Keynote Speakers
Jason Yi-Bing Lin
M-Taiwan: A WiMAX Experience
Jason Yi-Bing Lin
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Prof. Yi-Bing Lin (Taiwan) is Dean and Chair professor of College of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU). He is a senior technical editor of IEEE Network. He serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications and IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology. He is General or Program Chair for conferences including ACM MobiCom 2002. He is Guest Editor for several journals including IEEE Transactions on Computers. Lin is the authors of the books Wireless and Mobile Network Architecture (Wiley, 2001), Wireless and Mobile All-IP Networks (John Wiley,2005), and Charging for Mobile All-IP Telecommunications (Wiley, 2008). Lin is listed in ISIHighlyCited.Com among top 1% most-cited Computer Science researchers. He received numerous research awards including 2005 NSC Distinguished Researcher and 2006 Academic Award of Ministry of Education, Taiwan. Lin is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, an AAAS Fellow, and an IEE Fellow.
Abstract
Taiwan’s Wi-Fi industry accounts for more than 90% of the global market share. In its quest to identify the next generation products, the Taiwan government has chosen Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) as one of the major directions for Taiwan’s wireless industry, and has established the Mobile Taiwan (M-Taiwan) Program as the blueprint for an island-wide WiMAX environment. M-Taiwan aims at developing chip sets and base stations (BSs). Furthermore, by creating its own WiMAX ecosystem, Taiwan offers not only manufacturing capabilities, but also an entire service and application test-bed for mobile service, mobile learning and mobile life. Since 2006, 18 large-scale WiMAX service trials have been deployed in Taiwan.
This talk investigates the Voice over IP (VoIP) performance for a WiMAX deployment under M-Taiwan. We consider a stringent scenario where both call parties (CPEs) are wirelessly connected to the same WiMAX base station, and during movement, both of them will handover at the same time. The measurements include Mean Opinion Score (MOS), packet loss, packet delay and jitter. Excellent VoIP performance is achieved when the CPEs do not move. Acceptable performance is observed when the CPE speeds are 30 Km/h and 50 Km/h. The impact of background traffic on VoIP is not significant in our experiments.
Mohsen Guizani
WiMAX Wireless Technologies for Telemedicine and HealthCare Applications
Mohsen Guizani
Western Michigan University, USA
Mohsen Guizani is currently a Professor and the Chair of the Computer Science Department at Western Michigan University. He received his B.S. (with distinction) and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering; M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering in 1984, 1986, 1987, and 1990, respectively, from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
His research interests include Computer Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and Optical Networking. He currently serves on the editorial boards of six technical Journals and the Founder and EIC of “Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing” Journal published by John Wiley (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1530-8669/) and the Journal of Computer Systems, Networks and Communications, http://www.hindawi.com/journals/) published by Hindawi, Inc. He is also the Founder and General Chair of the IEEE International Conference of Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing (IEEE WirelessCom 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008). He is the author of six books and more than 200 publications in refereed journals and conferences. He guest edited a number of special issues in IEEE Journals and Magazines. He also served as member, Chair, and General Chair of a number of conferences.
Dr. Guizani received both the Best Teaching Award and the Excellence in Research Award from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1999 (a college wide competition). He won the best Research Award from KFUPM in 1995 (a university wide competition). He was selected as the Best Teaching Assistant for two consecutive years at Syracuse University, 1988 and 1989. He is the past Chair of TAOS and Vice-Chair of WTC IEEE ComSoc Technical Committees.
Dr. Guizani is an active senior member of IEEE, member of IEEE Communication Society, IEEE Computer Society, ASEE, and ACM.
Abstract
Rapid advances in wireless and network technologies, such as IEEE 802.16 WiMAX and other broadband wireless access (BWA) systems, will open new opportunities for health care/telemedicine delivery and deployment. The convergence of these BWA around mobile health and systems will also enable the use of these new broadband technologies for efficient healthcare/telemedicine and cost effective access anytime and anywhere. These new wireless telemedical scenarios will have a powerful impact on the way different healthcare organizations and medical doctors deliver healthcare to their patients. The integration of these technologies with other emerging network technologies from the mobile telemedicine perspective is still an open field for study.
In this talk, we discuss the current state of the art and some of the achievements in the area of mobile technologies for healthcare and telemedicine applications, especially applications that leverage the new high-speed wireless technologies such as WiMAX access methodologies and architectures for mobile healthcare and wireless/mobile telemedical systems. We then present current solutions and future challenges in this research area.
