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February 2005
Volume 51, Number 8
Publication No:
USPS 580-500
“The IEEE
Newsletter” (North Jersey Section), is published monthly except June and July
by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Headquarters: 3 Park Avenue,
17th Floor, New York, NY 10016-5997. $1.00 per member per year
(included in annual dues) for each member of the North Jersey Section. Periodicals-class postage paid at New
York, NY and at additional mailing
offices. Postmaster send address changes
to: “The IEEE Newsletter”, 445
Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ
08855-1331. USPS 580-500 (ISSN
1076-3732).
NEWSLETTER STAFF
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Saracinello
Business
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791-4067
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SECTION OFFICERS
Chairman................................................ Har Dayal
har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com (973)
633-4618
Vice-Chairman-1......................... Bhanu Chivakula
b.chivakula “AT” computer.org (732)
718-3818
Vice-Chairman-2...................................... Kirit Dixit
kdixit “AT” ieee.org
(201) 669-7599
Treasurer................................. Dr. Sanghoon Shin
s.shin “AT” ieee.org (973)
492-1207 Ext. 22
Secretary.......................................... Russell
Pepe
rpepe “AT” att.net (201) 960-6796
Members-at-Large:
Dr.
Nirwan Ansari (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu)
Gary
Hojell (gary.hojell “AT”
itt.com)
Dr.
Richard Snyder (r.snyder “AT” ieee.org)
The North Jersey
Section Executive Committee usually meets the first Wednesday (except holidays
and December) of each month at 7:00 PM. Meetings are open to all members. For information on meeting agenda contact
Secretary Russell Pepe at (201) 960-6796, rpepe
“AT” att.net.
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IEEE North Jersey Section
Activities
February
2005
Feb. 2 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM,
“Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00
PM, ITT, 100
Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell Pepe
at
rpepe “AT” worldnet.att.net.
Feb. 9 – “Engineers
Meet: American Engineering Alliance - A
New Hope for the Engineering Profession” - NJ PACE & GOLD, 6:30 – 9:00 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ. Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625
(PWard1130 “AT” aol.com) or Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954 (rtax
“AT” AEA.org).
Feb. 10 – “Wireless
Networking with Selfish Agents” - NJ Communications Chapter, 6:15 PM (refreshments
at 6:00 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj for the
latest updates.
Feb. 15 – “Paper Submission Deadline for WOCC 2005”
- 8:00 AM-5:50 PM,
Wyndham Hotel, Newark, NJ. Dr. Hongya Ge, (973) 642-4990 (ge
“AT” njit.edu) or see http://www.wocc.org
for additional details.
Feb. 22 – “Scenario Planning Techniques for Dealing
with the Forces of Convergence” - NJ Computer and EMS Chapters, 7:00 PM
(pre-meeting buffet at 6:00 PM), Lucent Technologies, 67 Whippany Road, Room
Number TBA, Whippany, NJ. Seth Jakel (973) 731-1902, (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net) or Vivek
Shaiva (908) 229-6125 (vshaiva
“AT” computer.org).
Feb. 22-Apr. 19 – “Marketing Research” – North
Jersey Section, Tuesday Evenings, 8 sessions, 6:30-9:00 PM, NJ International
Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Rd, Jersey City, NJ. Bhanu Chivukula (b.chivakula “AT” computer.org).
Feb. 23 – “Modeling and Simulating an
Integrated, C4ISR On-the-Move, Networked System of Systems” – EDS/C&S,
& MTT-S/AP-S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Dr.
Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave) or Dr. Edip
Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
Feb. 24 – “Marketing Ideas Workshop” - NJ
Consultants' Network, 7:30
PM, Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated
Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Robert Walker (973)
728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Upcoming Meetings
Mar. 2 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM,
“Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00
PM, ITT, 100
Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell Pepe
at
rpepe “AT” worldnet.att.net.
Mar. 8 – “North Jersey Spring 2005 Student Presentation Contest”
- NJ Student Activities Committee, starting with dinner at 5:30
PM,
FDU, room TBD, Teaneck, NJ. Amit Patel (a.j.patel
“AT” ieee.org).
Mar. 31 – “Online Business Development and
Management - If you build it, they will come.
BULL!” - NJ Consultants' Network, 7:30 PM, Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60
S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Robert Walker (973) 728-0344
or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Apr. 22-23 – “The Fourteenth Wireless and Optical
Communications Conference” - 8:00
AM-5:50 PM, Wyndham Hotel, Newark, NJ. Dr. Hongya Ge, (973) 642-4990 (ge
“AT” njit.edu) or see http://www.wocc.org
for additional details.
May 1 – “NJ Section Awards
Reception” - 3:00 to 6:00 PM at
the Birchwood Manor, 111 North Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Anne Giedlinski
(973) 377-3175.
Members and
Non-Members Welcome
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NJ
Communications Society:
Wireless
Networking with Selfish Agents
On
February 10, 2005, the IEEE North Jersey Section
Communications Society Chapter along with NJIT will host a presentation on
“Wireless Networking with Selfish Agents.”
The speaker will be Dr. Li (Erran) Li.
About the Talk
Traditionally
wireless network protocols and architectures have been designed under the
assumption that end users and network entities are cooperative. However, as
wireless networks get more and more decentralized and pervasive, networking
solutions must include and cope with entities who want to optimize their own
utilities. We model these entities as
selfish agents or players in game theory.
In this talk, I will show how spectrum access can be made more efficient
by the involvement of selfish agents in both 3G wireless networks and WiFi networks.
Dr.
Li will first present an architecture and protocol that allows 3G service
providers to host efficient content distribution services. In this architecture, contents are offloaded
to ad hoc networks composed of 3G subscribers.
This alleviates the demand of 3G wireless spectrum from content
distribution. Since the participants of
this data distribution network act as selfish agents, we model caching as a
market sharing game. We show that the
selfish behavior of computationally bounded agents results in outcomes that are
bounded within 50% of the social optimal.
Dr.
Li will then present mechanisms for efficient spectrum sharing in WiFi networks. Each
access point (AP) in a WiFi network must be assigned
a channel for it to service users. There
are only finitely many possible channels that can be assigned. Moreover, neighboring access points must use
different channels so as to avoid interference.
Channel conflicts among APs operated by
different entities are currently resolved in an ad hoc manner or not resolved
at all. We view the channel assignment
problem as a game, where the players are the service providers and APs are acquired sequentially. We consider the price of anarchy of this
game, which is the ratio between the total coverage of the APs
in the worst Nash equilibrium of the game and what the total coverage of the APs would be if the channel assignment were done by a
central authority. We provide bounds on
the price of anarchy depending on assumptions on the underlying network and the
type of bargaining allowed between service providers.
About the Speaker
Li
(Erran) Li received the BE degree in Automatic
Control from Beijing Polytechnic University in 1993, ME in Pattern Recognition
from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1996, and PhD in
Computer Science from Cornell University in 2001, respectively. During his graduate study at Cornell University, he worked at Microsoft Research, Bell-Labs
Lucent as an intern and AT&T Research Center at ICSI Berkeley as a
visiting student. He is presently a
member of the Networking Research Center in Bell Labs. His research interests are in networking with
a focus on wireless networking and mobile computing.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE
to attend. Bring your friends.
Time:
6:15 PM
(refreshments start at 6:00 PM), Thursday, February 10, 2005.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari
“AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj for the latest updates.
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NJ Computer and EMS Chapters:
Scenario Planning Techniques for Dealing
with the Forces of Convergence
On Tuesday,
February 22nd, 2005, the North Jersey
Chapters of the IEEE Computer and Engineering Management Societies will jointly
host a presentation titled “Scenario Planning Techniques for Dealing with the
Forces of Convergence” by Dr. Tom Oser.
About the Talk
This session addresses
the merits and challenges of how technical leaders can use scenario analysis
and strategic planning techniques to “make the business case” of technically
strategic initiatives and align the directions of technology development and
deployment with overall business strategy.
Currently, CEO’s, CFO’s and other traditionally non-technical enterprise
executives are becoming more technically savvy and aware. They understand and are acting on their
understanding of the strategic role of technology in the company’s overall
strategy. But it is incumbent upon the
technologists to also be more aware and savvy of the business issues, methods
of business problem framing. They need
to do so to effectively communicate the technical choices in a business context
that will make the difference in guiding the business decisions.
The presentation discusses
Strategic Planning Under Uncertainty (SPUU) as a
method of scenario planning that accepts unpredictable futures as a premise,
and builds upon the development of alternative future scenarios. These are taken into account in the process
of strategy, planning and investment strategies and decision-making. Technology is considered one category of
major forces that affect strategy and success of organizations, along with
those related to society, economics, environment, and regulation/policy. Attendees will learn how broader strategic
thinking through scenario analysis methods can help technologists to more
effectively sit at the executive round table and affect the agenda and
strategic decision-making processes of their organizations.
About the Speaker
Tom Oser
is the Consulting Practice Leader for the Telecommunications, Technology and
Media (TTM) industries at Decision Strategies International, Inc. He has a
background in operations management and engineering in the telecommunications
industry, as well as over a decade of consulting experience in management and
technology for Fortune 500 clients. His
clients include companies spanning multiple industries, including financial
services, healthcare, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals, in addition to the
core areas of TTM.
Prior to joining DSI, he
provided strategy, marketing and management consulting services for early-stage
technology companies in the venture capital and private equity markets. Also, as a Vice President Ernst & Young /
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, he served global clients in his role as a thought
leader in the telecommunications practice and eCommerce consulting. He advised clients on strategy and planning
with "a bias toward action" that drove clients beyond paper plans to
timely execution of applied business solutions.
He was the founding
director of the graduate studies program in Telecommunications Management as
well as a member of the faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology. He has lectured on telecommunications,
information systems and strategic management.
He is a frequent speaker at national conferences and corporate client
events. He currently lectures on IT
Strategy at the Wharton/University of Pennsylvania Masters in Technology Management
program. He earned a PhD in Computer
& Information Engineering and a Bachelor of Engineering from Stevens
Institute of Technology; MS in Telecommunications Systems from Southern
Methodist University; MBA in finance and strategy from the