Seattle Communications (COM-19) Society Chapter
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Sponsors:
Computer Society (C-16)
Communications Society (COM-19)
Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-17)
Topic: Wireless Challenges: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Speaker: Ben Manny
Date/Time: Thursday, March 16, 2006, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
6:00 pm: Social, food, and soft drinks.
7:00 pm – 8:45 pm; Seminar
Location: Arrow Electronics
3310 146th Place SE
Building B, Suite A
Bellevue, WA 98007Abstract:
The demand for wireless communications is being driven by the increasing value proposition of being connected any time at any place, with any device. This talk will highlight the wireless challenges to meet this demand as well as the problems that result from meeting this demand. One of the challenges to meet this demand, Universal Roaming, will be explored in more detail and will include some of the projects Intel is doing to meet this challenge. The goal of the talk is to present my personal view of the important wireless problems we are currently facing and expect to face as wireless devices proliferate.
Speaker Biography:
Ben Manny currently co-directs the Wireless Networking Lab for Intel Corporate Research and Development. This group is charted to develop new wireless networking layer communication technologies taking advantage of advances in radio and processor technology, such as MIMO, cognitive radios, virtual partitions and multiple CPU cores. Current research includes mesh networking, high density networks, heterogeneous networking, secure collaboration, and fast hand-offs. Just prior to his current position, Manny directed Intel's research on Ultra-WideBand radios, reconfigurable radios, smart antennas, and novel techniques for increasing bandwidth through processing. Manny joined Intel in 1979. He holds a BS degree in Physics and a BA degree in Math from the University of Texas at Austin.
