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| Title
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Cognitive Radio: Research Challenges |
| Speaker
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Simon Haykin
Distinguished University Professor
Cognitive Systems Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
McMaster University
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| Day and Time
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Friday, April 3, 2009, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
| Location
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Room BA 1180
Bahen Centre for Information Technology
University of Toronto
40 St. George Street
University of Toronto
map - select BA |
| Webinar
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This lecture is available also as a Webinar. For those wishing to attend it as Webinar, registration is required .
Space is limited, please reserve your Webinar seat now, at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/260878841.
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the Webinar.
System Requirements:
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer
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| Organizer
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Signals & Computational Intelligence Chapter |
| Co-Sponsor
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Communications Chapter |
| Contact
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Azadeh Kushki, E-mail:
All are welcome. Refreshments will be served. |
| Abstract |
To set the stage for the motivation behind Cognitive Radio, I begin the lecture by speaking on the Computer and the Mind.
Interest in Cognitive Radio has grown exponentially in the past four or five years, largely because of the potential this new and exciting transformational technology offers in solving the spectrum underutilization problem.
To be specific, I will describe in detail the major issues in Cognitive Radio:
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spectrum sensing;
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transmit power control;
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dynamic spectrum management; and
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emergent behaviour of cognitive radio networks.
What is exciting about working in Cognitive Radio is the multidisciplinary nature of the subject. Moreover, recognizing that the wireless channel is known for being an unreliable medium, the design of a cognitive radio network that offers reliable service, whenever and wherever needed, makes this work all the more challenging and therefore exciting. |
| Biography |
Simon Haykin received his B.Sc (First Class Honours), Ph.D. and D.Sc, all in Electrical Engineering at the University of Birmingham in England.
Presently he is a University Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University, Canada. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
He is the recipient of an Honourary Doctorate of Technical Sciences from ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, and the first recipient of the Henry Booker Gold Medal from URSI, as well as many other prizes and awards.
He is the author/coauthor of many books, including the classic books:
Adaptive Filter Theory (Prentice Hall), Neural Networks (Prentice Hall), and Communication Systems (Wiley)
His current research interests are focused on Cognitive Dynamic Systems with particular emphasis on the following:
1.) The design of a new generation of adaptive hearing system for the hearing impaired (encompassing a cocktail part processor and neurocompensator), and the modeling of human communication in a noisy background,
2.) Nonlinear filtering for state estimation.
3.) Cognitive radar networks involving the use of inexpensive radar sensors.
4.) Robust algorithms for transmit power control and spectrum management in cognitive radio.
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