Speaker: Nguyen Viet Tu, PhD, Assistant Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science

Over the past 40 years, we see a tremendous advancement in wireless communication networks. From the first generation (1G) in around 1980 to today’s fifth generation (5G), the data peak throughput, for example, has increased from ~2.4kbps to about ~20Gbps (about a million-fold). This talk will present some of the emerging technologies and a few research topics that interest both academic and industry researchers.  First, I will review the evolution of wireless communications networks (from 1G to 5G), focusing on the leading technologies that enable its vast improvements. The second part of this talk will focus on the limitations of the 5G network and upcoming 6G wireless communications networks. Specifically, the demand for higher requirements on communication networks for rising industries on telemedicine, smart city, autonomous driving, etc. Finally, I will present my unpublished research results on the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology for 6G wireless networks. Currently, I am working on managing interference and leveraging secondary reflections amongst multiple IRSs to improve the throughput of the overall network.”