Keynote Speakers

Title

Understanding and Exploiting Physical Layer Characteristics to Create New Opportunities for Bodynets

Abstract

The topical interest in wireless devices and systems operating in close proximity to and in conjunction with the user's body continues to grow unabated. This talk will show how the unique, and often challenging, characteristics at the physical layer can be used to our advantage in developing new ideas and applications for wireless bodynets. This physical layer starting point can both inform, and can be exploited by, all layers of the stack to deliver optimum communications performance even under tight resource constraints. Recent work on antennas and propagation, localisation and interference sensing and mitigation in the context of bodynets will be presented and discussed. This will show that the physical layer remains at the heart of efforts to improve wearable applications, for example, by optimising the use of the available spectrum and improving energy efficiency in both devices and systems. Finally, the talk will conclude with convincing arguments that 'you will be at the centre of your wireless future.'

Biography

Dr. William Scanlon is a Full Professor and Chair of Wireless Communications at Queen's University, Belfast, UK and Chair of Short Range Radio at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He holds a B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. degree in electronics from the University of Ulster, UK. He has been actively researching body centric communications since the early 1990's having conducted pioneering work on UHF radio based medical implant communications and physical layer and system aspects of human and animal biotelemetry applications. Prior to starting his academic career he had 10 years of industrial experience, having worked as a Senior RF Engineer for Nortel Networks, as a Project Engineer with Siemens and as a Lighting Engineer with GEC-Osram. His research interests include personal and body-centric communications including the use of millimetre wave links, wearable antennas, RF and microwave propagation, channel modelling and characterization, wireless networking and protocols and wireless networked control systems. More recent work has focused on secure systems for personnel tracking and ad-hoc localisation using body-to-body networks. He has published over 160 technical papers in major IEEE/IET journals and in refereed international conferences. He served as a keynote speaker for the European Workshop on Conformal Antennas (2007), Co-Chaired the 2009 Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference and he has acted as invited speaker and session chair at numerous other national and international conferences. Professor Scanlon received a Young Scientist award from URSI in 1999, he is a prolific reviewer for IEEE/IET journals and conferences and other major conferences. He is a Director of WirelessLAB (Ireland) and a member of the IEEE International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety (ICES) and the IASTED International Committee on Telecommunications.

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Keynote Presentation

Title

On u-Healthcare through 4G Cellular Network: Reliability and Security

Abstract

The recent advance in multimedia signal processing and wireless communication technology has opened up promising market potentials for various innovative and new applications. One of these applications is certainly healthcare, which will be enabled through the high-speed, reliable and secure manner of wireless communication. Today, it is not an imaginary scene any more that we can see people enjoying their lives over "SmartPhone". The use of wireless technologies today is getting more and more popular and the applications of them are becoming more pervasive not only in our normal living conditions but also in our abnormal situations, such as in case of medical needs. Today's healthcare is enhancing its objective and scope to "preventive" healthcare, which clearly reflects the tendency of people that they want to live better and longer and to be active and moving around whenever they want to. As of March of 2010, the 3G subscriptions are still increasing, with 3GPP subscriptions reached more than 620 millions in the Western Hemisphere. The 3GPP and IEEE 802.16 are now actively developing the machine-type communication (MTC) radio interface technology, which will serve many purposes, such as metering, health, and security. Healthcare is expected to be ubiquitous, which is going to be technically feasible soon through the next generation cellular technology. In this talk, we will go through the recent trend of wireless communication technology development and the role of the wireless communication technology segment in future u-healthcare paradigm. More specifically, we will see how properly the next generation cellular technology can serve these u-healthcare purposes, from the perspectives of network convergence, connection reliability, security, and market potentials.

Biography

Dr. Byung K. Yi is Senior Executive Vice President of LG Electronics, has over thirty two years of experience in research and development of space systems and communication systems. He was heading the LGE's North America R&D Mobile Communication Lab in San Diego until 2009. Currently he is working on "Technology Assessment and Development" for LGE Mobile company including the forth Generation Wireless Communication systems. He had served as a TSG-C chair of the 3GPP2 for two terms, developing cdma 2000 air interface specifications and served as a co-chair of the Working Group 5 of the 3GPP2 TSG-C, developing 1xEV/DV wireless standards. Under his leadership, TSG-C published three important air-interface standards, cdma2000 Rev. D, High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) Rev. A, and Rev B. He was in charge of small satellite system engineering for distributed low earth orbiting telecommunication and remote sensing applications at Orbital Science Inc. and CTA as a Chief Engineer and a Chief Scientist. He was responsible for the company IR&D (Internal Research and Development) management and technology assessment at the Fairchild Space Company and developed the Brilliant Pebble's life jacket (spacecraft bus) system of the SDIO program, which is currently rekindled as Missile Defense System. He has been an only industrial participant of the CCSDS (Consultative Committee of Space Data System) 1A (Coding) and 1B (Modulation) panels since 1986, developing international space communication standards.

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