Dr. Apurva N. Mody
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`Dr. Apurva N. Mody
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`Brief Biography:
`Dr. Apurva N. Mody (apurva.mody@ieee.org) is the Chairman of IEEE 802.22
`Working Group (WG) on Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRANs)
`(www.ieee802.org/22). He is also the Chairman of the Whitespace Alliance
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`(www.WhiteSpaceAlliance.org). The IEEE 802.22 Wi-FARTM/ Super Wi-Fi
`Standards will support Cognitive Radio (CR) based use of the TV Band
`WhiteSpaces to enable regional and rural broadband wireless access serving
`more than 3.5 Billion people. Other Machine to Machine applications will
`drive the volumes. Under Dr. Mody' s leadership, the IEEE 802.22 WG is the
`recipient of the IEEE SA Emerging Technology Award. Dr. Mody received his
`Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. His
`research was based on Receiver Implementation for Multiple Input Multiple
`Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Systems. Dr. Mody was
`granted five patents through his Ph. D. research which were later sold to
`Intellectual Ventures. Since June 2005, he has been also performing
`research on Cognitive Radio systems. Dr. Mody has contributed to the field
`of Machine Learning based Cognitive Communications in White as well as
`Gray Spaces, feature based spectrum sensing, signal classification, co-
`existence techniques, security for CR based systems, information fusion,
`game theoretical decision making, policy based management etc. Dr. Mody
`has played a pivotal role in growing the expertise and market share for his
`company on CR, Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) related programs. Dr.
`Mody has been a key contributor on many programs and invited speaker at
`many Government and commercial events. Dr. Mody has published more
`than 50 conference and journal publications and is an author of more than
`15 US and international patents.
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`Dr. Mody is the Senior Member of the IEEE, President' s Fellow while at
`Georgia Tech, Member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu Honor Societies.
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`Speech Theme
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`From WhiteSpace Enabled Rural Broadband to Cognitive M2M
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`Speech Description
`Regulators all over the world have realized the importance of WhiteSpaces.
`WhiteSpaces are the un-used or under-utilized portions of the spectrum.
`There is an on-going debate on licensed vs license-exempt use of this
`spectrum. Currently 73% of the people in the world do not have internet
`access. Nearly 3.5 Billion people live in rural areas with hardly any internet
`availability. License-exempt use of WhiteSpaces enabled through Cognitive
`Radio (CR) technology has the potential to change all that and benefit many
`emerging economies such as Brazil. Other Machine to Machine (M2M)
`applications will drive up the volumes. WhiteSpace spectrum can support a
`wide variety of applications including regional and rural area broadband
`access, local area networks, hot-spots, health-care applications, cellular
`off-load, smart utility networks, remote control and monitoring
`applications, home-land security, disaster-recovery etc. Skeptics exist but
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`recently, CR related research has seen an explosive growth all over the
`world, and software radio defined test-beds and prototypes are being
`tested and deployed in many parts of the world already. The first part of the
`presentation will describe ideas and results on machine learning based
`cognitive communications in White as well as the Gray space. The second
`part of the talk will focus on IEEE 802.22 Standards and WhiteSpace Alliance
`activities to promote this eco-system and other standards such as 3GPP /
`LTE, IEEE 802.19.a, IEEE P1900, IETF etc.
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`Further Information on WhiteSpace Alliance: The mission of the Whitespace
`Alliance (www.WhiteSpaceAlliance.org) is to promote the development,
`deployment and use of standards based products and services as a means
`of providing broadband capabilities via TV band and other emerging
`WhiteSpaces. By promoting the use of standards, the Alliance will enable
`companies to provide broadband connectivity at reasonable cost. The WSA
`will also act as an enabler of the emerging white spaces ecosystem through
`educational activities and helping to put in place interoperability,
`conformance, and compliance testing to make sure that our member
`stakeholders get the needed information & collaborations to succeed both
`in the market place and with regulatory requirements. WhiteSpace Alliance
`will promote the use of IEEE, 3GPP and IETF Standards for use in the
`WhiteSpaces.
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`Further Information on the IEEE 802.22 Standard: IEEE 802.22 systems will
`provide broadband access to wide regional areas around the world and
`bring reliable and secure high-speed communications to under-served and
`un-served rural communities, which are estimated to include nearly half of
`the worlds population. The IEEE 802.22-2011 is the first IEEE 802 Standard
`for operation in the Television (TV) Whitespaces, defined as the available or
`un-occupied TV channels. It is also the first IEEE Standard that focuses on
`broadband connectivity in rural areas where most vacant TV channels can
`be found, thus helping to bridge the digital divide. IEEE 802.22 Working
`Group is the recipient of the IEEE SA Emerging Technology Award. This new
`standard for Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRANs) takes advantage of
`the favorable transmission characteristics of the VHF and UHF TV bands to
`provide broadband wireless access over a large area up to 100 km from the
`transmitter. Each WRAN could deliver 22 Mbps to 29 Mbps, depending upon
`the country of deployment, without interfering with reception of existing TV
`broadcast stations. IEEE 802.22 incorporates advanced cognitive radio
`capabilities including dynamic spectrum access, incumbent database
`access, accurate geo-location techniques, spectrum sensing, regulatory
`domain dependent policies, spectrum etiquette, and self-coexistence for
`optimal use of the available spectrum. The new IEEE P802.22b amendment
`proposes to support enhanced broadband and monitoring applications.
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`Dr. Apurva N. Mody
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`Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações
`Av. João de Camargo, Número 510, CEP 37540-000, Santa Rita do Sapucaí - Minas
`Gerais - Brasil
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`Tel.: ( 35 ) 3471.9200 Fax.: ( 35 )
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