Smart antennas in future mobile communications

Speaker: Prof Tapan K Sarkar , Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Syracuse University

When: 04.15PM, Thursday 18 Apr 2002

Venue: University of Queensland, ITEE School, GP-S Blg. Room: 78-420



Abstract:

 Recent years have witnessed a lot of research activities focused
 on the topic of smart (intelligent) antennas to enhance the
 performance of cellular radio systems. Using switched or adaptive
 beamforming techniques and antenna diversity in combination
 with enhanced digital signal processing, signal quality and
 channel capacity can be increased significantly in comparison
 with standard antenna configurations.

 In this seminar, adaptive beam-forming methodology will be
 presented and the special emphasis will be devoted to space-time
 adaptive processing.

 Having done this, the role of smart antennas in future mobile
 communications will be described.

Biography:

 Prof. Tapan K Sarkar received the BTech degree from the Indian
 Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1969, the MScE
 degree from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
 in 1971, and the MS and PhD degrees from Syracuse University,
 Syracuse, New York, in 1975.

 Since 1988, he has been a Professor in the Department of
 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Syracuse University.

 He has authored or coauthored about 250 journal articles and
 numerous conference papers, and has written chapters in over 30
 books. He received a number of prestigious awards including the
 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic
 Compatibility in 1979 and at the 1997 National Radar Conference.

 In 1992, he received the IEEE Fellow award for "Contributions
 to iterative solutions of numerical models in electromagnetic
 theory".