2014 IEEE North Jersey Advanced Communications Symposium – Sep. 20, 2014
The 2nd IEEE North Jersey Advanced Communications Symposium (NJACS) will be held at the Babbio Center, Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hobokon, NJ, on Saturday September 20, 2014. The symposium consists of six invited presentations and a parallel poster session. Last year’s symposium was well attended, with 84 participants from New Jersey and New York, see [link].
The symposium program is available now [pdf] as well as the Call for Posters [pdf]. Registration for this event is required. Please check the registration page for more information.
Symposium Program
The symposium program is as follows:
| 08:15-09:00 | Registration, Meet and Greet, Poster Set-Up |
| 09:00-09:15 | Opening Remarks |
| Amit Patel, Symposium Chair and IEEE Communication Chapter Chair | |
| 09:15-10:00 | Ultra Low Power, Short Range Wireless Communications: From Using RF Pulses to Ultrasound Clicks |
| Dr. Peter Kinget, Professor, Columbia University | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-11:15 | Small Cells – Big Impacts: Performance Improvements and Deployment Challenges |
| Dr. Amit Mukhopadhay, Director, Wireless Network Modeling, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent | |
| 11:15-12:00 | The Exponential Growth of the Internet-of-Things |
| Joe Jesson, Adj. Professor, TCNJ, and CTO, Assurenet | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch and Poster Presentations |
| 13:30-14:15 | Backhauling in TV White Spaces |
| Dr. Narayan Mandayam, Professor, WINLAB, Rutgers University | |
| 14:15-15:00 | Role of Software Defined Networking in Mobile Networks |
| Colin Kahn, member, Corporate CTO, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-16:15 | Self-Organizing Networks |
| Dr. Rudra Kumar Shivalingaiah, Senior Staff Engineer, Qualcomm | |
| 16:15-16:30 | Poster Awards |
| Dr. Hong Man, Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology | |
| 16:30-16:45 | Closing Remarks |
| 16:45-17:15 | Networking |
This symposium is being organized by the IEEE North Jersey Section and its Communications, Computer, Information Theory and Vehicular Technology Chapters. The event is co-sponsored by the IEEE New Jersey Coast Section’s Communications, Computer, and AP/VT/EMC Chapters as well as the IEEE Princeton/Central Jersey Section’s Computer and Consumer Electronics/Communications Chapters. This event is also co-sponsored by CTIF-USA.