Workshop
EERT 2010 - 1st International Workshop on Energy Efficient and Reconfigurable Transceivers
collocated with MOBIMEDIA - 6th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference
6th - 8th September 2010 - Lisbon, Portugal
CALL FOR PAPERS:
The beyond3G vision envisages higher data rates and multi standard radio interfaces to provide all users with a continuous seamless connection at any place, anytime and on any system. Therefore the large number of multimode devices coupled with the surge in power requirements for future emerging handsets raises significant challenges in terms of reducing the energy consumptions, and reducing the amount of electromagnetic radiations in order to minimize the global impact of CO2 emissions.
In fact, current state-of-the-art of multi-standard devices have high power requirements for maintaining two or more radio interfaces. It is envisaged that a dramatic increase in the energy consumptions of 4G devices will make active cooling a necessity. Indeed, from the manufacturer’s perspective, the issue of power consumptions is becoming a key concern since there is a continuously growing gap between the energy required by emerging radio systems and what can be actually achieved by: i) the evolutions on battery technology; ii) the progresses on scaling and circuit design; iii) the design of novel system level architectures; and iv) the development of novel thermal and cooling techniques.
Therefore, one of the biggest challenges for the future wireless systems is the need to limit the energy consumptions of battery-powered devices, with the aim to prolong their operational time and avoid active cooling. Without new approaches for energy saving, there is a significant threat that the 4G mobile users will be searching for power outlets rather than for network access, thus being restricted to stay in a single position and losing their mobile capabilities.
In typical mobile terminals for cellular systems up to half of the power consumptions come from communications-related functions, such as baseband processing, RF, and connectivity functions. Therefore any reduction in the power consumptions of all these functionalities will have a substantial impact on the battery lifetime.
The EERT workshop will bring scientists, engineers, manufacturers and service providers to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results surrounding all aspects on energy-efficient transceivers for handset and BSs of the future.
Prospective authors are invited to submit original and unpublished technical papers on the following research topics, but not limited to:
- Design techniques for energy efficient transceiver power amplifiers
- Energy efficient processing (DSP)
- Energy efficient reconfigurable radios and software defined radios
- MEMS and applications
- MMICs and RFICs
- Device and IC technology for power amplifiers
- System requirements and transceiver architectures
- Matching techniques
- Device and system level modeling
- Active Antennas
- Integrated circuits and antennas
- Linearization techniques
- System Integration (SoC, Mixed-Signal)
- Device Characterization/Modeling
- Systems Architectures and Applications
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Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures. |
Technical Program Committee
Prof S. Shepherd [Univ. of Bradford, UK] |
Invited Speaker: Prof. Yang Hao Title: On-body radio channel modelling for power efficient RF transceiver design |
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Abstract Body-centric wireless communications refer to human-self and human-to-human networking with the use of wearable and implantable wireless sensors. It is a subject area combining wireless body-area networks (WBANs), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs). Body-centric wireless communications has abundant applications in personal healthcare, smart home, personal entertainment and identification systems, space exploration and military. Bio Professor Yang Hao received the Ph.D. degree from the Centre for Communications Research (CCR) at the University of Bristol, U.K. in 1998. From 1998 to 2000, he was a postdoc research fellow at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Birmingham, U.K. In May 2000, he joined the Antenna Engineering Group, Queen Mary College, University of London, London, U.K. first as a lecturer and was promoted to Reader in 2005 and to Professor in 2007.
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Invited Speaker: Dr. Bashir Gwandu Title: A comprehensive Quality of Service (QoS) Performance bench-marks for GSM and CDMA networks for all interfaces |
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Abstract Bio Dr Bashir Gwandu is the Executive Commissioner (Technical Services) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and was the Acting Vice Chairman/CEO of the NCC from June to July 2010. After receiving his BSc in Physics from Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto and an MSc in Applied Physics from the University of Jos, in addition to a brief Engineering service at the Tactical Air-command, Makurdi and lecturing at Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, he proceeded to the United Kingdom where he attended MSc Courses in Power Electronics and Drives and MSc courses in Communications Engineering; he further obtained an MPhil degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, all from the University of Birmingham. He returned briefly to Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto to lecture before going back to the UK to study for a PhD in Electronic/Electrical Engineering at Aston University and subsequently undertook an MBA Finance course at the Birmingham Business School. |