Chandramouli to deliver keynote address on Cognitive Radio Networking at Nanjing, China

Professor Rajarathnam Chandramouli, the Thomas Hattrick Chair Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, will deliver a keynote address to the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) at Nanjing, China. The conference will be held November 13-15 with the technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE Communications Society, among other international organizations.

Titled "Cognitive Radio Networking: Lessons from Anthropology," Dr. Chandramouli's talk will be delivered to an audience of experts from universities and research centers located across the globe.

"Cognitive radio networking is an emerging research topic," said Chandramouli. "Academic research, industry-oriented R&D and government policies play an inter-related, profound role in shaping the research direction in this area. Yet, ironically, there is still no universally accepted definition of what a cognitive radio is.

"In this talk," he continued, "we will address this issue by using lessons learned from anthropology and relate it to the protocol stack of a cognitive radio network. The hypothesis we put forth is: Can cognitive radio networks be modeled and designed after human behavior or interaction in a society? We present a Homo Egualis society-based dynamic spectrum access protocol example to show that this possible, useful, and advantageous over some other approaches.

"Besides," Chandramouli concluded, "irrational behavior of cognitive radios in a network can also be modeled and studied using anthropological models, unlike game-theoretic analysis. Finally, we will identify some open problems at the intersection of human behavioral modeling, information theory, game theory and learning, in the context of cognitive radio networks."

Dr. Chandramouli's research spans the areas of wireless networking and security, human factors in Internet security and forensics, multimedia wireless networking, and applied probability theory. Projects in these areas are supported by the National Science Foundation, US Army, Office of the Naval Research, Air Force Research Lab, National Institute of Justice and other Department of Defense Agencies.

He is the Founding Chair of the IEEE COMSOC Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN), Member of the IEEE COMSOC Standards Board, Associate Editor of the Advances in Multimedia Journal and Journal of Communications, and International Advisory Committee Member of WCSP 2009. He was on the Steering Committee of CROWNCOM, General Co-Chair of CROWNCOM (2007), IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 Wireless Communications Symposium Co-Chair, Technical Program Vice-Chair of IEEE CCNC 2007 and 2008, Co-Chair of the Workshop on Cognitive Networks and Communications held with IEEE ICCCN 2009, Multimedia Communications Symposium Co-Chair of CHINACOM 2008, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

Chandramouli is the recipient of an IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 Best Paper Award, IEEE CCNC 2006 Best Student Paper Award, NSF CAREER Award, and IEEE Richard E. Merwin Award. He is also the Co-Founder of inStream Media, LLC, a start-up company developing interactive video technologies.

Source: Stevens Institute of Technology