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Robert A. Scholtz Fred H. Cole Professor of Engineering; University of Southern California Presentation Title Ultrawideband Radio -- Has it Arrived? Abstract The healthy survival of ultrawideband (UWB) radio technology depends on finding the environment that supplies the factors necessary for its development. This environment can encompass many things: research and development, the RF environment, implementation technologies, regulations, standards, markets, etc. Here we will review many of the factors that affect performance capabilities of UWB communications. In 2002, the Federal Communications Commission adopted rules for radiating UWB signals for various applications. These bound the achievable system performance characteristics in a way that is currently being explored by various academic and commercial entities. This talk enumerates some of the capabilities and difficulties associated with UWB communications, as predicted formally by basic communication-theoretic results. Information developed from UWB indoor propagation measurements will be reviewed and its effect on UWB radio design will be explained. The results of a 2004 UWB industry poll will be discussed. Biography Robert A. Scholtz was born in Lebanon, Ohio, on January 26, 1936. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Cincinnati (EE 1958). He was a Hughes Masters and Doctoral Fellow while obtaining his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from USC in 1960 and Stanford University in 1964, respectively. Working on missile radar signal processing problems, Dr. Scholtz remained part-time at Hughes Aircraft Company until 1978. In 1963, Dr. Scholtz joined the faculty of the University of Southern California, where he is now the Fred H. Cole Professor of Engineering. His early work, which focused on synchronizable codes and waveforms, earned his elevation to IEEE Fellow in 1980. His mid-career work was devoted to the study of spread spectrum communications, and led to his coauthored books Spread Spectrum Communications, revised as Spread Spectrum Communications Handbook. His spread spectrum-related awards include the 1983 Leonard G. Abraham Prize and the 1984 Donald G. Fink Prize for the historical article, "The Origins of Spread Spectrum Communications." He is a co-recipient of the 1992 Senior Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the 1997 Ellersick Award from MilCom. In 2001, he received the Military Communications Conference Award for Technical Achievement. In 1996, Dr. Scholtz formed the Ultrawideband Radio Laboratory (UltRa Lab) at USC, which provides facilities for the design and test of impulse radio systems and other novel wireless links. The lab now maintains a fully intrumented RF anechoic chamber donated by Paul Allen. Scholtz's work on ultrawideband radio earned the 2003 S. A. Schelkunoff Prize from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, and Best Paper Award at the 2003 International Workshop on Ultrawideband Systems. He will receive the 2006 Eric Sumner Award from the IEEE "for pioneering contributions to ultra-wide band communications science and technology."

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