Dr. Raziq Yaqub, Executive Director, Toshiba America Research, Inc.
Date: October. 30, 2008 (Thursday)
Time: 7:00pm  (refreshment starts at 6:45pm)
Location: ECEC 202, NJIT

About the Presenter:

Dr. Raziq Yaqub is working as Executive Director, Toshiba America Research, Inc., Piscataway, New Jersey, USA. He conducts research, manages and evaluates patents, and builds coalitions to achieve common goals. He participates and contributes to several standards bodies, including,  3GPP, WiMAX, OMA and IEEE. He has been working on various aspects of IP-based wireless communication technologies that include Network Discovery, WAN-WALN interworking, QoS, Mobility Management, and Fast, Secure, and Seamless Handoff in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks. He has published several papers in professional conference proceedings etc.  He currently holds, and has pending, a number of patents in the areas of mobile telecommunications systems. He earned a Ph.D. in wireless communication from Keio University, Japan, as well as a MBA in Marketing from Fairleigh Dickenson University, NJ, USA.

About the Talk:

The talk will be in four parts: Part-1 will be a brief introduction to 4G wireless technologies; organizations involved in the standardization of 4G, and an updated status of the work being carried out in those standards organizations. Part-2 will cover some IEEE- based efforts towards 4G that include 802.16e and 802.16m. Part-3 will mainly focus on 3GPP and 3GPP2-based efforts in the standardization of 4G mobile telecommunications systems. The last part will provide some conclusions and open the floor for questions and answers.

All Welcome! You need not be a member of IEEE to attend, and there is no charge for admission.

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