Throughput, Measurement, and Predictions for Wireless LANs

Prof. Theodore S. Rappaport

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712

Friday, February 28th, 3:00 PM, ENS 637

wireless@ece.utexas.edu

Abstract

This talk will highlight new measurement and prediction tools, and will explore new traffic models for emerging wireless LANs.

Biography

Theodore S. Rappaport is an active teacher, researcher, and entrepreneur. He received BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in 1982, 1984, and 1987, respectively. From 1988 to 2002, he was on the Virginia Tech Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, where he was the James S. Tucker Professor and founder of the Mobile & Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG), one of the world’s first university research and teaching centers dedicated to the wireless communications field. He joined the University of Texas in 2002 as the William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering, and is director of the newly-formed Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) at UT’s Austin campus. In 1989, he founded TSR Technologies, Inc., a cellular radio/PCS manufacturing firm that he sold in 1993, and founded Wireless Valley Communications, Inc. in 1995. Rappaport received the Marconi Young Scientist Award in 1990, an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1992, and the Sarnoff Citation from the Radio Club of America in 2000. In 2002, he received the James R. Evans Avant Garde award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and the Frederick E. Terman Award from the American Society of Engineering Education.

Dr. Rappaport has 30 patents issued or pending and has authored, co-authored and co-edited 18 books in the wireless field, including the popular textbooks Wireless Communications: Principles & Practice (Prentice-Hall, 1996, 2002), and Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications: IS-95 and Third Generation CDMA Applications (Prentice Hall, 1999). He has co-authored more than 200 technical journal and conference papers and was recipient of the 1999 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award. Since 1998, he has been series editor for the Prentice Hall Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies book series. He serves on the editorial board of International Journal of Wireless Information Networks (Plenum Press, NY) and the advisory board of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing for Wiley InterScience, is a Fellow of the IEEE, and is active in the IEEE Communications and Vehicular Technology societies. Dr. Rappaport also serves as chairman of Wireless Valley Communications, Inc., an in-building/campus design, measurement, and management company. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Virginia and is a Fellow and past member of the board of directors of the Radio Club of America. He has consulted for over 25 multinational corporations and has served the International Telecommunications Union as a consultant for emerging nations. He is married and has three children.

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