Add to Calendar Wednesday, 22.12.2010, 15:30 to 16:30, A301, AVZ III Altbau, Römerstr. 164

Marco Gruteser (Associate Professor at Rutgers University): "Visual MIMO and Vehicular Networking"

Special talk

Mobile optical communications has so far largely been limited to short ranges of about ten meters, since the highly directional nature of optical transmissions would require costly mechanical steering mechanisms. Advances in CMOS imaging technology along with the advent of visible and infrared (IR) light sources such as (light emitting diode) LED arrays presents an exciting and challenging concept which we call Visual MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) where optical transmissions by multiple transmitter elements are received by an array of photodiode elements (e.g. pixels in a CMOC camera). This talk will describe potential vehicular applications and the new vista of research challenges in PHY, MAC and Network layer research that Visual-MIMO opens.

 

Everybody is cordially invited to attend.

 

Bio:

Marco Gruteser is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University and a member of the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB). He is a pioneer in the area of location privacy, having developed the first cloaking algorithms for spatial information. Beyond location privacy, his expertise includes location-aware networking and its applications to vehicular networks as well as transportation systems. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles in these areas, which together received more than 2000 citations (per Google Scholar). Previously, he was also a research associate at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he designed the software platform for the New York Times-featured BlueSpace smart office prototype. He completed a Vordiplom at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany in 1998 and received his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2000 and 2004, respectively. He has served on the technical program committees of numerous conferences, including MobiCom, MobiSys and INFOCOM. He also serves on the editorial boards of the journals IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and Elsevier Computer Networks. His recognitions include an NSF CAREER award, the I/UCRC Association's Schwarzkopf Prize for the ORBIT wireless testbed team, a MobiSys best paper award, and a Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence that honors Rutgers University's most distinguished young faculty members.