What Every Comm Engineer Should Know About Digital Communications
Co-sponsored by The CLAS Communications, Signal Processing and Vehicular Technology Joint Chapter
This whirlwind talk endeavors to reinforce the important operations and concepts in digital communications. We deal with signal types, degradation types, fading channels, parameters such as time-bandwidth product, and how we use them. Did Nyquist teach us anything important about pulse shaping? You bet. What did Shannon teach us about capacity and ultimate performance? We show how to make design choices for meeting difficult system requirements. We additionally describe some of the creative developments such as Turbo, LDPC, and MIMO that have transformed this technology from the simple to the sublime. This intense hour-and-a-half talk is geared toward designers, managers, software developers, and whoever wants to partake in the passion that drives communication engineers.
The event is open to both IEEE members and non-members at no cost. Details and map at www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/lac/csspsvts/IEEE.html. Please RSVP to Janice.D.Penland@aero.org and identify your citizenship, IEEE membership (non-members welcome), and affiliation.
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Location: Building: D8, Room Number: 1010 The Aerospace Corporation, 200 N. Aviation Ave El Segundo, California United States |
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Date: 03-November-2009 Time: 11:30AM to 01:15PM (1.75 hours) All times are: US/Pacific |
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No Admission Charge.
Biography: Dr. Bernard Sklar has over 50 years of technical experience at the following companies: Republic Aviation, Hughes Aircraft, Litton Industries, and The Aerospace Corporation. At Aerospace, he helped develop the MILSTAR satellite system, and was the principal architect for EHF Satellite Data Link Standards. Currently, he is the Director of Advanced Systems at Communications Engineering Services, a consulting company he founded in 1984. He has taught engineering courses at several universities, including the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. He is an External Examiner of Digital Communication Engineering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and has presented numerous training programs throughout the world. Dr. Sklar has published and presented over 90 technical papers. He received the 1984 Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society for his series on digital communications, and he is the author of the book, Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2001. His academic credentials include a B.S. degree in Math and Science from the University of Michigan, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York, and a Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
11:30 am - 1:15 pm, lunch provided
