IEEE Meeting Wednesday, 20 March 2013

6:30PM 8:00PM WEB 1250 Warnock Engineering Building, University of Utah

An Introduction to the Physical Layer of LTE Systems
The purpose of this presentation is to provide an overview of the physical layer of LTE systems. After a brief introduction to the 3GPP LTE standardization process, we will define the overall system architecture and the physical transmission resources defined in the LTE standard. The remainder of the presentation will then focus on downlink physical layer processing, including multi-antenna transmission, reference signals, and interference handling. Time permitting, radio-access technologies incorporated into the nextgeneration LTE standard (LTE-Advanced), such as carrier aggregation and heterogeneous deployments, will be briefly presented.

Claudio da Silva
Samsung Mobile Solutions Lab
San Diego, California

Biography
Claudio da Silva is a Senior Staff Engineer with Samsungs Mobile Solutions Lab (MSL). Samsung MSL is engaged in developing solutions in support of next generation 3G and 4G modems and researching core technologies to enhance the competitiveness of Samsung's products. Prior to joining Samsung, he was an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech, where he conducted research on dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio networks. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 2005. Dr. da Silva received the best student paper award at the 2003 IEEE Conference on Ultra-Wide Band Systems and Technologies and was a California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) graduate student fellow during the 2001-2002 academic year. During the summer of 2004, he was a graduate intern with Intels Corporate Technology Group. Dr. da Silva is currently an Associate Editor for Modulation and Signal Design for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and has served on the technical program committee of numerous IEEE conferences in the communications area. He holds an extra class amateur radio license.

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