assisted IEEE Presidents in negotiating sister
society agreements in India, Japan and Russia. He has
rudimentary knowledge of several languages and is an eager
student of different cultures and societies.
An active researcher, Vijay is currently leading a major R&D
program in Cognitive and Cooperative Wireless Communication
Networks. He received his PhD from Queen's University in 1974.
Vijay has held regular/visiting appointments at the Indian
Institute of Science, the University of Waterloo, Concordia
University, École Polytechnique de Montréal, University of
Victoria, NTT Research Labs, Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Tohoku University, University of Indonesia, Hong Kong
University, City University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology. In April 2010, he was
appointed an Honourary Professor at the University of Electronic
Science and Technology in China.
Vijay served as the Founder and President of "Binary
Communications Inc." (1983-2000). He has provided consulting
services to several companies and government agencies. He is a
co-author (with D. Haccoun, R. Matyas and P. Nuspl) of "Digital
Communications by Satellite" (New York: Wiley: 1981) which was
translated in Chinese and Japanese. He is a co-editor (with S.
Wicker) of "Reed Solomon Codes and their Applications" (IEEE
Press: 1994), a co-editor (with V. Poor, V. Tarokh and S. Yoon)
of "Communications, Information and Network Security" (Kluwer:
2003) a co-editor (with E. Hossain) of "Cognitive Wireless
Communication Networks" (Springer: 2007) and a co-editor (with
E. Hossain and D.I. Kim) of "Cooperative Wireless Communications
Networks", a forthcoming Cambridge University Press Publication.
Vijay has served for two years as the IEEE Vice President for
Regional Activities Board, now known as Member and Geographic
Activities (MGA) Board. During his tenure the program known as
Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) was conceived and he
developed a profound understanding of how IEEE Societies,
Regions, Sections, Chapters and Student Branches work.
Vijay has served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE
Information Theory Society and the IEEE Communications Society.
He has held important positions in these societies and has
organized conferences such as ISIT’95, ICC’99, VTC 2002 Fall. He
has served as an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on
Communications. He played a major role in the creation of the
IEEE Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) and IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications, for which he served as
the editor-in-chief during 2007, 2008 and 2009. In 2010, he was
appointed for a two year term as the IEEE Communications Society
Director of Journals. He is a past President of the IEEE
Information Theory Society.
Vijay has received awards for teaching, research and service to
the IEEE. He is a proud recipient of the IEEE Haraden Pratt
Award for meritorious Service to the Institute, particularly in
regional and section activities, and for his efforts to improve
relationships with technical and professional organizations
worldwide.
Enabling Green Communication in Future
Generation of Cooperative and Cognitive Wireless Systems
In this talk, we present techniques to enable green
communications in future generation of wireless systems that
will rely on cooperation and cognition to meet increasing demand
of high data rate. So far, achieving high data rate has been the
primary focus of research in cooperative and CR systems, without
much consideration of energy efficiency. However, many of these
techniques significantly increase system complexity and energy
consumption. Escalating energy costs and environmental concerns
have already created an urgent need for more energy-efficient
“green” wireless communications. Therefore, we have to be
proactive in designing energy-efficient solutions for
cooperative and cognitive networks, which will potentially drive
the future generation of wireless communication. In this talk,
we plan to address the energy consumption issues while meeting
growing data rate requirements in these networks. We focus on
several important topics that are crucial towards reducing the
energy consumption of the cognitive and cooperative networks.
These topics include low energy spectrum sensing, energy
efficient resource management, energy aware medium access
control and routing, and efficient cross layer design. Further,
we will discuss various uncertainty issues that need to be taken
into consideration while addressing energy efficiency in these
systems.
Xuemin
(Sherman) Shen
Xuemin (Sherman) Shen received a B.Sc (1982) degree from Dalian Maritime University (China) and M.Sc (1987) and Ph.D degrees (1990) from Rutgers University, New Jersey (USA), all in electrical engineering. He is a University Research Chair Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. His research focuses on mobility and resource management in interconnected wireless/wired networks, UWB wireless communications networks, wireless network security, wireless body area networks and vehicular ad hoc and sensor networks. He is a co-author of three books, and has published more than 400 papers and book chapters in wireless communications and networks, control and filtering. He serves as the Tutorial Chair for IEEE ICC'08, the Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE Globecom'07, the General Co-Chair for Chinacom'07 and QShine'06 and the Founding Chair for IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on P2P Communications and Networking. He also serves as a Founding Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications; Editor-in-Chief for Peer-to-Peer Networking and Application; Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; KICS/IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks, Computer Networks; ACM/Wireless Networks; and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley), etc. He has also served as Guest Editor for IEEE JSAC, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine and ACM Mobile Networks and Applications, etc. Dr Shen received the Excellent Graduate Supervision Award in 2006, and the Outstanding Performance Award in 2004 and 2008 from the University of Waterloo, the Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA) in 2003 from the Province of Ontario, Canada, and the Distinguished Performance Award in 2002 and 2007 from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo. Dr Shen is a Fellow of IEEE, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He is also a registered Professional Engineer of Ontario, Canada.
Wireless Body Area Network and Remote
Healthcare System
Healthcare is becoming a serious social issue due to the
increasing aging population, doctor shortages, and rising costs.
Remote Healthcare System (RHS) based on wireless body area
network (WBAN) has attracted significant attention recently
since it not only cares for onsite patients, but also extends
these benefits to anyone demanding healthcare beyond medical
facilities. In addition, it can act as a dedicated virtual
doctor and nurse, providing healthcare anywhere,
around-the-clock with low cost. In other words, RHS can provide
enhanced health care services with low cost. This talk will
focus on the WBAN in terms of emerging technologies, challenge
design issues, and its application to Remote Healthcare System.
Some experimental results will also be presented.
Dr.
Min Song is currently a Program Director in the Division of
Computer and Network Systems, Directorate for Computer and
Information Science and Engineering, National Science
Foundation. His primary responsibility is to manage the
Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) Program and the
Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum (EARS) Program. Dr. Song
is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University. He received
his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toledo in
2001. His research interests include design, analysis, and
evaluation of cognitive radio networks, wireless sensor
networks, wireless mesh networks, wireless local area networks,
and mobile ad-hoc networks. Over the years, he has secured
research funding from NSF, DOE, NASA, ODU, and local industry,
published more than 100 journal and conference papers in
computer networks and wireless communications, and received
three Best Paper awards. Dr. Song is the recipient of NSF CAREER
Award and the recipient of DOE GAANN Award.
Dr. Song’s professional career is comprised of a total 20 years
of work experience in academia, government, and industry. Among
these 20 years, he has 14 years of directorship experience. Dr.
Song joined Old Dominion University in June 2002. At ODU, he is
the recipient of Excellence Research Award and has been awarded
early tenure and promotion. Dr. Song is the Founder and Director
of the Wireless Communications and Networking Laboratory. In
addition to his academic work, Dr. Song was also the Funding
Director of a Networking System Division in an IT company, and
launched an international journal and served as Editor-in-Chief.
Dr. Song has acted as an Editor or Guest Editor of 11
international journals, and served as a TPC chair, financial
chair, session chair, and TPC member for numerous international
conferences, including IEEE INFOCOM, ICC, and GLOBECOM. Dr. Song
is an IEEE Senior member.
