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Satellite IoT: Architectures,
Technologies, and Systems
SPEAKER:
Prof. Giovanni
Giambene", University of Siena, Italy DATE:
Wednesday, December 15, 2023 TIME: Webinar:
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., EDT PLACE: Webinar via
link:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/81539340227 (Meeting ID: 815
3934 0227)
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/event/register/387093
ADMISSION: Free, but
the registration in advance is required
by 15 December 2023 10:00 AM. For any additional
information please contact:
Eman Hammad or
Wahab Almuhtadi.
ORGANIZED & HOSTED BY: IEEE Toronto Section
Chapter, Ottawa Section Jt. Chapter, Montreal Section Chapter,
IT12/COM19, Toronto Chp, VT/CIS/IT12/UFFC/OE22/CS/GRS/ITS/BIO.
Abstract
5G and 6G mobile communication systems
will encompass a Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) that will include
different satellite systems (LEO including cubesats/MEO/GEO) as
well as High-Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) in the stratosphere
and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to cover remote areas that
otherwise could not have access to the Internet. IoT via NTN is
very important for a wide range of applications such as Earth
monitoring, smart agriculture, pollution control, sea monitoring,
and disaster management. In a first part, this seminar will
investigate various architectural and networking options for
collecting IoT data via satellite. Moreover, a second part of the
seminar will address and compare two important technologies NB-IoT
(part of 5G NTN specification according to 3GPP Release 17) and
LoRa/LoRaWAN (including the LR-FHSS alternative for satellite
systems). Finally, a review of current satellite IoT systems
supporting NB-IoT or LoRa/LR-FHSS will be provided.
Bio Dr. Giovanni Giambene received a
Dr. Ing. degree in Electronics in 1993 and a Ph.D. in
Telecommunications and Informatics in 1997, both from the
University of Florence, Italy. From 1994 to 1997, he was with the
Electronic Engineering Department of the University of Florence,
Italy. He was the Technical External Secretary of the European
Community COST 227 Action ("Integrated Space/Terrestrial Mobile
Networks"). He also contributed to the SAINT Project ("Satellite
Integration in the Future Mobile Network," RACE 2117). From 1997
to 1998, he worked on a GSM development program with OTE (Marconi
Group) in Florence, Italy. In 1999, he joined the Department of
Information Engineering and Mathematical Sciences of the
University of Siena, Italy. Currently, he is an associate
professor, teaching the first-level course on Fundamentals on
Telecommunications and the advanced course on Networking at the
University of Siena. He was vice-Chair of the COST 290 Action
(2004-2008), entitled "Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless
Multimedia Networks" (Wi-QoST). He participated in the projects:
(i) the SatNEx I & II network of excellence (EU FP6, 2004-2009)
and SatNEx III&IV (ESA 2010-2018) as work package leader on radio
access techniques, cross-layer air interface design, and network
coding techniques for satellite systems; (ii) the EU FP7
Coordination Action "Road mapping technology for enhancing
security to protect medical & genetic data" (RADICAL) as work
package leader on security and privacy; (iii) the COST Action
IC0906 (2010-2014) "Wireless Networking for Moving Objects"
(WiNeMO) as national representative; (iv) the EU FP7 Coordination
Action RESPONSIBILITY coordination action. At present, he is
involved in the ESA SatNEX V project. Giambene is IEEE senior
member and has been nominated IEEE Comsoc distinguished lecturer
for 2021-2023. Since 2015, he has been an IEEE Transactions on
Vehicular Technology editor. Since 2019, he has been an editor of
IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine.
OpenPMU, PTP, and Time Synchronised
Sampled Values
SPEAKER:
Prof. David Laverty of
Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland DATE:
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 TIME: Webinar:
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., EDT PLACE: Webinar via
link:
https://uqo.zoom.us/j/83023795902?pwd=aHhRdWUrVkNwelNPUENkT08xYkd1QT09
(Meeting ID: 830 2379 5902 , Password: 843163)
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/event/register/387093
ADMISSION: Free, but
the registration in advance is required
by Dec. 13, 2023 @ 6:45 pm. For any additional
information please contact: branislav@ieee.org or
Wahab Almuhtadi.
ORGANIZED & HOSTED BY: IEEE Ottawa Section
Instrumentation & Measurement Society (IMS) Chapter, Power &
Energy Society (PES) Chapter, Reliability Society and Power
Electronics Society Joint Chapter (RS/PELS), Communications
Society, Consumer Technology Society, and Broadcast Technology
Society (ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS) Joint Chapter, and IEEE Ottawa
Educational Activities (EA).
Abstract
When you can measure what you are speaking
about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it."
Lord Kelvin.
Synchronised measurement technology, more specifically the Phasor
Measurement Unit (PMU), has yielded tremendous insight into power
system phenomena over the last decades. The PMU, however, is an
instrument that is not itself well understood by many who make use
of its measurements. The time synchronised phasor, or
synchrophasor, is a double-edged sword; on the one hand it has
made it possible to apply classical methods of power system
analysis to “real” data from real systems. On the other hand, the
synchrophasor dispenses with all the nuance of the voltage or
current waveform that was present in the sampled values from which
it is estimated.
What is we just keep all of the time synchronised sampled value
(TSSV) data, and use that for our studies? Building machines which
can do this is more than feasible. This talk will discuss
approaches and challenges that engineers pursuing this strategy
face, in particular the not so small matter of the many terabytes
of data such a system will create, with “needle in a haystack”
levels of useful information. The talk will describe an effort on
the island of Ireland to build a national system to record TSSV
and also synchronise using PTP in preference to GNSS and its
“space-based” vulnerabilities..
Bio Dr. David Laverty (Senior
Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from Queen’s University
Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2010. His thesis was on the use of
synchrophasors for real-time control of generator sets via the
Internet, investigating matters related to latency, packet loss
and cyber security. He was appointed to a permanent post at the
School of EEECS in Queen’s University Belfast in 2011, where he is
presently a Reader (Full Professor, in North America). His work
continues to address matters related to power system measurements,
particularly time synchronisation, data systems, machine learning
and cyber security. He is known as the founder of the open source
project “OpenPMU”, which continues to develop open source hardware
and software related to Phasor Measurement Units. His recent work
is concerned with alternatives to “space-based” time signals, i.e.
GNSS, in order to provide a resilient time transfer solution on
which electrical utilities and other critical national
infrastructure can depend.
The Truth about the Phasor
Measurement Unit (PMU)
SPEAKER:
Dr. Harold Kirkham,
Fellow IEEE, DRM Associates, Richland, WA, USA DATE:
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 TIME: Webinar:
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., EDT PLACE: Webinar via
WebEx link:
https://uqo.zoom.us/j/83023795902?pwd=aHhRdWUrVkNwelNPUENkT08xYkd1QT09
(Meeting ID: 830 2379 5902 , Password: 843163)
REGISTRATION:
Online. Free, registration required at:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/384651
ADMISSION: Free, but
the registration in advance is required
by Dec. 6 2023 @ 6:45 pm. For any additional
information please contact: branislav@ieee.org or
Wahab Almuhtadi.
ORGANIZED & HOSTED BY: Ithe IEEE Ottawa
Section Instrumentation & Measurement Society (IMS), Chapter,
Power & Energy Society (PES) Chapter, Reliability Society and
Power Electronics Society (RS/PELS) Joint Chapter, Communications
Society, Consumer Electronics Society, and Broadcast Technology
Society (ComSoc/CESoc/BTS) Joint Chapter, and IEEE Ottawa
Educational Activities (EA)).
Abstract
If you look up "phasor measurement unit"
on Wikipedia, you will learn a little about PMU that is right and
a lot that is wrong. (To start with, phasors predate Steinmetz.)
If you turn to the various papers and books that have been written
on the topic, you will still not get the whole truth. Even the
IEEE and IEC standards about PMUs have got significant parts
wrong! If a PMU is built so as to fully comply with the standards,
it will be an under-performing device that breaks the fundamental
rules of measurement. The presenter, Dr. Harold Kirkham, is listed
as a member of the working group that wrote the 2011 IEEE PMU
standard. However, he was so upset by it that he is NOT listed as
having voted for it! It has taken him a long time to figure out
exactly what is right and what is wrong about the standard. This
webinar will set the record straight and explain what is wrong
with the current treatment of the subject.
Bio Harold Kirkham (Fellow,
IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from Drexel University,
Philadelphia, PA, USA. His thesis was on the control of the real
and reactive power of HVDC terminals to stabilize the AC power
system. After a few years at American Electric Power (AEP), he
went to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA,
where he managed a DOE project that in many ways was a forerunner
of the Smart Grid today. He worked at the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory (PNNL) 2009 – 2021, spending a significant
fraction of this time studying PMUs. He is now the Principal
Researcher of DRM Associates, Richland, WA, USA. Dr. Kirkham is a
member of IEEE PES, IMS, DEIS, Communications, and Oceanic
Engineering Societies. For several years he chaired the IEEE PES
Instrumentation and Measurement Committee. He was a member of the
working group that wrote the IEEE PMU standard C37-118.1-2011.
From Metasurfaces to Electromagnetic
Skins - Concepts and Design Methods
SPEAKER:
Prof. Giacomo Oliveri,
Associate Professor in Electromagnetic Fields at the Department of
Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering (University of
Trento) DATE:
June 7, 2023 TIME: Webinar:
12:00 p.m - 01:30 p.m. EST PLACE: Webinar via
WebEx link:
https://uqtr.zoom.us/j/86375973096?pwd=MEJmU1Fhem5Wd2RIKzR1ZmZnd2Y3QT09
(Meeting ID: 863 7597 3096, Passcode: 972592)
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/event/register/361634
ADMISSION: Free, but
the registration in advance is required
by June 7, 2023. For any additional
information please contact:
Messaoud Ahmed
Ouameur or
Wahab Almuhtadi.
ORGANIZED & HOSTED BY: Prim. Host: IEEE
Saint Maurice Sect Chapter. Co-Host: IEEE Atlanta Section Chapter,
IEEE Buenaventura Section Chapter, IEEE Jamaica Section Chapter,
and IEEE Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Joint Chapter.
Abstract
2D metamaterials and metasurfaces has
emerged in the last couple of decades as a powerful approach to
improve the performance of antennas and radiating elements beyond
what could be obtained by standard materials. Among the vast
applications of such a technology, metasurfaces have been used to
reduce the mutual-coupling effects in multi-antenna system, to
enable antenna co-existence and mutual transparency, to allow
frequency/angular filtering, and to enhance the active impedance
matching in phased arrays. The recent introduction of
Electromagnetic Skins (EMSs)
has motivated a complete revolution of metasurface design
methodologies and approaches.
EMSs, which are stand-alone structures capable of performing
advanced wave manipulation functionalities, have been then used to
extend the capabilities of current wireless and sensing systems.
The objective of this talk will be to discuss the transition
between metasurfaces and EMSs, and to illustrate the recent
advances and ongoing trends in their design and implementation.
Bio Dr. Giacomo Oliveri received the
B.S. and M.S. degrees in TLC Engineering and the PhD degree in
Space Sciences and Engineering from the University of Genoa,
Italy, in 2003, 2005, and 2009 respectively. He is currently an
Associate Professor in Electromagnetic Fields at the Department of
Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering (University of
Trento) and a Board Member of the ELEDIA Research Center.
Moreover, he is Adjunct Professor at CentraleSupélec and member of
the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (L2S)@CentraleSupélec,
Gif-sur-Yvette (France).
He has been a visiting researcher at L2S in 2012, 2013, and 2015,
and he has been an Invited Associate Professor at the University
of Paris Sud, France, in 2014, and visiting professor at
Université Paris-Saclay in 2016 and 2017. Prof. Oliveri received
the Italian National Scientific Qualification for the position of
Full Professor in 2017 (ASN), and the French National
Qualification as Full Professor in 2019.
Practical 5G channel and system modeling techniques
SPEAKER: Dr. Kafi Hassan, Ph.D., George Mason
University, ECE Department, USA.
DATE: Tuesday, October 18, 2022.
TIME: Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 07:30 p.m. ORGANIZED BY: IEEE
Ottawa Joint Chapter of Communications Society, Consumer
Electronics Society, and Broadcast Technology Society
(ComSoc/CESoc/BTS), IEEE Toronto Chapter (ComSoc/BTS), IEEE
Communications Society Montreal Chapter (ComSoc), IEEE
Communications Society Quebec Chapter, and IEEE Communications
Society Kingston Section Chapter, IEEE Ottawa Educational
Activities (EA), IEEE Ottawa Women In Engineering (WIE), IEEE
Ottawa Young Professionals (YP), and Algonquin College Student
Branch (ACSB) in conjunction with School of Advanced Technology,
Algonquin College.
IN-PERSON: PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/event/register/326133
ADMISSION: Free, but the registration in
advance is strongly encourage. For any additional information
please contact: Wahab
Almuhtadi .
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
ONLINE: PLACE: via Zoom
https://algonquincollege.zoom.us/j/96754037165?pwd=ak5DWWZDR1plVXNCWTNLR1ordWsyZz09
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/event/register/326133
ADMISSION: Free, but the registration in
advance is strongly encourage. For any additional information
please contact: Wahab
Almuhtadi
Abstract Channel link-level and system
level modeling played a critical role in proper design and
deployment of all generations of wireless network systems.
Particularly, system level modeling has become an important task
for network planning, network design, and network optimization
of wireless cellular systems. System level simulations allow to
evaluate the performance of an entire network containing many
Evolved Node B (eNodeB) sectors serving a lot of user equipment
(UEs) in urban, suburban, and rural environments. Design and
performance of new technology features require to be accurately
verified and improved before deployment into commercial systems.
Therefore, real-world system performance modeling and
predictions should be very reliable and should be based on
repeatable measurements of how the model behaves in the actual
environment. Both the wireless industry and academia have made a
significant effort developing and defining new and updated
channel models such as the 3GPP 3D channel model and the
extended 3GPP extended channel model for milli-meter wave. New
3D geodata models with high-resolution and artificial
intelligent (AI) algorithms are greatly enhancing the RF
propagation modeling in line of sight (LOS) and non-line of
sight (NLOS) beamformed signals and FD-MIMO antenna applications
of 5G wireless network systems. In this talk, we will review
some of the key 5G wideband wireless channel modeling including
the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), NYU SIM, and
others. We will discuss some of the general practical use cases
of 5G network system modeling scenarios. Additionally, we will
describe some of the practical challenges of channel and system
modeling in 5G wireless systems.
Bio Dr. Kafi Hassan works in the Advanced
and Emerging Technology team at T-Mobile USA in Reston,
Virginia. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Electrical and
Computer Engineering department at George Mason University in
Fairfax, Virginia where he has been teaching graduate and
undergraduate level courses since 2007. From 1995 to 2006,
Hassan worked as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell
Laboratories in Whippany, New Jersey, performing research and
development in network wireless communication systems. He has
been a recipient of many professional honors and recognitions,
including the Bell Labs President’s Gold Award, the Bell Labs
President’s Silver Award, and Sprint Network Development and
Engineering Leadership award. His education background includes
a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Graduate
Center of the City University of New York, New York City, and BS
and MS degrees majoring in electrical engineering from
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina.
Integrated Terrestrial-Aerial-Stratospheric-Space Networks of
the Future: Towards A Sustainable ICT Ecosystem
SPEAKER:
Professor
Halim Yanikomeroglu, Department of Systems & Computer
Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada DATE: Wednesday,
October 5, 2022 @ 6 PM (EST) TIME: Webinar:
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. EST PLACE: Webinar via
Zoom link
https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/95808028297 ADMISSION:Free, but the
registration in advance is required. For any additional
information please contact:Sreeraman
Rajan or
Wahab Almuhtadi .
ORGANIZED
BY: IEEE Ottawa Joint Chapters of Consumer Technology
Society, Communication Society and Broadcast Technology Society
(IEEE OTTAWA CTSoc/ComSoc/ BTS) along with IEEE Ottawa Aerospace
and Electronic Society Chapter (IEEE OTTAWA AES) and IEEE Ottawa
Educational Activity Committee cordially invites you for the
following North America Regional webinar sponsored by the IEEE
Consumer Technology Society (NAR CTSoc).
Abstract
In this talk, a novel wireless infrastructure will be
presented which includes a new aerial access & computing layer
composed of HAPS (high altitude platform station) constellations
positioned in stratosphere, 20 km above the ground, in addition
to the legacy terrestrial layer and the emerging satellite
layer. With its bird’s-eye and almost-line-of-sight view of an
entire metropolitan area, a HAPS is more than a base station in
the air; it is a new architecture paradigm with access,
transport, and core network functionalities for integrated
connectivity, computing, sensing, positioning, navigation, and
surveillance, towards enabling a variety of use-cases in an
agile, smart, and sustainable manner for smart cities and
societies of the future. The talk will feature a number of
enabling technologies for the envisioned architecture including
RIS (reconfigurable intelligent surfaces) and advanced antennas.
Bio
Dr. Halim Yanikomeroglu is a Professor at Carleton University,
Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in
1998. He contributed substantially to 4G/5G technologies and
standards; his research focus in recent years include 6G/B6G,
non-terrestrial networks (NTN), and future wireless
infrastructure. His extensive collaboration with industry
resulted in 39 granted patents. He supervised or hosted in his
lab around 150 postgraduate researchers. He co-authored IEEE
papers with faculty members in 80+ universities in 25 countries.
He is a Fellow of IEEE, Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC),
and Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), and an IEEE
Distinguished Speaker for ComSoc and VTS. Dr. Yanikomeroglu is
serving as the Chair of IEEE WCNC Steering Committee, Member of
IEEE ComSoc Conference Council, Member of IEEE PIMRC Steering
Committee, and Member of ComSoc Emerging Technologies Committee.
He served as the General Chair of two VTCs and Technical Program
Chair/Co-Chair of three WCNCs. He chaired ComSoc Technical
Committee on Personal Communications. He received several awards
for his research, teaching, and service, including IEEE ComSoc
Fred W. Ellersick Prize (2021), IEEE VTS Stuart Meyer Memorial
Award (2020), IEEE ComSoc Wireless Communications Technical
Committee Recognition Award (2018), and a number of best paper
awards.
Towards Wireless Networking, Sensing and Security in the
Sub-Terahertz Regime: Design and Experiments
SPEAKER:
Yasaman Ghasempour,
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Princeton University DATE:
Thursday August 11, 2022 TIME: Webinar:
04:00 p.m - 05:00 p.m. EST PLACE: Webinar via
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83674932216?pwd=Z0dvMHJZUE43Rmt4NS9MUHlaM3JQZz09
(Meeting ID: 836 7493 2216, Passcode: 015238)
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/320934
ADMISSION: Free, but
the registration in advance is required
by August 11, 2022 @ 3:30pm EST. For any additional
information please contact:
Hadeel Elayan or
Eman Hammad or
Wahab Almuhtadi.
ORGANIZED & HOSTED BY: Prim. Host: IEEE
Toronto Joint Chapter of Communications Society, and Broadcast
Technology Society (ComSoc/BTS). Co-Host: IEEE Ottawa
Joint Chapter of Communications Society, Consumer Technology
Society, and Broadcast Technology Society (ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS),
IEEE Montreal Joint Chapter of Communications Society, and
Information Theory Society (ComSOc/IT), IEEE Communication
Society New York Chapter, and Ottawa Section Affinity Group
(YP), and Southern Alberta Section Aff Group (YP)
Abstract
The spectrum above 100 GHz offers
plentiful bandwidth for ultra-high-speed communication and
high-resolution sensing, thereby providing a promising
foundation for realizing unprecedented capabilities in
next-generation wireless networks. In this talk, I will begin by
presenting emerging transceiver architecture that can enable
directional sub-THz steering without traditional multi-antenna
arrays. I will discuss how to exploit the key characteristics of
sub-THz signals and the proposed architecture for
high-resolution localization. Such sensing modalities can then
be exploited to enable highly directional, high data rate links
that are robust to client and environmental mobility. I will
address one of the main concerns with sub-THz networking which
is high power consumption by introducing the first
ultra-wideband retro-directive backscatter above 100 GHz.
Finally, I will discuss new security paradigms in this regime:
while the conventional wisdom suggests that physical layer
security improves with narrow beams, I will explain new
vulnerabilities introduced by the control plane as well as
emerging low-cost smart reflecting surfaces. I will conclude the
talk by illustrating fundamentally new techniques for wireless
authentication and security.
Bio Dr. Yasaman Ghasempour is an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering
at Princeton University. Her research includes next-generation
wireless networks and sensing systems. She received her Ph.D.
and master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from
Rice University. She received the National Science Foundation
CAREER Award in 2022, the 2020 Marconi Young Scholar Award, and
the ACM SIGMOBILE Dissertation Award in 2020. Yasaman is named a
rising star in computer Networking and Communications in 2022
for her contributions to terahertz wireless systems. Yasaman is
serving as the associate technical editor of the IEEE
Communication Magazine and the editorial board of Nano
Communication Networks.
Integration of Terrestrial Networks and Extreme Environments:
Challenges and Capabilities
SPEAKER:
Mehdi Rahmati, Assistant
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer
Science, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA DATE:
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 TIME: Webinar:
07:00 p.m - 08:15 p.m. EST PLACE: Webinar via
WebEx link:
https://ccny.zoom.us/j/84828449995?pwd=WDdQeElkYXpwUlI5VmhNNVlpQjRuUT09
(Meeting ID: 848 2844 9995, Passcode: 477661)
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/308383
ADMISSION: Free, but
the registration in advance is required
by March 28, 2022. For any additional
information please contact:
Zheng Peng or
Wahab Almuhtadi.
ORGANIZED & HOSTED BY: Prim. Host: IEEE
Communication Society New York Chapter. Co-Host: IEEE Ottawa
Joint Chapter of Communications Society, Consumer Technology
Society, and Broadcast Technology Society (ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS),
and other 41 Chapters
Abstract
With the phenomenal growth of excessive
data traffic and the increasing number of connected devices,
existing communications solutions are posing unprecedented
challenges in terms of capacity, latency, heterogeneity,
mobility, coverage, energy efficiency, and reliability. Given
the demand for full connectivity, as part of the post 5G era,
non-terrestrial and terrestrial networks integration will be a
challenging mission that will necessitate redefining a
multi-dimensional and fully orchestrated system in terms of
sensing, communications, computing, and intelligence. In this
talk, I will present non-conventional approaches to address the
problems in a non-terrestrial and extreme environment, i.e.,
underwater. Intelligent and behavior-aware probabilistic
solutions will be discussed, with the goal of achieving robust
adaptation in terms of required Quality of Service and Quality
of Experience to meet the demands in a variety of scenarios..
Bio Dr. Mehdi Rahmati (IEEE Senior
Member) is an assistant professor in the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Cleveland State
University in Ohio. His research is in the areas of wireless
communications, underwater communications, and coordination in
distributed autonomous systems. He received his PhD in
Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2020 from Rutgers
University in New Jersey. He has published numerous
peer-reviewed papers and has received many prestigious awards,
including the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Young
Professional Award in 2022 and 2023, the best demo award at the
2019 IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication,
and Networking (SECON), the first prize in the 2019 IEEE
Communication Society (ComSoc) student competition, the best
paper award at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Mobile
Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), and the best paper runner-up
award at the 2015 ACM International Conference on Underwater
Networks and Systems (WUWNet).
Engineering Skills and Education for the Digital Era
SPEAKER:
Dr. Tom Murad Vice
Chair, Ontario Society of Professional Engineers Board of
Directors. Country Lead for Engineering & Technology, Siemens
Mobility DATE:
Wednesday, September 8, 2021 TIME: Webinar:
5:30
p.m. - 6:30 p.m. EST PLACE: Webinar via
WebEx link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89235099063?pwd=MHp1aEFIeXBDZ2pSNDh2cER6UXVRQT09
(Meeting ID: 89235099063, Passcode: 957020)
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/278972
ADMISSION: Free, but
the registration in advance is required. For any additional
information please contact:
Wahab Almuhtadi.
ORGANIZED & HOSTED BY: IEEE Ottawa Joint
Chapter of Communications Society, Consumer Technology Society,
and Broadcast Technology Society (ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS), IEEE
Toronto Chapter (ComSoc/BTS), IEEE ComSoc Montreal Chapter
(ComSoc), IEEE Ottawa and Toronto Women In Engineering (WIE)
Chapters along with the IEEE Ottawa, Southern Alberta and
Canadian Atlantic Young Professionals (YP) Chapters
Abstract
In this talk, we look forward to Dr. Murad
as he shares his reflections on the fundamental engineering
skills and education requirements for the digital era.
Bio Dr. Tom Murad has been a
licensed engineer since 1998 and has extensive years of
experience in the profession. He is currently the Country Lead
for Engineering and Technology for Siemens Mobility, previously
the founder and Head of Siemens Canada Engineering & Technology
Academy (SCETA), as well as the Country Lead for Engineering,
Technology and Academics for Siemens. Tom is a member of the
Ontario Government’s Post-Secondary Education Quality Assessment
board “ PEAQB “, the Ryerson University Faculty of Engineering
Advisory Council, Humber College Applied Technologies Dean’s
Board, PEO’s Experience Review Committee, Past chair of the IEEE
-Toronto Section’s Executive Committee, and the Past Chair of
Halton Champions of Innovation Round Table. Dr. Murad has also
been a member of the Board of Directors for IEEE Canada, the
German Canadian Centre for Innovation & Research, the Green
Centre Canada, and Fielding Environmental. His contributions to
the profession have been recognized by PEO, which gave him the
Order of Honour, and he was also named a Fellow of Engineers
Canada. He has been awarded the IEEE Canada J.M. Ham Outstanding
Engineering Educator Award in 2019, OPEA (Joint PEO and OSPE)
Best Engineering Achievement Award in 2017, and the Ontario
Chamber of Commerce Golden Award for Best Skill Enhancement
Project in 2016. Tom has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and
Electronic Engineering, as well as a Ph.D. of Engineering,
specializing in Power Electronics & Industrial Controls from
Loughborough University of Technology in the U.K. Tom’s passion
has been always in engineering skills development, and he is
nationally recognised and awarded as a visionary and an advocate
for innovative approach to work integrated learning and
education programs.
CTSoc Furture Webinars:
For list of future webinars follow this link:
https://ctsoc.ieee.org/education/dl-schedules-and-webinars.html.
Tools and methodologies for better productivity leveraging AI
community driven interoperability
SPEAKER:
Danilo Pietro Pau, IEEE and ST Fellow,
Technical director, System Research and Applications,
STMicroelectronics, Agrate Brianza, Italy DATE:
Friday, August 6, 2021 TIME: Webinar: 3:30
p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST PLACE: Webinar via
WebEx link:
https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/ieeemeetings/onstage/g.php?MTID=ea66283e451243a3116cbd7275dbae260
REGISTRATION:
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ADMISSION: Free, but
the registration in advance is required. For any additional
information please contact:
Gordana Velikic
or
Wahab Almuhtadi.
ORGANIZED & HOSTED BY: Education Activities -
IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc). Co-Hosted by: Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Joint Chapter
Abstract
Is artificial intelligence a technological
fad or a singularity? Why is resource-constrained AI and
therefore tiny machine learning important? A better awareness on
the technology can be gained by reviewing the milestones of AI
and learning more about the benefits of resource-constrained
machine learning to overcome the limitations of a centralized
approach. To address the challenges and opportunities in
designing neural networks for micro controllers, he will
describe a 5-steps methodology applied to a case study by using
a set of tools to automatically deploy pre-trained neural
networks on IoT (STM32) and Automotive (SPC58) microcontrollers.
A set of exemplary applications can be derived as useful
starting point for AI practitioners. New perspectives are being
opened toward the automation of neural network design and to
achieve low power implementations
Bio Danilo Pietro Pau, IEEE, and ST
Fellow, Technical director, System Research and Applications,
STMicroelectronics, Agrate Brianza, Italy. Danilo Pau graduated
in Electronic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano on 1992.
Since 1991 he is with STMicroelectronics Italy, System Research.
He worked on HDMAC hardware design and MPEG2 video memory
reduction, then on video coding and transcoding, next on
embedded 3D and VG graphics, and computer vision with
hand-crated algorithms. Currently, his focus is on the
development of tools to bridge deep learning frameworks with
resource constrained applications on micro-controllers and
sensors. Since 2019 Danilo is an IEEE Fellow. He currently
serves IEEE Region 8 Action for Industry focused on the
Internship initiative. He is also a Member of the Machine
Learning, Deep Learning and AI in the CTSoc (MDA) Technical
Stream Committee IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc). With
over 81 patents, 105 publications (h-index 24, i10-index 53),
113 MPEG authored documents and 40+ invited talks/seminars at
various worldwide Universities and Conferences, Danilo's
favorite activity remains mentoring undergraduate students, MSc
and PhD, from various universities.
CTSoc Furture Webinars:
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Flexible Radio Access Beyond 5G: A
Future Projection
SPEAKER:
Dr. Huseyin Arslan, Professor, Electrical Engineering Dept. of
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA DATE:
Monday, July 26, 2021 TIME: Webinar: 12:00
p.m. - 01:30 p.m. EST PLACE: Webinar via
Webex link:
IEEE
WebEx Enterprise Site
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/277084
ADMISSION: Free, but
the registration in advance is required. For any additional
information please contact:
Brian Page or
Hossein Hassani
or
Wahab Almuhtadi.
ORGANIZED BY IEEE: Atlanta
Section ComSoc Chapter, Saint Maurice Section ComSoc Chapter,
Toronto Section ComSoc/BTS Chapter, Kingston Section CS/ComSoc
Joint
Chapter, London Section ComSoc/BTS Joint Chapter,
Montreal Section ComSoc/ITS Joint Chapter, North Saskatchewan
Section CAS/ComSoc/SPS Joint Chapter, and Ottawa Section ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Joint Chapter
Abstract
Today's wireless services and systems have
come a long way since the rollout of the conventional
voice-centric cellular systems. The demand for wireless access
in voice and multi-media applications has increased
tremendously. The trend on the variety and the number of mobile
devices along with the mobile applications will certainly
continue beyond 5G, creating a wide range of technical
challenges. One of the biggest challenges is the security of the
communication beyond the classical crypto based approaches which
secure the information. In this talk, security aspects of the
physical communication and also physical signal which is called
Physical Layer Security (PHY Security) will be discussed. Latest
trends, threats, and techniques to improve the security of the
physical signal will be discussed. The tentative outline of the
talk will be as follows: - Wireless Communication
trends, requirements - Importance of secure
communication - Classification of communication
security - PHY security: Communication and REM
- PHY security: Eavesdropping, Spoofing & Jamming -
Anti-jamming capable communication - Cross-layer
security - Secure communication & other advanced radio
access technologies Case- studies: a- Security in
URLLC (URLL & Secure communication) b- Security in
vehicular network (V2V and V2I) c- Security in NOMA
d- Security in LIS.
Bio Dr. Arslan (IEEE Fellow) has received his
BS degree from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara,
Turkey in 1992; MS and Ph.D. degrees in 1994 and 1998 from
Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, TX. USA. From
January 1998 to August 2002, he was with the research group of
Ericsson Inc., NC, USA, where he was involved with several
projects related to 2G and 3G wireless communication systems.
Since August 2002, he has been with the Electrical Engineering
Dept. of University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA, where he
is a Professor. In December 2013, he joined Istanbul Medipol
University to found the Engineering College, where he has worked
as the Dean of the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences.
He has also served as the director of the Graduate School of
Engineering and Natural Sciences in the same university. In
addition, he has worked as a part-time consultant for various
companies and institutions including Anritsu Company, Savronik
Inc., and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of
Turkey. Dr. Arslan’s research interests are related to
advanced signal processing techniques at the physical and medium
access layers, with cross-layer design for networking adaptivity
and Quality of Service (QoS) control. He is interested in many
forms of wireless technologies including cellular radio,
wireless PAN/LAN/MANs, fixed wireless access, aeronautical
networks, underwater networks, in vivo networks, and wireless
sensors networks. His current research interests are on 5G and
beyond radio access technologies, physical layer security,
interference management (avoidance, awareness, and
cancellation), cognitive radio, small cells, powerline
communications, smart grid, UWB, multi-carrier wireless
technologies, dynamic spectrum access, co-existence issues on
heterogeneous networks, aeronautical (High Altitude Platform)
communications, channel modeling and system design, and
underwater acoustic communications. He has served as technical
program committee chair, technical program committee member,
session and symposium organizer, and workshop chair in several
IEEE conferences. He is currently a member of the editorial
board for the IEEE Surveys and Tutorials and the Sensors
Journal. He has also served as a member of the editorial board
for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the IEEE
Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN),
the Elsevier Physical Communication Journal, the Hindawi Journal
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Wiley Wireless
Communication and Mobile Computing Journal.
Machine Learning For Wireless
Communications And Networking: Motivations, Case Studies, And
Open Problems
SPEAKER:
Dr. Shiwen Mao Professor and Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar
Chair, and Director of the Wireless Engineering Research and
Education Center at Auburn University DATE:
Monday, June 28, 2021 TIME: Webinar: 06:00
p.m. - 07:30 p.m. EST PLACE: Webinar via
Zoom:link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86149311681?pwd=K2UyeUV5M0REa2c4S1FsMHU4MWNIQT09
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/274419
ADMISSION: Free, but
the registration in advance is required. For any additional
information please contact:
Hossein Hassani
or
Wahab Almuhtadi.
ORGANIZED BY IEEE: Denver
Section VTS/ComSoc Joint Chapter, Kingston Section CS/ComSoc
Chapter, Windsor Section SPS/ComSoc Joint Chapter,
Kitchener-Waterloo Section VTS Chapter, Toronto Section
ComSoc/BTS Chapter, Denver Section, Windsor Section CIS/SMC
Joint Chapter, and Ottawa Section ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Joint Chapter
Abstract
While 5G deployment
is being carried out in many places of the world, there has been
great interest in the prospects of 5G beyond and the next
generation. Among the various visions, a common theme is that
artificial intelligence will play a key role, as evidenced by
the great interest and advances in machine learning enabled
wireless communications and networking. In this talk, we will
discuss the motivation, potential, and challenges of
incorporating machine learning in wireless communications and
networking for 5G and beyond systems. We will start with two
motivating examples, i.e., channel estimation and mobile edge
computing, to show why machine learning could be helpful. We
will share our experience of several case studies, including (i)
a hybrid approach to the classical energy efficiency
maximization problem, where traditional models could be used to
train a deep learning model; (ii) data augmentation for
convolutional neural network (CNN) based automatic modulation
classification (AMC), where a conditional generative adversarial
network (CGAN) is utilized to generate synthesized training
data; and (iii) and an adaptive model for RFID-based 3D human
skeleton tracking, which utilizes meta-learning and few-shot
fine-tuning to achieve high adaptability to new environments. We
will conclude this talk with a discussion of challenges and open
problems.
Bio Dr. Shiwen Mao [S'99-M'04-SM'09-F'19]
received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Polytechnic
University, Brooklyn, NY in 2004. He was a postdoc at Virginia
Tech from 2004 to 2006, and joined Auburn University, Auburn, AL
as an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
in 2006. He held the McWane Endowed Professorship from 2012 to
2015 and the Samuel Ginn Endowed Professorship from 2015 to
2020. Currently, he is a professor and Earle C. Williams Eminent
Scholar Chair, and Director of the Wireless Engineering Research
and Education Center at Auburn University. His research interest
includes wireless networks, multimedia communications, and smart
grid. He is on the editorial board of several IEEE and ACM
journals. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications
Society and IEEE Council of RFID, and a Distinguished Speaker of
IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He received the IEEE ComSoc
TC-CSR Distinguished Technical Achievement Award in 2019 and NSF
CAREER Award in 2010. He is a co-recipient of the 2021 IEEE
Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award and the IEEE
Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award.
IEEE VDL: Learning To Learn To
Communicate
SPEAKER:
Professor Osvaldo Simeone, Information Engineering,
Telecommunications Research, Department of Engineering of King's
College London, UK DATE: Thursday,
June 24, 2021 TIME: Webinar: 11:00
a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EST PLACE: Webinar via
Zoom:link
https://uottawa-ca.zoom.us/j/93444801698?pwd=R2k0d0Z1VmJZbVJaajJYaVBQUnZ2QT09
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/274966
ADMISSION: Free, but
the registration in advance is required. For any additional
information please contact:
Hossein Hassani
or
Wahab Almuhtadi.
ORGANIZED BY IEEE: Kingston
Section CS/ComSoc Chapter, Saint Maurice Section ComSoc Chapter,
Toronto Section ComSoc/BTS Chapter, Vancouver Section
JComSoc/PHOS/BTS/ITS oint Chapter, and Ottawa Section
ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Joint Chapter
Abstract
The application of
supervised learning techniques for the design of the physical
layer of a communication link is often impaired by the limited
amount of pilot data available for each device; while the use of
unsupervised learning is typically limited by the need to carry
out a large number of training iterations. In this talk,
meta-learning, or learning-to-learn, is introduced as a tool to
alleviate these problems. The talk will consider an
Internet-of-Things (IoT) scenario in which devices transmit
sporadically using short packets with few pilot symbols over a
fading channel. The number of pilots is generally insufficient
to obtain an accurate estimate of the end-to-end channel, which
includes the effects of fading and of the transmission-side
distortion. To tackle this problem, pilots from previous IoT
transmissions are used as meta-training data in order to train a
demodulator that is able to quickly adapt to new end-to-end
channel conditions from few pilots. Various state-of-the-art
meta-learning schemes are adapted to the problem at hand and
evaluated, including MAML, FOMAML, REPTILE, and CAVIA. Both
offline and online solutions are developed.
Bio Osvaldo Simeone is a Professor of
Information Engineering with the Centre for Telecommunications
Research at the Department of Engineering of King's College
London, where he directs the King's Communications, Learning and
Information Processing lab. He received an M.Sc. degree (with
honors) and a Ph.D. degree in information engineering from
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2001 and 2005,
respectively. From 2006 to 2017, he was a faculty member of the
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), where he was affiliated
with the Center for Wireless Information Processing (CWiP). His
research interests include information theory, machine learning,
wireless communications, and neuromorphic computing. Dr Simeone
is a co-recipient of the 2019 IEEE Communication Society Best
Tutorial Paper Award, the 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Best Paper
Award, the 2017 JCN Best Paper Award, the 2015 IEEE
Communication Society Best Tutorial Paper Award and of the Best
Paper Awards of IEEE SPAWC 2007 and IEEE WRECOM 2007. He was
awarded a Consolidator grant by the European Research Council
(ERC) in 2016. His research has been supported by the U.S. NSF,
the ERC, the Vienna Science and Technology Fund, as well as by a
number of industrial collaborations. He currently serves in the
editorial board of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and is
the vice-chair of the Signal Processing for Communications and
Networking Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Information
Theory Society in 2017 and 2018. Dr Simeone is a co-author of
two monographs, two edited books published by Cambridge
University Press, and more than one hundred research journal
papers. He is a Fellow of the IET and of the IEEE.
IEEE VDL: Intelligent Reflected
Surfaces For Future Wireless Systems
SPEAKER:
Dr.
Shahid Mumtaz is an IET Fellow, IEEE ComSoc and ACM
Distinguished Speaker DATE: Monday,
June 21, 2021 TIME: Webinar: 11:00
a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EST PLACE: Webinar via
Zoom link:
https://uottawa-ca.zoom.us/j/97065802800?pwd=RDVoV3g1RlhZQmRLYXVxa1NDMWNzQT09
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/274962 ADMISSION: Free, but
the registration in advance is required. For any additional
information please contact:
Hossein Hassani
or
Wahab Almuhtadi.
ORGANIZED BY IEEE:
Kingston Section CS/ComSoc Chapter, Toronto Section ComSoc/BTS
Chapter, and Ottawa Section ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Joint Chapter
Abstract
As we have finalized
the research for 5G, now there is a race for technologies that
will conquer 6G. The 6G technologies will achieve much better
latency and computation efficiency as compared to 5G. From 1G to
5G, almost all research and standardization randomly model the
wireless channel between transmitter and receiver. There is no
control of humans over a wireless medium, as it is given by
nature. In 6G, we will break this assumption and go from random
wireless channels to controllable wireless. Thanks to
Intelligent Reflected Surfaces for Future Wireless System(IRS).
This talk will explain in detail the physics of metasurface and
the progress of IRS till today. This talk will also present
different use case, study cases, signal processing and
communication techniques for IRS, standardization, Prototype and
testbed, and the open research challenges.
Bio Shahid Mumtaz is an IET Fellow, IEEE ComSoc
and ACM Distinguished speaker, recipient of IEEE ComSoC Young
Researcher Award (2020), IEEE Senior member, founder and EiC of
IET “Journal of Quantum communication”, Vice-Chair:
Europe/Africa Region- IEEE ComSoc: Green Communications &
Computing society and Vice-chair for IEEE standard on P1932.1:
Standard for Licensed/Unlicensed Spectrum Interoperability in
Wireless Mobile Networks.
He has more than 15 years of
wireless industry/academic experience. He has received his
Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical & Electronic
Engineering from Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, and
University of Aveiro, Portugal in 2006 and 2011, respectively.
From 2002 to 2003, he worked for Pak Telecom as System Engineer
and from 2005 to 2006 for Ericsson and Huawei at Research Labs
in Sweden. He has been with Instituto de Telecomunicações since
2011 where he currently holds the position of Auxiliary
Researcher and adjunct positions with several universities
across the Europe-Asian Region.
He is the author of 4
technical books, 12 book chapters, 250+ technical papers (170+
Journal/transaction, 90+ conference, 2 IEEE best paper award- in
the area of mobile communications. He had/has
supervised/co-supervising several Ph.D. and Master Students. He
uses mathematical and system-level tools to model and analyze
emerging wireless communication architectures, leading to
innovative theoretically optimal new communication techniques.
He is working closely with leading R&D groups in the industry to
transition these ideas to practice. He secures the funding of
around 2M Euro.
IEEE VDL: Localization in Drone
Assisted and Vehicular Networks
SPEAKER:
Professor Shahrokh Valaee, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Toronto, ON, Canada DATE:
Thursday, June 17, 2021 TIME: Webinar: 01:00
p.m. - 02:00 p.m. EST PLACE: Webinar via
Zoom link:
https://uottawa-ca.zoom.us/j/99675351488?pwd=c3lVcm9PM1ZDUjJndmlrT0U3TlZkQT09
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/274379
ADMISSION: Free, but
the registration in advance is required. For any additional
information please contact:
Hossein Hassani
or
Wahab Almuhtadi
ORGANIZED BY IEEE: Kingston
Section CS/ComSoc Chapter, Windsor Section SPS/ComSoc Joint
Chapter, Toronto Section ComSoc/BTS Chapter, Ottawa Section
ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Joint Chapter, and Canadian Atlantic
Section ComSoc Chapter, Vancouver Section ComSoc/PHOS/BTS/ITS
Joint Chapter.
Abstract
The next generation
of wireless systems will employ networking equipment mounted on
mobile platforms, unmanned air vehicles (UAV), and low orbit
satellites. As a result, the topology of 6G wireless technology
will extend to 3D vertical networking. With its extended
service, 6G will also give rise to new challenges which include,
the introduction of intelligent reflective surfaces (IRS), the
mmWave spectrum, the employment of massive MIMO systems, and the
agility of networks. Along with the advancement in networking
technology, user devices are also evolving rapidly, with the
emergence of highly capable cellphones, smart IoT equipment, and
wearable devices. One of the key elements of 6G technology is
the need for accurate positioning information. The accuracy of
today’s positioning systems is not acceptable for many
applications of future, especially in smart environments. In
this talk, we will discuss how positioning can be a key enabler
of 6G, and what challenges the next generation of localization
technology will face when integrated within the new wireless
networks.
Bio Shahrokh Valaee is a Professor with the
Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Toronto, and the holder of Nortel Chair
of Network Architectures and Services. He is the Founder and the
Director of the Wireless and Internet Research Laboratory (WIRLab)
at the University of Toronto. Professor Valaee was the TPC
Co-Chair and the Local Organization Chair of the IEEE Personal
Mobile Indoor Radio Communication (PIMRC) Symposium 2011. He was
the TCP Chair of PIMRC2017, the Track Co-Chair of WCNC 2014, the
TPC Co-Chair of ICT 2015. He has been the guest editor for various
journals. He was a Track Co-chair for PIMRC 2020 and VTC Fall
2020. From December 2010 to December 2012, he was the Associate
Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. From 2010 to 2015,
he served as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications. Currently, he is an Editor of Journal of Computer
and System Science. Professor Valaee is a Fellow of the
Engineering Institute of Canada, and a Fellow of IEE

Integrated Terrestrial-Aerial-Satellite Networks: Key Enabler
for the Super Smart Cities of the Future
SPEAKER:
Professor
Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada DATE: Friday, May 27, 2021 TIME: Webinar:
12:00 p.m.
- 1:00 p.m. EST PLACE: Webinar via
Zoom link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83194080312?pwd=L01RNElTKytWSE1vb3ZJUkd0OG1DQT09 REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/271155
ADMISSION:Free, but the
registration in advance is required. For any additional
information please contact:
Hadeel Elayan or
Wahab Almuhtadi or
Eman Hammad.
ORGANIZED
BY: IEEE Ottawa Joint Chapter of Communications
Society, Consumer Technology Society, and Broadcast Technology
Society (ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS), IEEE ComSoc Toronto Chapter
(ComSoc), IEEE ComSoc Montreal Chapter (ComSoc), IEEE Ottawa
Educational Activities (EA), IEEE Ottawa Women In Engineering
(WIE), IEEE Ottawa Young Professionals (YP), and Algonquin
College Student Branch (ACSB) in conjunction with School of
Advanced Technology, Algonquin College.
Abstract
There have been
rapid and exciting developments in recent years in satellite
networks, in particular, in LEO mega-constellations such as
SpaceX's Starlink. Although less visible, exciting developments
have also been taking place in a certain type of aerial networks
known as the high-altitude platform station (HAPS) systems, such
as the formation of HAPS Alliance which brings together the
connectivity and aerospace industries. It is worth noting that
the satellite and aerial networks discussions have been
occurring exclusively in the context of remote and rural
connectivity. A major concern in this context is the rather
questionable business case; there is limited revenue in rural
and remote regions. In this talk, a novel vision will be
presented for an integrated terrestrial-aerial-satellite
networks architecture as a key enabler for the super smart
cities of 2030s and beyond.
Bio Dr.
Halim Yanikomeroglu is a Professor at Carleton University,
Canada. He received his Ph.D. from University of Toronto in
1998. He contributed to 4G/5G technologies and non-terrestrial
networks. His industrial collaborations resulted in 37 granted
patents. He supervised or hosted in his lab a total of 135
postgraduate researchers. He co-authored IEEE papers with
faculty members in 80+ universities in 25 countries. He is a
Fellow of IEEE, Engineering Institute of Canada, and Canadian
Academy of Engineering, and an IEEE Distinguished Speaker for
ComSoc and VTS. He is currently chairing the WCNC Steering
Committee; he is a member of PIMRC Steering Committee and ComSoc
Emerging Technologies Committee. He served as the General Chair
of two VTCs and TP Chair of three WCNCs. He chaired ComSoc
Technical Committee on Personal Communications. He received
several awards including ComSoc Wireless Communications TC
Recognition Award (2018) and VTS Stuart Meyer Memorial Award
(2020).
AI to Enable Digital
Medicine and Detect COVID-19
SPEAKER:
Dr. Giorgio Quer, PhD, Dir. of AI, Scripps Research
Translational Institute, La Jolla, California, USA, IEEE ComSoc
Distinguished Lecturer DATE: Friday, May 14, 2021 TIME: Webinar: 11:00
a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EST PLACE: Webinar via
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85676389854
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/271155
ADMISSION: Free, but
the registration in advance is required. For any additional
information please contact:
Wahab Almuhtadi
or
Eman Hammad.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE
Ottawa Joint Chapter of Communications Society, Consumer
Technology Society, and Broadcast Technology Society
(ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS), IEEE ComSoc Toronto Chapter
(ComSoc), IEEE ComSoc Montreal Chapter (ComSoc), IEEE Ottawa
Educational Activities (EA), IEEE Ottawa Women In Engineering
(WIE), IEEE Ottawa Young Professionals (YP), and Algonquin
College Student Branch (ACSB)
Abstract
Digitalize human
beings using biosensors to track our complex physiologic system,
process the large amount of data generated with artificial
intelligence (AI) and change clinical practice towards
individualized medicine: these are the goals of digital
medicine. In this talk, we discuss how to design AI solutions in
the clinical space and what are the key aspects to make a
difference. We focus on two critical clinical topics that need
AI: 1) atrial fibrillation (AF), and 2) viral illnesses
(COVID-19). AF is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia,
associated with stroke, heart failure and coronary artery
disease. AF detection from single-lead electrocardiography (ECG)
recordings is still an open problem, as AF events may be
episodic and the signal noisy. We conduct a thoughtful analysis
of recent convolutional neural network architectures developed
in the computer vision field, redesigned to be suitable for a
one-dimensional signal, and we evaluate their performance in the
detection of AF using 200 thousand seconds of ECG, highlighting
the potential and pitfall of this technology. We also discuss
how to explain (global and local post hoc explanations) this AI
model for AF detection using features that are commonly used by
a cardiologist. To tackle the problem of COVID-19, we start
with an overview of continuous, passively monitored vital signs
from 200,000 individuals wearing a Fitbit wearable device for 2
years. This large study provides the baseline for DETECT, our
app-based, nationwide clinical study enrolling individuals who
routinely use a smartwatch or other wireless devices to
determine if individualized tracking of changes in heart rate,
activity and sleep can provide early diagnosis and
self-monitoring for COVID-19. We analyze data from more than
36,000 individuals, showing how we can discriminate (on an
individual level) between COVID-19 and other types of
infections. We discuss how this can impact both the individual
and public health, and how the use of AI can be a game changer
in this fight against the virus.
Bio Dr. Giorgio Quer received a Ph.D. degree
(2011) in Information Engineering from University of Padova,
Italy. In 2007, he was a visiting researcher at the Centre for
Wireless Communication at the University of Oulu, Finland.
During his Ph.D., he proposed a solution for the distributed
compression of wireless sensor networks signals, based on the
joint exploitation of Compressive Sensing and Principal
Component Analysis. From 2010 to 2016, he was at the Qualcomm
Institute, University of California San Diego (UCSD), working on
cognitive networks protocols and implementation. At Scripps
Research, he is leading the Data Science and Analytics Scripps
team involved in the All of Us Research Program (NIH), together
with several efforts involving big data and AI in digital
medicine, including DETECT, towards the use of wearables to
detect COVID-19. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a
Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications society. His
research interests include wireless sensor networks,
probabilistic models, deep convolutional networks, wearable
sensors, physiological signal processing, and digital medicine.

Webinar: The Smart City Building Blocks & Their Synergy with
Smart Villages
SPEAKER:
Prof. Dr. Saifur Rahman, Director, Advanced Research Institute,
Virginia Tech, USA, IEEE PES President 2018-2019, IEEE PES
Distinguished Lecturer
DATE: Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020
TIME: Webinar: 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/236964.
ADMISSION: Free, but the registration in
advance is required.
For any additional information please contact: Ajit Pardasani or
Branislav Djokic.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa
Power and Energy Society Chapter (PES), Reliability Society and
Power Electronics Society Joint Chapter (RS/PELS),
Instrumentation & Measurement Society Chapter (IMS),
Communications Society, Consumer Electronics Society, and
Broadcast Technology Society Joint Chapter (ComSoc/CESoc/BTS),
and IEEE Ottawa Educational Activities (EA)
Abstract
A smart city relies
on widely distributed smart devices to monitor the urban
environment in real-time, collects information for intelligent
decision making, and facilitates various services to improve the
quality of urban living. The distributed network of intelligent
sensor nodes, as well as data centers/clouds where sensor data
are stored and shared, constitutes a smart city infrastructure.
Smart cities address urban challenges such as pollution, energy
efficiency, security, parking, traffic, transportation, and
others by utilizing advanced technologies in data gathering and
communications interconnectivity via the Internet. It provides
real time and remote monitoring for different aspects of data
management in areas such as transportation, communication, video
surveillance, and sensors distributed throughout the city.
Simultaneously, the Smart City building blocks like education,
telemedicine, health care, IT applications, pollution
management, etc. can be deployed in the IEEE Smart Village
initiative to have a greater impact on the rural population
throughout the world. through reliable electricity and internet
connectivity.
Bio Prof. Dr. Saifur Rahman is the founding
director of the Advanced Research Institute (www.ari.vt.edu) at
Virginia Tech, USA, where he is the Joseph R. Loring Professor
of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also directs the
Center for Energy and the Global Environment (www.ceage.vt.edu).
He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Millennium Medal
winner. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE
Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on
Sustainable Energy. In 2006, he served on the IEEE Board of
Directors as the Vice President for Publications. He is a
Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES)
and has lectured on renewable energy, energy efficiency, smart
grid, electric power system operation and planning, etc. in over
30 countries. He was IEEE Power and Energy Society President
2018-2019 and is now a candidate for IEEE President-Elect 2021.
Webinar: Measurement, Control and Protection in Smart Grid
Energy Management Systems for Smart Buildings in a Smart City
SPEAKER:
Prof. Dr. Saifur Rahman, Director, Advanced Research Institute,
Virginia Tech, USA, IEEE PES President 2018-2019, IEEE PES
Distinguished Lecturer
DATE: Thursday, July 30, 2020
TIME: Webinar: 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/234586
ADMISSION: Free, but the registration in
advance is required.
For any additional information please contact: Ajit Pardasani or
Branislav Djokic.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa
Power and Energy Society Chapter (PES), Instrumentation &
Measurement Society Chapter (IMS), Reliability Society and Power
Electronics Society Joint Chapter (RS/PELS), Communications
Society, Consumer Electronics Society, and Broadcast Technology
Society Joint Chapter (ComSoc/CESoc/BTS), and IEEE Ottawa
Educational Activities (EA)
Abstract
Smart grid is a
modern electric system with its architecture, communications,
sensors, measurements, automation, computing hardware and
software for improvement of the efficiency, reliability,
flexibility and security. In particular, the smart grid, when
fully deployed, will facilitate the (i) increased use of digital
information and measurement, control & protection technologies,
(ii) deployment and grid-integration of distributed energy
resources (DERs), (iii) operation of demand response and energy
efficiency programs, and (iv) integration of consumer-owned
smart devices and technologies. Different non-linear controls,
such as back-stepping control, feedback linearization, model
predictive control, and sliding mode control are applied to
control DERs, and their grid integration. Another control
technique gaining application in the smart grid space is based
on multi-agent systems (MAS) which provide autonomy, reactivity
and proactivity. As speedy communication facilities, such as
fiber-optics, microwave, GSM/GPRS, 4G/5G are becoming the
integral parts of the functioning smart grid, the integration of
MAS in smart grid applications is becoming simple and feasible.
This lecture focuses on the measurement & control issues of the
smart grid and how MAS can provide an efficient tool to address
such issues. In addition, an overview of the related challenges
and opportunities for energy efficient building operation and
management with deployment experience in the US will be
provided.
Bio Prof. Dr. Saifur Rahman is the founding
director of the Advanced Research Institute (www.ari.vt.edu) at
Virginia Tech, USA, where he is the Joseph R. Loring Professor
of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also directs the
Center for Energy and the Global Environment (www.ceage.vt.edu).
He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Millennium Medal
winner. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE
Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on
Sustainable Energy. In 2006, he served on the IEEE Board of
Directors as the Vice President for Publications. He is a
Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES)
and has lectured on renewable energy, energy efficiency, smart
grid, electric power system operation and planning, etc. in over
30 countries. He was IEEE Power and Energy Society President
2018-2019 and is now a candidate for IEEE President-Elect 2021.
Webinar: Role of the Smart Grid in Facilitating the Integration
of Renewables
SPEAKER: Prof. Dr. Saifur
Rahman, Director, Advanced Research Institute, Virginia Tech,
USA, IEEE PES President 2018-2019, IEEE PES Distinguished
Lecturer
DATE: Tuesday, July 28, 2020
TIME: Webinar: 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/234594.
ADMISSION: Free, but the registration in
advance is required.
For any additional information please contact: Ajit Pardasani or
Branislav Djokic.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa
Power and Energy Society Chapter (PES), Instrumentation &
Measurement Society Chapter (IMS), Reliability Society and Power
Electronics Society Joint Chapter (RS/PELS), Communications
Society, Consumer Electronics Society, and Broadcast Technology
Society Joint Chapter (ComSoc/CESoc/BTS), and IEEE Ottawa
Educational Act
Abstract
With the focus on
environmental sustainability and energy security, power system
planners are looking at renewable energy as supplements and
alternatives. But such generation sources have their own
challenges - primarily intermittency. It is expected that the
smart grid – due to its inherent communication, sensing and
control capabilities – will have the ability to manage the load,
storage and generation assets (including renewables) in the
power grid to enable a large-scale integration of distributed
generation. In a smart grid, information about the state of the
grid and its components can be exchanged quickly over long
distances and complex networks. It will therefore be possible to
have the integration of sustainable energy sources, such as
wind, solar, off-shore electricity, etc. for smoother system
operation. But in order for this to be possible, the electric
utility will have to evolve, and change their ways of operation
to become an intelligent provider of these services..
Bio Prof. Dr. Saifur Rahman is the founding
director of the Advanced Research Institute (www.ari.vt.edu) at
Virginia Tech, USA, where he is the Joseph R. Loring Professor
of
Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also directs the Center
for Energy and the Global Environment (www.ceage.vt.edu). He is
a Life Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Millennium Medal winner.
He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Electrification
Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. In
2006, he served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the Vice
President for Publications. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for
the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) and has lectured on
renewable energy, energy efficiency, smart grid, electric power
system operation and planning, etc. in over 30 countries. He was
IEEE Power and Energy Society President 2018-2019 and is now a
candidate for IEEE President-Elect 2021.
Webinar: Integrated Access and
Backhaul for 5G and Beyond
SPEAKER:
Dr. Behrooz Makki, a Senior Researcher in Ericsson Research,
Gothenburg, Sweden.
DATE: Thursday, July 9, 2020
TIME: Webinar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:00 p.m.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Please visit
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/233754 for more details and
to register.
ORGANIZED BY:
IEEE Communications Society Toronto
Chapter along with ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS
Ottawa Joint Chapter and IEEE ComSoc Montreal Chapter
MORE INFO/CONATCT: IEEE ComSoc Toronto Chapter
Abstract:
The number of devices requesting for wireless communications is
growing exponentially. Network densification via the deployment
of many base stations (BSs) of different types is one of the
mechanisms that can be employed to satisfy the ever-increasing
demand for bandwidth/capacity in wireless networks. However,
deploying fiber to the small cells may be expensive and
impractical when the number of small cells increases. For this
reason, as well as because of the traffic jams and
infrastructure displacements caused by fiber optic installation,
millimeter wave (mmw)-based wireless backhaul is currently
considered as an alternative, providing (almost) the same rate
as fiber optic with significantly less price and no digging.
With this background, integrated access and backhaul (IAB)
networks, where the operator can utilize part of the radio
resources for wireless backhauling, has recently received
considerable attention. The purpose of IAB is to replace
existing backhaul systems with flexible wireless backhaul using
the existing 3GPP bands providing not only backhaul but also
existing cellular services in the same node. This creates more
flexibility and reduces the implementation cost. For 5G NR, IAB
is currently considered as a work item in 3GPP, and it is known
as one of the main novelties of 5G. In this talk, we review the
main backhauling techniques, and present the main
motivations/standardization agreements on IAB. Moreover, We
present comparisons between the IAB networks and the cases where
all or part of the small access points are fiber-connected.
Finally, we study the robustness of IAB networks to
environmental effects and verify the effect of the blockage, the
tree foliage, the rain as well as the antenna height/gain on the
coverage rate of IAB setups, as the key differences between the
fiber-connected and IAB networks. As we show, IAB is an
attractive setup enabling 5G and beyond.
Bio: Behrooz Makki received his PhD degree in
Communication Engineering from Chalmers University of
Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2013-2017, he was a Postdoc
researcher at Chalmers University. Currently, he works as a
senior researcher in Ericsson Research, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Behrooz is the recipient of the VR Research Link grant, Sweden,
2014, the Ericsson’s Research grant, Sweden, 2013, 2014 and
2015, the ICT SEED grant, Sweden, 2017, as well as the
Wallenbergs research grant, Sweden, 2018. He is a Senior Member
of IEEE since Aug. 2019. Also, Behrooz is the recipient of the
IEEE best reviewer award, IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications, 2018. Currently, he works as an Editor in IEEE
Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Letters,
the journal of Communications and Information Networks as well
as the associate editor of Frontiers in Communications and
Networks. He was a member of European Commission projects
“mm-Wave based Mobile Radio Access Network for 5G Integrated
Communications” and “ARTIST4G” as well as various national and
international research collaborations. His current research
interests include integrated access and backhaul, hybrid
automatic repeat request, Green communications, millimeter wave
communications, and backhauling. He has co-authored 57 journal
papers, 45 conference papers and 40 patent applications.
Webinar: Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer as a Quantum
Standard of Voltage and Current Harmonics
SPEAKER:
Dr. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Senior Research Scientist,
National Measurement Institute, Sydney, Australia
DATE: DATE: Tuesday, July 09,
2020
TIME: Webinar: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
REGISTRATION:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/233847.
ADMISSION: Free, but the registration in
advance is required.
For any additional information please contact: Ajit Pardasani or
Branislav Djokic.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa
Power and Energy Society Chapter (PES), Instrumentation &
Measurement Society Chapter (IMS), Reliability Society and Power
Electronics Society Joint Chapter (RS/PELS), Communications
Society, Consumer Electronics Society, and Broadcast Technology
Society Joint Chapter (ComSoc/CESoc/BTS), and IEEE Ottawa
Educational Activities (EA).
Abstract:
Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizers (JAWS) are
becoming a viable technology for national metrology
institutes and industry to establish quantum standards of
direct and alternating voltage. At the National Measurement
Institute of Australia (NMIA) we have extended the
pplication of the JAWS to provide a standard of both the
magnitude and the phase of harmonics in a distorted
waveform. Harmonic analysis is critical in a number of
industrial applications such as electric power systems,
power electronics, characterization of systems and materials
and acoustics and vibration. At present, in the calibrations
of power analyzers, the traceability of the magnitude of the
harmonics is based on ac-dc transfer measurements. However,
there is a gap in the traceability of the phase of the
harmonics relative to the fundamental. The NMIA calibration
system uses a JAWS chip from the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST), USA, a precision inductive
voltage divider and a set of current shunts designed and
manufactured by NMIA.
Bio:
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (IEEE
AM’11–M’12–SM’12) was born in Athens, Greece, in 1972. He
received his B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from
the Technological Educational Institution of Piraeus,
Egaleo, Greece, in 1996; his M.Sc. degree in electronic
instrumentation systems from the University of Manchester,
Manchester, UK, in 1999; and Ph.D. in electrical engineering
and electronics from the University of Manchester Institute
of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK, in 2002. From
2002 to 2007, he worked as a research scientist at the
National Physical Laboratory, UK. In 2007, he joined the
National Measurement Institute, Australia, as a research
scientist, where he has been working on the development of
quantum voltage standards and low frequency electromagnetic
compatibility (EMC) standards.
Drone-assisted Mobile Edge Computing
Speaker: Nirwan Ansari, Distinguished Professor
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey
Institute of Technology (NJIT)
DATE: Thursday, March 19,
202. (Canceled due to COVID-19
restriction)
TIME: Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 07:30 p.m. PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING:
Parking at Lots 8 and 9 after 5 p.m. is $5 flat rate, pay at a
machine and display the ticket on your dashboard. Please respect
restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. Please
register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website
Abstract
In mobile access networks, different types of Internet of
Things (IoT) devices (e.g., sensor nodes and smartphones) will
generate vast traffic demands, thus dramatically increasing the
traffic loads of their connected access nodes, especially in the
5G era. Mobile edge computing enables data collected by IoT
devices to be stored in and
processed by local fog nodes as well as allows IoT users to
access IoT applications via these nodes at the same time. In
this case, the communications latency critically affects the
response time of IoT user requests. Owing to the dynamic
distribution of IoT users, drone base station (DBS), which can
be flexibly deployed over hotspot areas, can potentially improve
the wireless latency of IoT users by mitigating the heavy
traffic loads of macro BSs. Drone-based communications poses two
major challenges: 1) DBS should be deployed in suitable areas
with heavy traffic demands to serve more users; 2) traffic loads
in the network should be allocated among macro BSs and DBSs to
avoid instigating traffic congestions. Therefore, we propose a
TrAffic Load baLancing (TALL) scheme in such drone-assisted fog
network to minimize the wireless latency of IoT users. In the
scheme, we divide the problem into two sub-problems and design
two algorithms to optimize the DBS placement and user
association, respectively. Extensive simulations have been set
up to validate the performance of TALL.
Bio Dr. Nirwan Ansari,
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), received his
Ph.D. from Purdue University, MSEE from the University of
Michigan, and BSEE (summa cum laude with a perfect GPA) from
NJIT. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of National Academy of
Inventors. He authored Green Mobile Networks: A Networking
Perspective (Wiley-IEEE, 2017) with T. Han, and co-authored two
other books. He has also (co-)authored more than 600 technical
publications. He has guest-edited a number of special issues
covering various emerging topics in communications and
networking. He has served on the editorial/advisory board of
over ten journals including as Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE
Wireless Communications Magazine. His current research focuses
on green communications and networking, cloud computing,
drone-assisted networking, and various aspects of broadband
networks. He was elected to serve in the IEEE Communications
Society (ComSoc) Board of Governors as a member-at-large, has
chaired some ComSoc technical and steering committees, is
current Director of ComSoc Educational Services Board, has been
serving in many committees such as the IEEE Fellow Committee,
and has been actively organizing numerous IEEE International
Conferences/Symposia/Workshops. He is frequently invited to
deliver keynote addresses, distinguished lectures, tutorials,
and invited talks. Some of his recognitions include several
excellence in teaching awards, a few best paper awards, the NCE
Excellence in Research Award, several ComSoc TC technical
recognition awards, the NJ Inventors Hall of Fame Inventor of
the Year Award, the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award, Purdue
University Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineering
Award, the NCE 100 Medal, and designation as a COMSOC
Distinguished Lecturer. He has also been granted more than 40
U.S. patents.
Microgrid Stability Definitions, Analysis, and Modeling
Speaker: Dr. Mostafa Farrokhabadi, Director of
Technology at BluWave-ai, Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
DATE: Tuesday, March 17,
2020.
TIME: Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 07:30 p.m. PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING:
Parking at Lots 8 and 9 after 5 p.m. is $5 flat rate, pay at a
machine and display the ticket on your dashboard. Please respect
restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. Please
register by e-mail contacting:
ajit.pardasani@ieee.org
or branislav@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract A microgrid is defined as a
group of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and loads that act
locally as a single controllable entity and can operate in both
grid-connected and islanded modes. Microgrids are considered a
critical link in the evolution from vertically integrated bulk
power systems to smart decentralized networks, by facilitating
the integration of DERs. Entities, such as government agencies,
utilities, military bases, and universities around the world are
deploying microgrids, and an increasing number of these systems
are expected to be developed in the next decade. In general,
stability in microgrids has been treated from the perspective of
conventional bulk power systems. However, the nature of the
stability problem and dynamic performance of a microgrid are
considerably different than those of a conventional power system
due to intrinsic differences between microgrids and bulk power
systems, such as size, feeder types, high share of Renewable
Energy Sources (RES), converter-interfaced components, low
inertia, measurement devices such as Phase-Locked Loop (PLL),
unbalanced operation, etc. This seminar discusses the
findings of the award-winning IEEE PES Task Force on Microgrid
Stability Definitions, Analysis, and Modeling, which defines
concepts and identifies relevant issues related to stability in
microgrids. The seminar presents definitions and classification
of microgrid stability, considering pertinent microgrid features
such as voltage-frequency dependence, unbalancing, low inertia,
and generation intermittency. A few examples will be also
presented, highlighting some of the stability classes discussed
during the seminar.
Bio Dr. Mostafa Farrokhabadi is the Senior
Director of Technology at BluWave-ai, an internationally
award-winning startup offering AI-enabled control and
optimization solutions for smart grids. He has more than 8 years
of experience in designing mission critical grid solutions for
industry and academia, including technical leadership of a $6M
international consortium in Electric Grid Modernization, and
Smart Grid projects with Hatch and Canadian Solar. Mostafa has
authored/co-authored several high-impact technical papers and
patents on intelligent control and optimization of
renewable-penetrated grids. Mostafa obtained his PhD in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of
Waterloo. He has also studied and performed research in Sweden
at KTH and Germany at KIT. During the course of his career,
Mostafa has received multiple business, research, and teaching
awards, including the prestigious University of Waterloo
Doctoral Thesis Completion Award and Ottawa's Forty Under 40.
Mostafa has also led the award-winning IEEE Power and Energy
Society Task Force on microgrid stability, an international
coalition of 21 researchers from 14 institutions investigating
stability issues in microgrids. Currently, he serves as an
Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.

The Journey to 5G
Speaker: Dr. Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO, TELUS
DATE: Wednesday February
19, 2020.
TIME: 11:30 a.m. – 01:30 p.m. PLACE:
CENGN-,Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks,
555 Legget Dr Tower A Suite, Ottawa, ON,
Canada K2K 2X3
ADMISSION: Event is free, but space is limited.
Registration required. All participants must register in
advance. Please follow the link to register
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/20632. For more
information, please contact:
Register
here, or contact Michael Lalonde
michael.lalonde@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract Through an informal, open and
candid discussion, Ibrahim will share a look into the various
aspect of the journey to 5G. From industry trends on 5G and
deployments globally to TELUS’ view and plans, the lunch and
learn will explore the technology, security and applications
required to deploy 5G right.
Bio Ibrahim Gedeon is one of the global
telecommunications industry's eminent thought leaders. He has
carved out an international career by combining tremendous
insight and skill as an applied scientist with a lighthearted
and non-conventional approach to leadership. As Chief Technology
Officer for TELUS a leading national telecommunications company
in Canada, he is responsible for all technology development and
strategy, security, service and network architecture, service
delivery and operational support systems, as well as service and
network convergence, and network infrastructure strategies and
evolution. Under his leadership the TELUS wireless broadband
network has become one of the best in the world. Ibrahim also
serves on the board of the Next Generation Mobile Networks
Alliance, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
and the Institute for Communication Technology Management. He
has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the
American University of Beirut and a Master's in Electronics
Engineering from Carleton University. In 2010, Ibrahim received
a Honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of British
Columbia. In 2014, he was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian
Academy of Engineering (CAE) in recognition of his significant
contributions to the field of engineering. He has been named
five times to the Global Telecoms Business magazine's GTB Power
100, a list of the 100 most powerful and influential people in
the telecoms industry. Ibrahim served in many IEEE executive
and leadership posts on the Society, Region, Section, and
Chapter level. He is currently the Senate Chair of IEEE Ottawa
Section, the Industry Advisor of the IEEE Communications Society
for the North America Region, and the Industry Advisor for the
IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. Ibrahim is very well known a
keynote speaker, he organized and hosted several national and
international conferences. He was the General Chair of the 2012
IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC2012 (IEEE
Communications Society's flagship conference), and he is
currently the General Chair of the 2021 IEEE International
Conference on Communications - ICC2021 that will be held in
Montreal on June 14-18, 2021. He received many awards, just to
name few, the Consumer Electronics Society's Distinctive
Exemplary Industry Leader Award in 2019, and the IEEE Canada's
Outstanding Canadian Engineer Award in 2001.
The Future of 5G, Edge Computing
and Digital Transformation
Speaker: Akshay Sharma,
Tech analyst,
ex-Gartner
DATE: November, 2019
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Michael Lalonde
michael.lalonde@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Bio
Akshay Sharma is a
Tech analyst, ex-Gartner, having authored 280+ research notes,
on emerging technologies like DevOPs, Software Defined Data
Centers, 5G, and IoT. T. A frequent speaker at tech events, he
is often quoted in leading institutions like CNN, Wall St.
Journal, and CIO.com. He is a former CTO of one of the first
video/WiFi smartphone firms and an entrepreneur in the tech
sector, having worked for firms that are now part of leading
firms like Intel, IBM, Nokia, and Ericsson. He advises many
emerging startups, such as Kovair in the DevOps/ALM arena,
having worked for 3 startups that are part of IBM Rational/DOORS
in ObjecTime, Verilog, and Telelogic on integrated development,
test and operational environments. He will be joining us to
speak on his extensive experience in the field of 5G and digital
transformations related to upcoming technology leaps..
Enabling IoT Services Through Secure 5G Core Slices
Speaker: Prof. Ashraf Matrawy, PhD, PEng,
SMIEEE, School of Information Technology, Faculty of
Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
DATE: Thursday October 31,
2019.
TIME: Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 07:30 p.m. PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING:
after 5:00 p.m. at Lots 8 & 9. Pay $5 flat rate at the machine
and display the ticket on your car dashboard.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract The key motivation for this
work is that future smart services (e.g. IoT applications) will
have competing and perhaps conflicting networking performance
requirements. These services will also require flexible and
agile deployment. 5G networks, an essential component of future
virtualized infrastructures, deal with this issue - in part - by
relying on network slicing. To define a network slice, one has
to consider the allocation of resources - both in the radio and
core parts - of the 5G network to form a logical entity where a
service could be deployed. Network slicing has emerged as a
key-enabler for proving heterogeneous services. It takes
advantage of the virtualization elements of future networking
infrastructures where multiple services can be hosted on the
same physical infrastructure.This talk will give a quick
overview of network slicing with emphasis on 5G core networks.
It will also discuss the requirement for network slice isolation
and different methods that were proposed to implement it.
Finally, an overview of our research group ongoing work on
mitigating Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks using
slice isolation. Our approach is to tackle slice isolation as a
resource allocation problem to deal with the trade-off between
offering security while achieving a certain level of
performance. In other words, we utilize a mathematical
optimization model to solve a security problem. In our proposed
solution, we use slice isolation as security constraints for the
optimization model to proactively mitigate DDoS attacks. Our
experimental test results show how DDoS could be mitigated and
the impact on slice availability. We believe this work will
encourage further research in securing 5G network slicing.
Bio Dr. Ashraf Matarawy
(http://www.csit.carleton.ca/~amatrawy/) is a Full Professor at
the School of Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering,
Carleton University. He is also a senior member of the IEEE and
a licensed P. Eng. in Ontario. Dr. Matrawy leads the Next
Generation Networks group at Carleton and is a Network
co-Investigator of Smart Cybersecurity Network (SERENE-RISC).
His research interests include reliable and secure computer
networking, secure virtualized infrastructures, and security
routing in IoT. In addition to his academic work, he did
consulting work for different industrial and government
organizations
(https://ca.linkedin.com/in/ashraf-matrawy-5917b56). He spent
his sabbatical leaves working for industry, at Cloackware
Research Center in 2010-2011 and at TELUS in 2017-2018. He
serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Communications Surveys
and Tutorials journal and Wiley’s Security and Privacy Journal.
He has served as a technical program committee member of IEEE
CNS, IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE LCN, and IEEE/ACM CCGRID and
other conferences. Dr. Matrawy has more than 10 year experience
in undergraduate and graduate curriculum development for the
Network Technology programs at Carleton University. He served as
associate director for the School for three and half years and
as coordinator for the Networking program for six years.

AI-Driven 5G Networks & Beyond
Speaker: Hatem Abou-zeid, Ericsson
DATE: Wednesday October
30, 2019.
TIME: 11:30 a.m. – 01:30 p.m. PLACE:
359 Terry Fox Drive, Suite 200, Kanata, Ontario, Canada
ADMISSION: Event is free, but space is limited.
Registration required. All participants must register in
advance. Please follow the link to register
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/20632. For more
information, please contact: Kexing Liu
kexing.liu@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract 5G Networks are anticipated to
transform modern societies by providing an ultra-reliable,
high-speed communications infrastructure that will connect
billions of devices including vehicles, machines, and sensors.
Both the complexity of such networks and the diversity of
application requirements will be unprecedented. This mandates
novel, autonomous network configuration and operation that can
anticipate and react to changes in traffic, topology, and
interference conditions to ensure seamless quality of experience
and reliability. In this talk I will discuss AI-driven
networking use-cases elaborating on the practical challenges of
industrial deployments. I will then highlight directions where
research is needed to further expedite and facilitate the
development of AI-powered networks.
Bio Hatem Abou-zeid is a Senior 5G Systems
Designer at Ericsson Canada where he drives research and system
development for 5G radio access networks. Prior to that he held
industrial positions at CISCO Systems and Bell Labs in addition
to postdoctoral and research assistant affiliations at Queen’s
University, Canada. His research focuses on the application of
machine learning in 5G networks with particular emphasis on
anticipatory and adaptive algorithms drawing on methods from
reinforcement learning, spatio-temporal forecasting, deep
learning and stochastic optimization. Dr. Abou-zeid is very
passionate about developing strong industry-university
collaborations that foster applied, innovative research, and he
leads multiple academic partnerships on intelligence and
analytics in future networks.

The Future of Leadership & Work in
the Era of Exponential Technologies
Speaker: Sophia Leong, Executive-in-Residence
(University of Ottawa), Global Advisor Executive Development
Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA)
DATE: Wednesday September
11, 2019
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Michael Lalonde
michael.lalonde@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract What does leadership & work
look like in an age where emerging technologies are constantly
disrupting the status quo? We will hear speculation on what we
know, and what is possible from someone who has been in the
emerging technology landscape for many years.
Bio
Ms. Sophia Leong is
the Director of the Telfer Executive MBA Program, responsible
for the Ottawa’s only face-to-face Executive MBA program, one
that is Global, Practical and Relevant in its curriculum design.
She also teaches within the Program. Ms. Leong is a strategic
and operational planning specialist on the areas of innovation,
commercialization and capital investment. She assists companies
in crafting and implementing their strategic direction by
connecting focused goals and actions towards business successes.
Most recently she served at the executive level with Industry
Canada and prior to that, Sophia was Vice-President Business
Development at KlocWork Inc., a company she had co-founded. She
has extensive experience working at Nortel Networks where she
was instrumental in co-founding, managing and commercializing
seed and start-up companies. Sophia leads a capital financing
course, a course she had led for the past decade with strong
funding success rate. She is a recipient of numerous awards for
outstanding contributions and holds a patent on Mergers and
Acquisition business and software processes during her time at
Nortel Networks and Nortel Technology. She is currently
Chair/Board Member of several start-ups and sits on the
Government, Industry & Academic Board of Startup Canada, an
entrepreneur-led, national movement to enhance the
competitiveness and prosperity of Canada by supporting and
celebrating Canadian entrepreneurship. Sophia is focused on the
development of business and civic leadership to help grow
innovative and profitable Canadian companies.
Status of the Internet in Canada
and the Importance of Canadian IXP's
Speaker: Jacques Latour, CTO at Canadian
Internet Registration Authority (CIRA/.CA)
DATE: Thursday June 20,
2019
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Michael Lalonde at
michael.lalonde@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract As an expert in developing
innovative, leading-edge IT solutions, Jacques has established
CIRA as a global leader among ccTLD registries. He has 25+ years
of experience in the private and not-for-profit sectors and as
CIRA’s CTO, is currently leading CIRA Labs, CIRA’s innovation
hub and providing leadership and direction for the management
and security of the .CA registry and its underlying DNS. A
visionary in the Internet community, Jacques led the development
of CIRA’s Internet Performance Test, is an outspoken advocate
for the adoption of IPv6 and represents the .CA registry
internationally as a member of a variety of working groups and
advisory groups, including being a member of ICANN’s Security
and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), TLDOPS standing
committees and TechDay and DNSSEC Planning Program Committee.
Bio
Jacques is committed
to the development of a new Canadian Internet architecture. He
has served as the catalyst for the creation of a national
Canadian IXP association, CA-IX, and is a member of the Manitoba
Internet Exchange’s (MBIX) and the DNS-OARC Board of Directors.
Jacques holds an Electronics Engineering Technologist diploma
from Algonquin College in Ottawa, is ITIL v3 Foundation
certified and is a certified Agile ScrumMaster.
Perspectives on AI, the future
impact on Engineering, Science and Technology
Speaker: Robin Grosset, Patent Agent, CTO
Mindbridge AI
DATE: Thursday May 2, 2019
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact
Michael Lalonde at
michael.lalonde@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) is
set to disrupt many professions and the future of any role will
certainly involve AI. This is true for doctors, lawyers,
accounts and even engineers. In this session, we will look at
the factors which are bringing about this disruption. We will
also explore the importance of explicability and a human-centric
approach in AI technology to support improving professional
judgement.
Abstract
Artificial Robin
currently works at MindBridge where he leads the development of
a next generation AI Auditor which helps professionals detect
and prevent financial anomalies including fraud. Robin has a
track record as an entrepreneur having founded successful
software start- ups. He joined Cognos and subsequently IBM
through acquisitions. In 2012 he was appointed IBM Distinguished
Engineer. At IBM, he was a part of the Watson Group where he
served as technical lead and chief architect of IBM Watson
Analytics. Robin holds many patents in the areas of analytics,
data processing and security. MindBridge Ai is a venture-backed
FinTech company based in Ottawa, Canada. Through the application
of machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies,
the MindBridge platform detects anomalous patterns of
activities, unintentional errors and intentional misstatements.
Using MindBridge Ai Auditor, organizations across multiple
industries can minimize financial loss, reduce corporate
liability and can focus on providing higher value services to
their clients.
Security in SDN/NFV and 5G Networks-Opportunities and Challenges
Speaker: Dr. Ashutosh Dutta, Director, Industry
Outreach-IEEE Communications Society, IEEE 5G Initiative
Founding Co-Chair and Senior Scientist JHU/APL (Johns Hopkins
University/Applied Physics Lab).
DATE: Wednesday April 3,
2019.
TIME: Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 07:30 p.m. PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING:
after 5:00 p.m. at Lots 8 & 9. Pay $5 flat rate at the machine
and display the ticket on your car dashboard.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract Software Defined Networking
(SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are the key
pillars of future networks, including 5G and Beyond that promise
to support emerging applications such as enhanced mobile
broadband, ultra-low latency, massive sensing type applications
while providing the resiliency in the network. Service providers
and other verticals (e.g., Connected Cars, IOT, eHealth) can
leverage SDN/NFV to provide flexible and cost-effective service
without compromising the end user quality of service (QoS).
While NFV and SDN open up the door for flexible networks and
rapid service creation, these offer both security opportunities
while also introducing additional challenges and complexities,
in some cases. With the rapid proliferation of 4G and 5G
networks, operators have now started the trial deployment of
network function virtualization, especially with the
introduction of various virtualized network elements in the
access and core networks. These include elements such as
virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC), virtualized IP
Multimedia Services (vIMS), Virtualized Residential Gateway, and
Virtualized Next Generation Firewalls. However, very little
attention has been given to the security aspects of
virtualization. While several standardization bodies (e.g.,
ETSI, 3GPP, NGMN, ATIS, TIA) have started looking into the many
security issues introduced by SDN/NFV, additional work is needed
with larger security community involvement including vendors,
operators, universities, and regulators. This tutorial will
address evolution of cellular technologies towards 5G but will
largely focus on various security challenges and opportunities
introduced by SDN/NFV and 5G networks such as Hypervisor,
Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), SDN Controller, Orchestrator,
Network slicing, Cloud RAN, and security function
virtualization. This tutorial will also highlight some of the
ongoing activities within various standards communities and will
illustrate a few deployment use case scenarios for security
including threat taxonomy for both operator and enterprise
networks. In addition, I will also describe some of the ongoing
activities within IEEE Future Network initiative including
roadmap efforts and various ways one can get involved and
contribute to this initiative.
Bio Dr. Ashutosh Dutta is currently Senior
Wireless Communication Systems Research Scientist and JHU/APL
Sabbatical Fellow at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Labs (JHU/APL), USA. Most recently he served as Principal Member
of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs in Middletown, New Jersey. His
career, spanning more than 30 years, includes Director of
Technology Security and Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T,
CTO of Wireless at a Cybersecurity company NIKSUN, Inc., Senior
Scientist in Telcordia Research, Director of Central Research
Facility at Columbia University, adjunct faculty at NJIT, and
Computer Engineer with TATA Motors. He has more than 90
conference and journal publications, three book chapters, and 30
issued patents. Ashutosh is co-author of the book, titled,
“Mobility Protocols and Handover Optimization: Design,
Evaluation and Application” published by IEEE and John & Wiley
that has recently been translated into Chinese Language.
Ashutosh served as the chair for IEEE Princeton / Central Jersey
Section, Industry Relation Chair for Region 1 and MGA,
Pre-University Coordinator for IEEE MGA and vice chair of
Education Society Chapter of PCJS. He co-founded the IEEE STEM
conference (ISEC) and helped to implement EPICS (Engineering
Projects in Community Service) projects in several high schools.
Ashutosh currently serves as the Director of Industry Outreach
for IEEE Communications Society and is the founding co-chair for
IEEE 5G initiative. He also serves as IEEE Communications
Society's Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-2018. Ashutosh serves
as the general co-chair for the premier IEEE 5G World Forum. He
was recipient of the prestigious 2009 IEEE MGA Leadership award
and 2010 IEEE-USA professional leadership award. Ashutosh
obtained his BS in Electrical Engineering from NIT Rourkela,
India, MS in Computer Science from NJIT, and Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from Columbia University under the supervision of
Prof. Henning Schulzrinne. Ashutosh is a senior member of IEEE
and ACM.

Opportunities and Design Considerations for GaN HEMTs in
Industrial and Automotive Applications
Speaker: Juncheng (Lucas) Lu, Applications
Engineering Manager, GaN Systems Inc.
DATE: Thursday, March 14,
2019.
TIME: Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 08:00 p.m. PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING:
after 5:00 p.m. at Lots 8 & 9. Pay $5 flat rate at the machine
and display the ticket on your car dashboard.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi or
ottawapels@gmail.com.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract GaN HEMT has been a focus in
both academia and industry, due to the extremely low figure of
merits (RDS(on) x QG) compared with conventional Silicon
counterparts. The opportunities, challenges and design
considerations for GaN HEMTs in industrial and automotive
applications will be presented in the device/packaging and
system perspectives. Design examples are detailed to show how
the system performance maximization is enabled by GaN HEMTs with
minimum cost in the selected applications. The key design
procedures will be thoroughly discussed, i.e., topology
selection, loss analysis, cost reduction, power stage layout,
thermal design, etc. This presentation is aimed at covering
the fundamentals as well as the latest research and updates of
GaN HEMTs applications. The target audience is the design
engineers, researchers, and graduate/undergraduate students
interested in industrial/automotive applications or just GaN
technology.
Bio Juncheng (Lucas) Lu received B.S. degree
from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and M.S. degree from
Kettering University, Michigan, USA. He was a research
engineer with Delta Power Electronics Center, Shanghai, China.
Since 2016, he has been with GaN Systems, Inc., Ottawa, Canada.
He manages the head office applications and is responsible for
Americas and EMEA application support. His research interest
is wide bandgap devices application, power electronics
packaging, high-efficiency high power density power supply, and
electric vehicle battery charger. He published more than 20
IEEE/SAE transaction and conference papers and holds 9 U.S.
Patents.

Improve Measurement Accuracy on Switching Characteristics of SiC
and GaN devices
Speaker: Evan Shuster is presently the Director
of Sales at Testforce Systems Inc.
DATE: Thursday, October
11, 2018.
TIME: Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 07:30 p.m. PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING: after 5:00 p.m. at Lots 8 & 9. Pay $5
flat rate at the machine and display the ticket on your car
dashboard.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract This presentation highlights
the industry best practices for measurements on modern power
electronics devices such as SiC and GAN devices. These modern
devices introduce new complexities into power conversion
circuits requiring the need for precise circuit timing and
higher sensitivity for gate threshold voltage and timing.
Common measurement pitfalls can be avoided by using differential
and floating measurements and understanding the link between
CMRR and signal frequency. Today’s power designs can have common
mode voltages in excess of hundreds or even thousands of volts,
while still needing to measure small differential voltages, this
common mode error can be even more severe. Wide bandgap devices
allow switching of higher frequencies, higher voltages and
faster rise times, which requires higher bandwidth scopes and
probes with high CMRR. In this presentation, some solutions for
improving the measurement accuracy on SiC and GaN devices during
switching will be presented.
Bio Evan Shuster is presently the Director of
Sales at Testforce Systems Inc. Testforce is North America’s
largest Representative of premium test equipment. Evan has
thirty years of Test and Measurement experience. Originally from
Montreal, with a career start at Bell Canada, Evan has held
directorial positions at several small to mid-sized companies in
Canada and the United States. Evan has built up hugely
successful Technical Account Manager teams with market focus
covering Semiconductors, Power and Wireless Technologies to name
a few. Evan has previously created and delivered Technical
Training courses and has been a guest lecturer at several
Universities and Colleges across Canada.

An IP Strategy for Canada and Your
Company
Speaker: Jeff Leuschner, Patent Agent, Smart &
Biggar
DATE: Tuesday October 2, 2018
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Eric Karmouch
ekarmouch@marchnetworks.com.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract Does Canada have an innovation
problem? What is the right approach for the intellectual
property (IP) of a Canadian company in the software/computer
space? Where does IP fit in an anti-IP hacker culture? The
objective could be freedom to innovate, i.e. build something
great without being shut out by other market players. The
objective could be to secure commercial exclusivity. In any
case, the IP generated by your company needs to be handled in a
way that furthers the business objectives. Join Jeff Leuschner,
of Smart & Biggar, to learn about the above, and to learn about
how different innovations in the software/computer space can be
matched to different IP rights to best further your company's
business objectives.
Bio
Jeff Leuschner has
practiced in the area of Intellectual Property (IP) for over a
decade, with an emphasis on patents. When working with tech
companies, Jeff advises on where to focus patenting activity to
best support the company's business objectives, especially in
view of other options such as trade secret protection and
defensive publication. His approach is quality over quantity.
Not just a well drafted patent, but one that will actually have
commercial relevance. Prior to entering the IP profession, Jeff
pursued graduate studies in the field of electrical and computer
engineering. Smart & Biggar helps the world's leading tech
companies protect and leverage their IP, and advises them on how
to use IP Strategy to secure growth around the world.
Headquartered in Ottawa with a national presence, Smart & Biggar
has a consistent track record and reputation as the leaders for
IP and tech law in Canada.
Medical Device Test Strategies
Speaker: J. Max Cortner, IEEE Instrumentation
and Measurement Society President
DATE: Friday, September 21,
2018.
TIME:
Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PLACE:
Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6.
PARKING:
at the Visitors’ Parking.
Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract Electronic medical devices
challenge traditional test strategies in a number of ways.
Heightened demand for quality and reliability for these life
impacting electronic packages conflicts with constraints to
testing including limited physical access and test times.
Regulatory agencies define the boundaries of testing, but seldom
provide real solutions. Current research is driving great
technology which represents the frontier for successful
strategies for both design validation testing and production
quality control testing. Physiologic sensors make devices more
effective, but are difficult to characterize and control.
Lessons from battery and accelerometer testing suggest
strategies for these advanced devices.
Bio J. Max Cortner earned a BSEE from Iowa
State University and an MSEE from the University of Minnesota.
After 18 years as a Test Engineer in defense division of Sperry
Corporation, Max moved to the Cardiac Rhythm Management division
of Guidant, now the CRM Division of Boston Scientific. Boston
Scientific CRM manufactures medical electronics including
pacemakers and defibrillators. Max retired in 2016 as a Senior
Fellow Engineer in Test Engineering, a group responsible for
automated electronic testing of components, subassemblies and
final product in manufacturing. He now consults in the areas of
medical device and process validation testing. As an active
member of the IEEE Twin Cities Section since 1972, Max has held
offices in the Computer Society including local chapter chair
and area chair. He worked with a group of activists who
organized and successfully ran a 5 year series of multi-week
technical symposia covering hot topics such as computer graphics
and artificial intelligence. Max was among the founders of the
Twin Cities Chapter of the Instrument and Measurement Society.
He helped organize numerous local test conferences and served as
General Chair for the IMTC 1998. In 1999, he served on the
committee of the IEEE Sections Congress which was held in the
Twin Cities. Max was Co-Chair of I2MTC held in Minneapolis in
2013. Having served as I2MTC Board Chair and VP of Education for
the Instrumentation and Measurement Society Administration
Committee, he now serves as President of the Society.

Medical Device Instrumentation Needs and Test Strategies
Speaker: J. Max Cortner, IEEE Instrumentation
and Measurement Society President
DATE: Friday, September 21,
2018.
TIME:
Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PLACE:
NRC Montreal Road Campus, 1200 Montreal Rd, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6.
PARKING:
at the Visitors’ Parking.
Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract Electronic medical devices
challenge traditional test strategies in a number of ways.
Heightened demand for quality and reliability for these life
impacting electronic packages conflicts with constraints to
testing including limited physical access and test times.
Regulatory agencies define the boundaries of testing, but seldom
provide real solutions. Current research is driving great
technology which represents the frontier for successful
strategies for both design validation testing and production
quality control testing. Physiologic sensors make devices more
effective, but are difficult to characterize and control.
Lessons from battery and accelerometer testing suggest
strategies for these advanced devices.
Bio J. Max Cortner earned a BSEE from Iowa
State University and an MSEE from the University of Minnesota.
After 18 years as a Test Engineer in defense division of Sperry
Corporation, Max moved to the Cardiac Rhythm Management division
of Guidant, now the CRM Division of Boston Scientific. Boston
Scientific CRM manufactures medical electronics including
pacemakers and defibrillators. Max retired in 2016 as a Senior
Fellow Engineer in Test Engineering, a group responsible for
automated electronic testing of components, subassemblies and
final product in manufacturing. He now consults in the areas of
medical device and process validation testing. As an active
member of the IEEE Twin Cities Section since 1972, Max has held
offices in the Computer Society including local chapter chair
and area chair. He worked with a group of activists who
organized and successfully ran a 5 year series of multi-week
technical symposia covering hot topics such as computer graphics
and artificial intelligence. Max was among the founders of the
Twin Cities Chapter of the Instrument and Measurement Society.
He helped organize numerous local test conferences and served as
General Chair for the IMTC 1998. In 1999, he served on the
committee of the IEEE Sections Congress which was held in the
Twin Cities. Max was Co-Chair of I2MTC held in Minneapolis in
2013. Having served as I2MTC Board Chair and VP of Education for
the Instrumentation and Measurement Society Administration
Committee, he now serves as President of the Society.

Medical Device Test Strategies
Speaker: J. Max Cortner, IEEE Instrumentation
and Measurement Society President
DATE: Thursday, September
20,
2018.
TIME:
Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 07:30 p.m. PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING:
Parking in Lots 8 and 9 after 5 p.m. is $5 flat rate, pay at a
machine and display the ticket on your dashboard.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract The Electronic medical devices
challenge traditional test strategies in a number of ways.
Heightened demand for quality and reliability for these life
impacting electronic packages conflicts with constraints to
testing including limited physical access and test times.
Regulatory agencies define the boundaries of testing, but seldom
provide real solutions. Current research is driving great
technology which represents the frontier for successful
strategies for both design validation testing and production
quality control testing. Physiologic sensors make devices more
effective, but are difficult to characterize and control.
Lessons from battery and accelerometer testing suggest
strategies for these advanced devices.
Bio J. Max Cortner earned a BSEE from Iowa
State University and an MSEE from the University of Minnesota.
After 18 years as a Test Engineer in defense division of Sperry
Corporation, Max moved to the Cardiac Rhythm Management division
of Guidant, now the CRM Division of Boston Scientific. Boston
Scientific CRM manufactures medical electronics including
pacemakers and defibrillators. Max retired in 2016 as a Senior
Fellow Engineer in Test Engineering, a group responsible for
automated electronic testing of components, subassemblies and
final product in manufacturing. He now consults in the areas of
medical device and process validation testing. As an active
member of the IEEE Twin Cities Section since 1972, Max has held
offices in the Computer Society including local chapter chair
and area chair. He worked with a group of activists who
organized and successfully ran a 5 year series of multi-week
technical symposia covering hot topics such as computer graphics
and artificial intelligence. Max was among the founders of the
Twin Cities Chapter of the Instrument and Measurement Society.
He helped organize numerous local test conferences and served as
General Chair for the IMTC 1998. In 1999, he served on the
committee of the IEEE Sections Congress which was held in the
Twin Cities. Max was Co-Chair of I2MTC held in Minneapolis in
2013. Having served as I2MTC Board Chair and VP of Education for
the Instrumentation and Measurement Society Administration
Committee, he now serves as President of the Society.

Women in Engineering and Diversity
Speaker: Sandro Perruzza, CEO, Ontario Society
of Professional Engineers (OSPE)
DATE: Monday September
3, 2018
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Eric Karmouch
ekarmouch@marchnetworks.com.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract The Ontario Society of
Professional Engineers champions the advancement of women in
engineering, STEM and diversity. Mr. Sandro Perruzza, CEO of the
Society, will discuss OSPEs advocacy with respect to these
subjects. Special attention will be placed on a number of
programs OSPE undertakes, including the Women in Engineering
Mentorship Program, the Breaking Barriers for Women in STEM
initiative, as well as the national 30-by-30 Campaign, designed
to see an increase of female professional engineers to 30% by
2030. Mr. Perruzza will also provide some highlights on the
engineering community in Ottawa and province-wide.
Bio
Sandro Perruzza is
the Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Society of
Professional Engineers (OSPE), the advocacy and member services
organization for the engineering profession in Ontario. Sandro
also serves on the Board of Directors of Minerva Canada, and on
the Board of the Construction and Design Alliance of Ontario.
While at OSPE, he serves as one of Ontario’s co-champions of
Engineers Canada’s 30 by 30 goal and has spoken on behalf of
Ontario’s engineers at the federal, provincial and municipal
level on areas of importance, including innovation,
infrastructure, environment, finance and economic growth. Prior
to joining OSPE, Sandro was the Chief of Client Services at
Workplace Safety & Prevention Services, the largest Health and
Safety Association in Canada, during which time he was also
member of the Ontario Ministry of Labour’s Prevention
Operations Forum. He has been recognized for bringing a diverse
group of stakeholders together to develop simple solutions to
solve complex problems.
Convergence between Broadcast and Mobile Broadband
CTSoc DL Speaker: Dr. Ulrich Reimers, IEEE
CTSoc Renowned Distinguished Speaker, and Professor Institut
fuer Nachrichtentechnik (IfN), Technische Universitaet
Braunschweig, Germany
DATE: Monday August 13,
2018.
TIME:
Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 07:30 p.m. PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING:
No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9.
Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract The mobile industry has been
testing the feasibility of evolved Multimedia Broadcast
Multicast Service (eMBMS), an LTE embedded broadcast approach to
support a growing mobile video/TV consumption and the delivery
of other highly popular data services. But, eMBMS has so far
only been used in small scale scenarios with local coverage.
When it comes to large scale service areas with regional or even
national coverage, the cellular nature of eMBMS has not proven
to be attractive for cost efficient LTE broadcast content
distribution. Adapting LTE broadcast to traditional High Tower
High Power (HTHP) broadcasting towers and introducing this as a
third service layer, i.e. as an extension of LTE unicast and
eMBMS can resolve this issue as it reduces network load, energy
consumption and network costs for such popular services.
Additionally, it creates the possibility of cooperation between
the cellular and broadcasting networks enabling a cooperative
spectrum usage. The term “Tower Overlay over LTE-Advanced+
(TOoL+)” describes the transmission of an extension of
LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) offering broadcast services, especially
live video, from a traditional High Tower High Power (HTHP)
broadcast infrastructure, rather than in a cellular LTE-A
network. TOoL+ was invented and developed by IfN. Since LTE-A is
optimized for the Low Tower Low Power (LTLP) environment of
cellular networks, the use of a HTHP environment requires some
modifications of the LTE-A standard, e.g. the definition of a
dedicated broadcast carrier and of additional OFDM parameters
with longer cyclic prefixes. These modifications are represented
by the term LTE-A+. In one of the modes, TOoL+ even supports a
cooperative spectrum use by DVB-T2 (or ATSC 3.0 in the future)
and LTE-A+ if this is attractive to market players. IfN
developed a Software Defined Radio (SDR) based TOoL+
implementation to demonstrate the technological feasibility of
this approach. An extended version of this demo has been used
during two field trials conducted in Paris, France and in the
Aosta Valley, Italy to evaluate the proposed modifications and
the cooperative spectrum use in a real environment. The analysis
shows that LTE-A+ is a suitable technology for HTHP broadcast to
mobile devices as its coverage area is similar to that of
DVB-T2. In line with the ideas underlying TOoL+, 3GPP has
recently specified FeMBMS (Further evolved Multimedia Broadcast
Multicast Service) in Release 14. FeMBMS supports a long cyclic
prefix and thus makes larger network cells feasible. At IfN we
have already implemented FeMBMS and by the time of the lectures
in Canada will have carried out a field trial in at least one
European country.
Bio Prof. Ulrich H. Reimers studied
communication engineering at Technische Universitaet
Braunschweig, Germany. Following research at the university’s
Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (IfN - Institute for
Communications Technology) he joined BTS Broadcast Television
Systems in Darmstadt. Between 1989 and 1993 he was Technical
Director of Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in Hamburg - one of the
major public broadcasters in Germany. Since 1993 he has been a
Professor at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig and Managing
Director of the Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (Institute for
Communications Technology). Prof. Reimers was chairman of the
Technical Module within the DVB Project from 1993 to 2012. Since
2012 he is Vice President Strategic Development and Technology
Transfer of Technische Universitaet Braunschweig. He is the
author of more than 120 publications, among others of various
text books on DVB. Prof. Reimers received a significant number
of international and national awards. He is an IEEE Life Fellow
and the recipient of the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics
Award. Recently Prof. Reimers and the research teams at IfN
invented innovative solutions for the co-existence of broadcast
and wireless broadband such as “Dynamic Broadcast”, “Tower
Overlay over LTE-A+ (TOoL+)”, or “Redundancy on Demand”.
Prof. Reimers is a Renowned Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE
Consumer Electronics Society (CTSoc).

Canadian Telecoms and the
Appearance of Choice: Are monopolies and government interference
stifling innovation and growth in Canada?
Speaker: Michael Lalonde, Senior Solutions
Manager,, PureColo Inc., Ottawa
DATE: Monday June 4, 2018
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
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Abstract Canadians currently pay more
for telecom services than any other country in the world. What
are some of the driving forces behind this? Is it for better or
worst? What are the positive and negative consequences of such
an environment for innovation and growth on the world stage?
Michael Lalonde will give an overview of the Canadian landscape
as it compares to other countries around the world and provide
insight into how this impacts businesses on both a macro and
micro level.
Bio
Michael Lalonde is a
part owner and sales director of PureColo, Ottawa's only
commercially available carrier neutral data center located in
the heart of Kanata's technology hub, as well as a consultant
for Ruckify and The Better Software Company. While completing
two degrees from both Carleton University and Algonquin College,
Michael started his career in consumer packaged goods working at
Coca-Cola. He then started his own beverage line via
Kickstarter.com which created a thirst for entrepreneurship
ultimately leading him into the world of telecommunications and
technology. Currently, Michael is helping with the creation of a
new Ottawa Gatineau Internet Exchange in conjunction with
growing the adoption of his carrier neutral data center. He
believes strongly in freedom of choice and net neutrality, and
advocates for both passionately in everything he does.
A Microinverter Based, Self-Forming Nanogrid for ON and OFF Grid
Applications
Speaker: Edward Keyes M.Eng, Solantro
Semiconductor Corporation
DATE: Thursday, May 24,
2018.
TIME:
Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 07:30 p.m.
PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING:
No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9.
Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
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Abstract This talk will disclose a
novel, microinverter based, all AC nanogrid architecture using
photovoltaic panels and lithium ion battery storage. Much of the
nanogrid’s hardware is based on Solantro’s Digital Power
Processor chipset. The nanogrid is capable of on-grid and
off-grid (islanded) operation with “hot” switching between
modes. While in grid tied mode the nanogrid can provide a
variety of grid support services to increase the percentage of
renewables on the utility grid. These include power smoothing,
peak limiting, time shifting of PV generation, and California
Rule 21 behaviors. The architecture is granular and highly
scaleable. It can be scaled from a single microinverter and
battery into the hundreds of devices. In islanded operation the
nanogrid is self forming with battery operation controlled by a
novel resistive droop control method, click
here.
Bio Mr. Keyes is the Nanogrid Projects Manager
at Solantro Semiconductor where he leads the company’s
development of nanogrid technology. He holds a B. Sc. in Applied
Physics from the University of Waterloo and a Masters in
Electronic Engineering from Carleton University. Mr. Keyes was
formerly Chief Technology Officer of Semiconductor Insights (now
Techinsights Inc.) where he led the company’s R&D activities.
Previous to Techinsights Mr. Keyes held positions at Optotek
Ltd, Xerox Research Corp. and Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Mr.
Keyes holds over 14 US patents in a range of areas including
power electronics, nanogrids and integrated circuit analysis.

Talk 1: Machine Learning in Digital Medicine
Talk 2: Cellular and Device-to-Device Networks Coexistence
Speaker: Professor Giorgio Quer, Sr. Research
Scientist and Director of Artificial Intelligence, Scripps
Research Institute in San Diego, California , USA
DATE: Wednesday May 9,
2018.
TIME:
Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 07:30 p.m.
PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING:
No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9.
Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi.
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Abstract Talk organization: In the
following, two possible topics for a DL talk. It would be
possible to do two shorter talks (30 minutes) in the same
institution.
Talk 1: Machine Learning
in Digital Medicine (30 minutes):
Digitalize human
beings using biosensors to track our complex physiologic system,
process the large amount of data generated with artificial
intelligence (AI) and change clinical practice towards
individualized medicine: these are the goals of digital
medicine. At Scripps, we promote a strong collaboration between
computer scientist, engineers, and clinical researchers, as well
as a direct partnership with health industry leaders. We propose
new solutions to analyze large longitudinal data using
statistical learning and deep convolutional neural networks to
address different cardiovascular health issues. Among them, one
of the greatest contributors to premature morbidity and
mortality worldwide is hypertension. It is known that lowering
blood pressure (BP) by just a few mmHg can bring substantial
clinical benefits, but the assessment of the “true” BP for an
individual is non-trivial, as the individual BP can fluctuate
significantly. We analyze a large dataset of more than 16
million BP measurements taken at home with commercial BP
monitoring devices, in order to unveil the BP patterns and
provide insights on the clinical relevance of these changes.
Another prevalent health issue we investigated is atrial
fibrillation (AFib), one of the most common sustained cardiac
arrhythmia, which is associated with stroke, hospitalization,
heart failure and coronary artery disease. AFib detection from
single-lead electrocardiography (ECG) recordings is still an
open problem, as AFib events may be episodic and the signal
noisy. We conduct a thoughtful analysis of recent deep network
architectures developed in the computer vision field, redesigned
to be suitable for a one-dimensional signal, and we evaluate
their performance for the AFib detection problem using 200
thousand seconds of ECG recording, highlighting the potential of
this technology.
Looking to the future, we are
investigating new applications of existing wearable devices,
requiring advanced processing and clinical validation, and we
are participating to the All of Us research program, an
unprecedented research effort to gather data from one million
people in the USA to accelerate the advent of precision
medicine.
Talk 2: Cellular and
Device-to-Device Networks Coexistence (30 minutes):
The
coexistence of device-to-device (D2D) and cellular
communications in the same band is a promising solution to the
dramatic increase of wireless networks traffic load. Mobile
nodes may communicate in a semi-autonomous way (D2D mode), with
minimal or no control by the base station (BS), but they will
create a harmful interference to the cellular communications.
To control this interference, we propose a distributed
approach that allows the mobile nodes to acquire local
information in real time, infer the impact on other surrounding
communications towards the BS, and optimize mode and power
selection performed with a network wide perspective. In a
single-cell scenario, we develop a rigorous theoretical analysis
to quantify the balance between the gain offered by a D2D
transmission and its impact on the cellular network
communications, while in a multi-cell scenario, we exploit a
probabilistic approach with Bayesian networks. As a
practical application, we envision a network with one macro BS,
multiple small cell BSs, and several mobile D2D users, where
proactive caching can be used to take full advantage of this
heterogeneity. In this scenario, we propose a robust
optimization framework to derive a proactive caching policy that
exploits all these communication opportunities and reduces
congestion on the backhaul link.
The adoption of D2D
technologies may save precious resources like spectrum and
energy for future 5G networks by exploiting physical proximity
between terminals, helping to counteract the increasing traffic
demand in cellular networks, click
here.
Bio Giorgio Quer is a Sr. Research Scientist at
the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, and he
is the Director of Artificial Intelligence at the Scripps
Translational Science Institute. He received the B.Sc.
degree, the M.Sc. degree (with honors) in Telecommunications
Engineering and the Ph.D. degree (2011) in Information
Engineering from University of Padova, Italy. In 2007 he was a
visiting researcher at the Centre for Wireless Communication at
the University of Oulu, Finland. During his Ph.D., he proposed a
solution for the distributed compression of wireless sensor
networks signals, based on the joint exploitation of Compressive
Sensing and Principal Component Analysis. From 2010 to 2017 he
was a visiting scholar at the California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology and then a postdoc
at the Qualcomm Institute, University of California San Diego
(UCSD), working on cognitive networks protocols and
implementation. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member
of the American Heart Association (AHA), and a Distinguished
Lecturer for the IEEE Communications society. His research
interests include wireless sensor networks, network
optimization, compressive sensing, probabilistic models, deep
convolutional networks, wearable sensors, physiological signal
processing, and digital medicine.

Navigating the Wireless IoT
Implementation Waters
Speaker: Don Hawkins, RF Hardware Engineering
Manager, Syntronict
DATE: Monday May 7, 2018
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
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Abstract The Wireless IoT landscape is
covered with many standards and chipsets that can address almost
any application. Choosing the right implementation method so
your product achieves the design goals can be challenging. Don
Hawkins will give an overview of this space and describe some of
the challenges that Syntronic has seen while working with
clients looking for wireless IoT solutions. He'll provide some
examples of choosing a system design that addresses the product
goals while keeping cost and time to market top of mind.
Bio Don Hawkins is the RF Hardware Engineering
Manager at Syntronic Research and Development Canada Inc. After
graduating from the University of Waterloo in 1998, he worked in
RF Systems, Hardware and Software teams in Nortel, DragonWave,
and BlackBerry. Currently, in addition to managing a growing
team of 50 RF designers and engineers, Don is actively involved
with Syntronic's soccer and curling teams. Syntronic is a global
engineering design house founded in Sweden in 1983. It has 16
locations worldwide and over 1,000 employees. The company
specializes in the design and development of products/solutions
and test systems including electronics, electro-mechanics,
embedded and application software. Syntronic has active clients
in various markets such as telecom, defence, automotive,
industrial and medtech. All design centres offer services that
cover the entire product life cycle, from the concept stage to
the complete product or system. Their Ottawa office was
established in 2014 as headquarters for the Americas and has
rapidly grown to over 200 employees in Kanata North Technology
Park. The new expanded location has an on-site anechoic chamber,
as well as a variety of other lab equipment to perform RF,
system, climate, digital, EMI, ESD, and other testing.
Advances and Challenges in 5G Wireless Security
Speaker: Professor Yi Qian, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of
Nebraska‐Lincoln, USA
DATE: Wednesday May 2,
2018.
TIME:
Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 07:30 p.m.
PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING:
No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9.
Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi.
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Abstract Wireless communication
technologies are ubiquitous nowadays. Most of the smart devices
have Cellular, Wi‐Fi, Bluetooth connections. These technologies
have been developed for many years, nonetheless they are still
being enhanced. More development can be expected in the next 5
years, such as faster transmission data rate, more efficient
spectrum usage, lower power consumption, etc. Similarly,
cellular networks have been evolved for several generations. For
example, GSM as part of 2G family, UMTS as part of the 3G
family, and LTE as part of 4G family. In the next few years, 5G
cellular network systems will continue the evolution to keep up
with the fast‐growing needs of customers. Secure wireless
communications will certainly be part of other advances in the
industry such as multimedia streaming, data storage and sharing
in clouds, mobile cloud computing services, etc. This talk
covers the topics on security for next generation mobile
wireless networks, with focusing on 5G mobile wireless network
systems, followed by a discussion on the challenges and open
research issues in the area, click
here.
Bio Yi Qian received a Ph.D. degree in
electrical engineering from Clemson University. He is a
professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Nebraska‐Lincoln (UNL). Prior to
joining UNL, he worked in the telecommunications industry,
academia, and the government. Some of his previous professional
positions include serving as a senior member of scientific staff
and a technical advisor at Nortel Networks, a senior systems
engineer and a technical advisor at several start‐up companies,
an assistant professor at University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez,
and a senior researcher at National Institute of Standards and
Technology. His research interests include information assurance
and network security, network design, network modeling,
simulation and performance analysis for next generation wireless
networks, wireless ad‐hoc and sensor networks, vehicular
networks, smart grid communication networks, broadband satellite
networks, optical networks, high‐speed networks and the
Internet. He has a successful track record to lead research
teams and to publish research results in leading scientific
journals and conferences. Dr. Yi Qian is a member of ACM and a
senior member of IEEE. He is serving on the editorial board for
several international journals and magazines, including serving
as the Associate Editor‐in‐Chief for IEEE Wireless
Communications Magazine. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE
Vehicular Technology Society and IEEE Communications Society. He
is serving as the Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE
International Conference on Communications 2018.

FPGA-based Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing for Smart Grid and
Electric Motor Drive Applications
Speakers: Sébastien Cense and François
Berthelot, OPAL-RT Technologies
DATE: Thursday, April 26,
2018.
TIME:
Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 07:30 p.m.
PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING:
No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9.
Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi.
MORE INFO:
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Abstract This presentation will
highlight OPAL-RT’s latest FPGA-based electrical hardware solver
for real-time simulation of high-frequency grid and drive
converters, for smart grid and electric motor drive
applications. As the development of FPGA-based systems is
typically for advanced users, OPAL-RT’s solution is oriented
towards non-flashing technology using a generic and optimized
approach to solve power electronics circuit for these
applications. As motor controller's algorithms become more
complex, so do tests and development of new control strategies.
This presentation will also highlight the latest developments of
OPAL-RT efforts to work efficiently with these new challenges
and to improve time to market of grid converters and electric
motor drive systems. OPAL-RT turnkey system for ECU testing and
rapid motor prototyping is in line with this philosophy as the
user interface allows easy modification of motor or drive
topology without requiring knowledge in FPGA or reprogramming
the FPGA. The objective of this approach is to enable
hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing with submicrosecond time
steps, click
here.
Bios Sébastien Cense – eFPGASIM Team Leader
Sebastien Cense received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in micro
electronics from the ISEN Engineering School in Lille, France in
2010. His final paper on FPGA embedded command of polyphase
motor using space vector algorithm was conducted at the Arts et
Metiers Paris Tech in collaboration with OPAL-RT. He joined
OPAL-RT in October 2010 where he has been engaged in developing
FPGA application solutions such as rapid control prototyping and
on-board motor simulation. Sebastien also contributed to a
number of technical presentations.
François Berthelot –
Business Unit Manager - Eastern North America François
Berthelot received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the
École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada in 2008. He received
his post-graduate diploma in electrical engineering from the
École de technologie supérieure (ETS) de Montréal, Canada in
2013. His final project was related to FPGA motor model
integration with controller in the loop. He joined OPAL-RT in
2008 and has been involved in worldwide technical support, R&D
and sales activities for the last 10 years with the company.

State of the Art in Today's Fiber
Optic Transmission
Speaker: Henry (Han) Sun, Distinguished
Engineer, Infinera
DATE: Monday April 2, 2018
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Eric Karmouch
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Abstract Since 1980's, the capacity
growth of digital fiber optic networks has been met by
increasing single channel data rate (TDM) and wavelength
multiplexing (WDM). The prevalent modulation format used was
intensity modulation and direct detection (a.k.a. IMDD).
Inter-symbol interferences in the fiber increases strongly with
baud rate and thereby severely degrades signal quality and
limiting reach in high bit rate TDM systems. In the early
2000's, commercial serial 40G systems were not able to
successfully deploy in the field. For the 10 years between 2007
and 2017, the commercial single channel data rate have increased
10 fold, from 40Gbit to the state of art 400Gbit per optical
wavelength. The winning recipe is a coherent receiver with
intra-dyne detection followed by high speed A/D sampling and
digital signal processing. The combination enables the use of
both the amplitude and phase of the optical electric field,
allowing digital filters to compensate for linear impairments in
the fiber. With access to the complete field information,
advanced phase-modulated formats such as
polarization-multiplexed QAM are ubiquitous, and is reducing the
cost of a transmitted bit in all aspects of the fiber optic
network. Combining advanced modulation techniques with large
scale photonic integration, the state of art transmission system
today, as implemented by Infinera, carries multi-terabits of
data over a super channel. The development of the coherent DSP
is at the heart of the Infinera Ottawa office.
Bio
Han Sun received the
B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering and post-graduate degree
in photonics and semiconductor lasers, both from the University
of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1997 and 1999,
respectively. From 2001 to 2009, he was employed with Nortel,
Ottawa, Ontario, doing research on future optical transport
systems. From 2003 to 2006, he was instrumental in the
development of DSP algorithms which led to the World's first
commercial 40Gb optical modem employing Pol-Mux QPSK modulation
format. He is currently with Infinera Canada, architecting the
next generation transceivers targeting multiple Terabits per
second. He holds 20 granted US patents and 40 additional
submissions. He has authored/co-authored over 39 technical
journals papers and conference presentations. His publications
have accumulated over 1200 citations. He has been a reviewer of
IEEE Photonic Technology Letters and Journal of Lightwave
Technology. His research interests include signal processing,
receiver equalization, and error correction coding.

Kick-Starting Test Automation
Speaker: Chris Huddleston, P.Eng., Test
Automation Manager, General Dynamics Mission Systems-Canada
DATE: Monday March 5, 2018.
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
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Abstract Test Automation is not a new
thing, it has been around for decades in various forms. Although
usage and maturity have evolved a lot over the last 20 years
there are still a lot of projects that are just starting out on
their Test Automation journey. This discussion will touch on
some of the basics and motivation behind automating, but will
focus more on how to get started and maximize your success.
Topics will include advocating and getting the buy-in you need,
different project needs and requirements and how to address
them, various ways to automate based on your product and
technologies, different ways to structure your team, some tools,
and some common approaches and challenges.
Bio
Stephan Chris Huddleston
is an engineer with 20 years of experience at all levels of the
product development life cycle. After spending several years
working in software development, he stumbled into the exciting
world of testing and automation and has not looked back. In his
current role as Test Automation Manager with General Dynamics
Mission Systems-Canada, he founded, and now leads, the group
that works with teams from across the company to develop
automation solutions that fit with product architecture,
technologies, staff and programmatic needs, and customer
expectations. Previously a Test Engineering Manager and System
Integration / QA Lead, he developed the team that integrates and
tests the system of software and hardware products that form the
tactical voice and data networks for the Canadian Army. Also
with General Dynamics, he has held development and test-related
roles on programs such as the Hydra Naval Sonar Suite and the
Maritime Helicopter Program. Prior to joining General Dynamics,
he worked in various software development roles in the
telecommunications industry. Chris holds an Electrical
Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo. He loves
traveling and visiting new places, and enjoying the outdoors
with his family and friends.

IBIONICS - Doing for Blind People
What Cochlear is Doing for the Deaf
Speaker: Suzanne Grant, BSc, CD, Co-founder and
CEO, iBIONICS
DATE: Monday
February 5,
2018
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Eric Karmouch
ekarmouch@marchnetworks.com.
MORE INFO:
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Abstract For years, visual implants
using electrodes have demonstrated blind people can again see -
a little. For decades Cochlear has demonstrated that by
replicating natural sensory brain communication, deaf people can
interpret speech, and even hear crickets chirping. iBIONICS is
pulling these together - implants and sensory brain
communication replication, so a playing child saying "look at
me, look at me" can be seen by her blind father.
Suzanne will share how demonstrated technology is being used
along with patented iBIONICS technology to move the bar in
bionic vision capability. She will discuss how embracing
converging technologies, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and
Artificial Intelligence will improve user experience for blind
people, bionic surgeons and clinical support teams helping
DiamondEye recipients learn a revised sensory brain language.
Suzanne will speak about how the Canadian Eco-system has helped
iBIONICS get where they are today and share some insight into
winning grants, competitions and awards. She will wrap her talk
up with the necessity for a bold global strategy that embraces
diversity and entrepreneurial grit.
Bio Suzanne's curious and adventurous nature
propelled her through a diverse career of discovery, travel and
pushing boundaries. From Canadian Military engineering officer
she pivoted to entrepreneurship creating - The Art of Business
in a frontier market. This strategic communications agency
helped fortune 500 C Suite executives launch companies in
emerging markets. Today, as CEO and co-founder of iBIONICS,
Suzanne's mission is to return sight to blind people. She lives
by her mantra - The Art of the Possible blending cutting edge
technology and social change with making the world better.

RF Spectrum Challenges in the Age
of Netflix and Self-Driving Cars
Speaker: Nikhil Adnani, CTO, ThinkRF
DATE: Monday
December 5, 2017
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Eric Karmouch
ekarmouch@marchnetworks.com.
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Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract Over the past decade we have
been witnessing a wireless revolution. The way we communicate
with each other has been changed forever with the proliferation
of smartphones and other wireless devices. How we consume audio
and video has evolved as streaming technologies such as Netflix,
YouTube and Spotify have replaced traditional TV, DVDs, and CDs.
Soon, even the way we get around will look different as
autonomous vehicles relying on communications from thousands of
sensors become technologically and commercially viable. Looking
ahead, the potential is there for new applications that we
can’t even begin to imagine.
All of this is exponentially driving the demand we place on the
wireless spectrum. To address this, wireless engineers and
scientists are having to push the boundaries and come up with
more creative use of the limited RF spectrum resources that are
available.
Advanced modulation techniques, increasing bandwidths and higher
frequencies are just some of the methods used to address the
spectrum challenge. And as we continue to ask more and more of
the spectrum around us, we also need to develop new ways to
measure and monitor these signals. This talk will review the
growing challenges associated with using, measuring, and
monitoring the radio spectrum during this period of incredible
innovation.
Bio Dr.
Nikhil Adnani is currently the Chief Technology Officer at
ThinkRF. During his career he has worked on a number of
different radio and wireless technologies. At ThinkRF he works
on wideband radio receivers for spectrum and signal analysis
applications. Nikhil has a BSc and MSc from the University of
Manitoba and a PhD from Carleton University, all in Electrical
Engineering.
The Autonomous Network -
Technology and Politics
Speaker: Phil Rackus, Director of Product
Management, CENX
DATE: Monday November 5 ,
2017.
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Eric Karmouch
ekarmouch@marchnetworks.com.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract Continued growth of bandwidth
and QoS hungry applications combined with competitive pressure
on ARPU have created an environment where service providers are
towards a completely integrated assurance model – both to
increase operational efficiencies and to improve mean time to
resolution of network and SPIT faults. The operational model
however is still domain, and even vendor, specific – both for
good reasons and bad. This discussion will focus on realistic
approaches to creating a highly integrated end to end assurance
model that still respects technical and political domain
boundaries.
Bio A
product and technology strategist, Phil has been involved in
many of Ottawa’s most interesting technology innovations over
the last 20 years. An alumni of Bell Labs research, a founding
member of N-able technologies (acquired by Solarwinds) and a key
member of intrepreneurial projects at Corel, Alcatel-Lucent and
Nokia, Phil brings a keen insight into the commercial and
technology challenges facing the industry today and tomorrow.
Measurement, Control and Protection in a Robust Smart Grid with
a Reference to Energy Management Systems for Smart Buildings in
a Smart
Speaker: Dr. Anura Jayasumana, Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado
State University, USA
DATE:
Thursday
October 19,
2017
TIME:11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
PLACE:
NRC, M-36, Kelvin Room, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa, ON Canada
K2G 1V8 .
PARKING:
at the Visitors’ Parking.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Branislav Djokic
or
Wahab Almuhtadi.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract The smart grid is a modern
electric system. It has its own architecture, communications,
sensors, metering, automation, computing hardware and software
to improve the efficiency, reliability, flexibility and security
of the electric power supply system. In particular, the smart
grid, when fully deployed, will facilitate the (i) increased use
of digital information and measurement, control & protection
technologies, (ii) deployment and grid-integration of
distributed energy resources (DERs), (iii) operation of demand
response and energy efficiency programs, and (iv) integration of
consumer-owned smart devices and technologies.
The smart grid requires advanced control at both component and
system levels. Different non-linear controls, such as
back-stepping control, feedback linearization, model predictive
control, and sliding mode control are applied to control DERs,
and their grid integration. Another control technique gaining
application in the smart grid space is based on multi-agent
systems (MAS) which provide autonomy, reactivity and
proactivity. MAS are complex systems composed of several
autonomous agents with only local knowledge and limited
abilities, but are able to interact in order to achieve a global
objective. As speedy communication facilities, such as
fibreoptics, microwave, GSM/GPRS, 3G/4G are becoming the
integral parts of the functioning smart grid, the integration of
MAS in smart grid applications is becoming simple and feasible.
This lecture focuses on the measurement & control issues of the
smart grid and how MAS can provide an efficient tool to address
such issues. In addition, an overview of the related challenges
and opportunities for energy efficient building operation and
management with deployment experience in the US will be provided, click
here.
Bio Professor Saifur Rahman is the founding
director of the Advanced Research Institute (www.ari.vt.edu) at
Virginia Tech, USA where he is the Joseph R. Loring professor of
electrical and computer engineering. He also directs the Center
for Energy and the Global Environment (www.ceage.vt.edu). He is
a Life Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Millennium Medal winner.
He is the president-elect of the IEEE Power and Energy Society
(PES) and will serve in this role in 2018 and 2019. He was the
founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine
and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. In 2006 he
served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the vice president for
publications. He is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Power
& Energy Society and has lectured on renewable energy, energy
efficiency, smart grid, electric power system operation and
planning, etc. in over 30 countries. He served as the chair of
the US National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for
International Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2013. He has
conducted several energy efficiency related projects for Duke
Energy, Tokyo Electric Power Company, the US Department of
Defense, the State of Virginia and the US Department of Energy.
Role of Smart Building Energy Management Systems in the
Development of a Smart City
Speaker: Professor Saifur Rahman, Director,
Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, USA
DATE:
Thursday October 19,
2017
TIME:
Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 07:30 p.m.
PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING:
No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9.
Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract The demand of electrical energy
is increasing drastically and electricity consumed in small and
medium sized buildings in India is growing at a high rate.
Therefore, there is a need for smart buildings or zero energy
buildings. In India, most of the electrical equipment in small
and medium sized buildings are operated manually in the sense
that there is no automation for monitoring and control of air
conditioning, plug loads and lighting systems. As a result, the
lot of electrical energy is wasted. It is also observed that the
power factor often drops below acceptable ranges with increasing
inductive loads which causes circuit currents to reach
unacceptable limits.
BEMOSS (Building Energy Management Open Source Software) using
ICT devices and integrated with renewable energy can provide a
cost-effective solution for the aforesaid problem and would be
helpful in the development of smart buildings and smart cities
in India.
This lecture will provide an in-depth understanding of the
challenges and opportunities for energy efficient building
operation and managementd, click
here.
Bio Professor Saifur Rahman is the founding
director of the Advanced Research Institute (www.ari.vt.edu) at
Virginia Tech, USA where he is the Joseph R. Loring professor of
electrical and computer engineering. He also directs the Center
for Energy and the Global Environment (www.ceage.vt.edu). He is
a Life Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Millennium Medal winner.
He is the president-elect of the IEEE Power and Energy Society
(PES) and will serve in this role in 2018 and 2019. He was the
founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine
and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. In 2006 he
served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the vice president for
publications. He is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Power
& Energy Society and has lectured on renewable energy, energy
efficiency, smart grid, electric power system operation and
planning, etc. in over 30 countries. He served as the chair of
the US National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for
International Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2013. He has
conducted several energy efficiency related projects for Duke
Energy, Tokyo Electric Power Company, the US Department of
Defense, the State of Virginia and the US Department of Energy.
Personal Creativity - An
Interactive Workshop
Speaker: Inez Dekker, University Lecturer,
Researcher, and Public Speaker
DATE: Monday October 2,
2017
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Eric Karmouch
ekarmouch@marchnetworks.com.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract As Engineers and Scientists you
have challenges that are both wide in scope and bound by
critical limitations as well. Modern creativity research
suggests that the flexibility and focus required for such
complex challenges can be strengthened and toned through
apparently unrelated creative activities. Drawing from current
scientific research and evidence emerging from several domains
of study, this interactive workshop explores the psychology of
creativity, your beliefs about what creativity is, and how
exploring your personal creative spark can have a positive
impact on your personal and professional development. Workshop
takeaways focus on specific tips that will empower you to 1)
Learn about the science of creativity, 2) Develop your awareness
to enable greater creativity (personally and professionally),
and 3) Build on different tools, skills, and knowledge to
unleash your creative side.
Bio
Inez Dekker is a
believer in life-long learning, development, and se!
lf-discovery. After running a family business for several years,
she started university at the age of 39, earning a BA
(Psychology), and an MA (Organizational Psychology), and also
took courses in the PhD Management program, all from Queen's
University in Kingston. She taught university courses for eight
years at the Queen's School of Business, Athabasca University,
and the Sprott School of Business, including the Psychology of
Personality, Organizational Behaviour, Organizational Culture,
Leadership, and more. For the past 10 years, Inez has been
engaged in personnel research for the Canadian military. To
satisfy her own need to express herself through original art and
craftwork, she has explored a variety of mediums. She writes and
performs original poetry, has competed at the Canadian Festival
of Spoken Word, and continues to be active in the Lanark County
Live Poets' Society (LiPS).
Data Centric Intelligence,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance Applications
Speaker: John Clarke, Product Manager, Data
Management Systems, General Dynamics Mission Systems Canada
DATE: Monday September 4,
2017
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Eric Karmouch
ekarmouch@marchnetworks.com.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract Product Manager, Data
Management Systems, General Dynamics Mission Systems Canada
The research and development team at General Dynamics Mission
Systems is evolving our intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance application to ensure that it can keep pace with
the rapidly evolving ISR field. Airborne military sensors are
growing increasingly capable, and commercial and open source
intelligence data is now widely available and of very high
quality. To modernize our system has meant exploring new
approaches. The presentation will describe the ISR mission, and
cover some of the new development approaches, including moving a
monolithic application towards data centric microservices, using
open source tools to manage and present geographic data,
containerization of services to allow rapid deployment and high
reliability, and machine learning to improve the workflow for
operators.
Bio As Product Manager, Data Management
Systems, John Clarke provides direction, vision and leadership
for the system at the heart of the airborne surveillance and
comma! nd and control platforms produced by the Air and Naval
business unit of General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada. John
joined General Dynamics in 2002 having spent twelve years at
Bell Northern Research. Prior to assuming his current role, John
was the software development manager for the Data Management
System for the Airbus H225M helicopter, designed to perform land
and naval surveillance missions for the Polish armed forces.
Previous to his role on the Polish program, John has held a
number of project management and software management positions
throughout the company, including the design and development of
a self defense system for helicopters and the control software
for a remotely operated underwater vehicle deployed with the
Swedish Navy’s stealth corvette. John holds a Bachelor of
Computer Engineering and Management from McMaster University. He
lives in Stittsville, Ontario with his wife, daughter and son.
General Dynamics Missi! on Systems–Canada is one of Canada's
leading C4ISR and defence and security electronics companies,
with a worldwide reputation for excellence in the production of
technology-based, integrated solutions for land, airborne,
maritime and public safety applications. With state-of-the-art
facilities in Ottawa, Calgary and Halifax, the company's success
is based on strong systems engineering experience, ongoing
investment in research and development and collaboration with
commercial and military systems industry leaders.
"Resiliency by Design" - Dynamic
Categorization Working Session
Speaker: Steven Woodward, CEO, Cloud
Perspectives
DATE: Tuesday August 1,
2017
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Eric Karmouch
ekarmouch@marchnetworks.com.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract While the term 'resiliency' is
frequently used, it is seldom defined, clarified or used in a
meaningful context. This leads to rework, costs exceeding
budgets, frustration and most importantly, solutions that do not
provide the resiliency that was required by the business. The
technology storms continue to form and merge, including Internet
of Things, Software Defined Everything, Block Chain, Fog
Computing and Cloud Computing. In order to provide or consume
trusted and resilient services, the solutions must be clarified,
planned, designed and governed accordingly. Resiliency can take
many forms; performance, security, integrity and even personal
safety. We will identify some foundational elements and
considerations, then a working taxonomy mind-map will be
provided to highlight some resiliency categories. During the
session specific resiliency subjects of interest will be
identified by the attendees and further "mindmaps" will be
generated to express specific resiliency considerations. The
working activities provide an opportunity to network and
exchange ideas that will build resiliency as the technology
storm front continually advances.
Bio Steven Woodward is CEO of Cloud
Perspectives, located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is a member
of the National Institute of Standards for Technology (NIST)
cloud computing working groups (under the US Department of
Commerce), a co-leader of the Cloud Audit and Cloud Carrier
sub-groups, while contributing to Standards, Reference
Architecture, SLAs, Security, Broker and Services topic areas.
Steven is also a Director of the Cloud Security Alliance
Canadian Chapter, a member of the ISO/ IEC SC7 (software
systems) and SC38 (cloud and distributed processing) and chair
of IFPUG's (ISO 20926 software sizing) ISO Committee. He fosters
collaboration and cooperation within and between standards
groups (ISO/IEC, IEEE, IFPUG, TMFORUM, ITU-T, CSA, OMG) to
clarify and quantify realistic expectations for cloud computing
and the controls that build trust. His previous IEEE
presentations included: SOSE in Maui, HONET in Northern Cyprus
and EPEC in Ottawa. He has several published chapters in
software metrics books, edits and frequently contributes
articles to various communities, and is frequently interviewed
by research companies. Steven's education, advisory, planning
and execution services have resulted in saving millions of
dollars, while mitigating risks, for private and public sector
organizations around the world.
The Rise of the Industrial Drone
Speaker: Ian Glenn, CEO/CTO, ING Robotic
Aviation Inc.
DATE: Tuesday July ,
2017
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Eric Karmouch
ekarmouch@marchnetworks.com.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract This talk will focus on the
transformative impact of drones on mapping and charting, as well
as, for inspection and monitoring tasks. Modern industrial
drones provide the ability to provide highly accurate mosaics,
point clouds, DEMs, and DSMs of areas of interest in the single
digit centimetre resolution range. These bundled solutions
accomplish so much more than traditional methods - cost
effectively and safety. ING Robotic Aviation is focused on
data-driven robotic aviation delivered in harsh conditions
globally. The company has flown drones the equivalent of 81
times around the planet since 2008. Ian will highlight with real
world examples the possibilities that these disruptive
technologies now offer. From wildlife to wind turbines,
industrial drones are transforming many sectors.
Bio Ian has led the creation of Canada's most
dynamic growth sector - unmanned aviation. His leadership in the
field started over two decades ago, driving the creation of
national drone standards with Transport Canada to enable the
creation of the industry. Along the way he launched UVS Canada,
the organization that grew into Unmanned Systems Canada which is
Canada's national sector organization. As the Chief Executive
and Chief Technology Officer of his company, ING Robotic
Aviation, over the past 15 years he has developed and integrated
UAV systems and provided services across the globe in harsh
conditions including war zones. ING Robotic Aviation often has
undertaken technically difficult projects that moved the
regulatory yardstick forward by demonstrating safe, robust, and
validated results that served to expand the operational envelope
for all the civil and commercial sector. ING has also been
highly and consistently visible as a sponsor of student
activities. As a pioneer of industrial drones, he has created
new markets and capabilities introducing UAVs to the resource,
agriculture, forestry, utility, film, construction, and defence
and public safety sectors. Ian is a true pioneer in a technology
and aviation emergence that will happen only once in our
professional lifetime. He has grasped this evolution, and
expended considerable energy in guiding it for the benefit of
all Canada.
Topology Preserving Maps: A Localization-Free Approach for 2-D
and 3-D IoT Subnets
Speaker: Dr. Anura Jayasumana, Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado
State University, USA
DATE: Wednesday June 14,
2017
TIME:
Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 07:30 p.m.
PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING:
No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9.
Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract In Driven by higher potency and
lower cost/size of devices capable of sensing, actuating,
processing and communicating, the Internet of Things and of
everything promises to dramatically increase our ability to
embed intelligence in the surroundings. Subnets of simple
devices such as RFIDs and tiny sensors/actuators deployed in
massive numbers in 2D and complex 3D spaces will be a key aspect
of this emerging infrastructure. Most techniques for
self-organization, routing and tracking in such networks rely on
distances and localization in the physical domain. While
geographic coordinates fit well with our intuitions into
physical spaces, their use is not feasible in complex
environments. Protocols based on geographical coordinates do not
scale well to 3D either. We present a novel localization-free
coordinate system, the Topology Coordinates (TC). Interestingly,
geographic features such as voids and shapes are preserved in
the resulting Topology-Preserving Maps (TPMs) of 2-D and 3-D
networks. Ability to specify virtual cardinal directions and
angles in networks is a radical change from the traditional
approaches. A novel self-learning algorithm is presented to
provide network awareness to individual nodes, a step toward
large-scale evolving sensor networks. Application of TCs to
social networking will be illustrated, click
here.
Bio Anura Jayasumana is a Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State
University, where he also holds a joint appointment in Computer
Science. He is the Associate Director of Information Sciences &
Technology Center at Colorado State. He is a Distinguished
Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. His research
interests span high-speed networking to wireless sensor
networking, and anomaly detection to DDoS defense. He has served
extensively as a consultant to industry ranging from startups to
Fortune 100 companies. He received the B.Sc. degree from the
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical Engineering from the Michigan State University. Prof.
Jayasumana has supervised 20+ Ph.D. and 50+ M.S. students, holds
two patents, and is the co-author over 250 papers. He is the
recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Mountain
States Council of the American Electronics Association.
A 101 to Machine Learning using
Python
Speaker: Chris Allison, Senior Coordinator,
GC2.0 Tools at Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
DATE: Tuesday June 6,
2017
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Eric Karmouch
ekarmouch@marchnetworks.com.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract Machine Learning, a method of
teaching computers to learn and make predictions based on data
without being explicitly programmed, is a core part of
predictive analytics and key technologies like image
recognition, self-driving cars, unsupervised data analytics and
search / recommendation engines. Featured in more MOOC's than
you can shake a stick at, machine learning is taking off - and
Python has one of the top ML ecosystems around! Chris Allison
will present an introductory primer on machine learning using
Python's Scikit-Learn and Gensim. Code and examples included!.
Bio As a driven, passionate and creative leader
and change agent, Chris Allison's career, skills and experiences
span across public service, private interests and personal
goals. Chris' goal is to reimagine and revitalize the public
service - transforming it into an organization that can meet and
exceed the needs and expectations of Canadians. Over the past 15
years Chris has worked on immigration enforcement, investigated
war crimes, patrolled Toronto with the Toronto Police Service,
conducted surveillance and counter smuggling activities with as
an RCMP officer, participated in public relations duties in
Japan, managed national security activities with the Canada
Border Services Agency, developed legislation, regulations and
policy on import, export and cross-border law enforcement
operations, contributed to the re-writing of the Immigration and
Refugee Protection Act, created and lead a community of
passionate managers in Public Safety Canada, worked to improve
the traveler experience with the CBSA and currently lead the
Government of Canada's enterprise social network and wiki -
working to build a single, collaborative and high performing
public service to better serve Canadians. Driven and
imaginative, Chris has reverse mentored three Deputy Ministers
on innovation and technology on the Deputy Minister Committee on
Policy Innovation, reimagined and built new ways to improve the
traveler experience and acted as a catalyst for change - driving
innovation in policy thinking, service delivery, information
management and collaboration. An avid Python developer, Chris
has built web apps, event simulations, conducted social network
analysis, graphed and analyzed social media, analyzed big data
with Spark, built machine learning classifiers and used natural
language analysis to directly improve his organizations. As per
his Twitter bio, Chris is focused on GoC leadership, community,
culture, creativity and innovation. He is a geek, gamer, Python
developer and storyteller.
Challenge Everything: Why Audacity
Is the Key to Long-Term Growth in Technology Companies
Speaker: Stuart Russell, CTO & Co-Founder,
You.i TV
DATE: Tuesday May 2,
2017
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Eric Karmouch
ekarmouch@marchnetworks.com.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract Success in technology comes
down to identifying and taking advantage of inflection points -
but doing so is easier said than done, especially if you're in a
position where you're already successful. The technologies that
succeed in the long run are the ones that have the audacity to
challenge the status quo, and take advantage of the recurring
patterns of innovation. Stuart Russell has experience doing this
with multiple technologies in multiple companies, including his
current role as CTO and co-founder of You.i TV. When he was
building You.i Engine with his team, they challenged multiple
accepted beliefs, about everything from GPUs to engine toolsets
to platform design and development conventions. The result has
been a product that's powering some of today's leading TV
interfaces, and wins out against more traditional approaches
frequently. He'll bring this experience to his presentation,
which will break down the innovation inflection points using
historical and current examples, and provide you with a
framework for how to look for and identify your next audacious
move. It's the real key to long-term, sustainable success in the
technology industry, and will power the next wave of technology
innovation in Ottawa, in Canada and the world.
Bio Stuart Russell is the Co-founder of You.i
TV, and the creator of the technology on which the company is
based. An expert in optimized computer rendering algorithms and
physics, Stuart is more than just a software engineer or
designer - he is a software innovator. Stuart has invented and
patented software technology including rendering engines and
emulators, and has won numerous software and business awards and
accolades, including multiple wins of Best Software by
Smartphone Magazine (then known as PocketPC) and an Ernest C.
Manning nomination.
Telecommunication Engineering as Distinct Education Discipline -
Reflections on the TEE Movement and Project ISTEE
Speaker: Dr. Tarek S. El-Bawab, Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jackson State
University, USA
DATE: Wednesday April 12,
2017
TIME:
Refreshments/Registration/Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30
p.m. – 07:30 p.m.
PLACE:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab (room T129), School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8.
PARKING:
No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9.
Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract In this talk, we discuss the
telecom community efforts which led to recognition of
telecommunication engineering (TE) as a distinct education
discipline in the US. These efforts, concluded by the
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., (ABET)
approval of its new Criteria for Electrical, Computer,
Communications, Telecommunication(s) and Similarly Named
Engineering Programs on November 1, 2014. We reflect on the
history of the Telecommunication Engineering Education (TEE)
initiative and movement (2008-2014) which resulted in this
development. We discuss the impact of progress in Network
Science and Engineering on modern Telecommunications, and
examine these developments in light of other changes in the
arena of engineering education in the US, and the rest of the
world. The talk will look into the work that needs to be done to
capitalize on these development and the roles of numerous stake
holders. For example, Telecom is an area of high standardization
activities and the new discipline requires course(s) and
innovative instruction methods to fill a knowledge gap in this
arena. We shall discuss efforts excreted in this regards through
joint efforts of the US Department of Commerce’s National
Institute of Technology (NIST), IEEE, and US academia. To view the talk, click
here.
Bio Tarek S. El-Bawab led the Telecommunication
Engineering Education (TEE) initiative and movement (2008-2014),
which resulted in recognition of telecommunication engineering
as a distinct ABET-accreditable education discipline on November
1, 2014. He is the first recipient of the IEEE Communications
Society’s (ComSoc) Education Award, due to this work (2015). The
citation of this award reads: “for outstanding contributions to
the definition, and to the accreditation criteria, of modern
communication/telecommunication engineering education; and for
making changes to our education system that benefit our
community, society, and the profession.” Dr. El-Bawab research
interests include telecommunications, network architectures,
optical networks, performance analysis, enabling
electronic/photonic technologies, telecom standards, and
engineering education. Currently, he is with the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jackson State University
(USA). Before this he was with Alcatel-Lucent (USA) as a Project
Manager with the Network Strategy Group (CTO organization).
Earlier, he was involved in networking research with a number of
organizations, including Alcatel-Lucent (USA); the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University
(USA); and the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering,
University of Essex (UK). Before this he led large-scale
international telecommunication projects in the Middle East for
10 years. He is Member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) and an IEEE
ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer. He has more than 70 scholarly
journal/conference papers and patents. His book Optical
Switching is one of the most comprehensive references in its
subject. He is the Editor of Springer’s Series: Textbooks in
Telecommunication Engineering, and the Associate Editor in Chief
(AEiC) of the IEEE Communications Magazine. Tarek has served
IEEE and ComSoc in numerous capacities. He is Board Member of
the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB), and of the EAB’s
Committee on Global Accreditation Activities (CGAA). He is
member of ComSoc’s Educational Services Board (ESB). He served
as member of the Board of Governors, Director of Conference
Operations, and member of the Online Content Board (OCB) of
ComSoc (2014-2015). He is a founding/active member of several
ComSoc technical committees, and served as Chair of the
Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems (TAOS) Technical
Committee for two terms. He has served as symposium chair,
workshops Chair, and organizer in several ICC/Globecom
Conferences, and organized/chaired the ICC/Globecom
International Workshop on Optical Networking Technologies
(IWONT) for 10 years. Tarek is also member of the IEEE Computer,
Electron Devices, and Photonics Societies. Dr. El-Bawab has a
B.Sc. in electrical engineering, and a B.A. in history, both
from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He holds an M.Sc. in
solid state science from the American University in Cairo, and
an M.Sc. in telecommunications and information systems from the
University of Essex, UK. He obtained his Ph.D. in electrical
engineering from Colorado State University.

Internet of Things - Things You
Need to Know
Speaker: Walter Knitl, Principal, Praxiem
DATE: Tuesday April 4,
2017
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Eric Karmouch
ekarmouch@marchnetworks.com.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is
upon us and with it the beginnings of the biggest
techno-socio-economic paradigm shift since the printing press.
It will touch us all irrespective of our sphere of endeavour or
way of life. It's poised to deliver great benefits, but also
some cautionary side effects. So what is it? The answer is
likely coloured by your background, biases and your first
touchpoints with IoT, resulting in many siloed perspectives.
Individual silos may separately hold that IoT is mainly about
sensors, or data, or 5G, or machine learning, or security risk,
or social risk, and so on. A hardware designer's silo is
different from the data scientist's, which is different from
that of the government policy wonk. Ever hear of "to a hammer
everything's a nail" or "six blind men and the elephant" - it
also applies to IoT. This seminar breaks down the siloes by
exploring the full IoT space through its several dimensions, and
its impacts.
Bio Walter Knitl is the principal at Praxiem -
a consultancy helping clients with the discovery and delivery
aspects of getting their innovations to market in the form of
products or services. He is a proponent of the Internet of
Things as a lever for economic growth and social good. To that
end, he is an organizing team member of the IoT613 conference,
and curates the Internet of Things eXchange Ottawa website.
Walter has a record of successful ICT product introductions at
Ottawa technology companies including Ericsson, Nortel, Mitel,
Ontario Centre for Microelectronics and Bell-Northern Research.
His extensive experience consists of both business roles
including Product Management, Account Management and Commercial
Management, as well as technical roles in software and hardware
R&D and telecommunication standards development.

Catching Bad Guys with Math: Real World Data Science Use Cases
for Cyberattack Detection and Prevention
Speaker: Stephan Jou, CTO, Interset
DATE: Tuesday March 7,
2017
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: The Marshes Golf
Club, 320 Terry Fox Drive, Kanata.
View Map
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION: Register
here, or contact Eric Karmouch
ekarmouch@marchnetworks.com.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract There is a lot of buzz about
the potential of data science, machine learning and analytics in
cyberattack and advanced persistent threat (APT) threat
detection, but what are the techniques and tools in use and
working in the real world? Properly implemented, data science
can be a highly effective tool against APT, cyberattacks, and
fortify an organization's interior defense. Our distinguished
speaker, Stephan Jou leads the technology and data science teams
at Interset, a leading edge Ottawa company that has developed an
award-winning solution, based on machine learning, to detect and
prevent cyberattacks. This seminar shall describe the feature
engineering, mathematical models, visualizations, development
techniques and open source tools in real world implementations
developed over the past two years, illustrated through four
real-world customer examples. The information and techniques
will be presented with visualizations, real (anonymized) data,
and accessible descriptions of the mathematics, so that deep
experience in statistics or mathematics is not required.
Attendees will learn about how data science has been used to
detect data theft from a manufacturing company, insider theft in
a military defense contractor, system admin data loss in a life
sciences company, and compromised account detection in a media
company.
Bio
Stephan Jou is CTO of
Interset, a leading edge cybersecurity company that uses machine
learning and behavioral analytics to provide unprecedented
insight into how corporate intellectual property is being
attacked, moved, shared and utilized. Jou was a Technical
Architect, Research Staff Member and Sr. Manager at IBM's
Business Analytics Office of the CTO. In his career at Cognos
and IBM, he has architected and lead the development of over ten
1.0 Cognos and IBM products in the areas of cloud computing,
mobile, visualization, semantic search, data mining and neural
networks. A frequent speaker, Stephan has also contributed to
the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report and ISSA Magazine
on the use of data science in cybersecurity. Jou holds a M.Sc.
in Computational Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, and a
dual B.Sc. in Computer Science and Human Physiology, all from
the University of Toronto. He has held advisory positions on
NSERC Strategic Networks and is involved in setting goals for
NSERC Strategic Research Grant research topics in the areas of
analytics and security.

A Compact Dual-Band Beam-Sweeping Antenna Based on Active
Frequency Selective Surface
Speaker: Dr. Qingsheng Zeng
(qzeng@eecs.uottawa.ca)
DATE: Friday February 10,
2017
TIME:
10:00 am – 12:00 pm. Refreshments will be served. PLACE:
University of Ottawa School of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science (EECS) SITE Building, Room SITE 5084, 800
King Edward Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Qingsheng Zeng or
Wahab Almuhtadi.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract A dual-band beam-sweeping
antenna based on two independent cylindrical active
frequency selective surfaces (AFSS) is proposed in this
work. This antenna is composed of a dual-band
omnidirectional monopole antenna operating at 2.45 GHz and
5.2 GHz and two cylindrical AFSS screens. The dual-band
omnidirectional monopole antenna is designed as a radiation
source surrounded by the proposed two cylindrical AFSS
screens. The unit-cells of the two proposed AFSS screens
consist of two metallic crosses connected by a pin-diode
vertically. By switching the pin-diodes, the transmission
and reflection characteristics of unit-cell of two AFSS are
investigated, respectively, at their own operating
frequency. This leads to the variation of radiation pattern
when the cylindrical AFSS screens are loaded around the
monopole antenna. Therefore, by switching the pin-diodes
with specified combinations, the dual-band beamforming
antenna with multiple discrete states can be achieved at
2.45 GHz and 5.2 GHz. To view the talk, click
here.
RF Technology for 5G Cellular Basestations
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Cameron, PhD, CTO,
Communications Business Unit, Analog Devices
DATE: Monday December 19,
2016.
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: March Networks,
303 Terry Fox Drive Kanata, ON K2K 3J1 (Second Floor).
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION CONTACT: Eric Karmouch
ekarmouch@marchnetworks.com.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract As we embark on the road to 5G,
the next generation wireless communications system, there are
countless challenges and opportunities emerging for the
engineering community. 5G represents both an evolution and a
revolution of mobile technologies, to reach the high level goals
that have envisioned by the global wireless community. While 5G is
generally seen to the technology to deliver ultra-broadband mobile
services including HD and ultra-HD video streaming, 5G technology
will also enable cellular to enter the world of machines providing
connectivity to autonomous vehicles, dense networks of industrial
sensors and intelligent machines, to name a few. In this
presentation we will review some of challenges and opportunities
for RF innovation as we bring 5G to reality in the coming years. To view the talk, click
here.
Bio
Dr. Thomas Cameron
is the CTO for the Communications Business Unit at Analog Devices.
In this role he contributes to industry leading innovation in
integrated circuit technology for cellular basestations and
microwave backhaul systems. He is currently working on research
and development of radio technology for 5G systems in both
cellular and mmwave frequency bands. Prior to his current role at
Analog Devices he was Director of Systems Engineering for the
Communications Business Unit. Dr. Cameron has over 30 years of
experience in research and development of technology for telecom
networks including cellular basestations, microwave radios and
cable systems. Prior to joining Analog Devices in 2006, he had
spent many years in the Ottawa area contributing to the
development of numerous RF systems and integrated circuits at Bell
Northern Research, Nortel, Sirenza Microdevices and WJ
Communications. Dr. Cameron holds a Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from the CTO, Communications Business Georgia
Institute of Technology.

Smart Surveillance Systems:
Trends and Recent Research
Speaker: Dr. Robert Laganiere, Professor at the
University of Ottawa
DATE: Thursday November
17, 2016.
TIME: Refreshments, Lunch, and
Networking: 11:30 a.m.; Seminar: 12:00 p.m. - 01:30 p.m.
PLACE: March Networks,
303 Terry Fox Drive Kanata, ON K2K 3J1 (Second Floor).
PARKING: Free parking available.
ADMISSION: Open to all, free of charge.
Registration is required by e-mail. Space is limited:
REGISTRATION CONTACT: Eric Karmouch
ekarmouch@marchnetworks.com.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website, or contact
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract In the past decades, video
surveillance systems have evolved from simple local digital video
recorders to large scale cloud-based video monitoring solutions.
The large amount of visual data captured by these visual systems
calls for the design of more intelligent methods that can extract
higher-level understanding of the observed scenes. If the pixel
was the fundamental element that gave to computers the sense of
sight, object detectors and classifiers are becoming the new
fundamental bricks that will give computer the faculty to see and
interpret the world. This talk discusses some of the challenges
related to the development of the next generation of video
surveillance systems. To view the talk, click
here.
Bio
Robert Laganiere is
a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science of the University of Ottawa. He is also a Faculty member
of the VIVA research lab and is the co-author of several
scientific publications and patents in content-based video
analysis, visual surveillance, driver-assistance, object detection
and tracking. Robert authored the OpenCV2 Computer Vision
Application Programming Cookbook in 2011 and co-authored Object
Oriented Software Development published by McGraw Hill in 2001. He
co-founded Visual Cortek in 2006, an Ottawa-based video analytics
startup that was later acquired by iWatchLife.com in 2009. He is
also a consultant in computer vision and has assumed the role of
Chief Scientist in a number of startups companies such as Cognivue
Corp, iWatchlife and Tempo Analytics. Robert has a Bachelor of
Electrical Engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal
(1987) and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from INRS-Telecommunications,
Montreal (1996).

IoT impact on the future of Healthcare and Wellness
Speaker:
Fawzi Behmann, President TelNet Management Consulting, Inc.
DATE: Thursday July 21,
2016.
TIME:
Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar:
06:30 p.m. – 07:30
p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin
College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, T-Building,
Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129.
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract Several technologies are
converging empowering IoT and delivering a greater impact and
advance services to multiple markets by 2020’s. This
presentation will introduce the concept of IoT and architectural
evolution from a pre-IoT to Collaborative IoT impacting many
markets such as home, health, automotive, enterprise,
transportation and infrastructure. This will be enriched by
several examples. The talk will then focus on healthcare and
wellness exploring current and emerging solutions at hospitals,
clinics, care centers and homes. Solution building blocks
include sensing, aggregation, and data analytics. Examples of
some of the adjacent technologies such as 3D, Robot, Drone and
Wearables will be highlighted. Finally the talk will conclude
with some of the factors and challenges to deliver scalable
solutions, delivering better quality of services and experience.
These include development platforms, 5G, virtualization,
collaborative applications and security. To view the talk, click
here.
Bio
Fawzi is a visionary, thought leader, author and contributor in
advancing adoption of technology in serving humanity. Fawzi
spent over 30 years in industry and held various executive and
leadership positions with Tier 1 companies in the areas of
communications and networks spanning Semiconductor,
communication systems and service provider. Fawzi was a
principle architect and championed the definition and the
developing of integrated pre-IoT telecom alert system and
networking management solution at Teleglobe Canada. He was a
senior product manager with Nortel Networks for product release
for enterprise, broadband edge and core nodes. Fawzi also served
as the Director of Strategic Marketing with Motorola/Freescale
for SoC networking & Communications product line in Austin,
Texas. Fawzi is passionate about technology automation and
has founded TelNet Management Consulting Inc. in 2009 offering
consulting services in the areas of technology trends and
positioning for smart networking and IoT/GIS solutions. Examples
included Solar Energy, Public Safety – emergency response
systems. He organized and chaired workshops, tutorials and was a
distinguished speaker on key topics such as IoT, 5G,
virtualization and Big Data/Analytics. Fawzi is a board member
with several companies and had several publication including a
recent book on the subject of future IoT “Collaborative Internet
of Things for Future Smart Connected Life and Business “
published by Wiley, June 2015
http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118913744,subjectCd-EEJ0.html
Fawzi is a senior member of IEEE, and is currently the ComSoc NA
vice chair, CTS Conference & PACE Chair, and ComSoc/SP/CS Austin
chapter chair. He was the recipient of several awards from
Industry and IEEE including CEO Freescale Diamond Chip Award in
2008, and IEEE ComSoc Chapter of the year award in 2015 and
Outstanding R5 member award for 2013, 2014 and 2015. Fawzi
holds a Bachelor of Science with honors and distinction from
Concordia University, Montreal; Masters in Computer Science from
the University of Waterloo, Ontario and Executive MBA from
Queen’s University, Ontario Canada.
To view the whole
bio, click
here.

Topic 1: Recent Progress in Microwave Antenna Precision
Measurement at National Institute of Metrology (NIM) of
China Topic 2: Quantum Based Self-traceable RF E-field
Sensing by Using Rydberg States
Speaker: Dr. Zhenfei Song, EMC Laboratory,
Information & Electronic Division, National Institute of
Metrology (NIM) of China
DATE: Thursday, July 14,
2016, 2016 .
TIME:
Seminar:
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM.
Refreshments
will be served. PLACE:
University of Ottawa School of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science (EECS) SITE Building, Room SITE 5084
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Qingsheng Zeng or
Wahab Almuhtadi.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract In this presentation the IEEE
and ComSoc Standards Activities are positioned and explained as
a part of the IEEE total value proposition and the IEEE role in
technology evolution from a concept to R&D and to standards and
deployment. IEEE Standards Activities ecosystem will be
explained. We will address the role and modus operandi of IEEE
Standards Association and the role of Technical Societies and
Councils, Industry and Academia in the IEEE standardization
activities. It will be a tutorial of how the IEEE
Standardization cuisine works and how any materially or
professly interested party can participate in the
standardization process. We will highlight the unique IEEE
standardization process and IEEE standards-related policies.
Sample communications and networking standardization and
pre-standardization projects in such areas as PLC, Smart Grid,
IoT, SDN, Big Data and 5G will be addressed. ComSoc
standards–related technical activists, such as conferences and
publications will be discussed.. To view the talk, click
here.
Bio
Alexander Dr. Zhenfei Song received his Bachelor degree in
Applied Physics from Shandong University, China, in 2006,
and the Ph.D. degree in Electronics from Beihang University
(BUAA), Beijing, China, in 2012. He is currently an
Associate Research Fellow with the EMC laboratory,
Information & Electronic Division of National Institute of
Metrology (NIM). His research interests include microwave
antenna calibration and E-field measurement.
To view the whole
bio, click
here.

Seeing with Diamond: from Quantum Photonics to Bionics Eyes
Speaker: Steven Prawer, School of Physics,
University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010, Australia,
*s.prawer@unimelb.edu.au
DATE: Wednesday
June 8, 2016.
TIME:
Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar:
06:30 p.m. – 07:30
p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin
College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, T-Building,
Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129.
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
kexing.liu@ieee.org
or
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract IDiamond, nanodiamond, graphene
and other carbon allotropes are emerging as a new class of
materials with superior properties for use in quantum
photonics, secure communications and bionics. Quantum
sensing devices take advantage of the remarkable properties
of optical centres in diamond which allow manipulation and
control of a single electron spin at room temperature. These
same centres can be used for quantum computing and quantum
key distribution for ultrasecure communications. For bionics
these materials display excellent charge injection and
recording properties making them particularly suitable for
use as electrodes in brain-machine interfaces. In addition,
diamond based materials have been shown to provide an
outstanding, long-lasting hermetic encapsulation for
sensitive electronic components implanted into the body.
Many interesting applications are now possible using the
quantum properties of diamond to obtain new insight into
biological processes. Taking advantage of these properties
has required the development of a suite of fabrication and
characterization tools specifically designed to make devices
from these materials. Many of the attractive properties such
as chemical stability and extreme hardness (for diamond)
mitigate against the use of more standard fabrication
techniques used for silicon and other semiconductors. In
this talk I will review the tool-box that we have developed
to fabricate diamond based quantum photonic devices for
communications and sensing and high-density, hermetic
electrode arrays, specifically for use in a high acuity
retinal implant designed to restore vision to patients
suffering from retinitis pigmentosa and macular
degeneration. I will also review our progress in methods for
making flexible electrodes based on graphene ‘ropes’ and
solving the problem of how to insert these flexible
electrodes into neural tissue. Looking towards the future,
we envisage carbon allotropes as being the basis on which to
build the next generation of brain-machine interfaces, which
could not only provide unprecedented new insights into brain
function, but also allow for the treatment of diseases such
as epilepsy, chronic pain, Parkinson’s, and drug resistant
depression, and the neural control of prosthesis for
severely disabled, click
here.
Bio
Professor Steven Prawer has just completed his term as
director of the Melbourne Materials Institute (MMI), a
multidisciplinary research initiative dedicated to using
advanced materials science and technology to address
problems of global importance. He has developed the
technology for the fabrication of practical, diamond-based
quantum devices, such as, for example, single-photon sources
for secure communications using quantum key distribution.
Now, as part of the Bionic Vision Australia project, he is
developing a diamond based high density electrode for neural
and retinal stimulation and a diamond based technology for
the encapsulation of the integrated device. Professor Prawer
has published over 300 papers (H index 44), has been the
recipient of numerous fellowships and awards and in 2010 was
elected to the Australian Academy of Sciences.
To view the whole
bio, click
here.

IEEE
Standards Development Ecosystem and ComSoc Standards and
Standards-related Activities
Speaker: Dr. Alexander D. Gelman, Director -
Standardization Programs DevelopmentIEEE Communications
Society
DATE: Tuesday
April 5, 2016.
TIME:
Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar:
06:30 p.m. – 07:30
p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin
College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, T-Building,
Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129.
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract In this presentation the IEEE
and ComSoc Standards Activities are positioned and explained as
a part of the IEEE total value proposition and the IEEE role in
technology evolution from a concept to R&D and to standards and
deployment. IEEE Standards Activities ecosystem will be
explained. We will address the role and modus operandi of IEEE
Standards Association and the role of Technical Societies and
Councils, Industry and Academia in the IEEE standardization
activities. It will be a tutorial of how the IEEE
Standardization cuisine works and how any materially or
professly interested party can participate in the
standardization process. We will highlight the unique IEEE
standardization process and IEEE standards-related policies.
Sample communications and networking standardization and
pre-standardization projects in such areas as PLC, Smart Grid,
IoT, SDN, Big Data and 5G will be addressed. ComSoc
standards–related technical activists, such as conferences and
publications will be discussed.. To view the talk, click
here.
Bio
Alexander D. Gelman received M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical Engineering from the City University of New York.
Presently he is CTO of NETovations consulting group that
supports industry in competitive research and intellectual
property management in areas of communications and networking.
During 1998-2007 Alex worked the Chief Scientist of the
Panasonic Princeton Research Laboratory, managing research
programs in consumer communications and networking; during
1984-1998 worked at Bellcore, most recently as Director-Internet
Access Architectures Research.
To view the whole
bio, click
here.

Joint Symposium on Optical Communications
Speaker DL:
Prof. Bhaskar D. Rao, University of California, San Diego, USA
DATE: Friday March
18, 2016 1:00 PM -4:30 PM.
TIME:
Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar:
06:30 p.m. – 07:30 p.m.
PLACE:
ARC 233, University of Ottawa, 25 Templeton St, Ottawa, ON,
Canada K1N 6N5.
PARKING: No
fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please
respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Symposium Program
1:00 – 1:30
PM Networking 1:30 – 2:30 PM Distinguished Guest
Speaker: Prof. Dan M. Marom, Hebrew University
Title: Switching technologies for spatially and
spectrally flexible optical networks 2:30 – 3:30
PM Invited Speaker: Maurice O'Sullivan, Ciena
Title: Flexible, multi-rate coherent transmission and
network applications 3:30 – 4:30 PM
Invited Speaker: Siegfried Janz, NRC
Title: Emerging Photonic Component Technology at the
National Research Council Canada

SDN/NFV Technology Trends and Academic Research in Canada
Speaker DL:
Prof. Bhaskar D. Rao, University of California, San Diego, USA
DATE: Thursday
November 26, 2015.
TIME:
Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar:
06:30 p.m. – 07:30 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin
College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, T-Building,
Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129.
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract Traditional network designs are
failing service providers as recurring and new revenue streams
fail to keep pace with escalating operational costs. In today’s
marketplace, dependence on purpose-built hardware and use of
manual systems interfaces lead to complex hardware stacks,
over-provisioning, and lengthy service cycles. We will examine
market trends that are leading to the adoption of SDN and NFV
technologies in both the service provider and large enterprise
markets. We will also review some of the academic research
initiatives in Canada that are investigating use cases
attempting to leverage the full potential of these new
technologies.
Bio
Chris Bachalo is currently the Chief Technical Officer for
Juniper Networks Canada. Mr Bachalo has accumulated 25 years of
experience in the Canadian telecom industry. He joined Juniper in
2010 from Alcatel-Lucent (and former Newbridge Networks) where he
was VP of Systems Engineering for 17 years. Chris is focused on
building telecommunications solutions for Canadian service
providers and large enterprise. He is also heavily engaged in
Canadian academic research and has participated in multiple
technology advisory boards including: University of Toronto
Masters of Engineering in Telecommunications Advisory Board,
NodeLogic Networks Technical Advisory Board and currently serves
on Algonquin College Photonics and Laser Technology Advisory
Board, BRIC/University of Regina (Bridging Research and
Interoperability Center) Industry Advisory Board, SAVI/University
of Toronto/York University (Smart Applications on Virtual
Infrastructure) Industry Advisory Board, CENGN (Center of
Excellence for Next Generation Networking) Industry Advisory
Board, Invest Ottawa ICT Industry Sector Advisor, BCNet Industry
Advisor, Nuvollo Networks industry advisor and is
cofounder/technology advisor/co-author of primary patent for
Enermotion Inc, a Canadian cleantech company. Chris has a BASc in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Windsor and studied
at the University of Toronto toward an MEng in Electrical
Engineering.

Terrestrial broadcast vs. LTE-eMBMS: Competition and cooperation
Speaker DL:
Marco Breiling, IEEE BTS distinguished lecturer, Chief scientist
of the broadband & broadcast Fraunhofer Institute for
Integrated Circuits (IIS),
Erlangen,
Germany
DATE: Wednesday
November 18, 2015.
TIME:
Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar:
06:30 p.m. – 08:00
p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin
College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, T-Building,
Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129.
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
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Abstract While the broadcast world is
reinforcing its armoury by introducing new and highly advanced
standards like DVB-T2/-NGH and ATSC 3.0, the pressure by the
mobile communications business is ever increasing. As users
consume more unicast content or switch over to satellite TV or
IPTV, the user base for terrestrial TV is shrinking, whereas the
data rates requested by the users in mobile communications
networks explode. Moreover, the mobile communications armoury
now includes LTE-eMBMS as a broadcast mode, which can handle
cases, where many users want to consume the same content.
Consequently, the mobile network operators ask for a
reallocation of the UHF broadcast bands to standards such as LTE
(digital dividend II and more). If we assume that there is a
future for broadcast over terrestrial transmission, this talk
will shed some light about the question what technical (not
commercial!) advantages conventional terrestrial broadcast
standards like DVB have over eMBMS and vice versa. This leads to
the question, whether the best aspects of both can be combined
by having both networks cooperate. A final aspect discussed is
the idea of distributing eMBMS content by satellite using, e.g.,
DVB-S2…….. To view the DL talk, click
here.
Bio
After conducting studies at the Universität Karlsruhe/Germany
(now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – KIT), the Norges
Tekniske Høgskole (NTH) in Trondheim/Norway, the Ecole
Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique
(ESIEE) in Paris and the University of Southampton/England,
Marco Breiling graduated with a Dipl.-Ing. degree from KIT in
1997. He earned his PhD degree (with highest honor) for a thesis
about turbo codes from Universität Erlangen/Germany in
2002.Since 2001, he has been working at the Fraunhofer Institute
for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen in the field of
satellite and terrestrial communications. He currently holds the
position of the broadband & broadcast department’s chief
scientist.

Agility for an App-centric Network - Integrated Management of
Software Defined Infrastructure
Speaker DL:
Prof. Bhaskar D. Rao, University of California, San Diego, USA
DATE: Thursday
November 12, 2015.
TIME:
Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar:
06:30 p.m. – 07:30 p.m.
PLACE:
Algonquin College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, T-Building,
Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129.
PARKING: No
fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please
respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
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Abstract Changes in advanced
telecommunication networks are challenging network architects
and operators in fundamentally new ways. The world is
transforming into an application-centric environment, and the
role of the network is taking center stage with computing and
storage. This new environment brings both pros and cons and
places unprecedented demands on networks of all kinds. This talk
describes the nature of these challenges and how Ciena
corporation, in partnership with the worlds fastest and most
agile academic research networks is exploring, experimenting and
addressing these new dynamics.
Bio
Mr. Wilson is responsible for Ciena’s leadership & interactions
with universities and the research community, including national
research and education networks. Residing within Ciena's CTO
organization, he is able to orchestrate intersections between
emerging technologies and research network experiments. He is a
frequent contributor to research projects, demonstrations and
discussions about advanced optical telecommunications systems.
Prior to his current role, Mr. Wilson was a senior advisor for the
CTO at Nortel, and held other advanced technology roles during 13
years with the company, including director of Broadband Switching,
and optical Ethernet development. He has held a number of other
high tech positions including the University of Toronto as chief
network architect for the University’s on-line business UTLAS. He
was originally trained in Electrical Engineering at Ryerson
University in Toronto Ontario, and University of Toronto. He is a
graduate of the Executive Management School at Stanford University
in Palo Alto California. He has served on a number of business and
volunteer Boards. He currently serves on the Board of Directors
for Algonquin College Foundation, and on the Incorporated Body of
Scouts Canada. He has served on the Board of Directors for the
Canadian Institute of Marketing, Scouts Canada Board of Governors
and CANARIE, several technology advisory boards and is involved
with industry special interest groups.

Applications of Petri Nets in Communications - Calculation of
Probability Distributions of Performance Variable in Petri Net
Models
Speaker: Dr. Faruk Hadziomerovic, Independent
Consultant, Ottawa
DATE: Thursday,
April 16, 20, 2015.
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 6:00 p.m.; Seminar: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, T-Building,
Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129.
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
almuhtadi@ieee.org
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Abstract CA brief overview of Petri
nets, as a powerful modeling tool for many systems, will be given.
Models with Stochastic Petri Nets (SPN) enable evaluating system
performance. Every SPN can be reduced to a corresponding Markov
Chain. This presentation deals with telecommunication networks
where, in addition to average packet delays, it is necessary to
know the probability distribution of packet delays exceeding given
values. In provisioning the input buffer it is important to know
statistics to be able to determine probability of buffer overflow
and underflow. An original method to calculate statistics (and
percentiles) of traversing time in Markov chains will be
presented. Markov chains can be used to model the traffic in any
network. They can model packet traffic in stored and forward
networks like Internet; the parts moving across the production
network; or patients moving through the health network.
Conventionally the traversing time is given by the average values.
Bio
Faruk Hadziomerovic received his B.Sc.
from University of Zagreb, M.E.E. from the Netherlands University
Foundation for International Cooperation (NUFFIC) in the Hague,
and Ph.D. from University of Sarajevo, with the thesis
“Multiprocessor-Multimemory Computer Based on Microprocessors”. He
spent a part of his career teaching at University of Sarajevo,
Carleton University in Ottawa, Sarajevo School of Science and
Technology, etc., and the other part in industrial research at the
Institute for Control and Computer Sciences (IRCA), Sarajevo, Bell
Northern Research (BNR) and Nortel Networks in Ottawa, and other
companies in the telecommunication sector. His main teaching and
research areas include microprocessors, operating systems,
computer networks, and modeling for performance. His technical
contributions are in the field of microprocessor hardware, network
protocols and Petri nets.

Self-Organizing Small Cell Networks
Speaker: Dr. Ekram Hossain (IEEE Fellow),
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
DATE: Monday,
March 30, 2015.
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 6:00 p.m.; Seminar: 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, T-Building,
Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129.
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
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Abstract mall cell" is an umbrella term
for low-power radio access nodes that operate in both licensed and
unlicensed spectrum and have a range of 10 meter to several
hundred meters. These contrast with a typical mobile macrocell,
which might have a range of up to several kilometers or even
higher. The term ``small cell" covers femtocells, picocells,
microcells, and metrocells. The evolving heterogeneous networks
(HetNets) including macrocells and small cells of all types (which
are also referred to as small cell networks [SCNs] hereafter) are
envisioned to provide improved spectrum efficiency (bps/Hz/km2),
capacity, and coverage in future wireless networks. SCNs have to
be designed not only to support high quality-of-service (QoS), but
also to achieve cost-effectiveness, deployment flexibility, and
scalability. To achieve the low capital expenditure (CAPEX) and
operation expenditure (OPEX), a self-organizing network (SON)
architecture should be adopted in the SCNs. After a brief overview
of the SCNs, the major challenges in successful deployment of
small cells in the next generation cellular wireless systems will
be outlined.
Bio
Ekram Hossain
(IEEE Fellow) is currently a Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
from University of Victoria, Canada, in 2001. His current research
interests include design, analysis, and optimization of
wireless/mobile communications networks, cognitive radio systems,
and network economics. He has authored/edited several books in
these areas (http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~hossaina). Dr. Hossain
serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Communications Surveys
and Tutorials, and an Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications.
Also, currently he serves on the IEEE Press Editorial Board.
Previously, he served as the Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions
on Wireless Communications in the area of ``Resource Management
and Multiple Access, from 2009-2011, an Editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Mobile Computing} from 2007-2012, and an Editor
for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications -
Cognitive Radio Series from 2011-2014.

Challenging Problems and Opportunities in Semiconductors and
Microsystems
Speaker: Kenneth D. Wagner, ITAC Semiconductor
Microsystems Council Chairman, Distinguished Engineer, PMC-Sierra,
Inc.
DATE: Thursday,
March 26, 2015.
TIME: Networking: 2:30 am – 2:45 pm; Talk:
2:45pm – 3:45pm. Refreshments will be served PLACE:
ME3380, Mackenzie Eng. Building, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel
By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
PARKING: fees . Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Limited, RSVP by Mar 25, 2015
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Abstract This Seminar is meant to expose
students, researchers and industry professionals to the challenges
and opportunities facing the semiconductor industry today. It will
be followed during 2015 by additional in-depth seminars on
specific topics of interest. The Seminar will survey contemporary
problems associated with semiconductor development and production.
Topics to be reviewed include device power reduction, power and
signal integrity, low cost high capacity functional verification
(simulation, validation and emulation), embedded firmware and
software development, the 3rd party semiconductor IP ecosystem and
the evolution of the fabless semiconductor industry. Each topic
will be covered in a format that highlights the challenges and
opportunities to be found in contemporary microsystem development.
The format is meant to be an open exchange where audience members
are encouraged to ask questions and contribute to the discussion.
Bio
IKen joined PMC-Sierra, Inc. in 2000 as
Director of Design Services and CAD. In that role, he managed the
corporate IC design infrastructure for ASIC/SOC/ASSP development.
Then, as Vice-President of Engineering for the Communication
Products Division, he managed the development of wireline and
wireless backhaul platforms for telecommunications. Now, as a
Distinguished Engineer in the IC Technology Group, he leads
advanced CAD R&D, including next generation implementation
methodology, low power initiatives and embedded software – to
enable development and manufacture of networking and storage ICs
in advanced process nodes. Ken also developed PMC’s internal
procedures for coordinating silicon and software IP, services and
CAD tools procurement.

Challenges in the Next Wave of Connectivity
Speaker: Dr. Patrice Gamand, Ph.D, RF Fellow
and Technology Manager, Corporate CTO office, NXP Semiconductors
DATE: Friday,
March 20, 2015.
TIME: 14:00 -16:00. Refreshments will be
served.
PLACE: ME4124, Mackenzie Eng. Building,
Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada.
PARKING: fees . Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free.
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Abstract High data rate, high
frequencies, wide bandwidth, capacity and other characteristics
are the key drivers for future communications. That is the trend
since decades! but today, it seems more concrete and we need
solutions. The presentation will address the Internet of Things
and 5G applications and will review the main technical challenges
we are facing. One of them being the low power aspect. However,
because of the consumer market type of applications,
miniaturization and cost cannot be neglected. So, high data rate,
high capacity, high frequency are associated with low power, low
cost and low (small) form factor. Therefore, innovative solutions
have to be found in all areas including testing and packaging in
addition to architecture and design breakthrough. The presentation
will cover (partially) these aspects and will be illustrated by
examples from NXP.
Bio
(IEEE M'05-SM'06) received the Ph.D.
degree in microelectronics from the University of Lille, France,
in 1984. He then joined Philips Research Laboratories in France,
where he has been involved in microwave and millimeter-waves ICs
in III/V technologies. In 1993, he joined Philips Semiconductors,
Caen, France as design group leader and RF development manager. In
2006, he took over the General Management of the RF Innovation
Center at NXP Semiconductors. He is currently RF Fellow and
Technology Manager at Corporate CTO office at NXP Semiconductors.
He is authored or co-authored of more than 60 technical papers in
several areas in microwave and RF domains. He holds over 33
patents.

An Overview of the Build in Canada Innovation Program (BCIP)
Speaker: Helen Braiter, Director, Build in
Canada Innovation Program (BCIP), Ottawa Canada
DATE: Tuesday
February 4, 2015.
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 6:00 p.m.; Seminar: 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, T-Building,
Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129.
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Qinghan.Xiao@drdc-rddc.gc.ca or
sreeraman@ieee.org.
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Abstract Created to bolster innovation
in Canada’s business sector, the Build in Canada Innovation
Program (BCIP) helps Companies Bridge the pre-commercialization
gap by procuring and testing late stage innovative goods and
services within the federal government before launching them into
the commercial market. The BCIP is a new $40 million program which
aims to promote innovation and support Canadian business
development. It was announced in Budget 2010 and made permanent in
Budget 2012 with the addition of a military procurement component.
The BCIP is a unique program that focuses on innovations that are
at a stage of development where they can participate in an
operational testing environment.
Bio
Helen Braiter has been with PWGSC for
15 years and is the Director of the Build in Canada Innovation
Program (BCIP) in the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises and
Strategic Engagement (OSMESE). An environmental engineer by
training, Helen has worked in many areas within the Acquisitions
Branch of PWGSC including policy, risk management and supplier
engagement. She was recently awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
Medal for fostering a culture of innovation in the government and
for supporting innovative Canadian businesses.

Cloud Computing – Models – Big Data vs Privacy
Speaker: Steven Woodward, CEO, Cloud
Perspectives
DATE: Thursday,
Dec. 04, 2014.
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 6:00 p.m.; Seminar: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, T-Building,
Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129.
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: IEEE Members – Complementary;
Prospective Members - $5 (incl. HST).. Registration by E-mail
contacting:
RaedAbdullah@ieee.org.
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Abstract Description of key cloud
ecosystem models, with policy, security, and privacy
considerations for 2014. Updates will be provided, largely based
on NIST and the United Nations ITU-T cloud computing efforts.
These updates will clarify core considerations for acquiring data,
and present some of the major privacy discussions in the industry.
Real-life, practical scenarios will be used to emphasize business
perspectives for cloud computing, and “big data” opportunities and
the benefits already quantified. In closing, an interactive
exchange of ideas relating to “big data”, “openness”, and
“privacy” will finish the evening. Specific action-item concepts
will be generated for IEEE’s future considerations.
Bio
Steven Woodward is CEO founder of Cloud Perspectives, accelerating
secured, valuefocused, governed cloud and advanced ICT solutions.
He leads the NIST (National Institute of Standards for Technology
under the US Department of Commerce) Cloud Carrier and Cloud
Auditor Sub-Groups within the Cloud Computing Reference
Architecture. He has been involved with the US Government “Cloud
First” initiative under NIST since 2010, contributing and building
cloud standards for: Definitions, Reference Architectures,
Security, Privacy, Metrics, Carrier, Audit, Broker and
Interoperability. He is also a Director with the Cloud Security
Alliance (CSA) Canadian Chapter. He is a leading contributor to
many other cloud standards related organizations including: TM
Forum, Object Management Group - Cloud Standards Customer Council,
Canadian Cloud Council, IEEE, ISO/ IEC, IFPUG and the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Joint Collaboration
Activity working groups. Steven also represents the Canadian
Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) at Shared Services Canada
Architecture Advisory Committee.

Aggregating Forecast Functions for Next Generation
Speaker DL:
Dr. Mo El-Hawary, Fellow IEEE, IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer,
Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax
DATE: Tuesday,
Nov. 25, 2014.
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 6:00 p.m.; Seminar: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, T-Building,
Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129.
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration by E-mail
contacting:
branislav@ieee.org.
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Abstract Conventional dispatch support
functions perform Resource, Demand, Cost and Pricing Forecasts
independently as a prelude to conducting environmental/economic
dispatch in an electric power system. This approach does not
acknowledge the natural interdependence of the resource and demand
variables. It is then imperative to account for the coupling
between forecasts and generation decisions. The advent of smart
grid and the increasing share of intermittent non-hydro renewables
pose some challenging problems. In this talk, some relevant
questions will be posed and then some potential solutions
addressed..
Bio
Mo El-Hawary is Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia. He received his B.Sc. from University of Alexandria,
Egypt, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of
Alberta. He received the 1999 IEEE Power Engineering Educator
Award, and IEEE EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing
Education. He served as Chair of the Power System Operations
Committee, Life Long Learning subcommittee, the Operating
Economics Subcommittee and a member of the Awards Committee of
PES. He is Founding Editor, Power Engineering Letters, and
Associate Editor for two PES Journals. He authored ten textbooks
and monographs, is Editor of the IEEE Press Power Engineering
Series, and Electrical Power Engineering, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia
of Science and Technology. He consults frequently and taught over
100 professional development offerings in numerous parts of the
world. Dr. El-Hawary is a member of the IEEE Fellows Committee,
and served as a member of the 2006-2007 Publications Services and
Products Board, and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Press. He served
as Secretary of IEEE and member of the ExCom (2004-2005), Director
Region 7 (2002-2003), and member of the Board of IEEE (2002-2005).
He was also chair of IEEE Main prize Paper Awards Committee, and
the IEEE Awards Board. He is a distinguished lecturer for the
Power & Energy and Industry Applications Societies. He received
the IEEE Canada McNaughton Medal, and the IEEE Millennium Medal.

Bayesian Methods for Sparse Signal Recovery
Speaker DL:
Prof. Bhaskar D. Rao, University of California, San Diego, USA
DATE: Wednesday
September 10, 2014.
TIME: Noon – 1:30PM (Pizza and soft drink will
be served at 11:30AM)
PLACE: School of Information Technology and
Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa 161 Louis Pasteur,
CBY-A707, Ottawa, ON
PARKING: fee. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration by E-mail
contacting: Yifeng Zhou (yifeng.zhou@crc.gc.ca); Jun Li
(jun_li71@hotmail.com).
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Abstract Compressive sensing (CS) as an
approach for data acquisition has recently received much
attention. In CS, the signal recovery problem from the observed
data requires the solution of a sparse vector from an
underdetermined system of equations. The underlying sparse
signal recovery problem is quite general with many applications
and is the focus of this talk. The main emphasis will be on
Bayesian approaches for sparse signal recovery. We will examine
sparse priors such as the super-Gaussian and student-t priors
and appropriate MAP estimation methods. In particular,
re-weighted l2 and re-weighted l1 methods developed to solve the
optimization problem will be discussed. The talk will also
examine a hierarchical Bayesian framework and then study in
detail an empirical Bayesian method, the Sparse Bayesian
Learning (SBL) method. If time permits, we will also discuss
Bayesian methods for sparse recovery problems with structure;
Intra-vector correlation in the context of the block sparse
model and inter-vector correlation in the context of the
multiple measurement vector problem..
Bio Bhaskar
D. Rao received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and electrical
communication engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 1979 and the M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
in 1981 and 1983, respectively. Since 1983, he has been with the
University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, where he is
currently a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
department. He is the holder of the Ericsson endowed chair in
Wireless Access Networks and was the Director of the Center for
Wireless Communications (2008-2011). Prof. Rao’s interests are
in the areas of digital signal processing, estimation theory,
and optimization theory, with applications to digital
communications, speech signal processing, and biomedical signal
processing. Prof. Rao was elected fellow of IEEE in 2000 for his
contributions to the statistical analysis of subspace algorithms
for harmonic retrieval. His work has received several paper
awards; 2013 best paper award at the Fall 2013, IEEE Vehicular
Technology Conference for the paper “Multicell Random
Beamforming with CDF-based Scheduling: Exact Rate and Scaling
Laws,” by Yichao Huang and Bhaskar D Rao, 2012 Signal Processing
Society (SPS) best paper award for the paper “An Empirical
Bayesian Strategy for Solving the Simultaneous Sparse
Approximation Problem,” by David P. Wipf and Bhaskar D. Rao
published in IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, Volume: 55,
No. 7, July 2007, 2008 Stephen O. Rice Prize paper award in the
field of communication systems for the paper “Network Duality
for Multiuser MIMO Beamforming Networks and Applications,” by B.
Song, R. L. Cruz and B. D. Rao that appeared in the IEEE
Transactions on Communications, Vol. 55, No. 3, March 2007, pp.
618 630. (http://www.comsoc.org/ awards/rice.html), among
others. Prof. Rao has been a member of the Statistical Signal
and Array Processing technical committee, the Signal Processing
Theory and Methods technical committee, the Communications
technical committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and is
currently a member of the Machine learning for Signal Processing
technical committee. He has also served on the editorial board
of the EURASIP Signal Processing Journal and also as a technical
member for several IEEE conferences.

Trends and Issues of FTTH and G-PON
Speaker ComSoc DL:
Koichi Asatani, Ph D, Professor, Nankai
University, Tianjin, China; Professor Emeritus, Kogakuin
University, Tokyo, Japan; IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE
Fellow, IEICE Fellowalist
DATE: Monday
August 18, 2014..
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 06:30 p.m.; IEEE ComSoc
Distinguished Lecture:
07:00 p.m.
– 08:00 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, Building-T, Optophotonics Lab
(Room T129)
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting: Raed
Abdullah
raedabdullah@ieee.org or Wahab
Almuhtadi almuhtadi@ieee.org.
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Abstract Thanks to the penetration of
broadband access technologies for Internet, real-time
applications like VoIP, streaming applications like IPTV and
many other delay-sensitive applications are growing very fast.
FTTH is the key broadband technology and is replacing ADSL. It
provides stable high throughput, realizing even Gbps class. It
also plays a very important role in Next Generation Networks
(NGN). The NGN is Carrier-grade network for the future and a
converged solution after the legacy telecom networks by enabling
QoS management and controls in IP network like in legacy telecom
networks and by supporting economical, versatile multi-media
applications like those on the Internet with secure manners.
In realizing FTTH, G-PON is widely adopted. International
Standards on FTTH, G-PON in particular has been established and
is being further developed. This lecture consist of the
following contents: Introduction to Access Networks,
Fundamentals of FTTH, Requirements to FTTH, Regulatory Aspect
of FTTH, Global Standards on FTTH and G-PON, Market Trends and
Further Issues.
Bio Koichi Asatani received his B.E.E.E.,
M.E.E.E. and Ph. D. degrees from Kyoto University in 1969, 1971
and 1974, respectively. From 1974 to 1997, Dr. Asatani was
engaged in R&D on optical fiber communication systems,
hi-definition video transmission systems, FTTH, ISDN, B-ISDN,
ATM networks, IP Networks and their strategic planning in NTT.
In 1997 he joined Kogakuin University as a professor, and in
1999 he joined, Graduate School of Global Information and
Telecommunication, Waseda University as a visiting professor,
both in Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a Professor, Nankai
University, Tianjin, China and a Professor Emeritus, Kogakuin
University. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IEICE. He was
appointed as a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Communications
Society for 2006-2009 and 2011-2012, 2013-2014..He
is a founder of Communications QoS, Reliability and Performance
Modeling series symposium at ICCs and Globecoms.He also served
as Executive Chair, ICC2011 in Kyoto. He has published more than
fifty papers, and gave more than 120 talks including keynotes
and invited talks at international conferences. He is author or
co-author of nineteen books including "Designs of
Telecommunication Networks"(IEICE, 1993, in Japanese),
"Introductions to ATM Networks and B-ISDN)" (John Wiley and
Sons, 1997), "Multimedia Communications" (Academic Press, 2001),
"Introduction to Information Networks-Fundamentals of Telecom &
Internet Convergence, QoS, VoIP and NGN-" (Corona-sha
Publishing, in Japanese, 2007). His current interests include
Information Networks including Broadband networking, Internet
Interworking, IP telephony, NGN, Future Networks and their QoS
aspects.

Open Source and Open Hardware, A Slippery Slope or a Brave New
World
Speaker:
Glenn McKnight, Director of the Foundation for Building
Sustainable Communities (FBSC), Entrepreneur, Community Engager,
IT & Education Projects Specialist
DATE: Tuesday,
July 17, 2014.
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 06:00 p.m.; IEEE ComSoc
Distinguished Lecture:
06:30 p.m.
– 07:30 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, Building-T, Optophotonics Lab
(Room T129)
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting: Raed
Abdullah
raedabdullah@ieee.org or Wahab
Almuhtadi almuhtadi@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website
Abstract The “Open Source” or “Free and
Open Source” can be treated as a disruptive technology and it has
been slowly gaining recognition and traction within IEEE. Learn
more about the history and fundamentals of Open Source solutions
in general and in context to the Humanitarian Initiatives
Committee..
Bio Glenn is the Secretary Treasurer of the
Internet Society of Canada. He has been involved in IT and
education projects for twenty years starting with appropriate
technology development and implementation, skills training and
certification with the private sector, public institutions and
non-profit organizations. He has been co-responsible for
developing advanced Linux certifications, Ubuntu, Security exams,
co-author of various articles on Open Source, Open Hardware and
Free and Free and Open Source Business training manuals and more.
Glenn McKnight, BA, MA in Social Anthropology at York University
in Toronto.

Overview of Green Wireless Communications Research at Edinburgh
ComSoc DL Speaker:
Prof. John S. Thompson, Personal Chair in Signal
Processing and Communications, the School of Engineering in the
University of Edinburgh, UK
DATE: Wednesday
April 30, 2014.
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 06:00 p.m.; IEEE ComSoc
Distinguished Lecture:
06:30 p.m.
– 07:30 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, Building-T, Optophotonics Lab
(Room T129)
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting: Wahab
Almuhtadi almuhtadi@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website
Abstract The Recent Green Radio Research
Programme in the UK was a major collaboration between academic
and industrial researchers. The main aim of the project was to
try to reduce the carbon footprint of mobile wireless networks.
Recent work has shown that mobile base stations account for a
significant portion of the energy consumed in such networks.
Therefore the programme focussed on designing more efficient
base station designs as well as new concepts to reduce energy in
networks as a whole. This talk will give an overview of the
research and some of the key findings as well as describing
future directions, specifically relating to a new project in the
area of smart grid technology.
Bio Prof. John S. Thompson currently holds a
personal chair in Signal Processing and Communications at the
School of Engineering in the University of Edinburgh. His
research interests currently include signal processing, energy
efficient communications systems, and multihop wireless
communications. He was deputy academic coordinator for the
recent Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence Green Radio project,
which involved collaboration between five UK universities and a
dozen international companies. During 2012-2014 he is serving as
member-at-large for the Board of Governors of the IEEE
Communications Society (ComSoc). He is also a distinguished
lecturer for ComSoc in 2014-2015. He was technical programme
co-chair for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring in
Dresden in 2013.
.
Transmitting consumer products and "electro-phobia": Why are
People REALLY scared of Electromagnetic Fields?
CTSoc DLSpeaker:
Elya B. Joffe, Senior EMC Engineer and V.P. of
Engineering, K.T.M. Project Engineering, Israel
DATE: Friday
March 28, 2014.
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 06:00 p.m.; IEEE CTSoc
Distinguished Lecture:
06:30 p.m.
– 07:30 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, Building-T, Optophotonics Lab
(Room T129)
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting: Wahab
Almuhtadi almuhtadi@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website
Abstract The Why are people really
scared of Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) ? Are they really the
“killing fields” as denoted by the press, or… Some common
claims against EMF include: • Science still does not know how
dangerous the radiation is, but,… within a year, a decade, a
century, it will…” • Standards for limiting dangerous
exposure were prepared by biased parties” • Standards
consider thermal effects only, whereas, many a-thermal effects,
including cancer, are not considered” • Wait and see - EMR
exposure will be similar to asbestos and smoking…” (and yet,
they keep on smoking…) • Well known, respectable scientists
do not exclude connection between EMR and cancer” • Prudent
Avoidance - better be safe than sorry” This presentation
attempts to shed light on the issue of “Electrophobia”, or “Why
are people really scared of Electromagnetic Fields”. It
discusses the history of EMF usage, the evolution of EMR
standards, from the turn of the 20th century to date, and the
evolution of the public response to the EMF and its usage.
Although it covers only technically acceptable figures,
statistics etc., it rather addresses this controversial issue
from a users’ point of view, addressing the sources of fear, the
facts and fallacies, and the risk in… risk research.
Bio Mr. Joffe is employed by K.T.M. Project
Engineering - an engineering consulting company in Israel, since
1987. He currently holds a position of the V.P. of Engineering
and works as a Senior EMC engineering Specialist and consultant.
Elya holds a B.ScEE in Electrical Engineering from the Ben
Gurion University in Israel, is a Registered Professional
Engineer. Mr. Joffe is also an iNARTE (International
Association for Radio, Telecommunications and Electromagnetics
Engineers) certified Senior EMC Engineer, ESD Control Engineer
and EMC Master Design Engineer. Since the merger of iNARTE with
Exemplar Global (RABQSA International), he also serves as member
and Chair Elect of the RABQSA BoD and as Chairman of the iNARTE
Advisory Committee. Elya has 30 years of experience in
government and industry, in EMC/E3 (Electromagnetic
Compatibility/Electromagnetic Environmental Effects) for
electronic systems and platforms (in particular – aircraft and
aerospace). He is actively involved, as an EMC/E3 Specialist, in
the EMC design of commercial and defense systems, from circuits
to full platforms. Mr. Joffe is also well known in Israel
and abroad for his activities in EMC training and education, and
has authored, developed and presents many courses on
Electromagnetic Compatibility and related topics. He is also the
main Author of the Book: "Grounds for Grounding: A Circuit to
System Handbook", published by John E. Wiley & Sons, 2009.
Mr. Joffe is Senior Member of IEEE, and has served as a member
of the IEEE EMC Society of the Board of Directors since the year
2000 and is the Past President of the IEEE EMC Society. He is
the current President of the IEEE Product Safety Engineering
Society. He is also the Immediate Past Chairman of the Israel
IEEE EMC Chapter. He is also a member of the Board of Governors
of the Society for Social Implications of Technology (SSIT).

Mechanical Reliability in Electronics: A lifetime of strange
failures and conditions
Speaker:
D Hugh M Reekie, P.Eng., IEEE SM, Ottawa, ON, Canada
DATE: Thursday
March 20, 2014.
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 06:10 p.m.; IEEE
Seminar:
0640 p.m.
– 07:50 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, Building-T, Optophotonics Lab
(Room T129)
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting: Bhagvat
Joshi bjoshi@ieee.org
or Mike Bourassa
michael.bourassa@ieee.org, or Wahab
Almuhtadi almuhtadi@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website.
Abstract In his presentation Hugh
describes a number of mechanically-related faults or conditions
that affect electrical performance. In addition to standard
electronic problems, Hugh will mention a number of specific
instances of performance deterioration that can be directly
related to the mechanical situation; some of the effects were
from very strange mechanisms, requiring a strong knowledge of
manufacturing processes to understand and diagnose. In
conclusion, Hugh will suggest some “Field Philosophies” for the
Project Engineer.
Bio Hugh has been an electronics engineer all
his career – but he nearly switched to mechanical engineering at
college so perhaps he is one of the first mechatronics
Engineers! After graduation in 1964 he specialized in Solid
state microwave, building LNAs, varactor multipliers and “solid
state klystrons”- and finally IMPATT oscillators after coming to
Canada from the UK in 1969. After a stint building Anik A and C
series spacecraft components, (also at Northern Telecom) he
settled down with field trips all over Canada, upgrading Earth
Stations for Telesat Canada. After building the world’s first
fully-integrated satellite news-gathering vehicle in the mid
1980s, he moved to the Communications Research Centre as an
Applications Engineer on the MSAT program; there he assisted
with satellite conference management, including the
International IEEE VNIS 93, Ottawa. He started up the MTT and
VTS Chapters in Ottawa; presently he chairs the AESS and VTS
Chapters, and remains very involved with IET-UK (formerly IEE)
local activities.

Evolution to LTE Advanced
Speaker:
Frank Rayal, P.Eng, SMIEEE, Founding Partner – Xona Partners,
Ottawa, ON, Canada
DATE: Tuesday
March 18, 2014.
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 06:30 p.m.; IEEE
Seminar:
07:00 p.m.
– 08:00 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, Building-T, Optophotonics Lab
(Room T129)
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting: Bhagvat
Joshi bjoshi@ieee.org
or Mike Bourassa
michael.bourassa@ieee.org, or Wahab
Almuhtadi almuhtadi@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/CTSoc/BTS Chapter website or
http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/aicn webiste.
Abstract With over 266 networks in 99
countries, LTE is the de facto world-standard for mobile
communications. This presentation will address the evolution
of LTE to meet ITU requirements for high mobile broadband data
rates. The talk focuses on key LTE-Advanced features such as
carrier aggregation, interference management for heterogeneous
networks, advanced MIMO and coordinated multipoint to provide an
overview of the evolution of 4G networks for the next five
years. It will combine the principles of these technologies with
real-world data and results to present an objective view of the
evolutionary path of LTE.
Bio Mr. Frank Rayal is founding partner at Xona
Partners, a boutique management and technology advisory firm
specializing in telecom, media and technology. He is a telecom
industry professional with more than 20 years of experience
working with network operators and system vendors to develop and
deploy wireless solutions. Frank co-founded small-cell backhaul
pioneer BLiNQ Networks. He held senior product management,
marketing and business development positions at Ericsson,
Redline, and Metawave. He holds a BS in electrical engineering
from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and a
MASc in electrical engineering and a MBA from the University of
Toronto, Canada. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of
Professional Engineers Ontario.

Carrier Ethernet for Cloud Computing
Speaker:
Peter Green, P.Eng., Senior Product Manager for Ethernet
Products and Solutions BTI Systems, Ottawa, Canada
DATE: Monday
October 28, 2013.
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 06:30 p.m.; Seminar:
07:00 p.m.
– 08:00 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, Building-T, Room T129
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the
Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting: Wahab
Almuhtadi almuhtadi@ieee.org.
MORE INFO:
Ottawa ComSoc/BTS/CTSoc Chapter website
Abstract
The IT industry is investing in technologies to support the
transition form distributed dedicated IT infrastructure to a
centralized hosted cloud computing service. The promises of
cloud computing includes the reduction for IT capital costs,
access to dynamically scalable server resources and infinite
storage capacity. For many businesses this transition has not
been successful, as connectivity to the cloud has dramatically
limited the capabilities of a cloud service offering. Utilizing
best effort Internet for cloud connectivity has had a negative
impact on application responses and bring into question the
security of corporate information. To address these challenges
investment are being made into a new class of connectivity
services, namely Carrier Ethernet. This technical talk will
review some of the key communication technologies that have been
developed to enable a reliable and secure transition to cloud
computing services.
Bio
Peter Green, P.Eng, from BTI Systems, is the Senior Product
Manager for Ethernet products and solutions to address the
requirements of access and edge networks. Mr. Green’s work has
included the development of business cases and technical
specifications for Ethernet Business Service and Mobile Backhaul
access products. As Product Manager, Mr. Green supports
strategic customer engagements to discuss business models,
network architectures, product details and portfolio direction.
Mr. Green has extensive professional experience in developing
network architectures, business cases, service pricing models
and service level agreements for Ethernet, managed wavelength
and storage connectivity services. Some of Mr. Green’s advanced
concepts on broadband services in published in The Handbook for
Optical Communication Networks.
From 1999 to 2007, Mr. Green worked at Nortel, where he was the
business development and network planning leader for Ethernet
products and architectures. Prior to joining Nortel in 1999, Mr.
Green held various network engineering roles with Aliant, which
is the incumbent telecommunications service provider in Atlantic
Canada. Mr. Green holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Engineering from University of New Brunswick. He is a member of
IEEE and Professional Engineers of Ontario.

The 2nd Canadian National Capital Region Workshop on Antenna
Date:
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Time:
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm,
Technical Seminar:
8:20 am – 12:50 pm,
Location: Carleton University, Herzberg
Laboratories, Room 5345HP, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat, Dr.
Qingsheng Zeng
(qingsheng.zeng@crc.gc.ca) or Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi
(almuhtadi@ieee.org)
Topic #1: IEEE AP Distinguished Lectures:
(1) Development of the Dielectric Resonator Antenna; (2) Transparent
Antennas: From 2D to 3D; (3) Analyses of Spherical Antennas,
Speaker: Prof. Kwok Wa (Ben) Leung,
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation,
Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong,
China Prof. Kwok Wa (Ben) Leung, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transaction
on Antennas and Propagation, Department of Electronic Engineering,
City University of Hong Kong, China
Topic #2: Electrical Field, Magnetic
Field, Thermal, Stress and Strain
Speaker: Hao Hu, ANSYS Toronto, Canada
Topic #3: GNSS Antenna Development at DRDC
Ottawa
Speaker: Dr. Michel Clénet, DRDC (Defense
Research Development Canada) Ottawa, Canada
Topic #4: Low Profile Multibeam Dual
Polarization Antenna Array
Speaker: Dr. Lin-Ping Shen, CCI Antenna
Research, Ottawa, Canada
Design Considerations for Consumer Power Supplies
Speaker:
Stefan Mozar, President of IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (CTSoc)
Date:
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Time:
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm,
Refreshments and
Networking: 6:30 pm – 7:00 pm,
Presidential Talk and
Seminar, Q & A: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location:
Algonquin
College,
Room T129,
T-Building, 1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada
Parking:
No
fee after 5 p.m. at the Parking Lots 8&9. Please respect restricted
areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
contact
Wahab Almuhtadi
or
Branislav
Djokic or
Raed Abdullah
ABSTARCT:
This talk does not discuss the design of power supplies, as
this is well known. It will provide a bird's eye view of design
considerations which are important in specifying power supplies for
consumer products. It covers topics such as dynamic loads, feedback
loop stability, thermal considerations, safety aspects, layout
issues, EMI/EMC issues. Focus is on constraints that power supplies
require for the consumer market.
BIO:
Stefan Mozar is a Chartered Professional Engineer (C.P.Eng.),
who lives in Sydney, Australia. His experience includes consumer
electronics, telecommunications, and industrial electronics. He
spent most of his career in R&D labs; but has also taught for a
number of Australian, Asian, and British Universities. He has
extensive experience in designing large signal circuits for consumer
products. He has worked on four continents. He has worked on
projects that won 28 international design awards in a number of
countries like Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea,
Japan, China, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil.
Stefan is active in the IEEE, and has served on the AdCom of the
IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (CTSoc) for about 15 years. He has
held several positions in IEEE CTSoc including: VP International
affairs, and VP Conferences. He is currently the President of IEEE
CTSoc.

Implantable Wireless Medical Devices and Systems
Speaker: Dr. J.C. Chiao, Garrett
endowed professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Texas –
Arlington, TX, USA
Date:
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Time:
2:00 pm –
4:00 pm,
Refreshments and Networking:
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm,
DL Seminar, Q & A:
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Carleton University, Department of
Electronics (DoE), Mackenzie Engineering (ME) Building, Room ME
4124, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
contact Dr. Qingsheng Zeng
(Qingsheng.Zeng@crc.gc.ca)
or Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi
(almuhtadi@ieee.org).
ABSTARCT:
The presentation focuses on the development of wireless
micro devices and systems for medical applications at UT-Arlington.
They are based on technology platforms such as wireless energy
transfer for batteryless implants, miniature electrochemical
sensors, nanoparticle modified surfaces, MEMS devices and wireless
communication. An integrated wireless body network for chronic pain
management will be discussed. The system provides a wireless closed
loop for neurorecorders to recognize pain signals and
neurostimulators to inhibit pain. Batteryless endoluminal sensing
telemeter architecture will also be discussed with an esophagus
implant for remote diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease
(GERD), an endoscopically-implantable wireless gastro-stimulator for
gastroparesis management, and a wireless bladder volume monitoring
implant for urinary incontinence management. These applications
enable new medicines to improve human welfare and assist better
living.
BIO:
Dr. J.C. Chiao is Greene endowed professor and
Garrett endowed professor of Electrical Engineering at University of
Texas – Arlington; and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the
Internal Medicine Department at UT-Southwestern, Medical Center.
Dr. Chiao received the 2011 O'Donnell Award in Engineering presented
by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas
(TAMEST). He also received the 2011 Tech Titan Technology Innovator
Award; 2011 Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Excellence in Engineering
Teaching Award; 2012 Research in Medicine milestone award by Heroes
of Healthcare; and 2012 IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Engineering
Educator award. His webpage is at
http://www.uta.edu/faculty/jcchiao/.

Energy Aware Computer Systems and Networks
Speaker: Distinguished Lecturer:
Professor Erol Gelenbe, Head of Intelligent Systems and Networks
Research Group Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial
College, London, UK
Date:
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Time:
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm,
Refreshments and
Networking: 6:30 pm – 7:00 pm,
DL Seminar, Q & A:
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location:
Algonquin
College,
Room T129,
School of Advanced Technology, T-Building, 1385 Woodroffe
Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada
Parking:
No
fee after 5 p.m. at the Parking Lots 8&9. Please respect restricted
areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
contact Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi
(almuhtadi@ieee.org)
ABSTARCT:
ICT is becoming one of the main culprits for CO2 emissions,
already on a par with air travel since 2007. Energy consumption by
ICT is estimated to increase by 4% a year, despite the increasing
energy efficiency of electronic and computer equipment, due to the
ever increasing usage of computers and telecommunications. On the
positive side, ICT offers the potential to manage energy more
efficiently, help better match energy supply and demand, and
dynamically substitute renewable energy sources in the place of
fossil fuels. At the same time, one would like to think that ICT is
saving energy and CO2 emissions in other areas (such as transport),
by substituting on-line activities for physical activities, such as
working at home rather than commuting to an office. But such trends
are difficult to identify, while the recent economic crisis in
Europe and the USA has definitely had an impact on energy
consumption in industry and other fields of activity. Within ICT
itself, communications represent close to 25% of energy consumption,
with data centres accounting for another 20% or so, the rest being
attributed to PCs, terminal devices and office equipment including
local networks. This lecture will focus on the ICT aspects of energy
consumption from a performance engineering perspective, and show how
some of our established methods, with measurements, can be used to
understand the trade-offs between QoS and energy consumption, and
help reduce the energy consumption in servers and networks.
BIO:
Professor Erol Gelenbe is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM and
IET, and an expert on the performance evaluation of computer systems
and networks, Erol Gelenbe is the Professor in the Dennis Gabor
Chair in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at
Imperial College, London. His research has been incorporated into
commercial software tools such as QNAP for system performance
evaluation and FLEXSIM for manufacturing systems. He has invented
new mathematical models for performance analysis such as G-networks
and diffusion approximations, and designed the first random access
fiber-optics network XANTHOS and the first multi-processor packet
switch SYCOMORE. He currently coordinates the EU FP7 Project NEMESYS
on mobile network security, and also works on the interaction
between energy savings and performance in Cloud Computing and ICT.
Erol is a Fellow of the French National Academy of Engineering, and
of the Hungarian, Polish and Turkish Science Academies, and has won
the ACM SIGMETRICS Life-Time Achievement Award (2008), and IET’s
(UK) Oliver Lodge Medal for his work.

Characterization of Space Shuttle Ascent Debris Based on Radar
Scattering and Ballistic Properties – Evolution of the NASA Debris
Radar (NDR) System
Speaker: Dr. Brian M. Kent, Fellow,
IEEE, AMTA, AFRL, Chief Scientist, Sensors Directorate, Chief
Scientist, Sensors Directorate, WPAFB, OH 45433, USA
Date:
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Time:
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm,
DL Seminar, Q & A:
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm,
Refreshments and Networking:
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Location:
Boardroom
5084, SITE Building, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science (EECS), University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Avenue,
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
contact Dr. Qingsheng Zeng
(Qingsheng.Zeng@crc.gc.ca)
or Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi
(almuhtadi@ieee.org).
ABSTARCT:
This is a presentation that introduces the NASA Debris
Radar (NDR) system developed to characterize debris liberated by the
space shuttle (and any follow-on rocket system) during its ascent
into space. Radar technology is well suited for characterizing
shuttle ascent debris, and is especially valuable during night
launches when optical sensors are severely degraded. The shuttle
debris mission presents challenging radar requirements in terms of
target detection and tracking, minimum detectable radar
cross-section (RCS), calibration accuracy, power profile management,
and operational readiness. After setting the stage with background
of the Columbia accident, I initially describe the NDR system
consists of stationary C-band radar located at Kennedy Space Center
(KSC) and two X-band radars deployed to sea during shuttle missions.
Various sizes, shapes, and types of shuttle debris materials were
characterized using static and dynamic radar measurements and
ballistic coefficient calculations. My second Part discusses the
NASA Debris Radar (NDR) successes, which led to a new challenge of
processing and analyzing the large amount of radar data collected by
the NDR systems and extracting information useful to the NASA debris
community. Analysis tools and software codes were developed to
visualize the shuttle metric data in real-time, visualize metric and
signature data during post-mission analysis, automatically detect
and characterize debris tracks in signature data, determine
ballistic numbers for detected debris objects, and assess material
type, size, release location and threat to the orbiter based on
radar scattering and ballistic properties of the debris. Future
applications for space situational awareness and space-lift
applications will also be discussed.
BIO:
Dr. Brian M. Kent, a member of the scientific and
professional cadre of senior executives, is Chief Scientist, Sensors
Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base, Ohio. He serves as the directorate's principal
scientific and technical adviser and primary authority for the
technical content of the science and technology portfolio. He also
collaborates on numerous interdisciplinary research problems that
encompass multiple AFRL directorates, customers from other DOD
components, as well as the manned space program managed by NASA. Dr.
Kent joined the Air Force Avionics Laboratory in 1976 as cooperative
engineering student through Michigan State University. He received a
National Science Foundation Fellowship in 1979, working at the Ohio
State University Electroscience Laboratory until the completion of
his doctorate. Dr. Kent spent twenty three years working various
radar observables programs within AFRL when he was abruptly assigned
to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board staff in February 2003.
After the investigation, he was co-assigned to the NASA Space
Shuttle Program Office as a subject matter expert in radar design
and analysis from 2004-2007 and was a radar mission debris
specialist on Shuttle Missions STS 114, 115, 116, and 121. After
returning to AFRL, he was appointed Chief Scientist of Sensors
Directorate in May 2008, where he has served for the last five
years. He also served as AFRL Chief Technologist Sep 2010-Feb 2011.
Dr. Kent has authored and co-authored more than 85 archival articles
and technical reports and has written key sections of classified
textbooks and design manuals. He has delivered more than 200
lectures, and developed a special DOD Low Observables Short Course
that has been taught to more than 2,000 scientists and engineers
since its inception in 1989. Dr. Kent has provided technical advice
and counsel to a wide range of federal agencies, including the
Department of Transportation, the Department of Justice and NASA's
Space Shuttle Program. He is also an international technical adviser
for the DOD and has provided basic research guidance to leading
academic institutions. He was appointed an IEEE/DLP Lecturer in
Antenna and Propagation Society in the summer of 2012.

VLSI Architectures for Communications and Signal Processing
Speaker: Dr. Kiran Gunnam,
Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, Director
of Engineering at Violin Memory, Mountain View, CA
Date:
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Time:
2:30 pm –4:00 pm,
Refreshments and
Networking: 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm,
DL Seminar, Q & A:
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location:
MC
2014, Minto Center, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel by Drive,
Ottawa (Campus
Map)
Parking:
No
fee after 5 p.m. at the Parking Lots 8&9. Please respect restricted
areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
contact Prof. Ram Achar (achar@doe.carleton.ca)
or Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi
(almuhtadi@ieee.org)
ABSTARCT:
Part 1 of this lecture covers introduction to VLSI
architectures for Communications and Signal Processing Systems.
Various topics include pipelining and parallel processing, retiming,
unfolding, folding, systolic architecture design and algorithmic
transformations. The emphasis is how to design high-speed, low-area,
and low-power VLSI systems for a broad range of DSP and
communication applications.
Part 2 of this lecture covers speaker’s research. Low-Density
Parity-Check codes now have been firmly established as coding
technique for communication and storage channels. This talk gives an
overview of the speaker’s research and contributions in the
development of low complexity iterative LDPC solutions for Turbo
Equalization for magnetic recording storage channels. Complexity is
reduced by developing new or modified algorithms and new hardware
architectures viz. system level hardware architecture, statistical
buffer management and queuing, local-global inter-leaver, LDPC
decoder and error floor mitigation schemes.
BIO:
Kiran Gunnam received the MSEE and PhD in Computer
Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. He
currently works as Director of Engineering at Violin Memory. He
previously held research and development positions at Nvidia,
Certicom, LSI, Marvell Semiconductor, Starvision Technologies,
Schlumberger, Intel and Texas Engineering Experiment Station.
Dr. Gunnam has extensive research and development work experience in
complex data path and control path systems. Dr. Gunnam is an expert
in IC implementation of communications and signal processing
systems. His PhD research contributed several key innovations in
advanced error correction systems based on low-density parity- check
codes (LDPC) and led to several industry designs. He has done
extensive work on ASIC hardware architecture, micro-architecture and
digital IC implementation for different systems (IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi,
IEEE 802.16e WiMax, IEEE 802.3 10-GB, Holographic read channel, HDD
read channel and Flash read channel).
Dr. Gunnam has around 75 patents/patent applications/invention
disclosures on hardware architecture and micro-architecture (33
issued patents, 17 pending patent applications and 25 more invention
disclosures). He is the lead inventor/sole inventor for 90% of them.
He is an IEEE Senior Member. He is also an IEEE Solid State Circuits
Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2013 and 2014.

Source and Channel Rate Allocation Techniques for Digital Video
Transmission Application
Distinguished Lecturer:
Dr. Lap-Pui Chau, Associate Professor, School of Electrical &
Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Date:
Monday, June 3, 2013
Time:
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm,
Technical Seminar:
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm,
Discussion, Refreshments,
and Networking: :
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Location:
Algonquin College,
Room T129,
T-Building,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada
Parking:
No
fee after 5 p.m. at the Parking Lots 8&9. Please respect restricted
areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
contact Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi
(almuhtadi@ieee.org)
ABSTARCT:
Recent advances in technology have result in a significant
growth in wireless communications. As wireless access becomes more
commonplace, the need for reliable transmission of video data over
wireless channel is becoming an increasingly important application
requirement. The lecture will first give a general introduction on
the issues of error control for wireless video transmission system.
Then, an overview on the concepts and strategies of source and
channel rate allocation scheme that can be adopted to make the video
transmission over error-prone channel robust will be addressed.
Relevant state-of-the-art techniques such as GOP-based unequal error
protection, two dimensional Temporal-SNR unequal error protection,
and adaptive resynchronization will be discussed.
BIO:
Dr. Lap-Pui Chau received the B. Eng degree with
first class honours in Electronic Engineering from Oxford Brookes
University, England, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering
from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in 1992 and 1997,
respectively.
In June 1996, he joined Tritech Microelectronics as a senior
engineer. Since March 1997, he joined Centre for Signal Processing,
a national research centre in Nanyang Technological University as a
research fellow, subsequently he joined School of Electrical &
Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University as an
assistant professor and currently, he is an associate professor. His
research interests include fast signal processing algorithms, robust
video transmission, image representation for 3D content delivery,
and image based human skeleton extraction. He involved in
organization committee of international conferences including the
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2010, ICIP
2004), and IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME
2010). He is a Technical Program Co-Chairs for Visual Communications
and Image Processing (VCIP 2013) and 2010 International Symposium on
Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems (ISPACS
2010). He was the chair of Technical Committee on Circuits & Systems
for Communications (TC-CASC) of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
from 2010 to 2012, and the chairman of IEEE Singapore Circuits and
Systems Chapter from 2009 to 2010. He served as a member of
Singapore Digital Television Technical Committee from 1998 to 1999.
He served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on
Multimedia, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and is currently serving
as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society Newsletter. Besides, he is IEEE
Distinguished Lecturer for 2009-2013, and a steering committee
member of IEEE Transactions for Mobile Computing from 2011-2013.

High performance terahertz devices for communication
Speaker:
Dr. Dayan Ban , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, ON, Canada
Date:
Monday, May 6, 2013
Time:
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm,
Technical Seminar:
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm,
Discussion, Refreshments,
and Networking: :
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: NRC Auditorium located in the
M50 Building, 1200 Montreal Road (Montreal &Blair), Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required because NRC needs an
attendee list. Please use the Eventbrite website
http://www.eventbrite.ca/event/6501234367/# to register this event
by Sunday May 5. A registrant list will be downloaded from
Eventbrite and sent to NRC at the end of Sunday May 5
If you have any question about registration and seminar, please
contact Dr. Qingsheng Zeng
(qingsheng.zeng@crc.gc.ca) or Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi
(almuhtadi@ieee.org) .
ABSTARCT:
Terahertz (THz) technologies aim to address the largely
underdeveloped and almost unexploited electromagnetic spectral range
between 1 and 10 THz (1012 – 1013 Hz), which lies between
visible/infrared optical bands and radio-frequency (RF)/microwave
frequencies. With a much higher carrier frequency than RF/microwave,
the unlicensed terahertz band holds great potential for next
generation high-speed wireless communications, such as secured
short-link communications, local access network connections, and
high-speed wireless communications. Terahertz radiation could also
be used for other important applications, such as THz spectroscopy,
atmospheric pollution monitoring, global warming, medical and
biological research, THz imaging for detecting concealed weapons or
currency forgeries at airports or security check points as well as
THz Radar for spotting roadside bombs over a short distance. Despite
these identified and wide-ranging applications, deployment of THz
technologies has largely fallen behind that of electromagnetic
technologies at optical (visible/infrared) and RF/microwave
frequencies. Progress towards viable THz applications has been
hampered by the lack of suitable and enabling components, such as
emitters and detectors. In this talk, I will present novel THz
devices – THz quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) [1] and THz quantum-well
photodetectors (QWP) – which are based on intersubband transition in
semiconductor quantum structures for wave generation and detection,
respectively. In collaboration with the National Research Council
(NRC), we employed a combined theoretical and experimental approach,
including numerical simulations based on a simple density matrix
model and state-of-the-art molecular beam epitaxy growth and device
fabrication, and demonstrated a new world record of the maximum
lasing temperature of 199.5 K for THz QCLs in 2012 [2]. I will also
report our other recent research progress, including the oscillator
strength effects on THz QCL device performance, the many-body
effects in THz QWP, and new active region design based on
phonon-photon-phonon relaxation for THz.
BIO:
Dr.
Dayan Ban
received B.S. and M.S. degrees, both in physics, from the University
of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 1993 and 1995
respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer
engineering from the University of Toronto in 2003. During
2001-2002, he was a visiting scientist at Nortel Networks Optical
Components, Ottawa, Ontario. After being with the Institute for
Microstructural Sciences of the National Research Council for three
years, he joined the faculty of the University of Waterloo in
November 2005, where he is now an associate professor in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the associate
director for nanotechnology engineering program. He stayed at MIT
eight months in 2009 for his sabbatical leave. He has authored and
co-authored more than 120 refereed publications and 4 US/Canadian
patents. His research interests include quantum optoelectronic
devices, scanning probe microscopy, nanofabrication, infrared LEDs,
photodetectors and up-converters, fiber Bragg grating sensors, and
Terahertz quantum cascade lasers.

Mobile Multihop Networking - A Long Shot beyond Line of Sight
Speaker:
Dr. Li Li, Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa,
Canada
Date:
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Time:
Technical Workshops:
10:00
am – 12:00 pm
Refreshment, and
Networking: 11:00
am – 12:00 pm
Location: School of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada
K1N 6N5
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat, by
contacting:
Melike Erol-Kantarci
(melike.erolkantarci@uottawa.ca ) or Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi
(almuhtadi@ieee.org) .
ABSTARCT:
Mobile multihop wireless networks are often known as the
Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET), the Vehicular Network (VANET) or
sometimes the Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) when
considering its intermittent end-to-end connectivity. They have
attracted much attention in the recent decade with a promise to
provide end-to end connectivity for various applications by
self-organizing the network when a pre-installed infrastructure is
not available. This talk will review the key challenges in the area
of mobile multihop networking. It will examine the application
opportunities for the mobile multihop networks and their entailed
requirements, the involved fundamental issues and some solution
options. We will also try to delve into a few interesting topics in
network protocols, in cross-layer design and in network security.
BIO:
Dr. Li Li
received her Ph.D
in Electrical Engineering from University of Ottawa in 1993. Dr. Li
then worked at Nortel Networks Ltd. as a system engineer, a system
architect and then a product manager. In 1999, Li joined SS8
Networks Ltd. As its chief architect. In 2003, Dr. Li joined
Communications Research Centre (CRC), a federal research lab under
Industry Canada. Dr. Li contributed to ITU-T and IETF standard
working groups and published in international conferences and
journals. She co-authored IETF RFC and has been awarded with several
US patents. Dr. Li is currently a research scientist and project
leader in the area of networking for the Defence Communications
Program at CRC. She also represents Canada in NATO’s standard group
on combat radio waveforms. Her current research focuses on mobile
tactical radio networks and adaptive networks.
Canadian National Capital Region Workshop on:
Waves Propagation
Speakers:
Dr. Qingsheng Zeng, Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa,
Canada
Dr. David Rogers, Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa,
Canada
Dr. Mhammad Ghaddar, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
(UQAT), Canada
Dr. César Amaya,, Communications
Research Centre Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Dr. Gordon James, Communications Research Centre Canada,
Ottawa, Canada
Dr. Robert Bultitude, Communications Research
Centre Canada, , Ottawa, Canada
Dr. Yvo de Jong, Communications Research
Centre Canada, , Ottawa, Canada
Mr. Tejinder Gill, National Instruments (NI) in Ottawa, Canada
Mr. Lurie Ilie, Averna Technologies, Ottawa,
Canada
Date:
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Time:
Technical Workshops:
8:3
am – 4:50 pm,
Coffee Break,
Refreshment, and
Networking: 9:55
am – 10:10 am,
Lunch:
12:10 pm – 1:00 pm (Free).
Coffee Break,
Refreshment, and
Networking:
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm.
Location: CRC Auditorium, Bldg 2A, Communications Research
Centre Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat, Dr.
Qingsheng Zeng
(qingsheng.zeng@crc.gc.ca) or Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi
(almuhtadi@ieee.org) .
Registrants will have priorities for seats, lunch and refreshments.
Bios:
Qingsheng ZENG received his Ph.D. from
University of Ottawa, is currently a senior research engineer, and
has been pursuing research projects as a principal investigator at
Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC). He has been serving as
a member of the Strategic Projects Selection Panel (Information and
Communications Technologies B) and Site Visit Committee of
Industrial Research Chair (IRC) for the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Qingsheng is an
adjunct professor at Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), and
has been co-supervising Ph.D. students with UQO, University of
Ottawa and Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – Centre
Energie, Matériaux et Télécommunications (INRS-EMT). He is the Chair
of AP (Antennas and Propagation) / MTT (Microwave Theory and
Techniques) Joint Chapter of IEEE Ottawa Section and a senior member
of IEEE.
David Rogers received a PhD, Physics, in 1973. From
1973 to 1976, he worked in the Radio & Radar Research Directorate of
the Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. From 1976 to
1990, he worked in industry in the US, mainly at COMSAT
Laboratories, Maryland, where he performed theoretical and
experimental R&D on radiowave propagation for application to
satellite communications. In 1990, he rejoined the CRC, in therad
propagation group. He is a former Vice-Chair of ITU-R Study Group 3
(Radiowave propagation), and a member of the IEEE, URSI Commission
F, and the American Geophysical Union.
Mohamad Ghaddar was born in Beirut, Lebanon. He
received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunications from the national
research institute of Telecommunications (INRS) in Montréal, Canada,
in 2004 and the Ph.D. degree in science and engineering
(telecommunications) from the University of Quebec in Outaouais
(UQO), Canada, in 2012. Currently, he is a postdoctoral research
fellow at the UQAT. His main research interests concern wireless
propagation measurements, modeling and signal processing, especially
in the emerging area of 60 GHz wireless communications and
ultra-wide band systems.
César Amaya received a BSc. degree in Electronics
Engineering from Ricardo Palma University (Lima, Peru) in 1979. In
1990 and 1995 he received the MSc and PhD degrees, respectively, in
EE from Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). From 1981 to
1988 he worked as a Project Engineer at the National Institute of
Research and Training in Telecommunications, in Lima, Peru. In 1997
he joined CRC, where he was leader of the Earth-Space Propagation
Group between 1999 and 2012, dealing with the analysis and modelling
of propagation impairments induced by the atmosphere on satellite
communication links. Dr. Amaya has been responsible for the Ka-band
experimental propagation campaigns conducted at CRC with NASA’s ACTS
and Telesat’s Anik F2 satellites. Before that, he was involved in
the campaign conducted in Europe with ESA’s Olympus satellite. He is
Canadian delegate to meetings of ITU-R Study Group 3 Working Parties
(dealing with radiowave propagation), Canada Chair of URSI
Commission F (Radiowave propagation and remote sensing), and was CRC
prime delegate to EU COST Actions 280 and IC0802.
Gordon James is an Emeritus Researcher at the
Communications Research Centre, Ottawa. His research is concerned
mainly with the physics of electromagnetic waves in the ionospheric
plasma. He uses data from satellites, rockets and other sources to
investigate natural and artificial wave processes in the VLF to HF
range. Recently his research has been concerned with active wave
experiments in space that used the ISIS and OEDIPUS radio sounders.
In the Canadian small spacecraft CASSIOPE/e-POP mission, presently
scheduled for a June 2013 launch, he serves as the Deputy Mission
Scientist and as the Principal Investigator for the ULF-HF Radio
Receiver Instrument.
Robert Bultitude graduated from the University of
New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada with the BSc. (Electrical
Engineering) degree in 1975. He subsequently worked for a couple of
years with a telecommunications consulting company in Vancouver,
Canada, where he was involved with the design of systems for the
radio coverage of highways in mountainous terrain. He then returned
for graduate studies, graduating with M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees,
both in Electronics Engineering, in 1980 and 1987, respectively,
from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Since 1980, he has
worked in research and the management thereof at the Canadian
Government Communications Research Centre (CRC), Ottawa. He is now a
Senior Research Scientist at CRC, and conducts research on radiowave
propagation and radio channel modelling associated with personal,
indoor, and mobile radio communications.
Robert is an Adjunct Professor at Carleton University, where has
held an NSERC Discovery Research Grant and a Major Research Grant,
and has supervised or co-supervised 3 Ph.D. theses, and 12 Master’s
theses. He was co-recipient of the Neaal Shepherd Best Propagation
Paper Award at the August 1997 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference.
Yvo de Jong received his degrees in Electrical
Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the
Netherlands and joined CRC in 2001. His Ph.D. thesis was on
radiowave propagation in urban microcells. From 2001 to 2005, his
research was mostly in the area of multiple-antenna (MIMO) wireless
systems. Since 2005, he is in CRC's Propagation Research group,
where he has been responsible for the development of a ray-tracing
model for propagation prediction in dense urban environments. He has
also conducted a number of propagation studies involving channel
measurements, the most recent one of which is the 700/2500 MHz study
he will talk about in this region wide workshop.
Tejinder Gill is aiding customers to develop test,
measurement and automation applications by leveraging the latest
technologies offered by NI’s off-the-shelf hardware and software
solutions as a Field Sales Engineer for National Instruments in
Ottawa. His experience with PXI, PXIe and FPGA hardware technology
has enabled customers develop high throughput applications,
including RF record/playback, advanced signal processing, control
and simulation. Tejinder has previous experience as a Platinum
Application Engineer with National Instruments and Structural Design
Engineer at Bombardier Aerospace. His educational background
includes a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from McGill
University.
Lurie Ilie is involved in numerous projects related
to GNSS applications, including GNSS simulator, receiver and
software design, GNSS Record & Playback systems, digital signal
processing and consulting as a Senior GNSS Specialist at Averna
Technologies. He gained system engineering experience at Esterline
CMC Electronics and GNSS receiver and simulator design experience
with the École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS). He has a Master’s
degree in GNSS signal processing from ETS...

Embrace Circuit Nonlinearity to Get Transmitter Linearity and Energy
Efficiency
Speaker:
Dr. Earl McCune, Besser Associates, Santa Clara, CA 95050, USA
Date:
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Time:
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm,
Technical Seminar:
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm,
Discussion, Refreshments,
and Networking: :
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Carleton University, Department of
Electronics (DoE), Mackenzie Engineering Building, Room ME 4124,
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat, Dr.
Qingsheng Zeng
(qingsheng.zeng@crc.gc.ca) or Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi
(almuhtadi@ieee.org)
ABSTARCT:
Wireless communications signals have evolved greatly over
the past century, from the use of Morse Code to very complicated
digital modulation schemes used in wideband CDMA (WCDMA) and 3GPP
Long-term evolution (LTE). This progression challenges the design of
transmitters to be simultaneously energy efficient, low distortion,
and spectrally clean. The increasing peak-to-average power ratio
(PAPR) characteristic of these signals is a particular problem.
Because it is important to understand why this is happening this
presentation begins with a discussion of the physical implications
of Shannon's Capacity Limit combined with the Fourier Transform.
A 'backwards' design perspective is then presented, where we begin
design from a maximally energy efficient circuit (a switch) and then
make it generate the required signals, instead of the conventional
approach of beginning with linear circuitry and then finding ways to
improve its energy efficiency. This directly leads to the design and
implementation of polar-modulation to improve both the energy
efficiency of the power amplifier and effective linearity of the
transmitter. Design of intentionally compressed circuitry is very
different from conventional linear amplifier techniques, and these
new design techniques will be discussed..
BIO:
Earl McCune received his BS/EECS degree from UC Berkeley, his MSEE (Radioscience)
from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. EE from UC Davis in 1979,
1983, and 1998 respectively. He is a serial Silicon Valley
entrepreneur, founding two successful start-up companies since 1986:
Digital RF Solutions (1986-1991, merged with Proxim) and Tropian
(1996 - 2006, acquired by Panasonic). He is now retired from his
position as a Technology Fellow of Panasonic, and is an author,
instructor, and independent consultant. He is currently an
instructor for Besser Associates presenting courses on Practical
Digital Wireless Signals and Frequency Synthesis Principles. He
holds 63 issued US patents, and is the author of Practical Digital
Wireless Signals (Cambridge 2010).

ComSoc-NAR Webinar Series
TOPIC:
Ad hoc Nanoscale and Molecular Communication Networks
Date:
Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 10:00 AM Eastern Time, 07:00 AM Pacific
Time
Speaker:
Stephen F Bush, Researcher, General Electric Global Research,
Niskayuna, NY, USA
Moderator:
Wahab Almuhtadi, IEEE Communications Society
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Canadian National Capital Region Workshop on:
Recent Progress in Antenna Analysis and Design for Wireless
Communications
Speakers:
Prof. Karu Esselle, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Prof. Langis Roy, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Dr. Jonathan Ethier, Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa,
Canada
Mr. E'qab Almajali, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Dr. Nicolas Gagnon, Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa,
Canada
Date:
Thursday, December 6th, 2012
Time:
Technical Workshops:
8:3
am – 4:30pm,
Coffee Break,
Refreshment, and
Networking:
10:00 am – 10:30 am,
Lunch:
12:00 pm –
1:00 pm (Free).
Coffee Break,
Refreshment, and
Networking:
2:40 pm – 3:00 pm.
Location: University of Ottawa, Colonel By Hall
(CBY) Building, Room A707, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
Dr. Qingsheng Zeng
(qingsheng.zeng@crc.gc.ca) or Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi
(almuhtadi@ieee.org)
Bios:
Karu Esselle received the BSc degree in
electronic and telecommunication engineering, with First Class
Honours, in 1983 from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He
received the MASc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the
University of Ottawa, Canada, in 1987 and 1990, respectively, with a
nearly perfect GPA. From 1984 to 1985, he was an Assistant Lecturer
at the University of Moratuwa. He was a research assistant at the
University of Ottawa from 1987 to 1990, and a Canadian Government
laboratory Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow from 1990 to 1992. In 1992,
he joined Macquarie University, Sydney where he is a full Professor
in Electronic Engineering at present. He was a Visiting Professor of
the University of Victoria, Canada, in 1996/7 and a Visiting
Scientist of the CSIRO ICT Centre in 2002 and 2005. He was awarded a
Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship from 1985 to 1990, the University
of Moratuwa Scholarship for the best first-year student in 1980 and
the Sri Lanka – Philippines Friendship scholarship for the best
student in 1981. Karu led the establishment of a $600,000 national
antenna testing facility, AusAMF, funded by the Australian Research
Council, Macquarie University and six other collaborating
institutions, and he is currently directing this facility as the
Chair of the Management Board. His industry experience includes
full-time employment as a Faculty Hire Design Expert by the Hewlett
Packard Laboratory, Palo Alto, USA, and several consultancies for
local and international companies including Cochlear, Cisco Systems
(USA), Optus Networks, Locata (USA)/QX Corporation, ResMed, FundEd
and Katherine-Werke (Germany) through Peter-Maxwell Solicitors.
Karu’s awards include the 2012 Best Published Paper Award in
Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from IESL NSW
(Australia), 2011 Outstanding Branch Counsellor Award from IEEE
Headquarters (USA), the 2009 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence
in Higher Degree Research Supervision (the very first such award
ever offered in Macquarie University), Macquarie University 2004
(Inaugural) Innovation Award for best
invention disclose, the 2002 Senior Researcher Award from Raj Mittra
Travel Grant Committee, IEEE AP-S Society, USA, and a Union Radio-Scientifique
Internationale (URSI) Young Scientist Award.
Langis Roy received his B.A.Sc. degree in
electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1987 and
his M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Carleton
University in 1989 and 1993, respectively. In 1993 he joined the
University of Ottawa’s Department of Electrical Engineering, and in
1999 was appointed to Carleton University. His research interests
are in microwave electronics, high performance opto/electronic
circuit packaging, integrated active antennas, numerical techniques
in electromagnetics, and electromagnetic compatibility of ICs. He
has co‐authored over 100 scientific papers with his
research group and holds three patents on system-on-package designs.
In 2005/06, Professor Roy was a visiting professor at the VTT
Micromodules Research Center (Oulu, Finland) and an invited
professor at the INSA Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
(Toulouse, France). In 2009 / 10 he was an invited researcher at
IETR / Université de Rennes (Rennes, France). Apart from these
excursions, Professor Roy has been the chair of the Department of
Electronics at Carleton University from 2003 to 2010. He has also
held the positions of 2010 chair of CHECE (Canadian Heads of
Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments) and board member of
ECEDHA (U.S. ECE Department Heads Association). He has served on the
panels of several Canadian research granting organizations (NSERC,
FQRNT) and program committees of IEEE sponsored conferences (ANTEM,
ACES). He is currently a professor of electrical engineering and an
associate dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs
at Carleton University. Professor Roy is a licensed professional
engineer in the Province of Ontario.
Jonathan L. T. Ethier received the B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc.
and the Ph.D. degrees from the University of Ottawa, Canada in 2006,
2008 and 2012, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He
joined the Communications Research Centre (CRC) in Ottawa in 2010,
where he is an antenna research engineer. His current research
interests include the application of modal theory to antenna
analysis and design, fragmented antennas, electrically small
antennas, reflectarrays,
transmitarrays, printed electronics and optimization using
evolutionary algorithms. Dr. Ethier received an NSERC Alexander
Graham Bell Graduate Scholarship in 2008, and a Best Student Paper
Award at the ANTEM Conference in 2010.
E’qab Almajali (S’10) received the B.Sc degree (hons.)
in electrical engineering from Mu’tah University, Jordan, in 2001
and M.A.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the
university of Ottawa , ON, Canada, in 2010, where he is currently
working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering.
He has been a Research Assistant in the School of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), University of Ottawa since
2008. His research interests include reflectarray and
subreflectarray antennas, periodic structures and computational
electromagnetics.
Nicolas Gagnon (SM’11) received the Bachelor of
Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) degree with the highest honors (summa cum
laude) and the Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.) degree, both in
electrical engineering, from the University of Ottawa, Canada, in
2000 and 2002, respectively. He received the Doctor of Philosophy
(Ph.D.) in electrical and computer engineering in 2011, also from
the University of Ottawa. Since 2001, he has been an Antenna
Research Engineer at the Communications Research Centre Canada,
Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include microwave lenses,
quasi-optics, permittivity measurement, microwave holography and
microwave antennas. He has published 12 journal papers, 20
conference papers, and is co-inventor on a patent application on
phase shifting surfaces. He served as co-chair of the Students Award
Committee at the ANTEM 2010 conference and he was a member of the
Technical Program Committee at the ANTEM 2006 and 2010 conferences.
In 2009, he was awarded the Best Student Paper Prize at the
Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC). The same
year, he received the Excellence in Technology Transfer Award from
the Canadian Federal Partners in Technology Transfer (FPTT). He also
received the Young Scientist Best Paper Award at the 2011 Joint
International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced
Applications (ICEAA) and IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and
Propagation in Wireless Communications (IEEE-APWC) held in Torino,
Italy. Dr. Gagnon is a licensed professional engineer in the
province of Québec, Canada, and a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs
du Québec.

Workshop on:
1)
Electromagnetic Macro Modeling of Propagation in Mobile
Wireless Communication: Theory and Experiment
2)
Physics of Multiantenna Systems and Their Impacts on Wireless
Systems
Speaker: Dr. Tapan K. Sarkar, Full
Professor , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA
Date:
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Time:
Technical Session:
2:30pm – 5:00pm,
Lecture (1):
2:00 pm – 3:15pm,
Networking Networking and refreshment: 3:15pm –
3:35pm
.
Lecture (2): 3:35 pm – 4:50pm,
Networking Networking and refreshment: 4:50pm –
5:00pm
.
Location: Carleton University,
Department of Electronics (DoE), Mackenzie Engineering Building,
Room ME 4124, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
Dr. Qingsheng Zeng
(qingsheng.zeng@crc.gc.ca) or Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi
(almuhtadi@ieee.org)
Lecture #1:
Electromagnetic Macro Modeling of Propagation in Mobile Wireless
Communication: Theory and Experiment
Abstract:
The objective of this presentation is to illustrate that an
electromagnetic macro modeling can properly predict the path loss
exponent in a mobile cellular wireless communication. Specifically,
we illustrate that the path loss exponent in a cellular wireless
communication is three preceded by a slow fading region and followed
by the fringe region where the path loss exponent is four.
Theoretically this will be illustrated through the analysis of
radiation from a vertical electric dipole situated over a horizontal
imperfect ground plane as first considered by Sommerfeld in 1909. To
start with, the exact analysis of radiation from the dipole is made
using the Sommerfeld formulation. The semi-infinite integrals
encountered in this formulation are evaluated using a modified
saddle point method for field points moderate to far distances away
from the source point to predict the appropriate path loss
exponents. The reflection coefficient method can also be derived by
applying a saddle point method to the semi-infinite integrals and it
is shown not to provide the correct path loss exponent. The various
approximations used to evaluate the Sommerfeld integrals are
described for different regions. It is also important to note that
Sommerfeld’s original 1909 paper had no error in sign. However,
Sommerfeld overlooked the properties associated with the pole. Both
accurate numerical analyses along with experimental data are
provided to illustrate the above statements. Both Okumura’s
experimental data and experimental data taken from different base
stations in urban environments at two different frequencies will
validate the theory. Experimental data reveal that a macro modeling
of the environment using an appropriate electromagnetic analysis can
accurately predict the path loss exponent for the propagation of
radio waves in a cellular wireless communication scenario.
Lecture #2:
Physics of
Multiantenna Systems and Their Impacts on Wireless Systems
Abstract:
The objective of this presentation is to present a scientific
methodology that can be used to analyze the physics of multiantenna
systems. Multiantenna systems are becoming exceedingly popular
because they promise a different dimension, namely spatial
diversity, than what was available to the communication systems
engineers: The use of multiple transmit and receive antennas
provides a means to perform spatial diversity, at least from a
conceptual standpoint. In this way, one could increase the
capacities of existing systems that already exploit time and
frequency diversity. In such a scenario it could be said that the
deployment of multiantenna systems is equivalent to using an
overmoded waveguide, where information is simultaneously transmitted
via not only the dominant mode but also through all the higher-order
modes. We look into this interesting possibility and study why
communication engineers advocate the use of such systems, whereas
electromagnetic and microwave engineers have avoided such
propagation mechanisms in their systems. Most importantly, we study
the physical principles of multiantenna systems through Maxwell’s
equations and utilize them to perform various numerical simulations
to observe how a typical system will behave in practice. There is an
important feature that is singular in electrical engineering and
that many times is not treated properly in system applications:
namely, superposition of power does not hold.
Speaker's Bio:
Tapan K. Sarkar is Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Syracuse University. His
current research interests deal with numerical solutions of operator
equations arising in electromagnetics and signal processing with
application to system design. He has authored or coauthored more
than 300 journal articles and numerous conference papers and 32
chapters in books and fifteen books, including his most recent ones,
Iterative and Self Adaptive Finite-Elements in Electromagnetic
Modeling (Boston, MA: Artech House, 1998), Wavelet Applications in
Electromagnetics and Signal Processing (Boston, MA: Artech House,
2002), Smart Antennas (IEEE Press and John Wiley & Sons, 2003),
History of Wireless (IEEE Press and John Wiley & Sons, 2005), and
Physics of Multiantenna Systems and Broadband Adaptive Processing
(John Wiley & Sons, 2007), Parallel Solution of Integral
Equation-Based EM Problems in the Frequency Domain (IEEE Press and
John Wiley & Sons, 2009), Time and Frequency Domain Solutions of EM
Problems Using Integral Equations and a Hybrid Methodology (IEEE
Press and John Wiley & Sons, 2010), and Higher Order Basis Based
Integral equation Solver (HOBBIES) (John Wiley & Sons 2012). He
received Docteur Honoris Causa from Universite Blaise Pascal,
Clermont Ferrand, France in 1998, from Politechnic University of
Madrid, Madrid, Spain in 2004, and from Aalto University, Helsinki,
Finland in 2012. He received the medal of the friend of the city of
Clermont Ferrand, France, in 2000.
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Workshop on:
1) From Classical to Quantum Nonlinear Optics in Integrated
Photonic Structures
2)
State of the Art Silicon Based Components and Systems
Date:
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
Time:
Technical Session:
2:30pm – 3:30pm
,
Networking Networking: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
.
Location: Res
Commons, Carleton University, Ottawa, K1S5B6
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting:
spie@doe.carleton.ca by Friday, Nov
16, 2012.
Speaker #1:
Prof. Marco Liscidini, Department of Physics, University of Pavia,
Via Bassi 6, Pavia, Italy
Abstract:
The drive to reduce the size of optical systems has led to a
transition from bulk-crystal optics to integrated devices, and to
the improvement of conversion efficiencies in nonlinear optical
processes While often designed with the enhancement of a classical
nonlinear optical process in mind, these integrated systems will
also enhance the corresponding quantum nonlinear optical process.
But is there a simple connection between the efficiencies of these
two types of processes? Can one infer anything about quantum
processes from classical experiments? In this talk we will show that
indeed the results of classical experiments allow for an accurate
prediction of quantum correlated photon-pair generation
efficiencies, opening a path to move from classical to quantum
nonlinear optics in integrated photonic structures.
Bio:
Marco Liscidini received the Ph.D degree in physics from the
University of Pavia (Italy) in 2006, working in the group of Prof.
Lucio Andreani, with a dissertation entitled "Nonlinear optical
properties of planar microcavities and photonic crystal slabs". From
2007 to 2009, he was Post-Doctoral Fellow in the group of Prof. John
E. Sipe at the Department of Physics of the University of Toronto,
Canada. Since 2009 is researcher associate at the Department Physics
of the University of Pavia. Since October 2011is adjoint professor
of Photonics at the Department Physics of the University of Pavia.
His research activity is focused on the theoretical study and
modeling of light-matter interaction in micro- and
nanostructures. He works in several areas of photonics, including
classical and quantum nonlinear optics, spontaneous emission,
plasmon and QW-exciton polaritons, optical sensing and bio-sensing,
and photovoltaic effects. He is coauthor of more than 40 papers in
peer-reviewed journals. His theoretical research activity is in
strong collaboration with experimental groups and in the framework
of national, European and Canadian research programs.
Speaker #2:
Prof. Winnie Ye, Department of Electronics, Carleton University,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Abstract:
Silicon based photonics has been under great scrutiny in recent
years due to their potential for making highly compact monolithic
integration of multifunctional electronic and photonic devices on
the same substrate. The most popular platform is the high index
contrast silicon-on-insulator (SOI) system. The high refractive
index contrast between the silica cladding and the silicon waveguide
core facilitates the confinement and guiding of light in structures
within submicron or nanometer dimensions. In addition, the mature
silicon microfabrication technology establishes a firm foundation
for making low-cost and compact integrated photonic devices. A wide
range of active and passive optical devices has been realized on the
SOI platform. The applications of these devices can be found in
high-speed communications, health industry, chemical and biological
analysis, environmental monitoring, optical interconnects, and
renewable energy. This talk will describe the state of the art
silicon based components and systems that are reported in the
literature, as well as the on-going project at Carleton University.
Bio:
Dr. Ye is a Canada Research Chair in Nano-scale
IC Design for Reliable Opto-Electronics and Sensors. She received
her undergraduate degree from Carleton University in Electrical
Engineering. She then attended the University of Toronto, receiving
an M.A.Sc in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her PhD degree was
received in 2007, for her research on stress engineering in
silicon-on-insulator devices at the National Research Council of
Canada (NRC). She then joined MIT and Harvard as a postdoctoral
fellow, in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Since July 2009, Dr. Ye has
been with Carleton University as a Faculty Member in the Department
of Electronics. Her current research interests are on micro- and
nano-photonics and their applications in optical sensing.
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IEEE Ottawa Section to Host ICC 2012
Thanks to hard work of
Ottawa Section, and Communications Society/BTS/CES Ottawa Joint
Chapter, plus the strong support of Telus, Ottawa Tourism,
Ottawa Convention Centre, and many many other local industry and
academia supporters, the Ottawa Section has won the right to
host the prestigious International Conference on Communications
in 2012. It may seem so long away; however, this effort has
taken a year to get to this point and a lot of work is yet to
come. More detail will be provided on our website. In the next
few months, we will be looking forward to contacting those who
have already come forward to help.
The announcement was
made on June 17, 2009, at the International Conference on
Communications (ICC) 2009 in Dresden, Germany. Ottawa beat out
other bidding major international cities. ICC 2012 will be held
at the Ottawa Convention Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from
June 10 till June 15, 2012. The estimated number of the
conference attendees will be 1500 to 2000. The conference will
have a significant impact in regaining the reputation and
business of the Canadian telecom and high tech companies that
are facing many challenges during these recent years, and would
raise the profile and visibility of these companies. As well as
the conference will benefit the academia, scientific and
engineering research, industry and local business in Ottawa.
ICC 2008 was held in
Beijing, China
http://www.ieee-icc.org/2008/.
ICC 2009 was held in Dresden, Germany
http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/.
ICC2010 will be held in Cape Town, South Africa
http://www.ieee-icc.org/2010/,
and ICC 2011 will be held in Kyoto, Japan
http://www.ieee-icc.org/2011/.
NEW : for more details, please visit
www.ieee-icc.org/2012

Networking and the Smart Grid:
The Relevance of Communications in the Future of Power Grid
Speaker:
Dr. Fabrizio Granelli, Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer
Science (DISI) of the University of Trento, Italy
Date:
Friday
June 15, 2012
Time:
Registration and Networking: 10:30
am – 10:55 am; Seminar: 11:00
a.m. – 12:00 p.m
(noon).
Location:
Ottawa Convention Centre, Room 211, 2nd floor,55 Colonel By Drive,
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 9J2.
Parking:
Public parking, to see the location and payment method,
click here.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab
Almuhtadi,
Yifeng Zhou,
or
Qingsheng Zeng.
Abstract:
The Smart Grid represents a
clear step forward in improving power generation, distribution,
consumption. Indeed, the Smart Grid is a digitally enabled
electrical grid that gathers, distributes, and acts on information
about the behavior of all participants (suppliers and consumers) in
order to improve the efficiency, importance, reliability, economics,
and sustainability of electricity services. In this scenario,
communications gain a central point as a key enabling technology in
supporting the “intelligence” of the system. Nevertheless, the area
of communications and associated knowledge can even play a greater
role, in supporting modeling, simulation and design of the next
generation power grid. The seminar aims at providing an overview of
the concept and architecture of the Smart Grid, focusing on the
contributions of the communications community in terms of
communications infrastructure and methodologies. Sample scenarios
will be presented to illustrate the relevance of communications in
the power grid
.
About the
Speaker:
Fabrizio Granelli is IEEE ComSoc
Distinguished Lecturer for 2012-13, and Associate Professor at the
Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of the
University of Trento (Italy). From 2008, he is deputy head of the
academic council in Information Engineering. He received the «Laurea»
(M.Sc.) degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of
Genoa, Italy, in 1997, with a thesis on video coding, awarded with
the TELECOM Italy prize, and the Ph.D. in Telecommunications from
the same university, in 2001. Since 2000 he is carrying on his
research and didactical activities (currently Associate Professor in
Telecommunications) at the Dept. of Information Engineering and
Computer Science – University of Trento (Italy). He was coordinator
of the Networking Laboratory in 2006-2010. In August 2004 and August
2010, he was visiting professor at the State University of Campinas
(Brasil). He is author or co-author of more than 130 papers
published in international journals, books and conferences. His main
research activities are in the field of networking, with particular
reference to performance modeling, cross-layering, wireless
networks, cognitive radios and networks, green networking and smart
grid communications. Dr. Granelli is guest-editor of ACM Journal on
Mobile Networks and Applications, special issues on “WLAN
Optimization at the MAC and Network Levels”, “Ultra-Wide Band for
Sensor Networks” and “Recent Advances in IEEE 802.11 WLANs:
Protocols, Solutions and Future Directions”, guest-editor of ACM
TOMACS special issue on “Modeling and Simulation of Cross-layer
Interactions in Communication Networks”, of Hindawi Journal of
Computer Systems, Networks and Communications special issue on
“Lightweight Mobile and Wireless Systems: Technologies,
Architectures and Services”. He was Co-Chair of 10th and 13th IEEE
Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis, and Design of
Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD’04 and CAMAD’08). Dr.
Granelli is Founder and General Vice-Chair of the First
International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON’05) and General
Chair of the 11th and 15th IEEE Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling,
Analysis, and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD’06
and CAMAD’10). He is TPC Co-Chair of GLOBECOM 2007-2009 and 2012
Symposia on “Communications QoS, Reliability and Performance
Modeling”. He was voting member of IEEE SCC41 for standards IEEE
P1900.1 and IEEE P1900.2, and he’s currently voting member of the
IEEE ComSoc Education Board. He was officer (Secretary 2005-2006,
Vice-Chair 2007-2008, Chair 2009-2010) of the IEEE ComSoc Technical
Committee on Communication Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM),
and Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Letters (2007-2011) and
Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking (2008-2011). He is
Senior Member of IEEE and Associate Editor of IEEE Communications
Surveys and Tutorials and Wiley International Journal on
Communication Systems.
To
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here.
Greener Video Coding
Speaker:
Prof. Ricardo L. de Queiroz, Universidade de Brasilia
Date:
Friday
March 2, 2012
Time:
Registration and Networking: 5:00
pm – 05:30 pm; Seminar: 05:30 p.m. –
06:30 p.m.
Location:
Algonquin College,
Room T129,
T-Building,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Parking:
at the
parking
area # 9. Please respect restricted areas. No fee after 5:00 p.m.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting: Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org, Yifeng Zhou at
yifeng.zhou@crc.gc.ca; or
Jun Li at jun.li@crc.gc.ca.
Abstract:
Computers and information technology are proving themselves as
energy-hungry partners in a society with carbon emission issues to
be resolved. Video coding is a very computation-intensive,
energy-demanding task. We approach green computing applied to video
by setting task parameters in order to minimize energy consumption
for a given performance. We applied the concept to H.264/AVC video
coding, showing that one can substantially reduce energy consumption
at the expense of a small rate-distortion (RD) performance penalty.
We used a state-of-the-art implementation, x264, for tests and show
RD results for comparisons and discussions.
About the
Speaker:
Dr. Ricardo L. de Queiroz received his
Ph.D. degree from The University of Texas at Arlington in 1994. He
joined the research staff at Xerox Corp. from 1994 to 2002. Since
2004 he is with Universidade de Brasilia, where he is now a Full
Professor at the Computer Science Department. Dr. de Queiroz has
published over 140 articles in Journals and conferences and
contributed chapters to books as well. He also holds 46 issued
patents. He is an elected member of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society's Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) Technical Committee
and a former member of other committees and editorial boards. He has
been appointed an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished
Lecturer for the 2011-2012 term. He also organized many conferences
and IEEE chapters. His research interests include image and video
compression, multirate signal processing, and color imaging.
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DL1: Title: Many-Core Chips: The New High-Performance Computing
Platform
DL2: Title: Challenges for Electronics Design in the Nano-Scale
Speaker:
Prof. Yehea Ismail, Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Circuits and
Systems society, Dept. of EECS, Northwestern University, Evanston,
IL60208-3118,
USA
Date:
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Time:
DL1: 11:30AM - 12:30 p.m.;
DL2: 12:30 p.m. –
01:30 p.m.
Refreshments: Served
Location:
ME 4124, Mackenzie Engineering Building, Carleton University,
Ottawa, On., Canada
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting: Ram Achar at
achar@doe.carleton.ca, or Wahab Almuhtadi at almuhtadi@ieee.org.
Abstracts:
Abstract DL1: Many-Core Chips: The New
High-Performance Computing Platform
Sacling as we know it is taking a different direction from the last
three decades. Chips with tens of billions of transistors and
hundreds of cores are expected to be the future of scaling. These
chips will achieve performance through parallelism and application
specific optimized cores. This trend will use superior technologies
to integrate more cores on a chip rather than to push the frequency
envelope as in the past. It is expected that every aspect of design
and analysis will need to be modified to accommodate this new
platform and trend. There is a clear need for new CAD tools and
design methodologies that are very different from existing tools in
both their focus and scope. This talk will delve into the specific
challenges with respect to both design and CAD that is required for
these many core chips. The talk will also provide an overview into
the market and technology factors guiding and driving this trend.
Attendees will be provided with insight into both present and future
research vectors to support this nascent exponential.
Abstract DL2: Challenges for Electronics
Design in the Nano-Scale
Semiconductor technologies exhibited explosive growth in complexity
and speed over the last two decades. Since the early 1980s, the
device sizes have scaled down from few micrometers to tens of
Nano-meters and the operating frequencies have increased from a few
megahertz to several gigahertz. Also, the spacing between devices
and interconnect have dramatically decreased due to the continuous
scaling down of the technology feature size. These trends have led
to issues and challenges in the design and analysis of high
performance integrated circuits that previous generations did not
exhibit. Most of these issues are at the circuit and interconnect
(physical) levels. Also, these issues are expected only to increase
in importance in future generations of integrated circuits. This
talk will overview the most important challenges for electronics
design in the nano-scale.
About the
Speaker:
Prof. Yehea Ismail is the director of
the Nanoelectronics Center at Northwestern University and the AUC.
The center was inaugurated by Craig Barrett, Intel’s chairman of the
board in 2008, while in Nile University.
Professor Ismail is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transaction on
Very Large Scale Integration (TVLSI) and the chair elect of the IEEE
VLSI Technical Committee. He is on the editorial board of the
Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, was on the editorial
board of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I.
Fundamental Theory and Applications, and a guest editor for a
special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale
Integration (VLSI) Systems on “On-Chip Inductance in High Speed
Integrated Circuits”. He has also chaired many conferences such as
GLSVLSI, IWSOC, ISCAS. He is the Chief Scientist of the Innovation
and Entrepreneurship Center of the Ministry of Communications and
Information Technology, Egypt.
To
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here.
Coordinated Control Strategy and Energy Optimization in Smart Grid
Speaker:
Dr. Hasan Mehrjerdi, Industrial
Postdoctoral Fellow at Research Institute of Hydro-Quebec (IREQ),
Varennes, Canada
Date:
Friday
January 20, 2012
Time:
Registration and Networking: 12:45 p.m.; Seminar: 01:00 p.m. –
02:00 p.m.
Location:
ME 4124, Mackenzie Engineering Building, Carleton University,
Ottawa, On., Canada
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting: Ram Achar at
achar@doe.carleton.ca, or Wahab Almuhtadi at almuhtadi@ieee.org.
Abstract:
Energy is one of the top priorities in the world and smart grids are
the centerpiece of this energy focus. Grid design, control and
stability are the main objectives of smart grid technology in order
to enhance the voltage stability of electric power distribution
systems during faulty conditions and disturbances. Analysis and
benefits of implementing smart grids based on multi-agent systems
(MAS) show that it is a suitable technology for the complex and
highly dynamic operation of a power system network. The existing
power grid suffers from the lack of pervasive and effective
communications, monitoring, fault diagnostics, and automation
control, which further increase the possibility of a region-wide
system breakdown due to the cascading effect that can be initiated
by a single fault. Currently, for the power system, voltage control
systems are centralized and operated through a central computer
which supervises the output of all generators and adjusts optimally
the voltage set points of these generators. This centralized
regulation algorithm must know the whole network configuration and
therefore for a large-scale power system, it may become difficult to
perform a centralized control system. This motivates us to study and
find efficient and secure voltage control mechanism in a power
system by identifying the most appropriate controls based on
decentralized and distributed control. This presentation firstly
presents a definition and vision of the smart grid and its key areas
including: Sensing and Measurement, Advanced Control Methods,
Advanced Components and Integrated Communications. Secondly, an
optimal electrical network graph partitioning technique is presented
that divides a power network into appropriate regions to eventually
prevent the propagation of disturbances and minimize the interaction
between these regions. The optimized number of partitions is found
based on the bus voltage sensitivity to the disturbances being
applied to the loads in each region. A number of representative
buses which are labeled as pilot buses are established and these are
identified in each region displaying the critical point for
secondary voltage control. The graph theory applied to this
situation has the ability to simplify and decompose large connected
power networks.
About the
Speaker:
Hasan Mehrjerdi received the B.Sc.
degree in Electrical Engineering from Ferdowsi University of
Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, the M.Sc. degree in Power System Engineering
from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, and a Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering as a member of the Power Electronics and
Industrial Control Research Group (GREPCI) from Quebec University
(ETS), Montreal, QC, Canada, in 2010.
In 2005, he was with the Power Research Institute (Electrical
Machinery Group), Tehran, Iran and then in 2006, he worked as a
research assistant with Renewable Energy and Power Electronics group
at Moncton University, Moncton, Canada on a project related to the
Power Flow Optimization for Fuel Cell Electrical Vehicle (FCEV).
Currently, he is an Industrial Postdoctoral Fellow at Research
Institute of Hydro-Quebec (IREQ), Varennes, Canada. He is a member
of Electrical Network and Mathematics group and his research
interests are in power systems, smart grid, multi-agents control and
coordination, and renewable generation.
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Large-Scale Industrial Software Systems: Research Opportunities and
Challenges
Speaker:
Dr. Srini Ramaswamy, , Head for
Industrial Software Systems research at ABB India Corporate Research
Center, in Bangalore, India
Date:
Thursday
October 20, 2011
Time:
Registration and Networking:
06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30 p.m. –
07:30 p.m
Location:
Algonquin College,
Room T129,
T-Building,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Parking:
at the
parking
area # 9. Please respect restricted areas. No fee after 5:00 p.m.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting: Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
Abstract:
Software systems development is fast becoming a globalized activity
and this is an increasingly major trend within all industrial
sectors. Due to the many benefits of globalization, from the
integration of multiple ethnic / market perspectives driven idea
generation to development cost structuring, middle and small-sized
software companies are now beginning to establish worldwide
development campuses / partners. Thus, globalization has become an
overwhelming phenomenon in the software industry and is rapidly
defining the nature of software development for the 21st century.
For Industrial Automation companies like ABB in emerging markets
such as India, these opportunities are both exciting we well as
immensely challenging. They present problems that are incredibly
different from similar-sized western markets and require a
significant amount of innovation and creativity to develop robust,
sustainable, yet significantly low-cost solutions for such markets.
In this talk, I will present an overview of ABB in India and its
research activities, specifically in the areas of Industrial
Communications and Industrial Software Systems.
About the
Speaker:
Dr. Srini Ramaswamy transitioned from
an academic to a corporate research career in 2010, as the head for
Industrial Software Systems research at ABB India Corporate Research
Center, in Bangalore, India. His primary role is in research team
building and leadership, developing university relationships and
engaging in applied research for the creation and execution of
projects with transformative value for the company's power
technologies and process automation business units. On the academic
front, he also serves as a visiting professor at the University of
Arkansas at Little Rock and a honorary adjunct professor at the
Indian Institute of Information Technology – Bangalore.
His research interests are on intelligent and flexible control,
behavior modeling, analysis and simulation, software stability and
scalability; particularly in the design and development of complex
software systems. Specific applications include real-time control
issues in automation and manufacturing, data mining and distributed
real-time applications. His work is motivated by the desire to
understand the various requirements to build scalable, intelligent
software systems with the inherent ability to successfully respond
to observed and reported behavioral changes in their environment.
Dr. Ramaswamy has over 150 publications including over 30
peer-reviewed journal articles in IEEE, Elsevier, Journal of Systems
and Software, etc. Additionally he is also an active reviewer for
the ACM Computing Surveys. Dr. Ramaswamy has actively participated
in over 50 M.S student project and thesis works in Computer Science,
Applied Sciences, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial
and Manufacturing Engineering and Information Systems. He has
additionally participated in over 5 PhD student dissertations in
Applied Computing, served as external co-advisor for 3 PhD students
in France and served as evaluator for several PhD students in India.
Dr. Ramaswamy earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the
Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) at the University of
Louisiana at Lafayette in 1994. He is a Senior member of the IEEE
and a Senior member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).
He is an active member of the IEEE SMCS Technical Committee on
Distributed Intelligent Systems and also serves as an Associate
Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics,
Part C: Applications and Reviews.
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Autonomous Aero-Visual and Sensor Based Inspection Network for Power
Grid Asset Monitoring
Speaker:
Dr. Arun Somani,
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
Date:
Thursday
September 22, 2011
Time:
Registration and Networking:
06:30 p.m.; Seminar: 07:00 p.m. –
08:00 p.m
Location:
Algonquin College,
Room T129,
T-Building,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Parking:
at the
parking
area # 9. Please respect restricted areas. No fee after 5:00 p.m.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting: Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
Abstract:
This talk introduces a theoretical and experimental program to
develop the inspection and fault detection technology needed to
integrate MAVs for persistent intelligence, reconnaissance,
maintenance and surveillance for obscured or logistically
challenging assets in non-urban environments. The design is
explained using a context of heterogeneous deployment of wireless
sensors for real-time asset monitoring by anticipating exceptional
conditions and building the system to cope with them. The system
converges towards an error-free state with self-stabilization, the
ability to fall back to a safe mode in a financially feasible
manner. This sophisticated mechanism requires a real-time capacity
estimation capability to sustain the quality-of-service, which can
be achieved by a distributed sensor network. We discuss issues in
design and information propagation in such sensor clustered
topology, optimization for power-aware networking, and link and node
capacity assignment to achieve the desired goals.
About the
Speaker:
Arun K. Somani is currently Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. Prior
to that, he was a Professor in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Department of Computer Science and Engineering at
the University of Washington, Seattle, WA and Scientific Officer for
Govt. of India, New Delhi from. He earned his MSEE and PhD degrees
in electrical engineering from the McGill University, Montreal,
Canada, in 1983 and 1985, respectively. Professor Somani's research
interests are in the area of computer system design and
architecture, fault tolerant computing, computer interconnection
networks, WDM-based optical networking, and reconfigurable and
parallel computer systems. He has taught courses in these areas and
published more than 250 technical papers, several book chapters, and
has supervised more than 100 graduate students (35 PhD students). He
is the chief architects of an anti-submarine warfare system for
Indian navy, Meshkin fault-tolerant computer system architecture for
the Boeing Company, Proteus multi-computer cluster-based system for
US Coastal Navy, and HIMAP design tool for the Boeing Commercial
Company. He has served on several program committees of various
conferences in his research areas, served as IEEE distinguished
visitor and IEEE distinguished tutorial speaker, and delivered
several key note speeches, tutorials and distinguished and invited
talks all over the world. He received commonwealth fellowship for
his postgraduate work from Canada during 1982-85, awarded
Distinguished Engineer member of ACM, and elected a Fellow of IEEE
for his contributions to “theory and applications of computer
networks.”
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Workshop: Two Seminars on Sept. 12,
2011
1- Monitoring-Based Key Revocation Schemes for
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Speaker:
Dr. Prof. Guang
Gong, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University
of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Date:
Monday, September 12, 2011.
Time:
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm,
Seminars: 12:00 pm –
1:30 pm,
Discussion, Refreshments and Networking: 1:30 pm –
2:00 pm
Location:
University of Ottawa, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, SITE Building, Room 5084 (Boarding Room), 800 King Edward
Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
ADMISSION:
Free. Registration required.
To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail
contacting: Qingsheng Zeng
or Wahab Almuhtadi.
Abstract:
A primary
security challenge in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) is the
likelihood of node compromises caused by weak physical protection
and hostile environments. As a result, key revocation is essential.
In this talk, I will present our recent results on key
revocation problems in MANETs.
I will introduce some
novel methods for the design of fully self-organized
key revocation schemes for MANETs, which
can be directly used in any pairing-based identity based
cryptography (IBC) scheme, are adaptable to certificate revocation
schemes in public-key infrastructure (PKI) solutions,
and secret key-based schemes in MANETs as well.
In the first scenario, the
nodes monitor their neighbors, securely propagate their
observations, and revoke keys once designed threshold accusations
have been received. The
solution is very efficient, completely thwart many attacks
(including Sybil, impersonation and replay attacks as well as other
attacks by insiders and outsiders) and is resilient to advanced
attacks by colluding nodes and roaming adversaries. In the second
scenario, the statistical Dirichlet multinomial model is introduced
to key revocation processes.
Each node keeps track of three categories of behavior, i.e., good,
suspicious and malicious behavior, which is defined and classified
by an external trusted authority, and updates its knowledge about
other nodes’ behavior using
3-dimension Dirichlet distribution.
It is worth to point it out that those methods have been
extended to secure fully distribute peer-to-peer (P2P) network
systems.
About the
Speaker:
Guang Gong received a B.S. degree in mathematics in
1981, a M.S. degree in applied mathematics in 1985 and a Ph.D.
degree in electrical engineering in 1990, from universities in
China. She received a
Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome,
Italy, and spent the following year there. After return from Italy,
she was promoted to an Associate Professor at the University of
Electrical Science and Technology of China.
During 1995-1998, she had worked with several internationally
recognized outstanding coding experts and cryptographers including
Dr. Solomon W. Golomb at the University of Southern California, Los
Angeles. She joined University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in
1998, an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering in September 2000.
She is a full Professor since 2004. Her research interests
are in the areas of signal processing for wireless communications,
communication and network security, and lightweight
cryptography. She has
authored or co-authored more than 200 technical papers and one book,
co-authored with Dr. Golomb, entitled as Signal Design for Good
Correlation -- for Wireless Communication, Cryptography and Radar,
published by Cambridge Press in 2005.
She serves/served as Associate Editors for several journals
including an Associate Editor for Sequences for IEEE Transactions on
Information Theory, and served on a number of technical program
committees of conferences.
Dr. Gong has received several awards including the Best Paper Award
from the Chinese Institute of Electronics in 1984, Outstanding
Doctorate Faculty Award of Sichuan Province, China, in 1991 and the
Premier’s Research Excellence Award, Ontario, Canada, in 2001, and
NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award, 2009, Canada.
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2- Waveguide (Fiber)-based Ultrafast All-optical Signal
Processors for
Applications in Computing, Telecommunication and Measurement
Speaker:
Dr. Prof. José Azaña, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Centre Energie, Matériaux et Télécommunications (INRS-EMT),
University of Québec, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Date:
Monday, September 12, 2011.
Time:
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm,
Seminars: 12:00 pm –
1:30 pm,
Discussion, Refreshments and Networking: 1:30 pm –
2:00 pm
Location:
University of Ottawa, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, SITE Building, Room 5084 (Boarding Room), 800 King Edward
Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
ADMISSION:
Free. Registration required.
To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail
contacting: Qingsheng Zeng
or Wahab Almuhtadi.
Abstract:
This talk will review recent
work on the development of fundamental signal processors operating
on ultrafast optical signals, in particular all-optical temporal
differentiators and integrators, implemented in fiber-optics or
integrated-waveguide technologies. Applications in computing (e.g.
differential equation solving), telecommunication (e.g. pulse
shaping, optical switching), and measurement (e.g. temporal phase
reconstruction) will be also briefly discussed.
About the
Speaker:
José Azaña
received the Telecommunication Engineer degree (six years
engineering program) and Ph.D. degree in telecommunication
engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain,
in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He completed part of his PhD
research at University of Toronto, ON, Canada (1999) and University
of California, Davis, CA, USA (2000). Following some postdoctoral
research at McGill University (2001-2003), he was appointed as an
Assistant Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche
Scientifique - Centre Energie, Matériaux et Télécommunications
(INRS-EMT) in Montreal, where he is presently a Full Professor. His
research interests cover a wide range of topics, including all-fiber
grating technologies, ultrafast photonic signal processing, optical
pulse shaping, fiber-optic telecommunications, all-optical
computing, measurement of ultrafast events, light pulse
interferometry and microwave waveform generation and manipulation.
He has to his credit more than 260 publications in top scientific
journals and leading technical conferences, including more than 130
publications in high-impact peer-review journals, and many invited
review journal papers and invited presentations in international
meetings. Some of his published works have been very highly cited by
his peers. Prof. Azaña is a member of IEEE and OSA. He has served as
a Guest Editor of two monographs devoted to the area of Optical
Signal Processing, published by EURASIP J. Appl. Signal Proc. (2005)
and J. of Lightwave Technol. (2006). He has been recognized with a
number of prestigious research awards and distinctions, including
the XXII national prize for the best doctoral thesis in data
networks from the Association of Telecommunication Engineers of
Spain (2002), the extraordinary prize for the best doctoral thesis
from his former university, UPM (2003), the 2008 IEEE-Photonics
Society (formerly LEOS) Young Investigator Award, and the 2009
IEEE-MTT Society Microwave Prize.
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Time Domain Adjoint Sensitivities and their Applications:
State of the Art
Speaker:
Dr. Prof. Bakr from the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada
Date:
Friday September 16, 2011
Time:
Registration and Networking: 10:00
a.m..; Seminar:
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Location:
University of Ottawa, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, SITE Building, Room 5084 (Boarding Room), 800 King Edward
Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
ADMISSION:
Free. Registration required.
To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Qingsheng Zeng or
Wahab Almuhtadi.
Abstract:
The design
process of high frequency structures is usually carried out using
Electromagnetic (EM) simulators.
A model of the structure under consideration is constructed
and a number of key variables controlling its response are chosen.
An optimization algorithm (optimizer) drives the simulator to
determine the optimal set of values of the designable parameters
that satisfies the design specifications.
Gradient-based optimizers are robust with well established
convergence proofs.
They, however, require sensitivity information which may require
large number of extra simulations for each design step.
The adjoint variable methods (AVM), aim at efficiently estimating
the response sensitivities.
Using at most one extra EM simulation of an adjoint system,
the response sensitivities with respect to all parameters are
estimated regardless of the number of parameters.
For the case of network parameters, this extra simulation can
be eliminated. The same
simulations supplying the network parameters supply their
sensitivities as well.
This makes gradient-based optimization more efficient.I
n this talk we review the state of the art of the time-domain AVMs
and their applications. We
discuss recent techniques that make this approach more efficient in
terms of speed and memory storage.
We show a number of interesting applications in microwave
imaging, antenna design, and design of photonic devices.
Open points for research are also addressed.
About the
Speaker:
Mohamed H. Bakr received
a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in
Electronics and Communications Engineering and Engineering
Mathematics from Cairo University, Egypt in 1992 and 1996,
respectively with distinction (honors).
He earned the Ph.D. degree in September 2000 from the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster
University. In November 2000,
he joined the Computational Electromagnetics Research Laboratory
(CERL), University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada as an NSERC Post
Doctoral Fellow. Between July
2008 and June 2009, he was with Research In Motion (RIM) as a senior
researcher during his Sabbatical leave.
His research areas of interest include computer-aided design
and modeling of microwave and photonic circuits, neural network
applications, efficient optimization using time/frequency domain
methods, and bioelectromagnetism. He is a recipient of a Premier’s
Research Excellence Award (PREA) from the province of Ontario in
2003, and a Discovery Accelerator Award (DAS) in 2011.
He is currently an associate professor with the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University.
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Geometrical Probability in Wireless Networks
Speaker:
Professor Jianping Pan, University of
Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date:
Monday August 15, 2011/ 10:30 am – 11:20 am.
Time:
Registration and Networking:
09:50 a.m.; Seminar:
100:0 a.m. – 11:20 a.m
Location:
Room
HP 4351, Carleton University, 1125
Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada , K1S 5B6
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting: Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org, or Jun Li at
jun-li@ieee.org .
Organized by: IEEE Ottawa ComSoc/BTS/CES Joint Chapter, and
SP/OE/GRS Joint Chapter
Co-sponsored by: IEEE Ottawa Joint Chapters of ComSoc/BTS/CES and
SP/OE/GRS, School of Mathematics and Statistic of Carleton
University, and Communication Research Centre Canada
Abstract:
Electric Many performance metrics in wireless networks are
ultimately nonlinear functions of the distances between
transmitters, receivers and interferers. For a given network
coverage and a distribution of random users within the network, how
to characterize the distances among these users becomes a challenge
and a prerequisite to accurate system modeling and analysis. This
talk presents some recent results in Geometrical Probability for
random distances associated with rhombuses (e.g., directional
antennas) and hexagons (e.g., cellular systems).
About the
Speaker:
Dr Jianping Pan
is currently an associate professor of computer science at the
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He
received his Bachelor's and PhD degrees in computer science from
Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, and he did his
postdoctoral research at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo,
Ontario, Canada. He also worked at Fujitsu Labs and NTT Labs. His
area of specialization is computer networks and distributed systems,
and his current research interests include protocols for advanced
networking, performance analysis of networked systems, and applied
network security. He received the IEICE Best Paper Award in 2009 and
the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation's Telesys Award in
2010, and has been serving on the technical program committees of
major computer communications and networking conferences including
IEEE INFOCOM, ICC, Globecom, WCNC and CCNC. He is a senior member of
the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE.
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Communications for the
Smart Grid
Speaker:
Dr. Stephen Bush, Researcher at General
Electric Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, USA
Date:
Tuesday
April 12, 2011
Time:
Registration and Networking:
06:30 p.m.; Seminar: 07:00 p.m. –
08:00 p.m
Location:
Algonquin College,
Room T129,
T-Building,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting: Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
Abstract:
Electric power grids around the world are rapidly evolving to make
more extensive use of communication technology. New intelligent
electronic devices are being developed and deployed in which
communications is becoming a ubiquitous and natural part of power
systems allowing new forms of collaborative behavior. An analogy is
often made between the interconnection of personal computers many
decades ago resulting in the rise of the Internet and what is
happening within the power grid today. However, the power grid is a
large and complex machine with many aspects; it comprises a very
broad set of topics. This hour-long talk will begin with a review of
power systems and focus upon emerging communications capabilities
within the power grid including: metering and demand-response,
distributed generation, fault detection isolation and restoration,
and a brief overview of emerging standards. We will end with a
discussion of more speculative innovations that may impact the smart
grid further into the future.
About the
Speaker:
Stephen
F Bush received the B.S. degree in electrical and computer
engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, the
M.S. degree in computer science from Cleveland State University,
Cleveland, OH, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Kansas,
Lawrence. He is currently a Researcher at General Electric Global
Research, Niskayuna, NY. Before joining GE Global Research, he was a
Researcher at the Information and Telecommunications Technologies
Center (ITTC), University of Kansas. He has been the Principal
Investigator for many DARPA and Lockheed Martin sponsored research
projects including: Active Networking (DARPA/ITO), Information
Assurance and Survivability Engineering Tools (DARPA/ISO), Fault
Tolerant Networking (DARPA/ATO), and most recently, Connectionless
Networks (DARPA/ATO), an energy aware sensor network project. He is
the author of Nanoscale Communication Networks (Norwood, MA: Artech
House, 2010). He coauthored a book on active network management,
titled Active Networks and Active Network Management: A Proactive
Management Framework (New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Publishers, 2001). He has taught Quantum Computation and
Communication at RPI and Computer Communications at the State
University of New York at Albany. Dr. Bush is the past chair of the
IEEE Emerging Technical Subcommittee on Nanoscale, Molecular, and
Quantum Networking. He is also on the steering committee for the
IEEE Smart Grid Vision Project.
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Green Power and the Modern Grid
Speaker:
Jerry Ramie, ARC Technical
Resources Inc., San Jose, CA
,
USA
Date: Thursday,
March 3, 2011
Time:
Registration:
06:00 p.m;
Refreshments and Networking:
06:30 p.m.;
Seminar:
07:00 p.m. – 08:00 p.m.
Location:
FIDUS SYSTEMS Inc., 900 Morrison Drive, Suite 203, Ottawa, ON,
K2H8K7
ADMISSION:
Free and is on a first to reply basis. Preference
given to IEEE EMC, MTT/AP, PES and ComSoc/BTS/CES members. Seating is limited.
E-mail Reservation is required. Pizza and soft drinks will be
served.
REGISTRATION:
Pre-registration required. To ensure a seat, please register
by e-mail contacting:
qiubo.ye@crc.gc.ca.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE EMC Ottawa Chapter, MTT/AP Ottawa Joint
Chapter, IEEE PES Ottawa Chapter, and IEEE ComSoc/BTS/CES Ottawa
Joint Chapter.
CONTACT: details -
Syed Bokhari, Qiubo Ye,
Wahab Almuhtadi.
Abstract:
This talk is a general
presentation on the Smart Grid. It describes the seven attributes of
the smart grid, presents the DOE's modern grid strategy and some
typical architectures. It covers the choices in wired and wireless
utility communications media that will be needed for deploying the
Advanced Metering Infrastructure and presents Standards testing to
address physical (including EMC) threats to the infrastructure
About the
Speaker:
Jerry Ramie is a 26 year veteran of the
EMC, communications and power industries and has authored six books
on substation EMC for the Electric Power Research Institute. (EPRI)
He has published articles on grid modernization and sits on the EMC
Committee of the American Radio Relay League, (ARRL) on the Board of
Directors of the Santa Clara Valley EMC Society, is a voting member
of the IEEE-P1775 committee on EMC in BPL installations, a member of
the IEEE Standards Association, an iNARTE-certified EMC technician,
Secretary of the ANSI Accredited Standards Committee C63R on EMC and
a Senior Member of the IEEE. He can be reached at
jramie@arctechnical.com.
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RFID - Newly Emerging Technology and Research Areas
Speaker:
Dr. Qinghan Xiao, IEEE Senior Member, a
Defence Scientist, Defence R&D Canada (DRDC),
Ottawa, Canada
Date:
Thursday
December 9, 2010
Time:
Registration and Networking:
03:30 p.m.; Seminar: 04:00 p.m. –
05:00 p.m
Location:
Algonquin College,
Room
P210,
P-Building,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting:
Gerry Crichlow at
crichlg@algonquincollege.com or
Bashir Morshed at
morsheb@algonquincollege.com
or Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
Abstract:
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is listed as one of the ten
most important technologies of the century, which is an area of
automatic identification that utilizes radio waves to identify
unique instances of objects or people. Many government agencies and
private companies are starting to integrate RFID into their business
to reduce operation costs, improve process efficiency, optimize
asset utilization, and enhance safety and security. Based on
speaker’s knowledge and experience in RFID technology, this seminar
will address the following questions:
• What are RFID key components?
• How does an RFID system work?
• Where are RFID systems being used?
• How to protect RFID systems from being attacked?
The objective is to help the students understand the key issues in
developing RFID.
About the
Speaker:
Dr. Qinghan Xiao, IEEE Senior
Member, is a Defence Scientist at the Defence R&D Canada. He serves
as the Chair of Task Force on Biometrics of the IEEE/CIS Technical
Committee on Intelligent Systems Applications. His current research
interests include biometric and RFID technologies. He is a Canadian
delegate of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 Standards Committee on biometrics,
and works on a CRTI project to use RFID for in-the-field management
of CBRN casualties. Dr. Xiao has been invited to speak and chair
sessions in many national and international conferences. He holds a
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Regina. Dr. Xiao
received the 2010 Outstanding Engineer Award from IEEE Ottawa
Section recently
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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in the Power Grid
Speaker:
Dr. Melike
Erol-Kantarci, School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Date:
Monday
November 22, 2010
Time:
Refreshments, Registration and Networking:
06:30 p.m.; Seminar: 07:00 p.m. –
08:00 p.m
Location:
University of Ottawa, SITE, room
5084,
800 King Edward Avenue,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting:
Branislav Djokic at
branislav@ieee.org , Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract:
In the last decades, electrical power grids in the developed
countries have been under pressure by the imbalance between growing
demand and diminishing fossil fuels, coupled with aging equipments
and aging workforce. Furthermore, the resilience of the power grid
has become questionable especially after the major blackouts in
North America in 2001 and 2003, which have been mostly due to the
lack of pervasive and effective communications, automation,
monitoring and diagnostic tools. Considering these problems together
with the opportunities that become available with the advances in
Information and Communications Technology (ICT), it has become
necessary to renovate the existing power grid. The future grid,
which is also called as the smart grid, will meet the power quality
and power availability demands of the 21th century. Briefly, smart
grid aims to integrate the capabilities of the ICT field to the
power engineering field. In this context, use of Wireless Sensor
Networks (WSN) in the power grid appears as a promising issue, and
it is gaining wide attention from the industry and the academia.
WSNs can be used at several segments of the power grid, such as
generation facilities, transmission and distribution lines and the
consumer premises. In this talk, we will give an overview of the
possible fields that WSNs can be employed. We will also introduce
our in-home energy management scheme as an application of WSNs in
the consumer premises to implement smart grid applications. We show
that consumer expenses, peak load and electricity usage-related
emissions can be significantly reduced by our scheme providing
benefits to the consumers, the utilities and the governments.
About the
Speaker:
Dr. Melike Erol-Kantarci is a
postdoctoral fellow at the School of Information Technology and
Engineering, University of Ottawa since October 2009. She received
her Ph.D. (2009) and M.Sc. (2004) degrees from the Computer
Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, and
her B.S. (2001) from the Control and Computer Engineering Department
of the same university. From 2001 to 2009, Dr. Erol-Kantarci served
as a lecturer at the Information Technologies Program, Istanbul
Technical University. During the same period, she was a teaching and
research assistant at the Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul
Technical University. She has worked in several national and
international research projects on IP traffic modeling and
underwater communications. She is currently working in the Wireless
Heterogeneous Sensor Networks in the e-Society (WISENSE) project at
the University of Ottawa under the supervision of Professor Hussein
T. Mouftah. From September 2006 to August 2007, she was a Fulbright
visiting researcher at the Computer Science Department, University
of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Her main research interests are
heterogeneous wireless sensor networks, smart grids, underwater
sensor networks, mobility modeling and internet traffic modeling.
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Networked 3-D Virtual Collaboration in Science and Education:
Towards ‘Web 3.0’ (A Modeling Perspective)
Speaker:
Prof. Michael
Devetsikiotis,
ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer,
Electrical and
Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC
Date:
Friday
November 19, 2010
Time:
Refreshments, Registration and Networking:
06:30 p.m.; Seminar: 07:00 p.m. –
08:00 p.m
Location:
Algonquin College,
School of Advanced Technology,
Building-T, Room T129
Nortel Lab,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
PARKING: at the Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted
areas. No fee after 5:00 p.m.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract:
Combined advances in high speed networking, mobile devices,
application sharing, web services, virtual world technologies and
large scale event processing are converging to create a new world of
pervasive, ubiquitous “presence” of users, which offers tremendous
potential for social interaction and co-creation. The communication
networking and computing requirements of this converged
human-centric environment are also increasing at an accelerated
pace. In this new environment, it is imperative that the much-needed
networking and computing resources align closely with the needs and
patterns dictated by the applications, social networks, and by the
human users. We believe that the success of such socio-technical
systems will hinge on the way networks capture and interact with
human presence and location, in all of its physical, virtual and
perceived aspects. A robust, scalable, and dynamic communication
infrastructure is necessary to connect service consumers and
providers within such rich, interactive collaborative virtual
environments. Service-oriented networking (SON) is an emerging
paradigm that directly addresses this need by enabling network
devices to operate at the application layer to provide functions
such as service-based routing, content transformation, and protocol
integration to consumers and providers. We anticipate that
applications of the future will leverage distributed SON deployment
patterns where large numbers of network appliances coordinate with
peers using network-wide (or “cloud-wide”) application-specific
policies, in order to determine the appropriate points to perform
configuration changes based on prevailing network, computing and
application conditions. Modeling and adaptation of resources based
on state, location, context-awareness and workload (current or
predicted) is highly desirable in these high-performance computing
and information socio-technical service systems. In this seminar, we
provide an overview of our effort, in collaboration with our College
of Management, and with IBM and Cisco, to develop models of emerging
next generation network-based services, traffic characterization and
predictive and dynamic resource allocation. We present an overview
of approaches that we are using for service-aware utility-oriented
modeling and resource allocation. We apply such techniques in the
context of aggregation network optimization, location-aware hybrid
activities in wireless networks, and virtual collaboration
environments such as virtual worlds used for science and education.
About the
Speaker:
Michael Devetsikiotis (IEEE S 1985, M
1994, SM 2003) was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He received the
Dipl. Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1988, and the
M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from North
Carolina State University, Raleigh, in 1990 and 1993, respectively.
As a student he received scholarships from the National Scholarship
Foundation of Greece, the National Technical Chamber of Greece, and
the Phi Kappa Phi Academic Achievement Award for a Doctoral
Candidate at North Carolina State University. He is a senior member
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a
member of the honor societies of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, and Phi
Kappa Phi.
In October 1993 he joined the Broadband Networks Laboratory at
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow.
Michael later became an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department
of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in April
1995, an Assistant Professor in July 1996 and an Associate Professor
in July 1999. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at NC State as an Associate Professor, in October 2000,
and became a Professor in July 2006. He remains an Adjunct Research
Professor in the SCE Department, Carleton University. Michael served
as Chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee
on Communication Systems Integration and Modeling and is now a
member of the Communications Society Education Board. He has served
as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters, and an
Area Editor of the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer
Simulation, and remains a member of the editorial boards of the
International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling, the IEEE
Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and the Journal of Internet
Engineering. He co-chaired the Next Generation Internet symposium
under IEEE ICC 2002 in New York, the High-Speed Networks symposium
under IEEE ICC 2004 in Paris, the Quality, Reliability and
Performance Modeling (QRPM) symposium under IEEE ICC 2006 in
Istanbul, and the Quality, Reliability and Performance for Emerging
Network Services symposium under IEEE Globecom 2006 in San
Francisco. He served recently as Workshops Chair for IEEE Globecom
2008 in New Orleans, and as co-chair of the workshops on “Enabling
the Future Service Oriented Internet” (2007, 2008 and 2009). Michael
will co-chair the QRPM Symposium of IEEE Globecom 2010, in Miami,
and is the general Chair for IEEE CAMAD 2011, in Kyoto, Japan.
During the Fall of 2010, as part of his sabbatical, Michael has been
a visiting professor at the University of Trento, Italy, in the
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science; and at
the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in the Department of
Informatics.
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Sensing and Identification in the Internet of Things Era
Speaker: Prof. Hossam
Hassanein,
ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, School of
Computing, Queen's University,
Kingston, Canada
Date:
Wednesday
October 20, 2010
Time:
Refreshments, Registration and Networking:
06:30 p.m.; Seminar: 07:00 p.m. –
08:00 p.m
Location:
Algonquin College,
School of Advanced Technology,
Building-T, Room T129
Nortel Lab,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
PARKING: at the Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted
areas. No fee after 5:00 p.m.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract:
Enabling
The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) is opening new horizons in
systems intelligence, where physical objects (embedded with sensory,
identification and networking capabilities) can interact with other
objects through the global infrastructure of wireless/wired
Internet. These systems can be monitored and controlled by filtering
and processing collected data. Such intelligent design will
naturally result is efficient and cost effective systems. Several
architectures are being built to implement IoT from two different
perspectives. The first, also known as sensor-oriented, is based on
large-scale sensors deployment targeting the collection of accurate
sensory data. Such huge sensory data are analyzed through cloud
computing to deliver intelligent responses. The second architecture,
also known as service-oriented, targets the association of unique
identifiers with specific services. In such architecture, the
service (or the appropriate response) is invoked upon receiving the
unique identifier from a specific ID collecting node considering the
context in which it was collected. Unique identification
technologies (dominated by RFID) and low power Nano-scale sensors
are the main enablers of IoT realization through the uniqueness of
ID, small size, sensing, storage and processing capabilities.
However, energy management, mobility and scale remain main
challenges toward ubiquitous adaptation of such technologies. As
well, the realization of IoT necessitates overcoming several
interrelated technical and social challenges in IoT systems
architecture, modeling and design. This talk will highlight the main
characteristics of IoT, the opportunities it creates and main
challenges it faces. The talk will cover some of the activities at
the Telecommunication Research lab at Queen’s University towards the
realization of IoT.
About the
Speaker:
Hossam Hassanein is with the School of
Computing at Queen's University working in the areas of broadband,
wireless and variable topology networks architecture, protocols,
control and performance evaluation. Dr. Hassanein obtained his Ph.D.
in Computing Science from the University of Alberta in 1990. He is
the founder and director of the Telecommunication Research (TR) Lab
http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~trl in the School of Computing at Queen’s.
Dr. Hassanein has more than 350 publications in reputable journals,
conferences and workshops in the areas of computer networks and
performance evaluation. He has delivered several plenary talks and
tutorials at key international venues, including Unconventional
Computing 2007, IEEE ICC 2008, IEEE CCNC 2009, IEEE GCC 2009, IEEE
GIIS 2009, ASM MSWIM 2009 and IEEE Globecom 2009. Dr. Hassanein has
organized and served on the program committee of numerous
international conferences and workshops. He also serves on the
editorial board of a number of International Journals. He is a
senior member of the IEEE, and is currently chair of the IEEE
Communication Society Technical Committee on Ad hoc and Sensor
Networks (TC AHSN). Dr. Hassanein is the recipient of Communications
and Information Technology Ontario (CITO) Champions of Innovation
Research award in 2003. He received several best paper awards,
including at IEEE Wireless Communications and Network (2007), IEEE
Global Communication Conference (2007), IEEE International Symposium
on Computers and Communications (2009), IEEE Local Computer Networks
Conference (2009) and ACM Wireless Communication and Mobile
Computing (2010). Dr. Hassanein is an IEEE Communications Society
Distinguished Lecturer.
To
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- Based Management of Optical Networks for Next Generation Disaster
Recovery Networking Solutions with WDM Systems
- Cloud Computing and Security
Speaker:
Mr. Andrew
MacKay, Chief Technology Officer of Superna,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Date:
Wednesday
October 6, 2010
Time:
Refreshments, Registration and Networking:
06:30 p.m.; Seminar: 07:00 p.m. –
08:00 p.m
Location:
Algonquin College,,
P-Building, Room P-215,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
PARKING: at the Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted
areas. No fee after 5:00 p.m.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract:
Data center’s are the heart of Enterprise IT and Internet based
Cloud computing services and Optical networks are the arteries that
connect them. This session will cover the latest trends in data
center optical network including disaster recovery, security,
protocols and future architectures to enable on demand computing
over flexible Optical networks and the technology requirements to
make the transition.
About the
Speaker:
Andrew MacKay is Chief
Technology Officer of Superna, a software development specialist in
geospatial network management solutions for Carrier and enterprise
networks. With over 19 years in the industry, he’s an experienced
leader and innovator in all aspects of Enterprise and Telecom
technologies with unique expertise in security, network management,
virtualization, cloud computing and BC/DR for both Enterprise and
Telecom networks. During his various roles of architect, Optical
product manager, strategic planning, technology evaluation and
product management he was responsible for presenting the companies
vision for data center networking to customers around the globe. He
worked in various divisions at Nortel most recently leading
activities in storage networking, Enterprise strategic planning,
speaker at Industry trade shows, key contributor to T.11 ANSI Fibre
channel standards, introduced the first fibre channel over Ethernet
product, with later contributions resulting in granted patents
around security, and WAN optimization solutions.
Contact to reserve seats:
Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
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Intelligent Buildings in an Intelligent Grid – the Next Great
Network Build-Out
Speaker:
Mr. Wes Biggs, President and Chief Executive Officer, Triacta Power
Technologies, Inc.,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Date:
Thursday September 30, 2010
Time:
Refreshments, Registration and Networking:
06:30 p.m.; Seminar: 07:00 p.m. –
08:00 p.m
Location:
Algonquin College,
School of Advanced Technology,
Building-T, Room T334,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
PARKING: at the Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted
areas. No fee after 5:00 p.m.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract:
There is a rapid transition happening. The past decade has proven
out the conventional wisdom espoused by Green Building Councils
around the world, that investing in properties to make them “green”
buildings has a rapid return in lowering operating costs, increasing
property value, and boosting tenancy rates. The term “green
building” is rapidly giving way to a new concept: Intelligent
Building. This term recognizes that one of the fundamental
properties of a green building is that, above any materials based
changes, the overriding characteristic of a green building is the
liberal application of control, monitoring and measurement systems.
These systems are designed to maintain the building within a tight
operating window, and to expose building and operational
characteristics to all stakeholders, identifying deviations and
enabling areas for improvement.
The revolution of Intelligent Buildings over the past manner of
deploying control systems in buildings is the integration of
building automation systems with metering platforms, to create a
unified system. At its simplest, this is merely enabling the
building management system to access meter data. The Intelligent
Building, however, is taking this further by adding integration of
the building management system, and a smart metering platform with
IT systems within and outside the building. Building automation
systems have been naturally moving towards this reality by embracing
IP as the communications protocol within the building. BAS
communications fabrics have migrated from simple networks to IP.
Intelligent Buildings are the payoff for this trend, facilitated by
the smooth synthesis of BAS, metering and IT. IBM refers to this as
a “building operating system”.
Triacta Power as a leading vendor of Smart Meter Systems has
experienced first-hand the evolution of Smart Meters and Smart
Buildings and has unique insight into the ultimate integration of
Intelligent Buildings with an Intelligent(Smart) Grid. We believe it
is the next great network & business opportunity build-out.
About the
Speaker:
Wes Biggs joined Triacta as
the VP of Engineering & Operations in 2003. He became President in
June of 2009. He is a technology company veteran with over 25 years
of engineering and executive experience in leading companies such as
Newbridge, Mitel and Nortel. Most recently, Wes was co-founder,
President and CEO of Meriton Networks.
Contact to reserve seats:
Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
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Mobile Agents for Autonomous Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Speaker:
Dr. Victor C.M. Leung,
ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer,
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of British Columbia
Date:
Thursday June 17, 2010
Time:
Refreshments, Registration and Networking:
06:30 p.m.; Seminar: 07:00 p.m. –
08:00 p.m
Location:
Algonquin College,
School of Advanced Technology,
Building-T, Room T129,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
PARKING: at the Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted
areas. No fee after 5:00 p.m.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org or Patrick Couture
Cout0009@algonquincollege.com
Abstract:
In addition to overcoming the vagaries of propagation impairments
and interference in wireless channels, designs of wireless ad hoc
networks are challenged by changing network configurations due to
node mobility. To meet these challenges, ad hoc networking solutions
should incorporate distributed intelligence that enables network
nodes to autonomously adapt to changes in networking environments
and network configurations. By propagating software codes to mobile
nodes for execution and allowing them to spawn new codes for
propagation to other nodes, mobile agents can provide an effective
solution for these challenges. This presentation provides an
overview of the use of mobile agents in wireless ad hoc networks,
especially in their practical realization for wireless personal
communications and wireless sensor networking. In the first example,
we describe the Bluescout mobile agents for scatternet formation in
Bluetooth networks, which adaptively reconfigures the Bluetooth
scatternet to maximize the size of individual piconets. In the
second example, we present the design of a mobile agent platform for
wireless sensor networks known as Wiseman, and describe a limited
experimental implementation of Wiseman and its evaluation. The
presentation concludes with discussions of open research issues
concerning the application of mobile agents in wireless networks,
and potential applications of mobile agents in wireless networks of
the future.
About the
Speaker:
Victor
C. M. Leung
received
the B.A.Sc. (Hons.) degree in electrical engineering from the
University of British Columbia (U.B.C.) in 1977, and was awarded the
APEBC Gold Medal as the head of the graduating class in the Faculty
of Applied Science. He attended graduate school at U.B.C. on a
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postgraduate
Scholarship and completed the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering
in 1981. From 1981 to 1987, Dr. Leung was a Senior Member of
Technical Staff at MPR Teltech Ltd., where he contributed to the
design of a number of thin-route and mobile satellite communication
networks. He also held a part-time visiting faculty position at
Simon Fraser University in 1986 and 1987. He began his full-time
academic career in 1988, as a a Lecturer in the Department of
Electronics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He returned to
U.B.C. as a faculty member in 1989, where he is currently a
Professor and the inaugural holder of the TELUS Mobility Research
Chair in Advanced Telecommunications Engineering in the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a member of the
Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems at U.B.C.
He also holds Guest/Adjunct Professor appointments at Jilin
University, Beijing Jiaotong University, and South China University
of Technology in China. Dr. Leung has made substantial contributions
to the design and evaluations of wireless networks and mobile
systems over the past 30 years, and has authored/co-authored more
than 450 technical papers in international journals and conference
proceedings in these areas. He and his co-authors have received
several best-paper awards. Dr. Leung is a registered member of the
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British
Columbia (APEGBC), Canada. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the
Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Engineering
Institute of Canada, and a voting member of ACM. He has served on
the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, the
IEEE Transactions on Computers, Computer Communications, the
International Journal of Sensor Networks, the Journal of
Communications and Networks, and the International Journal of
Communication Networks and Distributed Systems. He has guest-edited
several special journal issues, and served on the technical program
committee of numerous international conferences. He is a
Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He was
the TPC Chair of the wireless networks and cognitive radio track of
IEEE VTC-fall 2008, and the TPC Vice-chair of IEEE WCNC 2005. He was
the General Chair of QShine 2007, and a General Co-Chair of IEEE EUC
2009 and ACM MSWiM 2005. He is the General Chair of AdhocNets 2010
and WC 2010, and a General Co-Chair of IEEE MobiWorld 2010, IEEE
CWCN 2010, IEEE ASIT 2010, EMC 2010 and BodyNets 2010.
Contact to reserve seats: Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
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Multigigabit Wireless Multimedia Communications: Future and Core
Technologies
Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Vijay K. Bhargava, FRSC, FIEEE, University of British
Columbia, Candidate for IEEE Communications Society President-Elect
Date:
May 12, 2010
Time:
Refreshments, Registration and Networking:
06:30 p.m.; Seminar: 07:00 p.m. –
08:00 p.m
Location:
Algonquin College,
School of Advanced Technology,
Building-T, Room T129,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
PARKING: at the Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted
areas. No fee after 5:00 p.m.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi,
or
Balakumar Balasingam,
Raed Abdullah,
Patrick Couture.
Abstract:
The millimeter wave technology has been known for several decades
but was mainly used for military communications. In this
presentation we specifically focus on 60 GHz band as recently a
massive unlicensed spectrum up to 9GHz has been allocated worldwide
in this band for civilian communication. This spectrum is a very
promising candidate for multigigabit wireless transmission systems
including wireless personal area network (WPAN) as well as Wireless
local area network (WLAN) usage. The effective interference level in
this band is less severe then those WLAN systems deployed in the
congested WiFi bands (2-2.5 GHz and 5-5.8 GHz). As a result, higher
frequency reuse can be achieved, leading to a very high throughput
network. After summarizing the current status of standardization
activities for 60 GHz band we will focus on a series of technical
challenges that need to be resolved before the full deployment of
multigigabit wireless multimedia communications. These include 60
GHz propagation and antennas, CMOS circuit design, modulation
schemes, LDPC-based error correction schemes and MAC layer design.
About the
Speaker:
Vijay Bhargava,
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 senior level IEEE volunteer, he has lectured in 66
countries and assisted IEEE Presidents in negotiating sister society
agreements in India, Japan and Russia.
Vijay has served 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. He is the Founder of the IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Communications, Computers and Signal Processing and of the Canadian
Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering Vijay played 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 2007-2009. 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 Bhargava is
a candidate for IEEE Communications Society President-Elect in the
forthcoming election.
and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.
Contact to reserve seats:
Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi, P.Eng. at
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
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The Particle Filtering Methodology in Signal Processing
Speaker:
Prof. Petar M. Djuric, Department of ECE, Stony Brook University,
NY, USA
Date & Time:
Monday, November 23rd, 2009, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Place:
University of Ottawa, School of
Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), Boardroom, 5th
floor, 800 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Admission:
Free Registration. Please
contact in advance to reserve seats.
Refreshments:
Will be served 15 minutes before the start of the meeting.
Abstract:
Particle filtering is a Monte Carlo – based methodology for
sequential signal processing. It is designed for estimation of
hidden processes that are dynamic and that can exhibit most severe
nonlinearities. Also, it can be applied with equal ease to problems
that involve any type of probability distributions. Therefore, it is
not surprising that particle filtering has gained immense
popularity. In this talk, first, the basics of particle filtering
will be provided with description of its essential steps. Then some
important topics of the theory will be addressed including
Rao-Blackwellization, smoothing, and estimation of constant
parameters. Finally, a presentation of most recent advances in the
theory will be given. The talk will contain signal processing
examples which will aid in gaining valuable insights about the
methodology.
About the
Speaker:
ViPetar M. Djuric (Fellow, IEEE) received his B.S. and M.S. degrees
in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, in 1981
and 1986, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Rhode Island (1990). From 1981 to
1986, Prof. Djuric was a Research Associate with the Institute of
Nuclear Sciences, Vinca, Belgrade. Since 1990, he has been with
Stony Brook University, where he is Professor, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in
the area of statistical signal processing, and his primary interests
are in the theory of modeling, detection, estimation, and time
series analysis and its application to a wide variety of disciplines
including wireless communications and biomedicine. Prof. Djuric has
served on numerous technical committees for the IEEE and has been
invited to lecture at universities in the United States and
overseas. His SPS activities include: Vice President-Finance
(2006-09); Area Editor of Special Issues, IEEE Signal Processing
Magazine (2002-05); Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing (1994-96 and 2003-05); Chair, SPS Signal Processing
Theory and Methods Technical Committee (2005-06); and Treasurer, SPS
Conference Board (2001-03). He is
an Editorial Board Member, IEEE Journal on Special Topics in Signal
Processing, Elsevier Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier Signal
Processing, and the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and
Networking. Prof. Djuric is an IEEE Fellow, as well as a Member of
the American Statistical Association.
and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.
Contact to reserve seats:
Balakumar Balasingam at
balasing@site.uottawa.ca, or Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org.

Converged Services and New Generation of Networking
Speaker: Dr. Bhumip Khasnabish, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer,
Distinguished MTS of Verizon Network and Technology, Waltham, MA,
USA
Date & Time:
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009,
Refreshments, Registration and Networking:
06:00 p.m.;
Seminar: 06:30 p.m. – 07:30 p.m
PLACE: Algonquin College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, Building-T, Room T129
PARKING: at the Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted
areas. No fee after 5:00 p.m.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat,
please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org or Patrick Couture
Cout0009@algonquincollege.com
Abstract:
Commoditization of voice service has reached such a state that
anyone with a server to provide registry and addressing
(identification) functions can offer it to the Internet community
using the voice over the Internet protocol (IP) or VoIP technology.
Traditional client-server model has evolved to peer-to-peer model
for near-real-time voice and multimedia (gaming, video, etc.)
sessions. Voice mail service is being replaced by Instant-messaging
(for presence-announced users), use of Star codes for advanced
call/session feature activation is being replaced by Web based
service-provisioning interface, and so on. Similar revolution is
also happening in the areas of IP-based Television (IPTV) service
development and distribution. These are only a glimpse of what is
possible with the new/emerging converged services paradigm. However,
many issues related to reliability/availability, security/privacy,
mobility, service provisioning and continuity, regulation,
operations, and quality of service and experience (QoS/QoE) still
remain open.
In this discussion, we will explore the current activities of the
traditional service providers to find implementable and operable
solutions to these problems in the evolving Next Generation Networks
(NGNs). The objective is to support VoIP, IPTV, and other multimedia
services seamlessly over a variety of interconnected networks using
the emerging IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) and service-oriented
architecture/network (SOA/SON) based standards.
About the
Speaker:
Dr
Khasnabish is a Distinguished MTS of Verizon Network and Technology,
Waltham, MA, USA. He is the founding chair of the recently created
ATIS Next Generation Carrier Interconnect (NG-CI) Task Force. Bhumip
also founded MSF Services Working Group and led World’s first IMS-based
IPTV Interop during GMI08. In Verizon, he focuses on NGN and Carrier
Interconnection projects related to delivering enhanced multimedia
services. He represents Verizon in the Standards activities of MSF
and ATIS NG-CI. Previously Bhumip worked in Bell-Northern Research (BNR)
Ltd. designing, implementing, and leading implementation of trunking
and traffic management software modules for Passport® multi-service
switch. Bhumip contributed to developing numerous patents and
publications including the books entitled Implementing Voice over IP
(Wiley, 2003, 2005) and Multimedia Communications Networks:
Technologies and Services (Artech House, 1998). Bhumip is a
Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE, an adjunct faculty member of
Brandeis University and Bentley University and Northeaster
University; all in greater Boston, Massachusetts, area, and a member
of the Board of Editors of the Journal of Network and Systems
Management (JNSM).
Contact to reserve seats:
Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
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Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4
Microelectronics Reliability: It's evolution from Military to
Commercial Requirements
Speaker:
Dr. Ray Haythornthwaite
DATE: Thursday,
May 21, 2009
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 06:30 p.m.;
Seminar: 07:00 p.m. – 08:00 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, T-Building, Room T230.
Parking: No fee after 5:00
p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 (green) & 9 (red). Please
respect restricted areas. Map: to view the map,
click
here.
ADMISSION: All welcome - Free.
REGISTRATION: pre-registration Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Raed Abdullah
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Reliability Ottawa Chapter, IEEE ComSoc/BTS/CES
Ottawa Chapter, IEEE LEOS Ottawa
Chapter, IEEE AESS Ottawa Chapter, IEEE
P/MTT Ottawa Chapter, IEEE CS
Ottawa Chapter, and Algonquin College Student Branch.
CONTACT: details -
Raed Abdullah,
Patrick Couture, or
almuhtadi@ieee.org.

Why Technical Writing Matters and What It Can Do for Your
Career
Speaker:
Kerry Surman,
Algonquin College, Ottawa,
Canada
DATE:
Wednesday May 13,
2009
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 06:30 p.m.;
Seminar: 07:00 p.m. – 08:00 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, T-Building, Room T129.
Parking: No fee after 5:00
p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 (green) & 9 (red). Please
respect restricted areas. Map: to view the map,
click
here.
ADMISSION: All welcome - Free.
REGISTRATION: pre-registration Registration required. To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE ComSoc/BTS/CES, PES Ottawa Chapter, Reliability Chapter,
IEEE Ottawa Section Educational Activities, Women in Engineering
Affinity Group, and Algonquin College Student Branch.
CONTACT: details - Wahab
Almuhtadi, Branislav Djokic,
and
Patrick Couture.

Advanced Technology Seminar
on:
PLACE:
Algonquin College,
School of
Advanced Technology, Building-T,
Room T119,
1385 Woodroffe
Ave. ,
Ottawa, Ontario
Program |
Thursday March 19, 2009:
|
6:30 pm |
Refreshments, Registration and Networking |
6:55 pm |
Opening Remarks,
Claude Brule, Executive Dean, Faculty of Technology and
Trades, Algonquin College |
7:00 pm |
“Compensation
of Long Input Delays for Unstable Nonlinear and PDE Systems”
IEEE CSS Distinguished
Lecturer: Dr.
Miroslav Krstic, Sorenson Professor and Director of the
Center for Control Systems and Dynamics, UC San Diego, USA |
8:00 pm |
“40 Gb/s
and 100 Gb/s Coherent Modems”
Guest Speaker: Kim Roberts, Nortel Networks, Canada |
9:00 pm |
Closing
Wahab Almuhtadi |

Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Miroslav Krstic, Sorenson Distinguished Professor and
Director of the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics at UC San
Diego
Date & Time:
March
19, 2009. Refreshments,
Registration and Networking:
06:30 p.m.;
Seminar: 07:00 p.m. – 08:00 p.m.
Location:
Algonquin College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, Building-T, Room T119
Parking:
No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please
respect restricted areas.
Admission: Free. Registration required.
To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting: Wahab
Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
More Info:
Contact: Jurek Sasiadek
jsas@ccs.carleton.ca,
Wahab Almuhtadi
almuhtadi@ieee.org,
Raed
Abdullah
RaedAbdullah@ieee.org,
Balakumar Balasingam
balasing@site.uottawa.ca,
Branislav Djokic
branislav@ieee.org,
Patrick Couture
Cout0009@algonquincollege.com
Abstract:
Input delays create challenges in stabilization problems in many
applications for unstable plants. I will present new designs for
global stabilization of broad classes of nonlinear systems with long
input delays. I will also introduce problems where the length of the
input delay is highly uncertain, or even completely unknown, and
present adaptive control designs for stabilization in the presence
of this and other parametric uncertainties. In addition to input
delays, I will discuss other infinite-dimensional input dynamics,
such as those that combine convective and diffusive phenomena.
Finally, I will show designs for PDEs with long input delays, such
as unstable reaction-diffusion equations and anti-stable wave
equations.
About the
Speaker:
Miroslav Krstic is a Sorenson Distinguished Professor
and Director of the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics at UC
San Diego. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC and a co-author of eight
books: Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design (1995), Stabilization
of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems (1998), Flow Control by Feedback
(2002), Real-Time Optimization by Extremum Seeking Control (2003),
Control of Turbulent and Magnetohydrodynamic Channel Flows (2007),
Boundary Control of PDEs (2008), Adaptive Control of Parabolic PDEs
(2009), and Delay Compensation for Nonlinear and PDE Systems (2009).
Speaker:
Kim Roberts, Nortel, 3500 Carling Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Date & Time:
March
19, 2009. Refreshments,
Registration and Networking:
06:30 p.m.;
Seminar: 08:00 p.m. – 09:00 p.m.
Location:
Algonquin College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, Building-T, Room T119
Parking:
No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please
respect restricted areas.
Admission: Free. Registration required.
To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting: Kexing Liu
kexing.liu@ieee.org,
or Wahab
Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
Abstract:
Due to demand for increased optical transmission capacity, lower
cost, and better spectral efficiency, 40 Gb/s optical systems are
emerging and 100 Gb/s transmission is being discussed. With
increased baud rate, system performance becomes very sensitive to
chromatic dispersion, noise, and Polarization Mode Dispersion. It is
desirable to have 40 and 100 Gb/s systems that operate as
independently of optical physics as is possible. Traditionally,
optical dispersion compensation modules were used within line
amplifiers to compensate chromatic dispersion. Electrical Domain
Compensation of Optical dispersion (eDCO) systems at 10 Gb/s, use
digital signal processing to perform dispersion compensation in the
transmitter such that all forms of optical compensation are
obsolete. Systems at 40 and 100 Gb/s should be designed to be just
as independent of dispersion. Telecommunications operators have been
discovering significant amounts of Polarization Mode Dispersion in
many of their installed fibers. Coherent detection provides several
thousand kilometres of reach at 40 Gb/s, and allows linear digital
filters in the receiver to combat dispersion, PDL and PMD A 100 Gb/s
coherent product operates within a single 50 GHz WDM slot. The same
coherent technology can be applied to 200, 400 and 1000 Gb/s modems,
with future generations of CMOS.
About the
Speaker:
Kim Roberts has innovated in the areas of optical
transmission and high capacity packet connections since 1984. His
creations are at the heart of much of Nortel’s optical transmission
portfolio from the first OC-48 to the 40 Gb/s DSP-assisted coherent
transceiver. He has been granted 85 US patents while at the Nortel
labs in Edmonton, Harlow UK, and Ottawa. Kim holds a BASc and MASc.
in EE from UBC and is a Nortel Fellow. Kim received the Outstanding
Engineer medal in 2008 from IEEE Canada.
Adaptive Filtering Games for designing Reconfigurable Sensor
Networks
Speaker:
Prof. Vikram Krishnamurthy, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of British Columbia
Date & Time:
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location:
University of Ottawa, School of
Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), Boardroom, 5th
floor, 800 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Admission:
Free Registration. Please
contact in advance to reserve seats.
Refreshments:
Will be served 15 minutes before the start of the meeting.
Abstract:
This seminar deals with decentralized sensor activation and
management in large scale sensor networks using game theoretic
methods. Using recent results in economics, we describe how the
theory of global games gives a powerful paradigm for designing
decentralized data-aware sensor activation algorithms in dense
sensor networks. We show that the Nash equilibrium of the sensor
network has a simple threshold structure and exhibits a remarkable
phase transition as more data is collected. Next, we describe how
decentralized adaptive filtering algorithms with regret matching can
be deployed in sensor networks to guide network behavior to a
satisfactory operating point. A major theme of the talk will be the
focus on structural properties that result in numerically efficient
algorithms rather than brute force computational methods. Another
key paradigm of the talk is the idea of sensors learning from data
and other sensors – this is different to the traditional paradigm of
sensors learning from data alone. This seminar should be of interest
to researchers and practitioners in signal processing, sensor
design, control systems and economics/applied mathematics.
About the
Speaker:
Vikram Krishnamurthy (F) currently holds the Canada Research Chair
in Signal Processing at the University of British Columbia. Prior to
2002, he was a Chaired Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia
where has served as Deputy Head of Department. He has made several
contributions to the theory of bayesian estimation, stochastic
sensor scheduling, and hidden markov models. Dr. Krishnamurthy’s
current research interests include computational game theory,
stochastic dynamical systems for modeling of biological ion channels
and stochastic optimization and sensor scheduling. Much of his
recent research deals with sensor-adaptive signal processing – that
is, how networked sensors can dynamically adapt their behavior to
optimize the statistical signal processing. Such problems use game
theory and stochastic control together with statistical signal
processing. Dr Krishnamurthy has published over 30 book chapters and
125 peer reviewed journal papers. He has served as Associate Editor,
IEEE Transactions Signal Processing (2000-2005); IEEE Transactions
Automatic Control; IEEE Transactions Aerospace & Electronic Systems;
IEEE Transactions Circuit and Systems II; IEEE Transactions
Nanobioscience; EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing; and
Systems & Control Letters. Dr. Krishnamurthy has received many
awards for his research including the Canada Research Chair, and
Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a
Member, IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical
Committee(2005-present).
Contact to reserve seats:
Balakumar Balasingam at
balasing@site.uottawa.ca,
or Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
Watch this White Space:
Leveraging the latest license-free spectrum
Speaker:
Stephen
Rayment, Chief Technology Officer, BelAir Networks, Ottawa, Canada
Date & Time:
Monday, Monday 26 January 2009, 8:00 PM
Optional pub supper 6.30 pm -Social hour with refreshments from 7.30
pm - All welcome
Location:
RA Centre, Riverside Drive, Courtside A Room, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada
Parking: free. Please park in East lot and enter by corner door,
Map:
http://www.racentre.com/e/about/map.htm
Admission:
Free Registration. Pre registration requested for either pub supper
or social hour, please contact Hugh Reekie 613-728-5343,
max-com@allstream.net.
Refreshments:
Will be served 15 minutes before the start of the meeting.
Organized by:
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Ottawa Network
and IEEE Ottawa Joint Chapter of Communications Society & Broadcast
Technology Society (ComSoc, BTS & CES).
Abstract:
There is a sign in the US FCC's window which reads: "Broadband
spectrum with excellent propagation characteristics suitable for
both fixed and mobile applications - Free to a good home!" Free,
yes, and potentially priceless, but this puppy will need some
training. Stephen Rayment will delve into the promise and problems
presented by this new "beachfront property" spectrum soon to be
vacated - in the move from analog to digital TV. With requirements
for GPS capabilities and third-party databases, spectrum sensing and
microphone protection, adaptive power control and other technical
specifications -- many covered under IEEE 802.22 -- it's not quite
as simple as "give it away and they will build it" but it still
presents an attractive opportunity for broadband innovation. Attend
this meeting to find out what Microsoft KNOWS and why Dolly Parton
was up in arms - you'll get the latest update on the spectrum that
everyone's talking about and how and where you can expect to
leverage it.
About the
Speaker:
Stephen Rayment is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of BelAir
Networks where he has been responsible for delivering its first
products and now oversees product and technology strategy and
evolution. He brings 30 years of product and technology experience
in the telecommunications industry, including 20 years in the
wireless arena. At Bell-Northern Research, he led the development of
broadband wireless products, the launch of broadband multimedia
satcom equipment and the design of the industry's first wireless
PBX. Stephen is active in industry standardization, serving as an
officer in IEEE 802.11 and is author of over a dozen patents.
Stephen holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from
Queen's University, a Diploma in Administration from the University
of Ottawa, is a graduate of the MIT Sloan School's Management of
Technology program and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Impacts of the Sun on Satellite Communications Systems
Speaker: Dr. Andy D Kucar,
andy@radio4u.com,
www.radio4u.com,
Ottawa, Canada
Time/Date:
Monday, Sept. 22, 2008,
7:00pm-8:00pm
Location: 4124 Mackenzie Engineering Building, Carleton
University
Abstract
For over 60 years, artificial man--made satellites have been
providing diverse, highly available services, worldwide. The Sun is
the lifeline of majority of satellite space segments, providing to
satellites a thermal equilibrium, and, via solar cells, the electric
energy. When the Sun becomes obscured by the Earth or by the Moon, a
solar eclipse occurs. A satellite's lifeline becomes vitally reduced
or cut and its thermal equilibrium disrupted. Different measures
have to be taken to reduce and/or avoid potential degradations
and/or disruptions of services. The worst case scenario, an
unavailability of service, is also called an outage. Direct exposure
to the Sun by a receiver's antenna main beam would cause an increase
in the receiver's system noise temperature, which, consequentially,
may cause a degradation of service and even an outage.
About the
Speaker:
Dr Andy D Kucar P2EE4 has >30 years of industrial experience,
worldwide, working on: top-of-the-line special projects and design
of advanced terrestrial and satellite wireless radio equipment for
oil/nafta/gas, aviation, transportation, TV, PTT, Baby Bells,
dispatch and delivery, service industries, governments, etc. His
affiliations include (d): Zagreb University, Radioindustrija Zagreb,
Iskra/ITT, Ottawa University, BCE: Telesat, BCE: Bell Northern
Research (now Nortel), KFUPM, and since 1990 4U Comm >
www.radio4u.com,
where he serves as a co-founder and senior manager.
More details,
please click here:
Seminar Announcement
Blind
Modulation Classification:
A Concept Whose Time Has Come
Speaker:
Dr. Octavia A. Dobre, Faculty
of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of
Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL,
Canada
DATE:
Wednesday March
26, 2008.
TIME: Refreshments,
Registration and Networking:
06:45 p.m.;
Seminar: 07:00 p.m. – 08:30 p.m.
PLACE:
University of
Ottawa, School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE),
Boardroom, 5th floor,
800
King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, For direction to SITE
click here on
the map.
Admission: Free.
Registration required.
To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
Abstract
In a world of rapid growth of commercial wireless services,
accommodating the explosive demand for spectrum access, efficiency
and reliability becomes increasingly technically challenging. A
solution is provided by flexible cognitive and intelligent radios,
which sense the environment and respond intelligently, without
explicit pre-configuration to define their functions. Furthermore,
implementation of advanced information services for military
applications in a crowded electromagnetic spectrum is a challenging
task for communication engineers. Friendly signals should be
securely transmitted and received, whereas hostile signals must be
located, identified and jammed. The spectrum of these signals may
range from HF to millimeter frequency band and their format can vary
from simple narrowband modulations to wideband schemes. Under such
conditions, advanced techniques are required for real-time signal
intelligence, vital for decisions involving electronic warfare
operations. This has created the need for flexible cognitive and
intelligent radio systems, which employ advanced signal processing
techniques. A major task of such radios is signal identification,
which can encompass signal detection, separation, parameter
estimation, modulation classification, etc..
Modulation classification is an intermediate step between signal
detection and demodulation. This is a challenging task, especially
in non-cooperative environments, since in addition to complex
channels; there are many unknown parameters, such as symbol timing,
and carrier phase and frequency. This talk focuses on techniques to
tackle the blind modulation classification problem. The
state-of-the-art in this research area is first reviewed. Signal
cyclostationarity-based techniques are then introduced. Digital and
analog, single- and multi-carrier modulations are considered.
Single- and multiple-receive antenna cyclostationarity-based
classifiers are presented. The talk concludes by outlining new and
challenging problems in the dynamic research field of blind signal
identification.
About the
Speaker:
Octavia A. Dobre received the Diploma of Engineer and Ph. D. degrees
in Electrical Engineering from the Polytehnic University of
Bucharest, Romania, in 1991 and 2000, respectively. In 2000 she was
the recipient of a British Royal Society fellowship at Westminster
University, UK. In 2001 she joined the Wireless Information Systems
Engineering Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology, US, as a
Fulbright fellow. Between 2002 and 2005 she was a Research Associate
with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New
Jersey Institute of Technology, US, where she collaborated with US
Army CECOM. Currently she is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty
of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University, Canada.
She has published over 25 research papers, authored over 10
technical reports, served as a reviewer for several international
journals and conferences in the area of signal processing and
wireless communications and as a member of the Technical Program and
Organizing Committees of a number of IEEE conferences, such as ICC
2005 and CCECE 2009, respectively. She has given several invited
talks to academia and industry, including Illinois Institute of
Technology and Drexel University, US, and CRC and DRDC, Canada. Her
current research interests include blind modulation classification
and parameter estimation techniques, cognitive radio, multi-antenna
systems, multicarrier modulation techniques, cyclostationarity
applications in communications and signal processing, and resource
allocation in emerging wireless networks.
To
print or to open the flyer of the seminar, please click
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download or view the presentation, please click
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Speaker:
Dr. Hussein T. Mouftah,
Canada Research Chair and Distinguished University Professor
SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
DATE:
Wednesday February 27, 2008.
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and
Networking: 06:45
p.m.; Seminar: 07:00 p.m. – 08:30 p.m.
PLACE:
Algonquin
College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
School of Advanced Technology, Building-T, Room T129. PARKING:
No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots
8 & 9.
Please respect restricted areas.
Admission:
Free. Registration required.
To
ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting: Wahab Almuhtadi at
almuhtadi@ieee.org.
Abstract
In
recent years, advances in miniaturization; low-power circuit design;
simple, low power, yet reasonably efficient wireless communication
equipment; and improved small-scale energy supplies have combined
with reduced manufacturing costs to make a new technological vision
possible: Wireless sensor networks.
A
sensor network is composed of a large number of sensor nodes, which
are densely deployed either inside the phenomenon or very close to
it. The position of nodes need not be engineered or pre-determined.
This allows random deployment in inaccessible terrains or disaster
relief operation. We will present an overview of advances in
wireless sensor networks technology and its future trends and its
applications.
About the
Speaker:
Hussein Mouftah joined the School of Information Technology and
Engineering (SITE) of the University of Ottawa in September 2002 as
a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) Professor in Optical Networks,
where he became a Distinguished University Professor in
February 2006. He has been with the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Queen's University (1979-2002), where he was
prior to his departure a Full Professor and the Department Associate
Head. He has three years of industrial experience mainly at Bell
Northern Research of Ottawa, now Nortel Networks (1977-79). He has
spent three sabbatical years also at Nortel Networks (1986-87,
1993-94, and 2000-01), always conducting research in the area of
broadband packet switching networks, mobile wireless networks and
quality of service over the optical Internet. He served as
Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Communications Magazine (1995-97) and
IEEE Communications Society Director of Magazines (1998-99), Chair
of the Awards Committee (2002-2003) and Director of Education
(2006-). He is a Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Communications
Society since 2000. Dr. Mouftah is the author or coauthor of five
books, 24 book chapters and more than 800 technical papers and 9
patents in this area. He is the joint holder of the Best Paper Award
for papers presented at the IEEE ICC'2005 Optical Networking
Symposium and SPECTS’2002, and the Outstanding Paper Award for
papers presented at the IEEE HPSR’2002 and the IEEE ISMVL’1985. Also
he is the joint holder of a Honorable Mention for the Frederick W.
Ellersick Price Paper Award for Best Paper in the IEEE
Communications Magazine in 1993. He is the recipient of numerous
prestigious awards, such as the 2006 IEEE Canada McNaughton Medal,
the 2006 Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) Julian Smith Medal,
the 2004 IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong
Achievement Award, the 2004 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence
in Research of the University of Ottawa Faculty of Engineering, the
1989 Engineering Medal for Research and Development of the
Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), and the
Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award of the Ontario Innovation
Trust. He is also the recipient of the IEEE Canada (Region 7)
Outstanding Service Award (1995) and the 2006 CSIM Distinguished
Service Award of the IEEE Communications Society. Dr. Mouftah is a
Fellow of the IEEE (1990), Fellow of the Canadian Academy of
Engineering (2003) and Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada
(2005).
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print or to open the flyer of the seminar, please click
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download or view the presentation, please click
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Micro-power Integrated
Circuits and Systems
Speaker: Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan, Director of the MIT
Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MA
Date: Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Place: 5050MC (Minto Center), Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By
Drive, Ottawa
Organized by: IEEE Ottawa SSCS Chapter and ComSoc/BTS/CES Joint Chapter
Contact: Sreedhar Natarajan sn@ieee.org,
Ram Achar
achar@doe.carleton.ca, Wahab Almuhtadi
almuhtadi@ieee.org
Abstract:
Energy efficient system design requires systematic optimization at
all levels of the design abstraction ranging from devices and
circuits to architectures and algorithms. The design of micro-power
systems will enable operation using energy scavenging. A major
opportunity to reduce the power dissipation of digital circuits is
to scale the power supply voltage below the device thresholds (i.e.,
sub-threshold operation). The opportunities and challenges
associated with sub-threshold design will be presented. This
includes variation-aware design for logic and SRAM circuits,
efficient DC-DC converters for ultra-low-voltage delivery, and
algorithm structuring to support extreme parallelism. A number of
integrated circuit examples that demonstrate sub-threshold operation
will be presented. Other power management techniques such as
ultra-dynamic-voltage scaling, fine-grained power gating and 3-D
integration will be discussed. The use of highly digital
architectures for wireless communication circuits can also
significantly reduce system energy dissipation. Specific examples of
power management will be presented, focusing on wireless sensor
networks and impulse based ultra-wideband communications as drivers.
About the
Speaker:
Anantha P. Chandrakasan received the B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of
California, Berkeley, in 1989, 1990, and 1994 respectively. Since
September 1994, he has been with the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, where he is currently the Joseph F. and Nancy
P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering. He was a
co-recipient of several awards including the 1993 IEEE
Communications Society's Best Tutorial Paper Award, the IEEE
Electron Devices Society's 1997 Paul Rappaport Award for the Best
Paper in an EDS publication during 1997, the 1999 DAC Design Contest
Award, the 2004 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Award, and the
ISSCC 2007 Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence. His
research interests include low-power digital integrated circuit
design, wireless microsensors, ultra-wideband radios, and emerging
technologies. He is a co-author of Low Power Digital CMOS Design (Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1995), Digital Integrated Circuits (Pearson
Prentice-Hall, 2003, 2nd edition), and Sub-threshold Design for
Ultra-Low Power Systems (Springer 2006). He is also a co-editor of
Low Power CMOS Design (IEEE Press, 1998), Design of High-Performance
Microprocessor Circuits (IEEE Press, 2000), and Leakage in Nanometer
CMOS Technologies (Springer, 2005). He has served as a technical
program co-chair for the 1997 International Symposium on Low Power
Electronics and Design (ISLPED), VLSI Design '98, and the 1998 IEEE
Workshop on Signal Processing Systems. He was the Signal Processing
Sub-committee Chair for ISSCC 1999-2001, the Program Vice-Chair for
ISSCC 2002, the Program Chair for ISSCC 2003, and the Technology
Directions Sub-committee Chair for ISSCC 2004-2007. He was an
Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits from
1998 to 2001. He served on SSCS AdCom from 2000 to 2007 and he was
the meetings committee chair from 2004 to 2007. He is the Technology
Directions Chair for ISSCC 2008. He is the Director of the MIT
Microsystems Technology Laboratories.
Cooperative and
Opportunistic Communications
Speaker:
Behnaam
Aazhang, distinguished lecturer
Date:
July
30, 2007.
Contact:
Burt
Christian at
b.christian@ieee.org
Air Interfaces for
Future-Generation Wireless Systems
Speaker:
Dr.
David Falconer
Date:
April 18, 2006
Contact:
zahir@ieee.org
VoIP PBXs for Small and
Multi-Location Businesses
Speaker:
Ron
Reddick
Date:
May 3, 2006
Contact:
zahir@ieee.org
Introduction to Turbo
Equalization
Speaker:
Maryam Sabbaghian
Date:
May 15, 2006
Contact:
zahir@ieee.org
A Unified view of
iterative ("Turbo") Receivers and Decoders
Speaker:
Dr.
Ezio Biglieri
Date:
September
27, 2006
Contact:
zahir@ieee.org,
b.christian@ieee.org
1. A Brief Overview of
the European Union WINNER Projects
2. WINNER Channel Model; Challenges in MIMO System Testing
Speakers:
1.
Dr. David Falconer, 2. Pekka Kyosti and Yuha Ylitalo
Date:
October 19, 2006
Contact:
zahir@ieee.org,
b.christian@ieee.org
OWRA/IEEE COMSOC/NCIT/CRC Seminar Day
"Wireless Applications"
Program Chair: Bahram Zahir, zahir@ieee.org
Program Co-Chair: Maike Luiken Miller, maike.miller@ieee.org
DATE:
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
LOCATION:
CRC Auditorium, 3701 Carling Ave., Ottawa
(CRC is a secure site - All attendees must sign in at CRC Reception Centre)
Registration The theme of our seminar, Wireless Applications, highlights the importance that developing applications plays in improving the services and consequently enhancing the economic situation of the communications industry. We look forward to providing a forum for discussion and debate on current status of the research on wireless applications. Building on past experience and drawing from the insights of our members, a primary goal of this seminar is to further educate ourselves as to where the industry is headed, or should go. The security aspects, trust and privacy will be of great importance in this seminar. Along these lines, we have several speakers, from industry, government organizations or academia, who come forward and share with us their most recent research and development ideas, or products.
For directions to CRC, please visit:
http://www.crc.ca/en/html/crc/home/info_crc/contact/visitor_info
Program
8:00 - 8:30 Registration and Coffee, Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:35 Welcome
8:35 - 9:10
Current and Future Handheld Applications, Jason Flick, Flick Software
9:10 - 9:55
Mobile Payment, Mohammad Tanabian, Hivva Technologies
9:55 - 10:15
Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:00
Wireless Security through RF Fingerprinting, Nur Serinken, CRC
11:00 - 11:45
Mobilizing Applications: A few PWGSC Case Studies, Marek Dziedzic, PWGSC
11:45 - 12:00
Q & A
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:45
Collaborative Leadership for Market Driven Success, Stephen Fry, i2p.biz
13:45 - 14:30
Mobile Applications with Digital Broadcasting, Francois Lefebvre, CRC
14:30 - 14:50
Coffee Break
14:50 - 15:35
Developing Remote Communication Wireless Networks, Harry Silverstone, EION
15:35 - 16:10
Middleware for Mobile Applications, Thomas Kunz, Carleton University
16:10 - 16:55
Q & A
16:55 - 17:30
Panel

ABSTRACTS & BIOS
Current and Future Handheld Applications,
Jason Flick, Flick Software
Abstract: This presentation will give an overview of both personal and enterprise handheld/wireless applications that are available and yet to be developed. It will also cover the breath of device types available and look into some of the future devices yet to be commercialized.
Bio: Jason Flick is the President and Chief Technology Officer of the mobile technology and solutions company, Flick Software. He has 15 years of technical leadership experience in mobile and handheld technology, and has held board positions at a number of technology companies and not-for-profit organizations. Jason enjoys exploring the latest advancements in mobility, and has focused on helping customers understand how to harness its’ usefulness to generate value in their businesses.
Mobile Payment as a Wireless Application, Mohammad Tanabian, MBA, Hivva Technologies
Abstract: Mobile payment as a wireless application has been on wish list of many wireless operators and wireless subscribers alike. Over the last decade, the idea of using a mobile phone as a payment medium, a data retrieval device and as a personal companion has seen hype of support and at times, wave of criticism. This presentation will give an overview of today’s electronic payment solutions and shows how mobile payment can fill a gap that they haven’t been able to address. It also introduces some of the available mobile payment solutions that are being commercially deployed today.
Bio: Mohammad Tanabian is the President and one of the co-founders of Hivva Technologies. He has a number of patents in m-commerce, mobile payment, point of sales collaboration and location based services. Mohammad holds a Bachelor of Engineering, A Master of Science from Carleton University and an MBA from Queen’s university.
Wireless Security through RF Fingerprinting, Nur Serinken, PhD., CRC
Abstract: The process to identify radio transmitters by examining their unique transient characteristics at the beginning of transmission is called "RF fingerprinting". The security of wireless networks can be enhanced by challenging a user to prove its identity if the fingerprint of a network device is unidentified or deemed to be a threat. In this talk, the identification problem of an individual node in a wireless network using its RF fingerprint will be addressed. A complete identification system, including data acquisition, transient detection, RF fingerprint extraction and classification subsystems, will be presented. The system performance results based on the real data acquired using the test bed at Communications Research Centre will be highlighted.
Bio:
Employment: 1981 to Present CRC- Ottawa, 1977-1981- Bell Northern Research -Ottawa, 1974-1977- General Electric Research Centre Wembley UK
Areas of interest and past research topics: Transmitter identification for security, Research into radio packet data transmission systems, for HF, VHF and UHF channels, Facsimile data transmission over radio, Secure identification
documents, secure facsimile systems, Large area flat LCD displays, Meteor burst communications.
Education: Ph.D E.E. 1974, M.Sc. E.E 1971, B.Sc. E.E 1969
Mobilizing Applications: A few PWGSC Case Studies, Marek Dziedzic, PWGSC
Abstract: Over the last few years a number of attempts was made to implement mobile applications within the PWGSC environment. This presentation discusses a few of these trials and explores the successes and challenges of these implementations.
Bio: Marek Dziedzic has extensive experience in Telecommunications and Information Technology. He held various senior technical and management positions with telecommunications and hi-tech companies. He has extensive experience in network architecture, management and operations of large-scale national and international telecommunications networks and in management and operations of IT/IM. Recently, he led the Connectivity Initiative in Real Property Branch of Public Works and Government Services Canada, where, as part of his responsibilities, he is working on wireless and mobility solutions and on Building Automation Systems. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and is a certified Information Systems Professional (I.S.P.).
Collaborative Leadership for Market Driven Success, Stephen Fry, i2p.biz
Abstract: This presentation is designed to give the researcher and business participant an appreciation for key enablers for business success, including any endeavour relating to the wireless market. Collaboration is not only a technology, but a powerful approach to achieving business success. Identifying a real market opportunity, developing a solution and a plan to execute, and gathering the resources to succeed are critical elements of successful ventures.
Bio:Steve Fry PEng has a strong IT and communications sales/engineering background with Nortel in Canada and the USA which he is now successfully applying to commercialization consulting projects. Steve’s quiet practical approach to technical sales and implementation processes help users develop confidence in execution of new product offerings.
Mobile Applications with Digital Broadcasting,
Francois Lefebvre, CRC
Abstract: Digital broadcasting technologies like DAB, DMB and DVB-H are currently attracting a lot of attention in the mobile telecommunication industry. Projected networks will combine 3G one-to-one communication channels with one-to-many broadcast downlinks to deliver new services. On the end-user side, multi-radio handsets will provide flexible access, storage and rendering capabilities for multimedia-rich applications.
This presentation will give an overview of these new systems and applications while focusing on convergence aspects.
Bio: Mr. Lefebvre has 15 years of R&D experience in multimedia systems and applications. He joined the Broadcast Technology branch at the Communications Research Centre in 1999 and is currently leading the Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting project. His most recent works focus on converging technologies built on DAB/DMB, Internet and personal wireless communications systems. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Laval University.
Developing Remote Communication Wireless Networks, Harry Silverstone, MBA, EION
Abstract: Deploying Wireless Network Infrastructure in Remote and Rural Communities has technical and business challenges. It entails understanding the local needs, their current abilities, along with developing an economically viable solution. This presentation will explore some of the concerns, considerations and how EION is addressing them.
Bio: Director Technology & Business Development Mr. Harry Silverstone has a solid track record in the Data Networking industry, and brings extensive experience from Nortel Networks, Bay Networks and Digital Equipment Corp. Mr. Silverstone has a thorough understanding of IP protocols and Broadband Access technologies. Through his combined technical, marketing and customer skills, he has designed and installed WAN and LAN networks worldwide, improved product quality, developed RFCs, and provided internal and external wired and wireless training. Mr. Silverstone holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire and an Executive MBA from the University of Ottawa.
Middleware for Mobile Applications,
Thomas Kunz, Carleton University
Abstract: While traditional middleware technology has shown great suitability for fixed distributed systems, it does not offer much help for dealing with the dynamic aspects of mobile applications. Challenges from mobile computing applications indicate the need for defining a new architecture for distributed systems. The new architecture should be able to address many of the limitations exposed by emerging mobile applications. This talk sheds some light on the concept of middleware and its relations with mobile applications. It defines the major constraints posed by mobile computing systems and presents a detailed analysis of static and dynamic requirements to evaluate the traditional and modern middleware solutions, respectively. We also provide a general overview of traditional and modern middleware solutions, and discuss several implementations of both paradigms against these.
Registration
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