Abstract : In this talk, the problem of interference-limited cellular networks with full reuse of the spectral resource is addressed. The use of coordination and cooperative transmission schemes, which exploit MIMO and resource allocation gains over multiple cell sites, in exchange for a small amount of information signaling over the backhaul and feedback channels is considered. Various schemes are investigated, and their suitability to a distributed (thus scalable) implementation is scrutinized.

Biography : Dr. David Gesbert (IEEE SM) is Professeur in the Mobile Communications Dept., Eurecom Institute - France. He obtained his Ph.D degree from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France, in 1997. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Smart Antenna Research Group of the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. Then, he was a founding engineer of Iospan Wireless Inc, San Jose, California - a startup company pioneering MIMO-OFDM (now Intel). Dr. Gesbert has published about 150 papers and holds several patents, all in the area of signal processing, communications, and wireless networks. Dr. Gesbert has been a co-editor and still holds this position, for several special publication issues on wireless networks and communications theory. These include JSAC (2003, 2007), EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (2004, 2007), and Wireless Communications Magazine 2006, including a current special issue of JSAC on Cooperative Communications in Cellular Networks. He has authored or co-authored several papers, winning the 2004 IEEE Best Tutorial Paper Award (Communications Society) for a 2003 JSAC paper on MIMO systems, the 2005 Best Paper (Young Author) Award for Signal Processing Society journals, and the Best Paper Award for the 2004 ACM MSWiM workshop. He has co-authored the book “Space Time Wireless Communications: From Parameter Estimation to MIMO systems,” Cambridge Press - 2006.

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