40 likes | 150 Views
Enabling Technologies for Low-Power High-Speed Networks. Amir H. Banihashemi Broadband Communications and Wireless Systems (BCWS) Centre. BCWS Centre. Founded in 2000, has 17 faculty members and over 70 graduate students affiliated with it. Annual research funding ≈ $2M
E N D
Enabling Technologies for Low-Power High-Speed Networks Amir H. Banihashemi Broadband Communications and Wireless Systems (BCWS) Centre
BCWS Centre • Founded in 2000, has 17 faculty members and over 70 graduate students affiliated with it. • Annual research funding ≈ $2M • Extensive industrial and governmental collaboration: Alcatel, AT&T Labs, Bell Mobility, CRC, DRDC, IBM, Intel, Mitel Semiconductor (Zarlink), Nortel, NRC, … • International involvements: Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) and WINNER (Wireless World Initiative New Radio) project • Interdisciplinary research • BCWS Seminar Series • Strong links to IEEE and ACM
Theory and Implementation of Communication Algorithms • Advanced Error Control Coding (FEC, ARQ) • Turbo Equalization • Adaptive Coding and Modulation • Image and Video Coding and Transmission • Distributed Source/Channel Coding • Network Coding • MIMO Systems • Research Team: 7 Ph.D., 4 M.Sc. and 1 PDF • Carleton Collaborators: T. Kunz (SCE), J. Lambadaris (SCE), I. Marsland (SCE), R. Mason (Electronics), C. Plett (Electronics)
Check Nodes Interconnections Variable Nodes Input/Output/Memory/DAC/RTAS Low-Power High-Speed Signal Processing • FPGA and ASIC Implementations of Communication Algorithms • Analog Signal Processing (in collaboration with Intel, patent pending) • Extremely low power • High-speed • Digital (100Gb/s, SiliconPro) • Electro-optical processing