Vol. 3, No.2
NYU WIRELESS PULSE
August 2014
The world’s first academic research center combining
Wireless, Computing, and Medical Applications
In this Issue...
Hello From The Director
Welcome New Industrial Affiliates
Brookyn 5G Summit Recap
New Faculty Joins NYU WIRELESS
NYU WIRELESS Research News
IEEE GLOBECOM 2014
NYU WIRELESS Faculty
Recent Publications
www.NYUWIRELESS.com
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Hello From The Director
Hello From The Director
NYU’s
engineering
campus is still reverberating from the Brooklyn
5G Summit (B5GS), a
first-of-its-kind event
that we hosted on April
24 and 25, 2014. The
B5GS brought together
Prof. Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport
technical leaders from
Director, NYU WIRELESS
throughout the wireless
world, from industry, government, and academia, and
was 10 months in the making. Thanks to the great support of all of our NYU WIRELESS Industrial Affiliate
sponsors, and particularly Nokia, all of the 155 attendees were treated to a rich program of invited talks, panel
sessions, all-inclusive meals, and a special VIP dinner
at the storied Sparks Steakhouse in Manhattan. Nokia
CTO Hossein Moiin kicked off the B5GS while New
York Lieutenant Governor Robert (Bob) J. Duffy welcomed the audience and declared New York “open for
business.” The IEEE Communications Society provided
a high quality webcast of the entire summit that allowed
engineers from throughout the world to attend. During
the summit, Agilent Technologies surprised the attendees with a free copy of the newest wireless textbook,
Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications, published
by Pearson/Prentice-Hall. This comprehensive book is
destined to become a vital technical resource for ushering in the future of broadband wireless communications using unprecedented technologies, bandwidths,
and millimeter wave carrier frequencies.
With billions of dollars of investment expected
for future 5G wireless systems by 2020, an enormous
amount of careful channel measurements, and extremely accurate channel models, are required to ensure proper standards activities and product development. NYU
WIRELESS has already collected hundreds of Gigabytes
of urban propagation measurements that it shares with
its Industrial Affiliates, and we continue to run a nonstop data collection and modeling campaign. The B5GS
is a special, one-of-a-kind event where we share our
findings with the global community and invite others
to share their results to assure 5G standards will be built
using the very best possible channel models for proper
real-world performance.
Already, plans are underway for our second
B5GS, to be held on April 8-10, 2015 at the NYU Engineering campus. NYU WIRELESS works with its Industrial Affiliate companies to serve as an international convener for channel models and communications
techniques that are vital for the successful evolution of
5G wireless networks. The 2015 edition of our B5GS
will focus on spatial multiplexing, MIMO, and statistical propagation measurement and models for a wide
range of environments that will be crucial for future 5G
systems in the frequency bands of 6 to 100 GHz. The
B5GS will again be focused on delivering value for our
Industrial Affiliate companies and their employees, and
will follow on the heels of deep-dive training sessions
and board meeting with our NYU WIRELESS Industrial Affiliate board members.
If your company is interested in recruiting
talented engineers and computer scientists for the
pending explosion in bandwidth and carrier frequencies, and is interested in being an integral part of the
Brooklyn 5G summit and NYU WIRELESS in years
to come, I would urge you to consider joining the
committed group of Industrial Affiliate sponsors at
NYU WIRELESS. The students and faculty at NYU
WIRELESS welcome your inquiries and involvement,
as we work together to create the future of wireless.
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Welcome New Industrial Affiliates
Straight Path Communications, Ericsson AB Join NYU WIRELESS
as New Industrial Affiliates
data traffic will surpass 16 exabytes by 2018, according
to the recent Cisco Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast
Update.
NYU WIRELESS also draws upon experts from
NYU’s medical school to bring wireless applications to
the medical field, from areas such as creating solutions
for acute and long term patient care, to creating revolutionary MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and other types of imaging methods, and producing real-time
data transmission techniques for hospitals and health
NYU WIRELESS is pleased to announce that Straight
care providers.
Path Communications and Ericsson AB have joined the
Ericsson is the ninth and Straight Path is the
New York University-based research center as Industri- tenth major company to join NYU WIRELESS as Inal Affiliate sponsors and advisory board members.
Straight Path, an owner of 28 and 39 GHz dustrial Affiliate sponsors. Each company assigns two
broadband wireless spectrum licenses across the Unit- members to the research center’s Industrial Affiliates’
ed States, and Ericsson AB, the Swedish multinational board, ensuring an unusually deep, cooperative relationprovider of communications technology and services, ship. These board members keep faculty and students
each made multi-year commitments to support the cen- informed about industry needs and provide employter’s research activities, including its pioneering work in ment opportunities for students, while the professors
understanding and characterizing the propagation en- and students bring innovative ideas and solutions into
the affiliate companies of NYU WIRELESS.
vironment at millimeter wave frequencies.
NYU WIRELESS includes more than 20 faculty and 100 graduate students, and focuses on research
and teaching in the fields of wireless communications
systems, signals and antennas at the millimeter wave
frequency bands, as well as activities in the medical and
computing areas. The center’s research is striving for
results that will lead to more than a thousand-fold increase in the data capacity of mobile devices in the coming years—particularly good news because demand for
capacity is doubling annually due to steadily increasing
levels of gaming, Web browsing, and music and video
streaming on portable devices. The number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the world’s population by the end of this year, and monthly global mobile
“We are happy to be working closely with Ericsson and Straight Path Communications,” said Professor
Theodore (Ted) Rappaport, NYU WIRELESS director
and founder. “I am confident that both companies will
gain value by becoming part of the ecosystem at NYU
WIRELESS, and will bring unique perspectives to our
center. Our students will benefit from the technological insights and experiences that they bring.” Rappaport
holds the David Lee/Ernst Weber Chair in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the NYU
Polytechnic School of Engineering, as well as appointments in NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and in the Department of Radiology at NYU Langone Medical Center.
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Brookyn 5G Summit Recap
Nokia and NYU WIRELESS bring the first-ever 5G Summit to Brooklyn
If you had any doubts that Brooklyn was fast becoming one of the hottest locales in the tech industry, look
no further than the 5G Summit, held from April 24
and 25, 2014 at the New York University Polytechnic
School of Engineering. Co-organized by NYU WIRELESS and Nokia, the conference brought together
industry leaders from across academia, business and
government to explore the future of Fifth Generation—more commonly called 5G—wireless technology.
“Our vision is to make 5G a platform for innovation, a platform that can be used to improve business,
life, and society,” Hossein Moiin, the chief technology
officer of Nokia, explained to the audience. Recalling
the 2002 earthquake in his native Iran, Moiin asserted,
“Networks were set up within 24 hours, and they un-
deniably helped save lives. That’s how powerful wireless can be.”
John Stankey, the group president of AT&T,
who gave a keynote address titled “Better, Stronger,
Faster: Unleashing the Next Generation of Innovation,” heartily concurred, and he additionally pointed
out that mobile communication is a significant contributor to the global economy, projected to add more
than $10 trillion to the worldwide GDP between 2013
and 2017 alone. “There is insatiable demand for mobile connectivity,” he said. “No one wants to run wires
or be tethered to a desk anymore.”
Many different wireless perspectives were present in the summit’s presentations, but most of the attention was drawn to millimeter wave communication,
and channel measurements and modeling. The other
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Brookyn 5G Summit Recap
From left to right: Hossein Moiin, CTO of Nokia, John
Stankey, group president of AT&T and Dr. Amitava
Ghosh from Nokia
highlights were several posters from various Universities, as well as exhibits from NSN, NYU WIRELESS,
National Instruments, Intel, Pearson/Prentice Hall,
Rohde & Schwarz, Agilent and Interdigital.
That insatiable demand shows no sign of being
quenched. Thanks to steadily increasing levels of video gaming, Web browsing, and media streaming on
mobile devices, demand for capacity reportedly doubles annually. “This is the reality, so in order to meet
those demands, our future ecosystem must change and
grow,” Stankey said. He found no dissenters among
the many attendees, who were treated over the course
of the conference to discussions of such topics as the
evolution of millimeter wave technologies (from Ali
Sadri of Intel) and what lies ahead for cellular system
design (from Professor Andrea Goldsmith of Stanford University). Other talks centered on chip design,
channel models, 5G spectrum availability, regulatory
issues, and more. The key conclusion: if properly engineered, 5G will be at least 10,000 times faster than 4G.
Ted Rappaport, the founding director of NYU
WIRELESS and the driving force behind the landmark gathering, said, “The Brooklyn 5G Summit
has brought together the top minds from around the
globe to accelerate our drive for wireless communication solutions.” He continued, “It’s gratifying to see
so many of the industry’s leaders working together to
address the challenge.”
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest engineering organization, provided live coverage of the event through
its television network, enabling those who could not
attend the chance to hear the vital information being
discussed. Katherine Fleming, NYU’s deputy provost,
stressed the value of that information when she formally welcomed the participants. “NYU is proud to be
hosting you,” she said. Recalling that as a child she was
sometimes admonished for fiddling with rubber bands
or other such activities with the warning that “small
minds engage in small activities,” she proclaimed, “Today, we are seeing big minds engage in incredibly big
activities.”
Equally complimentary was New York State’s
Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy, who addressed the
assembled over lunch. “I’m just an end user of what
you’re creating here,” he quipped. “And speaking as
someone who simply wants to hit a button and have
my device work, I find the synergy and talent in this
room awe-inspiring. You are truly helping to change
the world.”
Work is already underway for the next Brooklyn 5G Summit to be held on April 8-10 2015 at the
NYU Engineering campus in Brooklyn.
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New Faculty Joins NYU WIRELESS
Prof. Davood Shahrjerdi joins NYU WIRELESS Faculty
NYU WIRELESS is thrilled
to welcome Prof. Davood
Shahrjerdi, a new NYU
WIRELESS faculty member who recently joined the
Electrical and Computer
Engineering department at
the NYU School of Engineering as an assistant proProf. Davood Shahrjerdi
fessor. He earned his PhD
in solid-state electronics from The University of Texas
at Austin in 2008. Subsequently, he joined IBM T. J.
Watson Research Center as a Research Staff Member.
Shahrjerdi’s research focuses on the study of new electronic materials, device structures and circuits- often
at extreme nanoscale limits- for nascent technologi-
cal applications ranging from energy harvesting to biosensing to next generation logic switches. His work
has been featured in various journals and conferences
including Applied Physics Letters, Advanced Energy
Materials, and IEEE electron device meetings. He is
the author or co-author of over 100 journal and conference papers. Additionally, he has over 100 pending
and issued patents.
Shahrjerdi is the recipient of several prestigious recognitions and awards including “IBM Master
Inventor” , Journal of Electronic Materials best paper
award, IBM Research Division award, and IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement award. He is currently looking for a highly motivated postdoc in the area of
analog circuit design as well as talented PhD students
with an interest in nanoelectronics.
NYU WIRELESS Successfully Transmits LTE in Millimeter Wave Band
PhD students Russell Ford (left) and George MacCartney
NYU WIRELESS PhD students Russell Ford and
George MacCartney have demonstrated the center’s
first LTE-like transmissions at millimeter wave frequencies. Millimeter wave (mmWave) bands between
10 and 300 GHz are a new frontier for wireless communications that offer the possibilities of orders of
magnitude more spectrum than current cellular and
WiFi allocations. These bands have been the focus of
considerable interest recently for Beyond 4G and 5G
cellular systems and are one of the key research areas
of NYU WIRELESS.
In collaboration with National Instruments,
an NYU WIRELESS Industrial Affiliate sponsor and
board member, Profs. Rangan and Rappaport and their
students have been developing a high-performance
software defined radio platform using LabView and
FPGAs that can provide one of the first systems for experimentation in 4G and 5G cellular systems in a university research lab. Using this platform, the students
were able to demonstrate at the Brooklyn 5G Summit
(see page 4) end-to-end transmission of high-definition video streams in the 60 GHz range. The system
included modules for synchronization, equalization
and turbo decoding, as well as a MAC and upper layer
protocol functionality. The successful transmission on
this system is a significant first step for NYU WIRELESS to make mmWave systems a reality!
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NYU WIRELESS Research News
NYU WIRELESS Helps AIG Mitigate Risk with Smartphones
Prof. Justin Cappos
Smartphones have sensors that can help organizations understand how to improve the lives of users.
With support from AIG through the NYU-AIG
Partnership on Innovation for Global Resilience
program, NYU WIRELESS Professor Justin Cappos
and Dr. Yanyan Zhuang are developing a smartphone testbed called RIScope (risk scope). The researchers can access smartphone sensors for risk
mitigation. RIScope serves as a platform to actively
read sensors such as the accelerometer and microphone on end user smartphones and tablets, in real
time over vast distances and networks.
With sensor data from end user devices,
researchers from both academia and industry can
learn important facts that can assist in their decision-making. For example, research scientists can
help major players in the public safety and healthcare industries to mitigate or minimize risks associated with user location, camera images, movement,
and the environment. “As the end result, users of
this testbed will be able to use smartphone sensors
during their everyday life for minimizing slips and
falls, finding potholes, detecting noise pollution in
the city, and so on. The real-life data directly from
end users can be used to benefit users themselves.”
says Dr. Yanyan Zhuang.
Other organizations have built custom applications that solve problems like these. However,
they require researchers to know the question and
solution a priori and require users to opt in. With
RIScope, a researcher can seamlessly deploy new
applications in real time to analyze meaningful sensor information to answer open research questions.
A researcher can also adjust and customize the experiment any time without end user action.
A key challenge is preserving the privacy of
users. All use of data in RIScope has strong privacy
restrictions enforced both legally and technologically. According to Prof. Cappos, “A central goal
from day one has been to allow users to retain privacy so that they feel safe allowing their data to be
collected. We have designed techniques to securely
blur sensor data so that organizations only obtain
the data essential to their analysis.”
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NYU WIRELESS Research News
Keysight Technologies Donates mm-Wave Power Meter to NYU WIRELESS
NYU WIRELESS is pleased to announce that Keysight Technologies (formerly Agilent Technologies)
has donated products to the NYU WIRELESS Research Center. The products are valued at $29,000 in
total. The donation was given by Agilent’s University Relations Department, with encouragement from
Sigi Gross, Vice President and Manager of the Electronic Test Division, and Roger Nichols, the 5G Program Manager. The donation marks the beginning
of continued and deeper relationship for Keysight
Technologies with NYU WIRELESS, following their
participation as an exhibitor at the Brooklyn 5G Summit held at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering from April 23-25, 2014 in Brooklyn, New York.
The products donated by Keysight Technologies in-
clude a variety of measurement and test equipment.
Specifically, the donation includes an E4416A power
meter that will assist the NYU WIRELESS lab in their
5G research activities for measurements and characterization of mmWave channels. The power sensors
donated with the power meter will allow the lab to
measure the 50 MHz to 40 GHz bands as well as the
50 GHz to 75 GHz frequency spectrum, where attractive bandwidths exist for future 5G wireless communications. The equipment will assist in the continued
growth of NYU WIRELESS as a leading research
center in mmWave and 5G communications. NYU
WIRELESS looks forward to fostering a deeper relationship with Keysight Technologies as they both push
for advances in 5G research, test and measurement.
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NYU WIRELESS Research News
NYU WIRELESS Student Wins Best Paper Award
Zizhong Cao, Ph.D. student studying with NYU
WIRELESS Prof. Shivendra Panwar at Polytechnic School of Engineering,
New York University, has
won the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2014 Best Paper
PhD student Zizhong Cao Award. IEEE INFOCOM
is a top conference that addresses key topics and issues related to computer
communications, with emphasis on traffic management and protocols for both wired and wireless
networks. The INFOCOM Best Paper Award is a
very prestigious achievement in academia.
The award wining paper, titled “Joint Static and Dynamic Traffic Scheduling in Data Center
Networks” is a joint work with Murali Kodialam and
T.V. Lakshman during a summer internship at Bell
Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent. The authors make use
of the observation that the traffic in a data center is
a mixture of relatively static and rapidly fluctuating
components, and develop a combined scheduler
for both these components using a generalization
of the load-balanced scheduler. Evaluations show
that this scheduler works very well without using
a central scheduler for making packet-by-packet
scheduling decisions.
Prof. Viventi Receives $400,000 Grant from Army Research Office
Prof. Jonathan Viventi
Jonathan Viventi, an NYU WIRELESS Professor, has
received a $400,000 grant from the Army Research
Office. Viventi is exploring uses for high-density
neural recording to understand some of the brain’s
most basic capabilities. His project aims to demystify the human auditory system, specifically examining the signals associated with paying attention
and absorbing information in the presence of noise.
For example, the research could help determine how we can better carry on a conversation in
a noisy restaurant. The project is collaboration with
Yale Cohen in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Visit the NYU WIRELESS Homepage at NYUWIRELESS.COM
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NYU WIRELESS Research News
Prof. Justin Cappos Makes Cracking Individual Passwords Impossible
NYU WIRELESS Professor
Justin Cappos and his research group have devised
a new scheme called PolyPassHash for storing password hash data so that an
attacker cannot individually
Prof. Justin Cappos
crack passwords. Instead of
a password hash being stored directly in the database,
the information is used to encode a share in a Shamir
Secret Store, a form of secret sharing, where a secret is
divided into parts. This gives each participant its own
unique part, where some of the parts or all of them are
needed in order to reconstruct the secret. This means
that a password cannot be validated without recover-
ing a threshold of shares, a method for distributing a
secret amongst a group of participants, thus an attacker
must crack groups of passwords together.
The solution is fast, easy to implement (with
C and Python implementations available), requires
no changes to clients, and makes a huge difference in
practice. To put the security difference into perspective, three random six-character passwords that are
stored using standard salted secure hashes, a cryptographic algorithm to convert data like a password
into a fixed length string of characters called a fingerprint, can be cracked by a laptop in an hour. With a
PolyPassHash store, it would take every computer on
the planet combined longer to crack these passwords
than the universe is estimated to have existed.
NYU WIRELSS Prof. Elza Erkip is Listed Among Highly Cited
Researchers between 2002 - 2012
Elza Erkip is listed among the
2014 Thomson Reuters “The
World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds”. She earned
the distinction by being one
of the 117 Highly Cited Researchers in Computer Science between 2002-2012.
Thomson Reuters compiled
the 2014 list of Highly Cited Researchers by using the
Prof. Elza Erkip
company’s Web of Science
platform, the premier search and discovery environment for the sciences, social sciences, and arts and
humanities, alongside InCites, its web-based scientific evaluation and benchmarking platform. Elza
Erkip became a Highly Cited Researcher by writing
the greatest number of papers officially designated by
Essential Science Indicators as Highly Cited Papers—
ranking among the top 1% most cited for Computer
Science between 2002 and 2012. The complete list,
which can be found on http://highlycited.com/ contains more than 3,000 authors in 21 main fields of science and the social sciences.
Elza Erkip works on wireless networks, with
a particular emphasis on information theoretic and
communication theoretic aspects. She is a Distinguished Lecturer and a Member of the Board of Governors of IEEE Information Theory Society. Among
her many honors is the 2013 IEEE Communications
Society Award for Advances in Communication, given to recognize an outstanding paper published in any
IEEE Communications Society publication in the past
15 years.
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NYU WIRELESS Research News
Prof. Dennis Shasha Named ACM Fellow
NYU WIRELESS Associate
Director Dennis Shasha has
been named a 2014 ACM
Fellow for his technical and
literary contributions to the
field of data management.
ACM (The Association for
Computing Machinery) is
the world’s largest educational and scientific computing
society and delivers resourcProf. Dennis Shasha es that advance computing as
a science and profession.
Prof. Shasha describes his research as “puzzles on
large data.” This has included work on machine learn-
ing, fast data structures for data warehouses, distributed fault tolerant data structures, and applications
such as the design of the NYU WIRELESS propagation database. The literary part of the award citation
refers to the books he has written spanning the topics
of Database Tuning, Fast Algorithms for Time Series,
and popular trade books on the interactions between
computing and biology.
Along with Prof. Rappaport, Prof. Shasha has
designed the NYU WIRELESS propagation database
available to all Industrial Affiliates and is working
with NYU WIRELESS School of Medicine professors
Daniel Sodickson and Ricardo Otazo to make magnetic resonance image reconstruction hundreds of
times faster than today.
Prof. Ted Rappaport named Top 100 Wireless Technology Expert
Prof. Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport
Director, NYU WIRELESS
Today’s Wireless World has recognized NYU WIRELESS director Prof. Ted Rappaport as a Top 100
Wireless Technology Expert for 2014. Prof. Rappaport was one of three professors who made the list,
consisting of technology innovators and business
leaders all across the wireless ecosystem, from wireless communications, phones, broadband cards, and
virtually everything in between.
The highlight of the Top 100 Wireless Technology Experts is the first of an annual three-part
series, which also will highlight the Top 100 Wireless Technology Providers and the Top 100 Wireless
Technology Resources later this year.
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NYU WIRELESS Research News
Prof. Yao Wang Gives Keynote at Networking Techniques in Contemporary Video Workshop
Prof. Yao Wang presented a keynote address at
The Workshop on Communication and Networking Techniques in
Contemporary
Video
Workshop (in conjunction with INFOCOM),
April 2014. Her talk
“Design of low-delay
Prof. Yao Wang
video applications: Optimizing perceptual quality and error resilience”
focused on layer techniques to tackle the recent
explosive growth in video traffic, particularly over
wireless networks. The aim of the workshop is to
bring together researchers working on real-time
communication, storage, and caching techniques
for contemporary video.
Prof. Yao Wang is a recognized expert in
video coding, networked video applications, medical imaging, and pattern recognition. She authored
the well-known textbook Video Processing and
Communications in addition to writing numerous
book chapters and journal articles. She has also
served as the associate editor of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Transactions
on Multimedia and Transactions on Circuits and
Systems for Video Technology.
Prof. Shiv Panwar Named new ECE Department Chairman
Professor Shivendra (“Shiv”)
S. Panwar, an NYU WIRELESS faculty member, became
the department chair of the
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department
at NYU Poly on July 1, for a
three year period. Announcing
Prof. Shiv Panwar this change, Dean Katepalli R.
Sreenivasan said, “I am confident that the department will continue to move along
its upward trajectory under his leadership.”
The ECE department is aggressively hiring
new faculty, with three new faculty joining this year.
It is anticipated that at least another seven faculty will
be hired in the next three years. With a planned total of about ten new assistant professors joining the
department, Shiv noted that this would energize and
strengthen the department. In addition, with more
selective entrance policies at undergraduate, masters
and PhD levels, the quality of the student body now
compares to the very best schools. At the same time,
programs and courses are in the process of being upgraded to make sure that those graduating have the
skills that employers are looking for. Research is on
the upswing as well, with a new PhD fellowship program doubling the intake of PhD students.
Shiv will continue working on NYU WIRELESS projects. His interests include redesigning
higher layer protocols to take advantage of the huge
bandwidth available in the millimeter wave bands,
and cellular networks using new full duplex radio
technology. Besides NYU WIRELESS, Prof. Panwar’s
research is supported by the NSF, InterDigital, Verizon, and the New York State Center on Advanced
Technology in Telecommunications (CATT). He also
just obtained US Army funding for a project on opportunistic communications.
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IEEE GLOBECOM 2014
IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 to Host 57th Annual Event in
“Live Music Capital of the World”
International Experts to Attend More Than 1,500 Presentations Dedicated to Latest Communications Innovations
in Austin, Texas from December 8 - 12, 2014
IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 (www.ieee-globecom.
org/2014), the premier event dedicated to breakthroughs in every telecommunications field, will host
its 57th annual conference against a backdrop known
as the “Live Music Capital of the World”. It will be set
amongst magnificent scenery, with cuisine ranging
from the world’s best Tex-Mex, to gourmet donuts.
Themed “The Great State of Communications,”
IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 will also feature the presentations of the world’s leading experts detailing the advancements in areas like e-Health, Internet of Things
(IoT), game theory, power-line, satellite, space, green
and social networking communications.
“IEEE GLOBECOM offers the opportunity to
share diverse ideas in an open and often robust forum
that has been driven by intellectual excellence for the
past 50 years,” says Professor Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport of New York University. A former professor at
The University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Rappaport is also
a leading member of the organizing committee that is
planning all of the details for IEEE GLOBECOM 2014,
which will be held in Austin for the first time.
Among the many authorities joining this year’s
dais will be Dr. Edward G. Amoroso, Chief Security
Officer, AT&T Inc., who will speak on the “Recent Advances in Cloud Security,” Dr. Wen Tong, an Huawei &
IEEE Fellow, who will talk about “5G Wireless Beyond
Smartphones,” and Dr. Alicia Abella, Assistant Vice
President (AVP), AT&T Labs, who will discuss “Cloud
Computing: A New Strategic Infrastructure.” Other
industry dignitaries delivering keynotes are Dr. James
Truchard, President, CEO, and Cofounder of National
Instruments, who will address “Next-Generation Tools
for Next-Generation Wireless Research,” Rajesh Pankaj,
Senior Vice President, Engineering at Qualcomm Research, who will explore the “Future of Wireless” and
Pankaj Patel, Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer, Cisco, who will answer the question
“Are You Ready for the Internet of Everything?”
Officially commencing on Monday, December
8th, IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 will begin with a full day
of tutorials and workshops and then proceed with three
days of keynotes, business panels, forum discussions,
technical presentations and peer networking events.
This will all be highlighted from December 9 – 11 by
12 individual symposia and an Industry Forum & Exhibition Program (IF&E) focused on innovations representing virtually every area of the communications
spectrum.
For more information on IEEE GLOBECOM
2014, please visit www.ieee-globecom.org/2014.
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NYU WIRELESS Faculty
NYU WIRELESS offers an unprecedented and unique set of skills in a world-class research environment to create next
generation mass-deployable devices across a wide range of applications and markets. This new center combines NYU
Polytechnic’s engineering program with NYU’s world-class Medical school and the Courant Institute, with a depth
of expertise that offers unparalleled capabilities for the creation of new technologies. NYU WIRELESS involves more
than 20 faculty members and 100 graduate students from NYU Polytechnic’s Electrical and Computer Engineering
department, NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and the Langone School of Medicine (NYUSOM).
Henry Bertoni
Radio Channels
NYU Polytechnic
Marc Bloom
Anesthesiology
NYUSOM
Ramesh Karri
VLSI systems
NYU Polytechnic
Ryan Brown
RF Coils/Imaging
NYUSOM
Justin Cappos
Systems Security
NYU Polytechnic
Christopher Collins
MRI
NYUSOM
Elza Erkip
Communications
NYU Polytechnic
David Goodman
Communications
NYU Polytechnic
Mike Knox
RF/Microwaves
NYU Polytechnic
Ricardo Lattanzi
MRI
NYUSOM
Jinyang Li
Networks
NYU COURANT
Pei Liu
Networks
NYU Polytechnic
Yong Liu
Networks
NYU Polytechnic
I-Tai Lu
Electromagnetics
NYU Polytechnic
Daniel O’Neill
Anesthesiology
NYUSOM
Gbenga Ogedegbe
Public Health
NYUSOM
Ricardo Otazo
MRI Imaging
NYUSOM
Shivendra Panwar
Communications
NYU Polytechnic
Sundeep Rangan
Communications
NYU Polytechnic
Ted Rappaport
Communications
NYU Polytechnic
Antoinette Schoenthaler
Public Health
NYUSOM
Mary Ann Sevick
Behavioral Health
NYUSOM
Dennis Shasha
Algorithms/Data
NYU COURANT
Davood Shahrjerdi
Connected Devices
NYU Polytechnic
Dan Sodickson
RF/ MRI Design
NYUSOM
Lakshminarayanan
Subramanian
Computing
NYU COURANT
Jonathan Viventi
Med. Electronic
NYU Polytechnic
Yao Wang
Image/Video
NYU Polytechnic
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NYU WIRELESS PULSE
NYU WIRELESS Leadership
Associate Directors Sundeep Rangan, Dennis Shasha,
and Daniel Sodickson are helping Director and Founder Ted Rappaport manage NYU WIRELESS across the
Brooklyn and Manhattan campuses of NYU. Prof.
Rangan is an Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering,
and was a co-founder of Flarion Technologies, which
developed Flash OFDM, one of the first cellular OFDM
data systems. Prof. Shasha of Courant’s Computer Science Department is widely known for his expertise
in data-intensive algorithms, streaming data, and is a
highly acclaimed inventor of mathematical puzzles and
a sometimes columnist for magazines such as Scientific American. Dr. Daniel Sodickson is the Vice Chair
for Research in the Department of Radiology at NYU
School of Medicine, and is Director of the Bernard and
Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging. Sodickson pioneered the use of radiofrequency detector arrays for parallel data acquisition in magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI), which has revolutionized the daily
practice of MRI for clinical diagnosis and research.
Recent Publications
Research at NYU WIRELESS
NYU WIRELESS Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty have expertise in information theory, video and speech coding and processing, DSP and simulation, networking, circuit design, and RF propagation
and antennas. The Medical faculty specializes in MRI,
EP Cardiology, Anesthesiology, Neurosurgery, Behavioral Medicine, and have a wide range of clinical specialties. Computer Science faculty have expertise in
databases, algorithms, network topologies, and social/
web-based traffic monitoring and prediction. NYU
WIRELESS has state-of-the art RF/Analog circuit design, simulation, and hardware testing capabilities for
semiconductor devices up to 220 GHz, specialized
RF propagation and antenna test systems, subjective
audio and video testing equipment, and access to the
entire NYU IT network for research studies. Students
and faculty are familiar with proper procedures for IC
design, layout, and testing, and have conducted successful tape-outs using state-of-the-art semiconductor
processes. Faculty in NYU WIRELESS are research
leaders with expertise in wireless communications, distributed computing and networking, radiology, medical imaging, surgery, diagnostics, and the life sciences.
NYU WIRELESS Recent Publications (Jan. 2013 - Sept. 2014)
Wireless Communication
Ghosh, A; Thomas, T.A; Cudak,
M.C.; Ratasuk, R.; Moorut, P.; Vook,
F.W.; Rappaport, T.S.; MacCartney, G.R.; Sun, S.; Nie, S., “Millimeter-Wave Enhanced Local Area
Systems: A High-Data-Rate Approach for Future Wireless Networks,” Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on , vol.32,
no.6, pp.1152-1163, June 2014.
“Improving small cell capacity
with common-carrier full duplex
radios,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June, 2014.
H. C. Nguyen, G. R. MacCartney,
Jr., T. A. Thomas, T. S Rappaport,
B. Vejlgaard, and P. Mogensen,
“ Evaluation of Empirical RayTracing Model for an Urban Outdoor Scenario at 73 GHz E-Band,”
S. Goyal, P. Liu, S. Panwar, R. Di- IEEE Vehicular Technology ConFazio, R. Yang, J. Li, and E. Bala, ference (VTC Fall), Sept, 2014.
M.R. Akdeniz, L. Yuanpeng Liu, S.
Rangan, and E. Erkip, “Millimeter
wave picocellular system evaluation
for urban deployments,” Globecom
Workshops (GC Wkshps), 2013
IEEE , pp. 105 – 110, 9-13 Dec. 2013.
T. A. Thomas, H. C. Nguyen, G. R.
MacCartney, Jr., and T. S. Rappaport, “3D mmWave Channel Model
Proposal,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall),
2014 IEEE 80th, Sept 14 - 17, 2014.
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NYU WIRELESS Recent Publications Cont’d (Jan. 2013 Sept. 2014)
Wireless Communication
A.I. Sulyman, A. T. Nassar, M. K.
Samimi, G. R. MacCartney, Jr., T.
S. Rappaport, and A. Alsanie, “Radio Propagation Path Loss Models for 5G Cellular Networks in
the 28 GHz and 38 GHz Millimeter-Wave Bands,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Sept, 2014.
M. K. Samimi, T. S. Rappaport,
“Ultra-Wideband Statistical Channel Model for Non Line of Sight
Millimeter-Wave Urban Channels”, accepted to the IEEE Global
Communications Conference, Exhibitions & Industry Forum (GLOBECOM), 8-12 December 2014.
S. Rangan, T.S. Rappaport, E. Erkip,
“Millimeter Wave Cellular Wireless
Networks: Potentials and Challenges”, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.
102, no. 3, pp. 366-385, March 2014.
Sun, S., Rappaport, T. S., “Wideband mmWave channels: Implications for design and implementation of adaptive beam antennas,”
2014 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS2014), Orlando, FL, June 1-6, 2014.
G. R. MacCartney, M. K. Samimi,
T. S. Rappaport, “Omnidirectional Path Loss Models in New
York City at 28 GHz and 73 GHz,”
IEEE Personal, Indoor, and Mobile
Radio
Communications
(PIMRC), September 2-5, 2014.
Eymen Kurdoglu, Yong Liu, and
Yao Wang, “Dealing with User Heterogeneity in P2P Multiparty Video
Conferencing: Layered Coding Ver-
sus Receiver Partitioning”, in Proc.
of Communication and Networking
Techniques for Contemporary Video
Workshop (in conjunction with INFOCOM), 2014 / Toronto, Canada
en-angle radial sampling, Chandarana, Hersh; Feng, Li; Block, Tobias
K; Rosenkrantz, Andrew B; Lim,
Ruth P; Babb, James S; Sodickson,
Daniel K; Otazo, Ricardo, 2013
Jan;48(1):10-16, Investigative raD. Gunduz, E. Erkip, A. Gold- diology — id: 202342, year: 2013,
smith and H.V. Poor, “Reliable vol: 48, page: 10, stat: Journal Article.
joint source-channel cooperative transmission over relay net- MR spectroscopic imaging: Prinworks”, IEEE Transactions on ciples and recent advances PosInformation Theory, vol. 59, no. se, Stefan; Otazo, Ricardo; Dager,
4, pp. 2442-2458, April 2013. Stephen R; Alger, Jeffry 2013
Jun;37(6):1301-1325, Journal of
J. Wang, M. Trumpis, M. Insanal- magnetic resonance imaging —
ly, R. Froemke and J. Viventi,, “A id: 364112, year: 2013, vol: 37,
Low-Cost, Multiplexed Electro- page: 1301, stat: Journal Article.
physiology System for Chronic
μECoG Recordings in Rodents” Demystifying radial imaging of
2014 Annual International Con- the hip Petchprapa, Catherine N;
ference of the IEEE Engineering in Dunham, Kevin S; Lattanzi, RicMedicine and Biology Society, 2014. cardo; Recht, Michael P 2013
May;33(3):E97-E112, RadiographVideo
ics— id: 346592, year: 2013, vol:
33, page: E97, stat: Journal Article.
Yuanyi Xue, Yao Wang, “Video coding using a self-adaptive redundant Dynamic magnetic resonance imdictionary consisting of spatial and aging of the pharynx during deglutemporal prediction candidates”, ac- tition Amin, Milan R; Achlatis, Stracepted, in IEEE International Con- tos; Lazarus, Cathy L; Branski, Ryan
ference on Multimedia and Expo C; Storey, Pippa; Praminik, Bidyut;
(ICME), Chengdu, China, July 2014. Fang, Yixin; Sodickson, Daniel K
2013 Mar;122(3):145-150, Annals
Yuanyi Xue, Yilin Song, Yen-Fu of otology rhinology & laryngolOu, and Yao Wang, “Video ad- ogy — id: 288652, year: 2013, vol:
aptation considering the impact 122, page: 145, stat: Journal Article.
of temporal variation on quantization stepsize and frame rate on Xuan Zhao, Yao Wang, Gabor Jozsef,
perceptual quality”, Seventh Inter- “Robust Shape-constrained Active
national Workshop on Video Pro- Contour for Whole Heart Segmencessing and Quality Metrics for tation in 3-D CT Images for RadioConsumer Electronics (VPQM), therapy Planning”, accepted by IEEE
Scottsdale, Arizona, Jan. 2013. International Conference on Image
Processing 2014.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Yongxia Zhou, Yao Wang, Damon
Free-breathing contrast-enhanced Kenul, Yuanyi Xue, Yulin Ge, Joseph
multiphase MRI of the liver using Reaume, Robert I Grossman, and
a combination of compressed sens- Yvonne W Lui, “Detection of mild
ing, parallel imaging, and gold- traumatic brain injury utilizing mul
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NYU WIRELESS Recent Publications Cont’d (Jan. 2013 Sept. 2014)
Bonneau
Highly Accelerated Single BreathHold Noncontrast Thoracic MRA:
Evaluation in a Clinical Population
Lim, Ruth P; Winchester, Priscilla A; Bruno, Mary T; Xu, Jian;
Storey, Pippa; McGorty, Kellyanne; Sodickson, Daniel K; Srichai,
Monvadi B
2013 Mar;48(3):145151, Investigative radiology
—
id: 214002, year: 2013, vol: 48,
page: 145, stat: Journal Article.
Wei Cao and Dennis Shasha, “AppS- Y. Zhuang, E. Gessiou, S. Portzer, F.
leuth: a Tool for Database Tuning at Fund, M. Muhammad, I. Beschastthe Application Level”, EDBT 2013 nikh and J. Cappos, “NetCheck:
Network Diagnoses from Blackbox
Electromagnetics
Traces”, in 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems DeE. Lu, Z. You and I-T. Lu, “De- sign & Implementation (NSDI’14),
centralized Practical Design and Seattle, WA, USA, April, 2014.
Centralized Benchmark for Analog Network Coding,” Eur- Neuroengineering
asip Journal on Advanced Signal Processing 2013, 2013:71. M. Campisi, C. Barbre, A. Chola, G. Cunningham, V.M. Woods,
J. Fang and I-T Lu. “Numerical- and J. Viventi, “Breast Cancer Dely Efficient Direct-Optimization tection Using Flexible High-DenFilter Design”, workshop on In- sity Electrode Arrays and Electriternational Conference on Com- cal Impedance Tomography” 2014
puting, Networking and Com- Annual International Conference
munications (ICNC), Jan. 2013. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2014.
Z. You, I-T Lu, R. Yang and J. Li.
“Flexible Companding Design A. Ghomashchi, Z. Zheng, N. Mafor PAPR Reduction in OFDM jaj, M. Trumpis, L. Kiorpes and J.
and FBMC Systems,” in Proc. In- Viventi, “A low-cost, open-source,
ternational Conference on Com- wireless electrophysiology system”
puting, Networking and Com- 2014 Annual International Conmunications (ICNC), Jan. 2013. ference of the IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society, 2014.
J. Fang, Z. You, J. Li, R. Yang, and I-T.
Lu, “Comparisons of Filter Bank Mul- T. Schubert, M. Trumpis, N. Rivilis,
ticarrier Systems”, LISAT, May 2013. and J. Viventi, “Cross-Correlation
Based µECoG Waveform Tracking,”
Systems, Networking
2014 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Z. Cao, M. Kodialam, and T.V. Medicine and Biology Society, 2014.
Lakshman, “Joint Static and
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Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, 2014.
Z. Cao, and S.S. Panwar, “Efficient
Fernando Chirigati, Dennis Shasha, Buffering and Scheduling for a
and Juliana Freire, “ReproZip: Pack- Single-Chip
Crosspoint-Queued
IEEE
Transactions
tifeature analysis of MRI”, ISMRM ing Experiments for Sharing and Switch,”
2013, Salt Lake City, Utah, Apr. 2013. Publication’’ ACM SIGMOD 2013. on
Communications,
2014.
MRI antenna design
Petchprapa CN, Dunham KS, Lattanzi R, Recht MP. Department
of Radiology, Hospital for Joint
Diseases, NYU Langone Medical Center, 301 E 17th St, New
York, NY 10003. Radiographics. 2013 May;33(3):E97-E112.
Genomics, Parallel
Computing and Databases
Gene regulatory networks in plants:
learning causality from time and perturbation Gabriel Krouk, Jesse Lingeman, Amy Marshall Colon, Gloria
Coruzzi and Dennis Shasha Genome
Biology2013, 14:123 (27 June 2013)
“Parametric Bayesian Priors and
Better Choice of Negative Examples Improve Protein Function Prediction”, Noah Youngs,
Duncan Penfold-Brown, KevinDrew, Dennis Shasha, Richard
Bioinformatics
2013;
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About NYU WIRELESS
NYU WIRELESS PULSE
NYU WIRELESS conducts $10 million/year in funded
research, and allows its industrial affiliate sponsors to
maximize the value of their investment by leveraging
industrial affiliate funds with large NSF, NIH, DOD, and
other competitive research grants. NYU WIRELESS affiliate companies enjoy close and frequent interaction
with the center’s faculty and students within NYU Polytechnic’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department, NYU’s Courant Computer Science department,
and many different branches of NYU’s Langone School
of Medicine.
Corporate membership in NYU WIRELESS
provides companies with direct access to the center’s
staff, students, and research results on a continual basis, while giving companies unprecedented access to
young, motivated students, research expertise, technical solutions and market opportunities throughout the
wireless, computing, medical industry and health care
fields.
Join The NYU WIRELESS
Industrial Affiliates
Program Today!
The NYU WIRELESS Industrial Affiliates Program provides a mutual relationship between NYU
WIRELESS research, facilities and personnel and
leading industry partners, while fostering innovative research.
NYU WIRELESS Faculty
Antoinette Schoenthaler
Daniel K O’Neill, M.D.
Daniel K Sodickson, M.D.
David Goodman
Davood Shahrjerdi
Ramesh Karri
Dennis Shasha
Elza Erkip
Gbenga Ogedegbe, M.D.
Henry Bertoni
I-Tai Lu
Jinyang Li
Jonathan Viventi
Justin Cappos
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian
Marc J. Bloom, M.D.
Mary Ann Sevick
Michael Knox
Ryan Brown
Shivendra Panwar
Sundeep Rangan
Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport
Yao Wang
Yong Liu
NYU WIRELESS Leaders
Prof. Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport
Director, NYU WIRELESS
Prof. of Electrical And Computer Eng
Email: tsr@nyu.edu
Prof. Dennis Shasha
Associate Director, NYU WIRELESS
Prof. of Computer Science
Email: shasha@courant.nyu.edu
Daniel K. Sodickson, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Director, NYU WIRELESS
Prof. of Radiology
Email: Daniel.Sodickson@nyumc.org
Prof. Sundeep Rangan
Associate Director, NYU WIRELESS
Prof. of Electrical And Computer Eng
Email: srangan@nyu.edu
Andrew Scheurich
Administrator, NYU WIRELESS
Alim Williams
IT Manager, NYU WIRELESS
E-mail: alim@nyu.edu
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2 MetroTech Center, 9th Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.260.3400
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