invited speakers

H. Vincent Poor

H. Vincent Poor is with Princeton University, where he is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. His current research interests are in the areas of stochastic analysis, statistical signal processing, and information theory, and their applications in wireless networking and related fields. His publications in these areas include the recent books MIMO Wireless Communications (Cambridge, 2007), Quickest Detection (Cambridge, 2009), and Information Theoretic Security (Now, 2009).

Dr. Poor is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and an International Fellow of the U. K. Royal Academy of Engineering. He has served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society, as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and as General Co-Chair of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, held in Seoul, Korea. Recognition of his work includes the 2005 IEEE Education Medal, the 2007 Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the 2009 Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award of the IEEE Communications Society.

New Directions in Wireless Research

Wireless communication applications continue to motivate very challenging research problems in information theory, statistical inference, networking, and other fields. A salient feature of wireless networks is the close interaction between the physical layer and the other networking layers. This phenomenon is a result of the principal distinguishing features of wireless, namely mobility and the importance of physical properties (diffusion, interference, fading and radio geometry) in determining link characteristics. For example, the applications layer interacts considerably with the physical layer, as is well known through the importance of quality-of-service in wireless network design. This talk will explore several emerging research areas in the above-noted fields that are motivated by applications or applications-level issues in wireless networks, including security, sensor networking, multimedia communications, and social networking.