O capítulo da Signal Processing Society convida para três palestras na UFRJ, dia 18/10/2013, no Bloco I – Sala 146 (SMT II):

RESEARCH CHALLENGES FOR 5G MOBILE RADIO a ser proferida pelo Prof. Matti Latva-aho, 10h00.

MODELING, ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF MULTI-TIER HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS a ser proferida pelo Dr. Carlos Lima, 14h00.

SUSTAINABILITY IN ICT-BASED SYSTEMS – A TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH a ser proferida pelo Dr. Pedro Nardelli, 15h30.

Dúvidas e esclarecimentos com o Prof. Marcello Campos (campos@smt.ufrj.br)

Abstracts:
Palestra 1: The next generation beyond 2020 mobile radio systems as facing great challenges in terms of capacity demands and variety of services and usage scenarios.
The research towards 5G systems development is in the beginning and several research directions of academic interests can be seen. This talk gives an overview of related
research challenges and presents related research activities going on at the University Oulu, Finland.

Palestra 2: Over the past few years, the intense demand for high data rates and ubiquitous coverage, as well as the introduction of pervasive devices with high
computational power have leveraged a ignificant paradigm shift in wireless communications regarding their design, deployment and operation. Lately, a mathematical
framework based on spatial point processes was introduced to properly model and evaluate the performance of heterogeneous networks. Stochastic Geometry offers a
surprisingly tractable approach that closely captures operational trends and achievable performance of the upcoming systems. In this course, stochastic geometry is used to
model scenarios wherein legacy macrocell sites coexist with multiple tiers of self-organizing small cells under the effect of the shadowed fading channel.

Palestra 3: Are information and communication technologies (ICT) driving our society to a sustainable future built upon smart cities and other smart solutions? Or are they
creating more instability across different societies and challenging old structures of power like in Arabic Spring, London (2011), or Turkey and Brazil (2013)? The answers to
these questions are unclear while extremely important. In this talk, a transdisciplinary approach – based on complexity science – will be presented so that different co-evolving
processes (including not only technology, but also society, economy, environment and culture) can be included in the analysis. The case of /sustainable smart grids/ will be
used as an example of this way of assessing ICT-based systems.

Biographies:

Matti Latva-aho was born in Kuivaniemi, Finland in 1968. He received the M.Sc., Lic.Tech. and Dr. Tech (Hons.) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Oulu, Finland in 1992, 1996 and 1998, respectively. From 1992 to 1993, he was a Research Engineer at Nokia Mobile Phones, Oulu, Finland. During the years 1994 – 1998
he was a Research Scientist at Telecommunication Laboratory and Centre for Wireless Communications at the University of Oulu. Currently he is the Department Chair
Professor of Digital Transmission Techniques and Head of Department at the University of Oulu, Department for Communications Engineering. Prof. Latva-aho was Director
of Centre for Wireless Communications at the University of Oulu during the years 1998-2006. His research interests are related to mobile broadband wireless communication
systems. Prof. Latva-aho has published over 200 conference or journal papers in the field of wireless communications. He has been TPC Chairman for PIMRC’06, TPC CoChairman
for ChinaCom’07 and General Chairman for WPMC’08. He acted as the Chairman and vice-chairman of IEEE Communications Finland Chapter in 2000 – 2003.
Carlos Lima received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil in 2002 and 2004, respectively. In 2013, he received the
D.Sc. from University of Oulu, Finland. From 2000 to 2005, he worked as research scientist in the Wireless Telecommunication Research Group (GTEL), Brazil. In 2005 he
was a visiting researcher in Ericsson research center, Luleå, Sweden working on power control techniques for Enhanced HSPA systems. In 2006, he worked at Nokia
Institute of Technology (INdT), Brazil on evaluating the system performance of WiMAX systems. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Wireless
Communication (CWC), Oulu, Finland. His research interests are analysis of interference networks using stochastic geometry, statistical signal processing, and ICT solutions.

Pedro Henrique Juliano Nardelli received the B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Campinas in 2006 and 2008. In 2013, he received his joint
double doctoral degree (electrical/communications engineering) from University of Oulu, Finland, and University of Campinas. His studies have been mainly focused on
efficiency of wireless networks. He is now working with topics related to sustainability in ICT-based systems (such as smart grids) employing tools of complexity sciences.