Topic: Intelligent RF Cloud Interference Measurement and Modeling
Abstract:
Importance of spectrum regulation and management was first revealed on May of 1985 after the FCC release of unlicensed ISM bands resulting in emergence of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and many other wireless technologies that has affected our daily lives by enabling the emergence of the Smart World and IoT era. Today, the idea of a liberated spectrum is circulating around, which can potentially direct wireless networking industry into another revolution by enabling a new paradigm in intelligent spectrum regulation and management. The RF signal radiated from IoT devices as well as other wireless technologies create an RF cloud full of location data causing co- and cross-channel interference to each other. Lack of a science and technology for understanding, measurement, and modeling of the RF cloud interference in near real-time results in inefficient utilization of the precious spectrum, a unique natural resource shared among all wireless devices of the universe in frequency, time, and space. Near real time forecasting of the RF cloud interference is essential to pursue the path to the optimal utilization of spectrum and an intelligent liberated spectrum management. In this lecture we present a historical perspective on the evolution of spectrum regulation and management, explains the diversified meanings of interference for different sectors of the wireless industry, and presents a path for implementing a theoretical foundation for intelligent interference monitoring and forecasting to enable the emergence of a liberated spectrum industry and a new paradigm in intelligent spectrum management and regulations.
This lecture is based on a journal article appearing in an special issue on intelligent spectrum management and regulations, appearing in the International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Springer Nature, 2022.
Autobiography: Kaveh Pahlavan, is a Professor of ECE, a Professor of CS, and Director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. Since the inception of Skyhook Wireless, Boston, MA, the world’s pioneer in Wi-Fi positioning for smart devices, he has been the chief technical advisor of the company. From 1995-2007 he had a long term and productive cooperation with the University of Oulu and Nokia in Finland. He is renowned for his pioneering research in Wi-Fi and indoor geolocation. He has contributed to numerous seminal visionary keynotes, papers, and key patents related to these areas. His current area of research is application of RF cloud for authentication and security as well as gesture and motion detections. He is the authors of several pioneering textbooks translated and taught around the world in several languages. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Wireless Information Networks, established in 1994 as the first journal in wireless networks. He has founded, chaired and organized a number of pioneering international events in wireless access and localization, which includes Workshops on Opportunistic RF Localization for Emerging Smart Devices, (2008, 2010, 2012). For his pioneering entrepreneurship activities in the growth of wireless networking industry, he has been selected as a member of the Committee on Evolution of Untethered Communication, US National Research Council (1997), and has leaded the US team for the review of the Finnish National R&D Programs in (2000 and 2003). For his contributions in research and scholarship he was the Westin Hadden Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI (1993-1996), was elected as a fellow of the IEEE (1996), became the first non-Finn fellow of the Nokia (1999), received the first Fulbright-Nokia fellowship (2000) and received WPI board of trustee’s award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship (2011). Recently, he received an “overseas famous scholar award” from R.I. China to serve as a visiting professor at University of Science and Technology of Beijing (2019-2022).