The Eighth IASTED International
Conferences
on
Wireless and Optical Communications
~WOC 2008~
With 4 Symposia:
Communication Systems and Applications (CSA 2008)
Optical Communication Systems and Networks (OCSN 2008)
Wireless Networks and Emerging Technologies (WNET 2008)
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN 2008)
May 26 – 28, 2008
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Towards Ubiquitous Networked Society
Convergence of wireless and optical network technologies
Abstract
First I would like to introduce some statistical data related to mobile communications and Internet to show the background of wireless communications in the networked societies. Our social life is depending more and more on wireless and wireline network communication systems.
Next, I will introduce future images of our social activities based on wireless communications and high speed optical fiber network systems. Some R&D examples and future trends of convergence of wireless and optical network technologies will be introduced. These new trends and technologies will be expected to support social activities of senior and handicapped people and will contribute to realize safe and secure societies.
Biography of the Presenter
Shingo Ohmori received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tohoku, Japan, in 1973, 1975, and 1978, respectively.
Since 1978, he has worked for the Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) of Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (Present National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) )
He has been engaged in research on mobile satellite communications, especially on antenna and propagation.
During 1983-1984, he was a visiting research associate at the ElectroScience Laboratory, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
He is now a Vice President of NICT. He has also a Professorship of Yokohama National University in Yokohama, Japan.
He is an author of "Mobile Satellite Communications" (Artech House, 1998) and a co-author of "Mobile Antenna Systems Handbook" (Artech House, 1994).
He was awarded the Excellent Research Prize from the Minister of Science and Technology Agency of Japan in 1985, and the Excellent Research Achievements Prize of the IEICE in 1993.
Dr. Ohmori is an IEEE Fellow and an IEICE Fellow (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Japan).
