Mobile WiMAX Talk today from IEEE SPS at SCV, Dec 12

You are invited to attend the following talk hosted by IEEE SCV Signal
Processing Society


Location: National Semiconductor Credit Union Building, (Bldg 31), 955
Kifer Rd., Sunnyvale (Near the intersection of Lawrence and Central
Expressway).


Date: Dec 12th 2005


Title: Mobile WiMAX: True Broadband Wireless Enabled


Speaker: Aditya Agrawal, Director of Marketing, Beceem Communications


Abstract:
The IEEE 802.16e standard which enables standards-based true mobile
broadband wireless will be formally ratified by the IEEE in December
this year. 802.16e is also popularly known as Mobile WiMAX. This talk
will give an overview of the standard, how WiMAX Forum is
working to make this standard a globally pervasive technology, and
technical information on what makes this standard exciting including
the fact that this is the first wireless access standard that is based
on OFDMA, has support for multiple antenna techniques like MIMO and
beamforming and has advanced MAC layer options to support many users
with QoS.


Biography:
Aditya Agrawal is Director of Marketing for Beceem Communications that
is focused on semiconductor solutions for Broadband Wireless market.
Aditya was one of the early members of the WiMAX Forum and is currently

Chair of the Certification Working Group (CWG) that runs the WiMAX
Certification program. Aditya has previously served on the WiMAX
Forum's board of directors. He has also been involved with IEEE 802.16
for over 4 years..


Aditya has more than 15 years of engineering and business experience in

the communications and semiconductor industries and has previously
worked at Texas Instruments, Level One Communications (now Intel) and
Fujitsu Microelectronics. He received his BS degree from IIT Kanpur, MS

from the University of Louisiana, and MBA from the Haas School of
Business at the University of California, Berkeley.


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http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/sps/