'Modeling the wireless channel for mobile cellular networks'

Rajiv Laroia, Flarion Technologies

Abstract of the keynote speech coming soon.

BIO

Rajiv Laroia is the founder and CTO of Flarion Technologies. As the company's CTO, he is responsible for overseeing all R&D activities and setting product and technology direction. He is an expert in OFDMA, CDMA, TDMA and other cellular multiple access technologies and is intimately familiar with current and next generation of wireless standards including IS-95, UMTS, CDMA 2000, IS-136, GSM and EDGE.
Dr. Laroia has a very broad background that spans wireless communication, data transmission, information theory, VLSI design and architecture, analog mixed-signal and RF circuit design, high-speed AD/DA data converters, speech image and video compression.
Prior to launching Flarion, Dr. Laroia was with Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories since 1992 when he joined the prestigious Mathematical Sciences Research Center. In 1997, he became head of Bell Labs' Digital Communications Research Department in the Wireless Research Center where he and his team started to develop FLASH-OFDM technology based wireless data system.
He received his Ph.D. and Master's degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1992 and 1989 and a bachelor's degree in 1985 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi-all in electrical engineering. From 1994 to 1997 he was the associate editor for IEEE transactions on information theory. Dr. Laroia is a Fellow of the IEEE.