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ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Meeting the spectrum needs of the next generation of wireless systems
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Abstract
Wireless networks such as cellular and WiFi have experienced significant growth over the last two decades to become a ubiquitous part of our daily lives. This growth is expected to continue for at least the next several years enabling existing services to be enhanced and new use cases to emerge ranging from telepresence to connected cities and factories. A key ingredient to support this growth is access to wireless spectrum, which is a limited resource that is also used by other important applications such as radio astronomy, earth sensing satellites, and military and civilian radar.
The White House has recently published a new national spectrum strategy that aims to “modernize spectrum policy” and make more efficient use of this resource. This talk will discuss some aspects of this strategy and some of our current research being done in this area.
Randall Berry joined Northwestern University in 2000, where he is currently the Chair and John A. Dever Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests span topics in wireless communications, computer networking, network economics, and information theory. Dr. Berry received the M.S. and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996 and 2000, respectively, where he was part of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. His undergraduate education was at the University of Missouri-Rolla, where he received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1993. In 1998 he was on the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Advanced Networks Group.
Dr. Berry is the recipient of a 2003 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation and in 2014 was elevated to IEEE Fellow. He has served as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and is currently an Area Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. He has served on the program and organizing committees of numerous conferences including serving as the co-chair of the 2012 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop and a technical co-chair of 2010 IEEE ICC Wireless Networking Symposium. He is currently the steering committee chair for IEEE DySPAN.