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Wireless connectivity is the buzz word of the electronics industry.  It is thought to be the answer to getting consumers to purchase more electronic equipment.  Putting wireless devices into portable equipment opens Pandora’s Box with respect to Regulatory and Certification issues.  One of the few mechanisms that is available (Module Approval) to ease this process is little understood and virtually unknown in the design community.  This presentation will define and detail the requirements for modules, and outline the future direction that is being pursued by an Industry Group (founded by Mr. Schiffer) which will enable wireless integration onto any platform.  In addition to his discussion on Radio Modules, Mr. Schiffer will discuss various industry activities related to having wireless devices be used legally on commercial aircraft.  

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During 2001/2002, several major CDMA-based wireless network carriers deployed Location Based Services (LBS) in Japan, Korea and the USA. The carriers chose Qualcomm’s wireless-assisted gpsOne^TM end-to-end system solution for these deployments.  The applications range from gaming and personal navigation services to commercial security and Enhanced 911 (E9-1-1).  It is anticipated that the number of future applications will expand to include a wide range of value added services (VAS). This presentation will describe the wireless network architectures, messaging protocols, and positioning measurements used to support these applications.  Processing GPS, terrestrial and other measurements concurrently presents several challenges.  These complexities and the characteristics of the various measurement types will be discussed.  Positioning results from actual network data are presented to demonstrate the initial performance achieved. In particular, the presentation will focus upon improvements upon LBS service availability due to the use of wireless assisted GPS and hybrid GPS/cellular ranging systems. 

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As the Internet age evolves to include millions and millions of mobile devices, the concept of the "trusted personal device" emerges. Secure and reliable communications will be key enablers of the mobile internet.  Dan MacDonald, Nokia Internet, will discuss this.  He will share Nokia's perspective on the growth and shape of mobile Internet.  He will share his and his organizations experiences with how enterprise customers are approaching the extension of their existing networks towards mobility. He will discuss the high level technical challenges which must be resolved in order to deliver global and scalable mobile internet trusted transactions.  Dan MacDonald is vice president of Nokia Internet Communications, responsible for product portfolio management as well as global marketing and communications. In this role, he leads product strategy and development priorities for Nokia Internet Communications including collaborative initiatives between Nokia and its security application partners. His involvement in the Internet security industry has evolved to include mobile Internet security technologies and solutions.  Prior to his current role, Dan MacDonald was an original member of the Nokia Internet Communications senior management team, holding several key positions, including VP of marketing and VP of engineering, and was responsible for delivering many of Nokia's award winning Internet security systems.  Prior to joining Nokia in October 1998, MacDonald was the director of Advanced Network Technologies, responsible for systems, which enabled customers to leverage network infrastructure for multiple media, at Mitel Corporation. He has nearly 20 years experience in the networking industry, and has held key positions in a variety of business areas, including engineering, product management & marketing, international technical support, strategic planning, and program development.

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     Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

     University of California-Berkeley

     Berkeley, CA

Abstract: Over the last few years the FCC has opened up more than 12 GigaHertz of spectrum for unlicensed use for communications application. This enormous amount of new spectra dwarfs all the existing unlicensed allocations by more than an order of magnitude. However, to commercially exploit these allocations requires fundamental changes in the way that we design our radios as well as the way that we use CMOS technology. The Ultra Wideband 3-10 GHz band, requires a complete re-thinking of how a radio should be designed, since the most natural representation is in the time domain as opposed to the frequency domain approach of essentially all past radio systems. The restrictive power levels that are required in this band will require enormous amounts of computation that can be accomplished at low power and low cost if the right CMOS computational architectures are used. The 5 GHz of unlicensed bandwidth around 60 GHz doesn't have such restrictive power limitations, however the use of CMOS at these microwave frequencies requires a new methodology for CMOS implementation. While the fundamental performance of CMOS in present day technology allows the integration of 60 GHz radios, to efficiently exploit this new opportunity using standard digital CMOS technology, will require new device models, design methodology and system designs.

Biography:  Professor Bob Broderson received his PhD from MIT in 1972 and then was with the Central Research Laboratory at Texas Instruments for three years. He joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 where he is now the John Whinnery Chair professor and Co-Scientific Director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. Professor Brodersen's research is focused in the areas of low power design and wireless communications and the CAD tools necessary to support these activities. He has won best paper awards for a number of journal and conference papers in the areas of integrated circuit design, CAD and communications, including the W.G. Baker Award in 1979 for Best Paper in all the IEEE Journals an Transactions. In 1982 he became a Fellow of the IEEE and was co-recipient of the IEEE Morris K. Liebmann Award for Outstanding Emerging Technology in 1983. He received Technical Achievement Awards in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 1986, from the Signal Processing Society in 1991 and in 1999 from the ACM Special Interest Group in Mobile Computing. Professor Brodersen was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1988. In 1996, he received the IEEE Solid State Circuits Award. Professor Brodersen was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund, Sweden in 1999 and in 2000 he received the Millennium Award from the Circuits and Systems Society and the Golden Jubilee Award from the IEEE. In 2001 he was awarded the Lewis Winner Award for outstanding paper in the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference and in 2003 was given an award for being one of the top ten contributors over the 50 years of that conference.

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Abstract: Protecting the network is increasingly critical to a company's success, and historically it has been viewed as a specialized knowledge mainly implemented at the campus edge. Over the past several years the proliferation of advanced attack tools and resultant damages coupled with the blurring of the classic network edge have lead to dramatic changes in security design best practice considerations. This session provides insight into problems that plague the IT and security operations staff on a daily basis. It first highlights several notorious hacker tools in order to demonstrate their severity and diversity. This is followed by a brief review of security technologies and then a healthy discussion of network security design considerations. The session closes with notes on areas for technology improvement and suggestions for development engineers to keep in mind.Figure.

Biography:  Russell Rice is a technical marketing manager in Cisco System's VPN and Security Business Unit, focusing on new security service planning and the SAFE network security best practice design guidelines. The past 7 years have been spent in network security technology, both within Cisco and as the Director of Engineering at Global Internet. Since graduating from UC Berkeley with a BA in Computer Science in 1988, Russell spent the subsequent 7 years in assorted engineering, marketing, and management positions at ABB, Dow Jones, and Gamer's Den. Russell is a frequent Cisco evangelist at security seminars, including Networkers where he has received multiple top 3 overall presenter and session awards.

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Abstract: We are quickly moving towards a knowledge-based industry. The industry encompasses “Storage Areas” in segments such as finance, insurance, retail, medical and health care, entertainment, education, and advanced research,  to name few. Storage, which holds information, is the basis for the knowledge. To meet the increasing need of the information users in these industry segments and the amount of information needed to transform it to knowledge, the way storage was deployed and used had to be drastically changed. New architectures and protocols had to be developed to meet the stringent requirements and to enable the users to reap the benefits of shared storage within the “Storage Areas”. In addition to the emergence of new storage and storage networking products and solutions, the world is beginning to move towards offering storage as a service. The new methods of deployment of storage will not be complete until both storage and storage infrastructure are well managed and secured. The access to information stored will be global and independent of geographical location. Finally, storage will be viewed as an Eco-system, which evolves and adjusts according to the changing user requirement and applications.

Biography:While growing up in India, Kumar Malavalli dreamed of coming to America.  He finally arrived in Silicon Valley from Canada in 1995 to co-found Brocade Communications Systems. As CTO, he helped make Brocade one of the most technologically innovative and successful companies today.

Kumar Malavalli earned BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics at the National Institute of Engineering in Mysore, India.  He has worked for ITT Communications, Amdahl, Canstar, and HP in various senior technical positions pertaining to local and wide area networks.  He is one of the principal architects of Fibre Channel technology, in which he holds patents. He became Chairman of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) T11 Technical Committee, which established universal standards for Fibre Channel, and was a director of both the Fibre Channel Industry Association and the Storage Networking Industry Association. 

The Brocade Silkworm® family of Fibre Channel switches revolutionized the storage area networking industry by introducing a standard that caters to all protocols, and that reduces the cost of data storage.  The benefits of Fibre Channel’s technology became apparent after September 11 when, for the first time, World Trade Center companies were able to rely on the data disaster recovery features of their storage systems.  Mr. Malavalli’s contributions to storage networking range from the technical to business development to marketing. His leadership in the industry led to the launching of many new companies in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Mr. Malavalli currently invests in and mentors numerous storage networking startups in Silicon Valley, and serves on the Board of Directors or Technical Advisory Board of over ten such companies. He is co-founder and partner of Pulsar Ventures, a venture fund that transfers breakthrough technologies out of the universities and into the business world. He also has a global vision that encompasses telemedicine and education. He is a Silicon Valley Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), and Trustee of the American India Foundation (AIF).

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Abstract: During the last couple of years, storage networking and storage area networks in particular have become buzzwords in both the industry and research communities. This presentation provides an overview of the basic concepts of storage networking and the reasons why storage networks evolved from SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface) to Fibre Channel and iSCSI (Internet SCSI). The session will discuss the technical aspects of the different protocols and technologies involved and the reasons for the different choices that have been made historically in order to build storage area networks as we know them today. Based on the experience and the facts from the past, some future scenarios and new applications will be presented and discussed with the audience.

Biography:  Dante Malagrino', Ph.D, graduated in EE from Politecnico di Torino in 1997 defending a thesis on "Benchmarking Methodology for High-Speed Networking Devices". He completed his doctorate in Computer Science in 2000, defending a thesis on the "Design Methodologies for high-speed campus networks". His main research interests have been in the field of high-speed Ethernet, ATM, and layer 3 switching.

He joined Cisco in 1999, initially as part of an internship program. The initial focus of his activities within Cisco was on Layer 4-7 Switching architectures. Later, he became part of the engineering team that designed the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of multilayer storage switches. He is currently a manager in the technical marketing organization, responsible of managing the technical aspects related to the alliance of Cisco with other storage partners.

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Biography:  Kevin has a PhD in electrical engineering from UC Davis (1986), and a M.S.E.E. from Stanford University (1978).  Kevin worked at IBM, Sun Microsystems, and at Xerox PARC, before entering law school at Santa Clara University in 1995.  Kevin also passed the U.S. Patent Bar Exam in 1995 before entering law school.  Kevin is now an intellectual property attorney based in Campbell, with an emphasis on patents.

Abstract: While until recently there were no standards for wireless data communications, in the last few years several standards were developed. This workshop will present all wireless data communication standards developed by the IEEE – the 802.11 standard for wireless local area networks, the 802.15 family of standards for wireless personal area networks, and the 802.16 standard for broadband wireless access systems. The tutorial will present the medium access control and the physical layers of these standards. It will answer the question how do these technologies work, why do they work the way they do, and how were they developed.

Abstract: The increased availability of wired broadband access and wireless LANs has led to significant interest in wide-area broadband wireless IP services. Systems capable of providing such services are subject to many challenging design requirements including spectral efficiency, MAC efficiency, link robustness and IP transparency. In this talk, we provide an overview of an adaptive-antenna based solution that supports intra-cell channel reuse. The key technology components of the solution will be described, and performance data from the field will be presented.

Abstract: The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) has allocated 7,500MHz of spectrum for unlicensed use of Ultra-wideband devices (UWB) in the 3.1-10.6GHz frequency band. The UWB spectrum made available by the FCC can be utilized with impulse radios, which have been developed to date. A new method emerging today uses a multi-band approach, where information is encoded in multiple RF subbands at the same time, each occupying at least 500MHz bandwidth. 

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Abstract: Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) has emerged as the most popular standard for broadband wireless data access, changing the way we work and live. Yet coverage has been limited to indoor environments (office/home) and short-range hotspots in public areas. Leveraging a cellular mesh approach, Tropos Networks' metro-scale Wi-Fi solution creates outdoor coverage spanning several city blocks to blanket entire cities with a Wi-Fi signal. In this talk, we will examine the wireless networking challenges involved in making metro-scale Wi-Fi a reality: coverage, backhaul, and throughput.

Biography:  Devabhaktuni "Sri" Srikrishna is Tropos Networks' Chief Technology Officer. Prior to founding Tropos, Mr. Devabhaktuni led the development of the common network management interface for optical transport and switching products at Sycamore Networks, and he taught courses in software engineering and mathematics at Caltech and MIT. His research interests include parallel systems architecture, advanced compiler design and quantum computing and he has published articles in journals such as IEEE Computer and Physical Review and at conferences sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery. Mr. Devabhaktuni holds a BS in Mathematics from Caltech and an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

Abstract: Wireless system designs trade off coverage, spectral efficiency, mobility performance and a host of other factors in support of a particular service vision. Marc Goldberg will discuss this technology at the October 8 meeting of the Santa Clara Valley Communications society.  In his talk, Goldberg discusses the design and performance of the iBurst system. iBurst has been developed to provide mobile wide-area broadband services with economics that permit mass-market pricing. Overviews of the iBurst network and air interface architectures will be presented, including an introduction to adaptive antennas. Results from the field and the IEEE 802.20 standardization process will also be provided.

Biography:  Marc Goldburg has been at ArrayComm since the company's inception in 1992. In addition to his work on architectures and protocols for wireless data systems, he has played a lead role in the development of ArrayComm's spatial processing technology for cellular voice and data systems. Marc's group is responsible for core technology development at ArrayComm, and for the company's regulatory and standards efforts.  Marc is an adviser to the Federal Communication Commission's Spectrum Policy Task Force, and has delivered many invited tutorials to the FCC and other national and international regulatory agencies on the topics of adaptive antennas, spectral efficiency and spectrum policy. Scientific American recently honored Marc as 2002 Research Leader in Communications in its first annual "Scientific American 50" awards for his pioneering work on adaptive antenna technology.  Prior to ArrayComm, Marc's experience includes a staff position at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and a research position at Stanford University. He holds patents relating to spatial processing methods for wireless voice and packet data systems, and he has published a number of technical papers in the areas of communications and signal processing. Marc holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University, an MSEE from the University of Washington, and a BSE. (EE) from Princeton University.

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Abstract:  To enable intra- and inter-enterprise application integration, enterprises have invested heavily in EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and B2B (Business to Business) technologies. However the first generation B2B technologies, represented by the Marketplace platform and its associated tools and applications offered in mid to late 1990's, have left much to be desired. Recent momentum in Web Services based on the SOAP, WSDL and UDDI specifications promises a standardized connectivity at a lower cost that would transform the business connectivity paradigm. In this talk, we will provide an anatomy and diagnosis of the B2B technologies. We will also analyze the current web service specifications and technologies from the perspectives of protocol layers, service descriptions, and business service registries. We will describe a next-generation web service-based platform stack that enables the vision of dynamic business process integration within and across enterprise boundaries.

Biography:  Mei is currently Vice President of Engineering at Commerce One Inc. She is responsible for all product development at Commerce One, and has led the design and development efforts for the Commerce One Conductor 6.0, a web service-enabled application integration platform. Prior to joining Commerce One in 2001, She held positions with Hewlett-Packard Company, A.T. Kearney, EDS, and Digital Equipment Corporation. She has authored numerous publications about database systems, transaction processing, and business process management systems, and, in September 2001, received the VLDB Ten-Year Paper Award in recognition for her work in Long-Running Transactions, published in 1991. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for International Journal of Web Services (IJWS). She was a member of Computer Science Faculty at Harvard University, where she received the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award in 1990. Mei received a B.A. from National Taiwan University, an M.S. from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Abstract: The rollout of "pre-standard" optical control plane technology in production networks by carriers of the likes of AT&T, Cable and Wireless, Sprint and others, indicates the inherent demand for the functionality that an optical control plane can offer. This overview emphasizes the key concepts or functionalities that such a control plane brings to optical networks and why they are important in the optical context. In addition, where concepts have been used previously in other contexts, such as IP datagram routing or voice telephony signaling, we point out key differences between these and the optical context..

Biography:  Dr. Bernstein is currently a consultant with Grotto Networking. Previously Dr. Bernstein was a Senior Technology Director at CIENA Corporation looking over Network control and management architectures after directing all software development at Lightera Networks (now Ciena's Core Switching Division) where his team applied signaling and routing techniques to the control of networks of Lightera switches (now the Ciena CoreDirector). Dr. Bernstein has filed numerous US patents in the areas of optical networking, packetized voice, congestion control and encryption. His book Optical Network Control: Architecture, Protocols, and Standards, co-authored with Bala Ragagopalan and Debanjan Saha has recently been release and is published by Addison-Wesley-Longman (AWL). Dr. Bernstein has published several papers appearing in IEEE Transaction on circuits and systems, IEEE transactions on Communications, IEEE InfoCom and IEEE MilCom conferences. Dr. Bernstein earned his Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Science and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.