February 1, 2024
Navigating the Airwaves: The Critical Role of Spectrum
in Cellular Networks and Wi-Fi
5:00 PM PST
Wireless communication is
fundamental to our digital society, with radio
spectrum the key enabling resource. Understanding the
critical role of spectrum provides deep insight into
how wireless technologies function and how they will
evolve. This enlightening talk delves into the
ingenious advancements in Wi-Fi and cellular networks
to harness spectrum, including increasing efficiency,
deploying new bands, aggregating channels, and
dynamically sharing spectrum. Despite huge progress,
formidable challenges remain in meeting soaring
demands for capacity, achieving global harmonization,
and ensuring coexistence with existing services.
Highlights of this session include:
- The tradeoffs between different
types of spectrum bands
- Spectrum innovations in Wi-Fi
and 5G to improve performance and reliability
- Forecasts illustrating the
insatiable demand for more spectrum
- Balancing the scales between
Wi-Fi and 5G allocations
- Insights from the World Radio
Communication Conference (WRC) 23
- Details on the recently
announced U.S. National Spectrum Strategy
- United States versus the rest
of the world in spectrum assignments and associated
risks
- Lessons learned and the future
of Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS)
- Pioneering approaches in
dynamic spectrum sharing
About the Speaker
Peter Rysavy, the president of
Rysavy Research LLC, has led the consulting firm since
1993, focusing on computer networking, wireless
technology, and mobile computing. His firm's wide
range of projects include spectrum and capacity
analysis, wireless technology evolution reports,
network security assessments, strategic consultations,
system design, article and report writing, course and
webcast development, network performance measurements,
and serving as an expert in patent litigation. Over
his career, Peter has published 200 articles and
reports and worked with over 100 organizations.
Additionally, he served as the executive director of
the Wireless Technology Association from 2000 to 2016,
focusing on evaluating wireless technologies, studying
mobile communications architectures, and advocating
for wireless data interoperability.
Peter holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from Stanford
University, graduating in 1979. For more information
about his contributions to wireless technology, visit
https://www.rysavy.com.
Presented by: IEEE Oregon
Computer Society
March 13, 2024
MAD Games - Multi-Agent Dynamic Games: What can
you learn from Autonomous Racing?
6:30 PM PST
online
Speaker: Rahul
Mangharam
Register
at: https://www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2024-03-cs
Balancing performance and safety are
crucial to deploying autonomous vehicles in multi-agent
environments. In particular, autonomous racing is a
domain that penalizes safe but conservative policies,
highlighting the need for robust, adaptive strategies.
Current approaches either make simplifying assumptions
about other agents or lack robust mechanisms for online
adaptation. In this talk we will explore research themes
on perception, planning and control at the limits of
performance. We explore:
(1) How to generate the most competitive agents who
dynamically balance safety and assertiveness by using
distributionally robust online adaptation and
Game-theoretic planning
(2) How to be better-than-the-best using imitation
learning with multiple imperfect experts
(3) Using invertible neural networks to solve inverse
problems in localization and SLAM
(4) How to build the most efficient autonomous race car
with Multi-domain optimization across vehicle design,
planning and control;
We realize all our research in the autonomous race car
platform that is 10th the size, but 10x the fun! The
main takeaway from this talk is how you can get involved
in very exciting research on safe autonomous
systems. I will also present projects on AV Gokart
that we are doing in the Autoware Center of Excellence
for Autonomous Driving.
About the Speaker
Rahul Mangharam builds safe autonomous systems at the
intersection of formal methods, machine learning and
controls. He applies his work to safety-critical
autonomous vehicles, urban air mobility, life-critical
medical devices, and AI Co-designers for complex
systems. He is the Penn Director for the Department of
Transportation's $20MM Safety21 National UTC
[2023-2028] which focuses on technologies for safe and
efficient movement of people and goods. Rahul is the
Director of the Autoware Center of Excellence for
Autonomous Driving, a consortium of 70+ companies and
universities focused on open-source AV software for
open-standards EV platforms.
Rahul received the 2016 US Presidential Early Career
Award (PECASE) from President Obama for his work on
Life-Critical Systems. He also received the 2016
Department of Energy’s CleanTech Prize (Regional), the
2014 IEEE Benjamin Franklin Key Award, 2013 NSF CAREER
Award, 2012 Intel Early Faculty Career Award and was
selected by the National Academy of Engineering for
the 2012 and 2017 US Frontiers of Engineering. He has
won several ACM and IEEE best paper awards in
Cyber-Physical Systems, controls, machine learning,
and education.
Presented by: IEEE
Buenaventura Computer Society Chapter
Volunteers Needed: IEEE Spring STEM
Event for Girls
“Girls Make STEM with Heart”, the IEEE
Buenaventura spring STEM event for middle-school
girls, will be on Saturday, April 13 at Isbell Middle
School in Santa Paula. If you were involved in
previous events, you know what a wonderful experience
it is for the students and volunteers. Here is some
background:
- Students can choose from a variety of
workshops covering topics such as chemistry,
circuits, light, sound, solar energy, and numbers.
- We have at least three mentors per
workshop. Each student was able to get plenty of
attention.
- At the end of the day, students get
to show what they learned to their parents.
- Isbell Middle School graciously lets
us use their classrooms and food service. Each
classroom is equipped with a computer projector,
movable tables and chairs, and Wi-Fi connectivity.
- Lunch and materials are provided by
IEEE.
- See the IEEE
Foundation Newsletter for
an excellent write-up of a past event, and our
YouTube channel for a photo
montage.
Planning for the event is already
underway. If you are interested in volunteering,
please contact
us at stem2024@ieee-bv.org
Presented by: IEEE
Buenaventura Section
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