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Meet the Faculty: Michael L. Honig4:00 p.m.
April 29, 2009
Ford ITW Auditorium
Michael L. Honig
"Battle of the Bandwidths:
Spectrum Markets, Interference Management, and Wireless System Design" | Abstract:
Traditionally radio spectrum has been tightly
regulated worldwide in order to manage interference among
commercial and public wireless services. This ``command and control''
approach to spectrum allocation has been criticized in recent years
as the cause of the following paradox: spectrum is viewed
as a scarce resource, yet large portions of useful spectrum are typically idle.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S.
has recognized that market mechanisms for spectrum sharing
would likely lead to more efficient use of spectrum resources
and provide for the current rapid growth in wireless systems
and services. This talk will start with a general discussion
of models for spectrum allocation, along with a description
of how spectrum markets might be structured.
We will then highlight some distributed techniques for
interference management, and conclude with observations
on how spectrum markets may affect the design of wireless systems.
Bio:
Michael Honig received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from
Stanford University (1977), and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley
(1978 and 1981, respectively). He subsequently joined
Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, and moved to the
Systems Principles Research Division at Bellcore (now Telcordia)
in 1983. He has been at Northwestern since Fall 1994.
He has held visiting appointments at the
Naval Research Laboratory (San Diego),
the University of California, Berkeley,
Princeton University, the Technical University of Munich, and the
Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He has served as an editor and guest editor for several journals,
and as a member of the Board of Governors
for the IEEE Information Theory Society during 1997-2002.
He is a Fellow of IEEE,
the co-recipient of the 2002 IEEE Communications Society
and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, and
the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists.
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