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DCO Seminar: Prof. Randall Berry, Northwestern University

Speaker Prof. Randall Berry, Northwestern University
Date Mar 14, 2012
Time 3:00 pm  
Location CSL Auditorium (B02 CSL)
Sponsor Decision & Control Laboratory, Coordinated Science Laboratory
Contact Jana Lenz
E-Mail janalenz@illinois.edu
Phone 217-244-1654
Event type seminar
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Decision, Control and Optimization Seminar

Decision and Control Laboratory, Coordinated Science Laboratory

 

The Value of Free Spectrum

 

Dr. Randall Berry

Northwestern University, Dept. of EECS

 

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

B02 CSL

 

Abstract
      Based on current trends of wireless data usage, there will be a significant shortage of spectrum for wireless data services in the next 10 years. One proposed solution to this is to increase the amount of "open" or unlicensed spectrum. For example, the FCC in the U.S. has recently done this by permitting unlicensed access to the so-called television white spaces. While this additional unlicensed spectrum allows for market expansion, it also influences competition among providers and can increase congestion (interference) among consumers of wireless services. In this talk we consider a simple model for such a market and study the impact of adding additional spectrum on the total welfare of wireless users and service providers.

 

Biography
Randall Berry received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1993 and the M.S. and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996 and 2000, respectively.  In 2000, he joined Northwestern University, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.  In 1998, he was on the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Advanced Networks Group. His primary research interests include wireless communication, data networks, and information theory.

 

Dr. Berry is the recipient of a 2003 NSF CAREER award and the Best Teacher award for the 2001/2002 academic year from the ECE Department at Northwestern University. He has served as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2006 to 2009, a guest editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2009 to 2011, in the area of communication networks.

 

PLEASE JOIN US FOR COOKIES AND COFFEE PRIOR TO THE SEMINAR

IN ROOM 154 CSL AT 2:40PM