Fall 2008 IAB

Our research demonstrations started Monday at 4 at the Aware Home…Here, Maribeth Gandy explains Mobile Broadband Gaming via AR on a thin client…

Sergio Goldenberg on TV Gaming Convergence… Next Generation Play

Arshad Chowdhury on Optical Wireless Convergence… streaming HDTV through the air…

Raghupathy Sivakumar on Three-Screen TV: Combines video streams through multi-homing… aggregating a home’s data streams into a river

of data for better QoE

Ahhhh…. dinner and good conversation….

GT CTO Ron Hutchins was our dinner speaker

The technical review began at 9 am the next morning… Guests included representatives from Cisco, Korea Telecom, Motorola, Technicolor, Arris, NSF, Cox

Communications, AT&T & Alcatel-Lucent, among others….

Featured speaker GT Prof & Telecom TIG Chair Ian Akyildiz (left) with Broadband Institute Director Nikil Jayant

The poster show is always a highlight… 50 students presented 35 posters.

Cheng-Lin explains his multihoming video work to Technicolor’s Ken Boyle Cheng-Lin explains his multihoming video work to Technicolor’s Ken Boyle

Nues Roca Lacasa explains her nano-communications work to Helena Mitchell, director of the Center for Advanced Communications Policy

Alper Arkanser details his work on wireless sensors to NSF Assistant Deputy Director Deborah Crawford

Lakshmi Thanayankizil presented a paper on Dynamic Multi-hop Networks

Optical gurus Arshad Chowdhury and H. “Money” Chien speak with Arris CEO Bryant Isaacs (left) about their ability to stream HDTV through the air.

Jeannie Lee and Eun-Seok Ryu share a lighter moment…

It was a great show!

Alcatel-Lucent’s Jason Collins gave a great talk on trends and impediments…

NSF Assistant Deputy Director Deborah Crawford wrapped up the speakerportion of the day by challenging the group to “Think Big and Be Bold.”

Following industry feedback, the meeting was adjourned.

Spring 2009 IAB Meeting

The next IAB is scheduled for April 20 & 21 –

Springtime in Atlanta!!!