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| Hammons, Roger ORGANIZER: Hammons, Roger | |
| One of the challenges of net-centric operations is to provide universal connectivity with high levels of communication performance across diverse military environments. Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radio techniques, in which multiple antennas are used by both the sender of information and the intended recipient, offer the potential for much higher spectral efficiencies than are possible with conventional wireless radio systems. This session focuses on the design and application of MIMO techniques (cooperative or non-cooperative), especially for military communications, including theoretical developments with regard to code design, signal processing, radio and network architectures and protocols, and practical understandings achieved through modeling, analysis, and experimentation. Session I emphasizes channel coding techniques. Session II emphasizes signal processing. | |
| A. Roger Hammons Jr. received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College, M.A. degree in Mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. He is currently a member of the Principal Professional Staff of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Assistant Group Supervisor of the Communications and Networking Engineering Technology Group. He holds a joint appointment as an Assistant Research Professor in the ECE department of Johns Hopkins University. Prior to JHU/APL, he was Senior Technical Director at Corvis Corporation and before that a Senior Technical Director and Advisory Engineer at Hughes Electronics Corporation. His research interests include the areas of wireless and optical communications, with emphasis on channel coding and modulation. He was awarded the IEEE Information Theory 1995 Best Paper Award for his work on Z4-linear codes and co-inventor of the Turbo code designs used in third generation cellular radio standards worldwide. In 1999, he was awarded the Hughes Electronics Corporation Chairman’s Award for Innovation. He holds 28 U.S. patents in the general area of communication systems. | |