Enabling Technologies for Low-Power High-Speed Networks

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Enabling Technologies for Low-Power High-Speed
Networks

• Amir H. Banihashemi
• Broadband Communications and Wireless Systems
  (BCWS) Centre

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BCWS Centre

• Founded in 2000, has 17 faculty members and over
  70 graduate students affiliated with it.
• Annual research funding 2M
• Extensive industrial and governmental
  collaboration Alcatel, ATT Labs, Bell Mobility,
  CRC, DRDC, IBM, Intel, Mitel Semiconductor
  (Zarlink), Nortel, NRC,
• International involvements Wireless World
  Research Forum (WWRF) and WINNER (Wireless World
  Initiative New Radio) project
• Interdisciplinary research
• BCWS Seminar Series
• Strong links to IEEE and ACM

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Theory and Implementation of Communication
Algorithms

• Advanced Error Control Coding (FEC, ARQ)
• Turbo Equalization
• Adaptive Coding and Modulation
• Image and Video Coding and Transmission
• Distributed Source/Channel Coding
• Network Coding
• MIMO Systems
• Research Team 7 Ph.D., 4 M.Sc. and 1 PDF
• Carleton Collaborators T. Kunz (SCE), J.
  Lambadaris (SCE), I. Marsland (SCE), R. Mason
  (Electronics), C. Plett (Electronics)

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Low-Power High-Speed Signal Processing

• FPGA and ASIC Implementations of Communication
  Algorithms
• Analog Signal Processing
• (in collaboration with Intel,
• patent pending)
• Extremely low power
• High-speed
• Digital (100Gb/s,
• SiliconPro)
• Electro-optical processing