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IEEE ComSoC Meeting
Date and Time
Wed. Dec 9, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00PM
Location
National Semiconductor, Building E, Conference Room, 2900 Semiconductor Dr, Santa Clara, CA 95051
Program
6:00 - 6:30pm
6:30 - 6:40pm
6:40 - 7:30pm
7:30 - 7:50pm
8:00pm
RSVP: comsocscv@gmail.com
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Pizza&Drinks and Networking
Welcome
Talk
Q&A
Adjourn
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Title
U.S. Public Policy Issues Facing Telecommunications Carriers
Speaker
Chris Boyer, VP of AT&T
Biography
Chris Boyer serves as Assistant Vice President - Public Policy at AT&T Services Inc. Mr. Boyer is responsible for developing and coordinating at the Federal and state levels AT&T's policies impacting emerging services and technology with a particular focus on IP based services such as Internet and video services.
Prior to this role Mr. Boyer was AT&T's dedicated public policy resource embedded with AT&T's business units coordinating the company's nationwide efforts to expand fiber optics into neighborhoods to deliver Internet Protocol (IP)-based television, faster high-speed Internet access and voice services under the AT&T U-verseSM brand. In this role Mr. Boyer has represented AT&T before numerous external audiences and policymakers as a subject matter expert on these initiatives.
Mr. Boyer joined AT&T in 1993 and has held various positions in AT&T's corporate public policy, network planning and engineering, product marketing and network services departments including extensive experience working on AT&T's broadband, VoIP and IPTV initiatives.
Mr. Boyer holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and an MBA from the University of Houston in Houston, TX. He and his wife Marnie have a son, Matthew, and a daughter, Sydney, and reside in San Ramon, CA.
Abstract
Chris Boyer from AT&T will provide an overview of some of the technology trends that are currently impacting the telecommunications industry and how those trends are driving a host of public policy issues that are currently being discussed in Washington, D.C. Mr. Boyer will provide an overview of the changes AT&T is seeing in the industry, a high level general discussion of the range of issues policymakers are encountering in Washington and offer some thoughts on AT&T's perspective.
IEEE ComSoC and SPS Co-Sponsor Meeting
Date and Time
Wed. Dec 14, 2009, 6:30 - 8:30PM
Location
National Semiconductor, Building E, Conference Room, 2900 Semiconductor Dr, Santa Clara, CA 95051
Program
6:30 - 7:00pm
7:00 - 7:05pm
7:05 - 8:00pm
8:00 - 8:15pm
8:15pm
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Pizza&Drinks and Networking
Welcome
Talk
Q&A
Adjourn
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Title
Next-generation mobile WiMAX (802.16m) Update
Speaker
Dr. Jong-Kae (J.K.) Fwu, Intel Corporation
Biography
Dr. Jong-Kae (J.K.) Fwu presently serves as the vice-chair of IEEE 802.16 Task Group m (TGm), a task group focusing on defining next generation WiMAX for mobile internet evolution. He is also an Assistant Technical Editor of the IEEE 802.16m Mobile Broadband Wireless Standard - Advanced Air interface. He has been actively contributing to IEEE 802.16m and the WiMAX Forum in various areas such as PHY Structure, UL Control, multicast/broadcast services and multicarrier operation.
Dr. Jong-Kae (J.K.) Fwu received his B.S. degree from National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, in 1992. He received his M.S. (1993) and Ph.D. (1996) in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. Since 2000, he has been working at Intel Corporation, and has worked on various wireless and wireline communication technologies, including WiMAX, WiFi, and ADSL/SHDSL. He is currently a Senior Wireless Systems Architect of Wireless Standards at the Mobile Wireless Group in Intel. Prior to Intel, he worked on design and modeling of wireless cellular receivers (TDMA IS-136) for Lucent Technologies. He holds several patents on communication system designs.
Abstract
To meet the tremendous demand and growth for mobile Internet and wireless multimedia applications, the IEEE 802.16 Working Group Task Group m (TGm) has been developing a next-generation mobile WiMAX system (4G) since early 2007. The next-generation mobile WiMAX system, as a new amendment of the IEEE 802.16 standard (i.e., IEEE 802.16m), will provide enhancements including higher throughput/mobility, higher user capacity, and lower latency while maintaining full backward compatibility with the existing mobile WiMAX systems (802.16e). This presentation provide a high level tutorial on the prominent technical features and design of IEEE 802.16m and the ongoing technologies in the evolution toward the next-generation WiMAX network. It is focused on the general overall 16m system and particularly PHY related perspectives.
Acknowledgements
We appreciate guest speakers contributing to ComSoc SCV with new concepts and technologies. If you are interested in presenting at our meetings, please contact any of the officers listed. We thank National Semiconductor (with the help of Mr. Jim Wieser) for providing the ideal venue for the monthly meetings. We also thank the ComSoc SCV officers for their tireless work in keeping this chapter running smoothly.
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