THE NORTH JERSEY CHAPTER OF THE IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY THE CENTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING RESEARCH NEW JERSEY CENTER FOR MULTIMEDIA RESEARCH Present WIRELESS ATM: LIMITS, CHALLENGES, AND PROPOSALS by ENDER AYANOGLU BELL LABS, LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES 4 Wednesday December 1996 PIZZA & POP: 6:15 P.M. SEMINAR: 6:30 P.M. PLACE: 202 ECEC ABSTRACT Recently, there has been an increased interest in the topic of wireless ATM. The subject raises current interest because of the potential combination of two of the hottest topics in communications, but at the same time raises the natural question of its viability, and sometimes even of its desirability. In this talk, we will survey potential applications of wireless ATM--we will describe what is usually meant by the term; we will discuss why it may make sense; and we will talk about some of the proposals for building systems based on it. The emphasis in this talk is on the physical layer, the data link layer, and the access layer. We will also present general observations on each of these layers, as well as present some research solutions to the problems therein. BIOGRAPHY Ender Ayanoglu received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1986. Since then he has been with Bell Laboratories. His current research interests are in wireless ATM, particularly physical layer and data link-layer issues, multi-wavelength optical networking, and general source and channel coding applications in communication networks. Currently he is serving as the vice chair of the IEEE Communications SocietyUs Communication Theory Technical Committee and as the editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications for communication theory and coding applications. He is the author of a paper that received the 1995 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award. PLEASE POST For more information, contact N. Ansari, (201) 596-3670, ang@faraday.njit.edu; or Z. Siveski, (201) 596-5710, zoran@njit.edu WWW: http://megahertz.njit.edu/~ieeenj