Rajiv Laroia, Flarion.
 

This presentation will start by identifying the goals of a wide-area-network mobile wireless Internet technology. We will then examine the existing 2.5G and 3G WAN wireless data technologies with respect to these goals and discuss some of their strengths and weaknesses. We will then discuss the advantages of an OFDM based air interface over conventional TDMA/CDMA technologies for an all IP wireless WAN. We will focus on important system level considerations in the design of a packet-switched air interface that is IP friendly.
 

Biography:

Rajiv Laroia is the founder of Flarion. As the Company's CTO, he is responsible for setting product direction and overseeing all R&D activities. He is an expert in 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. He is well known and respected in the professional and academic community and is regularly invited for seminars at top universities.

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. His years at Bell Labs have generated numerous publications and over 35 patents (granted and applied) with total patent licensing revenue in excess of $25 million.

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. Parts of his Ph.D. research are taught in advanced communication courses in most prominent universities. His thesis also contributed to V.34, the ITU voice-band modem international standard and led to a patent that has generated over $2 million for the University of Maryland, College Park. He was the recipient of the Best Graduate Student of the Year Award at the University of Maryland in 1992. From 1994 to 1997 he was the associate editor for IEEE transactions on information theory. Dr. Laroia is a Fellow of the IEEE.