IEEE Distinguished Lecture Series 1996-97 THE NORTH JERSEY CHAPTER OF THE IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING and THE CENTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING present WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS: WHERE IT'S BEEN AND WHERE IT'S GOING by TED S. RAPPAPORT, PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR MOBILE AND PORTABLE RADIO RESEARCH GROUP BRADLEY DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, VIRGINIA TECH. WHEN: Thursday, October 3, 1996, 4:00 p.m. (refreshments at 3:45 p.m.) WHERE: Room 202, Electrical and Computer Engineering Center, New Jersey Institute of Technology ABSTRACT This talk provides glimpses into the past, present, and future of wireless communications. Beginning with the basic concepts of cellular radio and Personal Communications Systems (PCS), we will explore some of the technical challenges now facing the wireless industry and the promising solutions of the future, which will enable over half of the world's information to travel via wireless means by 2010. Specific emphasis will be placed on the growth of the industry, the challenges involved with deploying PCS in the United States, the emergence of wireless local loop and indoor wireless systems, and the impact that the global positioning system (GPS) and digital signal processing (DSP) architectures will have in offering revolutionary services and systems. BIOGRAPHY Theodore S. Rappaport (S'83, M'84, S'85, M'87, SM'90) was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 26, 1960. He received BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in 1982, 1984, and 1987, respectively. Since 1988, he has been on the faculty of Virginia Tech., where he is a professor of electrical engineering and the director of the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG), which he founded in 1990. In 1990, he also founded TSR Technologies, Inc., a cellular radio/PCS manufacturing company that was purchased by Grayson Electronics (a subsidiary of Allen Telecom) in 1993. He was awarded the Marconi Young Scientist Award in 1990 and the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1992. He has authored and edited technical papers and books in the field of wireless communications, including the textbook Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice (Prentice-Hall). He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, and the International Journal on Wireless Information Networks (Plenum Press, NY). Dr. Rappaport is a registered professional engineer in the state of Virginia and is a fellow and member of the board of directors of the Radio Club of America. PLEASE POST For more info. contact N. Ansari, (201) 596-3670, ang@faraday.njit.edu; or Z. Siveski, (201) 596-5710, zoran@hertz.njit.edu WWW: http://hertz.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html