Lajos Hanzo, School of ECS, Univ. of Southampton
Saturday, January 30, 2010, 8:30 am.
Abstract:
Since Marconi demonstrated the feasibility of radio transmissions, researchers have endeavoured to fulfill
the dream of flawless wireless multimedia telecommunications, creating the impression of tele-presence
- at the touch of a dialling key and with the aid of the future wireless solutions to be discussed in the lecture.
Commencing with a light-hearted historical perspective on the generations of wireless systems, Shannon’s
lessons are contrasted with the practical constraints imposed on state-of-the-art multimedia communicators.
In the face of adverse wireless channel conditions it is unrealistic to expect that any fixed mode wireless system remains capable of maintaining a constant quality-of-service. This motivates the design of cutting-edge near-instantaneously adaptive modulation and coding aided multi-media transceivers, which offer capabilities beyond those of conventional systems. Indeed, they facilitated in excess of a 1000-fold bit-rate increase since the conception of GSM...
However, at what price? Furthermore, is this 1000-fold bit-rate increase sufficient anyway to support the
impression of flawless tele-presence with its sense of joy, wonder and ambiance? Or are we about to be further frustrated by the ’World-Wide Wait’ (WWW) experienced at places of high tele-traffic density?
A glimpse of the recent advances in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) techniques employing adaptive antenna arrays reveals that they are capable of circumventing the ’world wide wait’ in the emerging wireless Internet, while facilitating sustainable, ’green’ communications...
Biography:
Lajos Hanzo received his degree in electronics from the Technical University of Budapest in 1976, his doctorate in 1983, defended his DSC Candidate thesis in 1992 and his Doctor of Sciences (DSc) degree in 2004. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). During his career in telecommunications he has held various research and academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he has been with the School of ECS, University of Southampton, UK, where holds the Chair in Telecommunications.
He co-authored 18 Wiley - IEEE Press books [1]-[18] totalling in excess of 10 000 pages on mobile radio communications,
published in excess of 900 research papers and acted as General Chair/TPC Chair and keynote speaker of major IEEE Conferences, such asWCNC’2009,WCNC’2006, Mobimedia’2008, Mobimedia’2009, CNSR’2009, etc. He has also been awarded a number of distinctions, such as the IEEE Wireless Technical Committee Achievement Award and the IET’s Sir Monti Finniston Award across all disciplines. He received Best Paper Awards for example at WCNC’2007 and ICC’2009. He heads an academic research team, working on a range of research projects in the field of wireless multimedia communications sponsored by industry, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK, the European Commission and the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE), UK. He is an enthusiastic supporter of industrial and academic liaison and he offers a range of industrial courses. Lajos is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer as well as Governor of both the IEEE Communications as well as of the Vehicular Technology Society and a Fellow of both the IET and the IEEE. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Press. For further information on research in progress and associated publications please refer to http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk
References:
[1] W.T.Webb, L. Hanzo: Modern quadrature amplitude modulation: Principles and applications for fixed and
wireless channels, IEEE Press-John Wiley, 1st edition, 1994, ISBN 0-7273-1701-6, 557 pages
[2] L. Hanzo, W. Webb, T. Keller: Single- and Multicarrier Quadrature Amplitude Modulation: Principles and Applications for Personal Communications, WATM and Broadcasting; IEEE Press-John Wiley, 2nd edition, June 2000, ISBN 0-471-49239-6, 762 pages
[3] L. Hanzo, S-X. Ng, T. Keller, W.T. Webb: Single and From Basics to Adaptive Trellis-Coded, Turbo-Equalised and Space-Time Coded OFDM, CDMA and MC-CDMA Systems, IEEE Press - John Wiley, Sept. 2004, 1090 pages
[4] R. Steele, L. Hanzo (Ed): Mobile Radio Communications: Second and Third Generation Cellular and
WATM Systems, John Wiley-IEEE Press, 2nd edition, July 1999, ISBN 0-471-97806-x, 1060 pages
[5] L. Hanzo, P. Cherriman, J. Streit: Wireless Video Communications: Second to Third Generation and
Beyond, IEEE Press, February 2001 1, ISBN 0-7803-6032-x, 1092 pages
[6] L. Hanzo, F.C.A. Somerville, J.P. Woodard: Voice Compression and Communications: Principles and Applications for Fixed and Wireless Channels; IEEE Press-John Wiley, August 2001 2, ISBN 0-471-15039-8, 672 pages
[7] L. Hanzo, T.H. Liew, B.L. Yeap: Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalisation and Space-Time Coding, John Wiley, August 2002, ISBN 0-470-84726-3, 766 pages
[8] L. Hanzo, C.H. Wong, M.S. Yee: Adaptive wireless transceivers: Turbo-Coded, Turbo-Equalised and Space-Time Coded TDMA, CDMA and OFDM systems, JohnWiley,March 2002, ISBN 0-470-84689-5 752 pages
[9] J.S. Blogh, L. Hanzo: Third-Generation Systems and Intelligent Wireless Networking - Smart Antennas and Adaptive Modulation, John Wiley, April 2002, ISBN 0-470-84519-8 430 pages
[10] L. Hanzo, M. M¨unster, B.J. Choi and T. Keller: OFDM and MC-CDMA for Broadband Multi-user Communications, WLANs and Broadcasting, John Wiley - IEEE Press, May 2003, 980 pages
[11] L. Hanzo, L-L. Yang, E-L. Kuan and K. Yen: Single- andMulti-Carrier CDMA:Multi-User Detection, Space-Time Spreading, Synchronisation, Standards and Networking, IEEE Press - JohnWiley, June 2003, 1060 pages
[12] L. Hanzo, T. Keller: An OFDM Primer, JohnWiley -IEEE Press, May 2006, 426 pages.
[13] L. Hanzo, F.C.A. Somerville, J.P. Woodard: Audio and Voice Compression for Wireless and Wireline Communications, JohnWiley and IEEE Press, 2007
[14] L. Hanzo, P. Cherriman, J. Streit: Video Compression and Communications: H.261, H.263, H.264, MPEG4 and Proprietary Codecs as well as HSDPAStyle Adaptive Turbo-Transceivers, John Wiley and IEEE Press, 2007
[15] L. Hanzo, J.S. Blogh, S. Ni: 3G Systems and HSDPA-Style FDD Versus TDD Networking: Smart Antennas and Adaptive Modulation, John Wiley and IEEE Press, 2008
[16] L. Hanzo, O. Alamri, M. El-Hajjar, N. Wu: Advanced Space-Time Coding: Near-Capacity Sphere-Packing, Multi-Functional MIMOs and Cooperative Space-Time Processing, IEEE Press - John Wiley, 2009
[17] L. Hanzo, J. Akhtman, M. Jiang: MIMO-OFDM Turbo-Transceivers for LTE, WIFI and WIMAX, IEEE Press - JohnWiley, February 2010
[18] L. Hanzo, R.G. Maunder, L-L. Yang, J. Wang: Near capacity variable-length coding, to appear
For detailed contents please refer to http://wwwmobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk