Title: Embedded Systems for Wireless Communications: The Way Forward
Speaker: Ramy Gohary
Date and Time: December 8, 2016 at 9:30 a.m.
Location: Room 4359, Mackenzie Building
Abstract:
Embedded systems enable building an entire communication stack on a single chip. Such a stack contains not only physical layer, but also medium access, network, application and interfacing modules. Interaction between these modules is orchestrated by a processor that resides on the same chip. For instance, the Freescale ZigBee chip features a low-power digital radio with an ARM Cortex processor. The research-related component of this presentation will focus on an industrial project that is partially supported by the Ontario Centre of Excellence. The goal of this project is to extend the transmission range of ZigBee chip for smart grid applications. The presentation will describe some of the challenges and opportunities offered by the ZigBee chip. It will also describe some of its limitations, and a few research directions for overcoming them. Beyond the ZigBee module, the presentation will touch upon other research directions that will enable implementation of modern wireless communication concepts on universal software-defined radio modules.
Speaker Bio:
Ramy H. Gohary is a Senior IEEE Member and a member of the College of Reviewers and the Panel Review Board of the Ontario Centre of Excellence (OCE). He is an Adjunct Research Professor, a Senior Research Associate and an Instructor with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University. He received the B.Eng. (Hons.) degree from Assiut University, Egypt in 1996, the M.Sc. Degree from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada in 2006, all in electronics and communications engineering. From 2006 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow with McMaster University. He received the NSERC visiting fellowship award in 2007. In 2008 we was a visiting scholar with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, of the University of Minnesota, US. From 2008 to 2010, he was a visiting scientist with the Terrestrial Wireless Systems Branch, Communications Research Centre, Canada. From 2010 to 2012, he was the project manager of the Carleton-BlackBerry (formerly Research In Motion (RIM)) research project, and from 2012 to 2016 he was the project manager of the Carleton-Huawei collaborative research project.
Dr. Gohary has co-authored 80+ IEEE journal and conference papers, and co-supervised 10+ Ph.D. and Master’s students. He is the co-inventor of 5 US patents. He has been the Volunteer Team co-chair of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Fall 2010, and the Local Arrangement co-chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications (SPAWC), June 2014. He is also a technical program committee member for 10+ IEEE conferences.
Dr. Gohary is a registered Limited Engineering Licensee (LEL) in the province of Ontario, Canada.