Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Conference (AVFOP 2012)
11 - 13 September 2012
Multi-Access Wireless over Fibre Technologies and Applications
Gee-Kung Chang
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Abstract
A system architecture based on millimeter-wave wireless over fiber sensor communication networks (WSCNs) for avionic system sensing, control and communications is investigated here. The objectives is to study and define the optimal network structures and protocols for the proposed millimeter-wave WSCNs, and evaluate the system performance in terms of reliability, scalability power consumption and cost. We have experimentally demonstrated and compared two possible optical access schemes in proposed millimeter-wave WSCNs. Different multiple access schemes have been investigated and analyzed. We believe the proposed system architecture is suitable for high-throughput wireless sensor communication network using radio over fiber technologies.
Bio
Prof. Gee-Kung Chang is the Byers Endowed Chair Professor in Optical Networking in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology and an Eminent Scholar of Georgia Research Alliance. At Georgia Tech, he serves as the co-director of 100G Optical Networking Center and an Associate Director of Georgia Tech Broadband Institute. He served as the leader of Optoelectronics thrust of NSF sponsored Engineering Research Center of Microsystems Packaging Research Center at Georgia Tech. Prof. Chang received a B.S. degree in Physics from National Tsinghua University in Taiwan and a Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Chang devoted a total of 23 years of service to the Bell Systems—Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Telcordia where he served in various research and management positions including Director and Chief Scientist of Optical Internet Research. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he served as Vice President and Chief Technology Strategist of OpNext, Inc., in charge of technology planning and product development strategy for high-speed optical and photonic components and systems. Prof. Chang is currently establishing a NSF sponsored Industry/University Collaborative Research Center on Optical Wireless Technologies and Applications.
Dr. Chang has authored 56 U.S. and international patents and published more than 360 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He received Bellcore President’s Award in 1994, won R&D 100 Award in 1996, and elected as a Telcordia Fellow in 1999 for his pioneering work in Multi-wavelength Optical Networks (MONET) and Next Generation Internet (NGI) optical networking projects. He was elected to Fellow of Photonics Society of Chinese American in 2000. He is a Fellow of IEEE Photonic Society and a Fellow of Optical Society of America (OSA) for his key contributions in DWDM Optical Networking and Optical Label and Packet Switching Technologies.
Dr. Chang has been a long-time contributor in many IEEE and OSA conferences and committees. He has served four times as the lead guest editor for special issues of Journal of Lightwave Technology sponsored by IEEE LEOS and OSA; the first one was published in December 2000 on Optical Networks, the second in November 2004 on Metro and Access Networks, the third in 2007 on Convergence of Optical Wireless Access Network, and most recently, one on Very High Throughput Wireless over Fiber Technologies and Applications. He was also a guest editor for Radio over Optical Fiber Networks for Journal of Optical Communications Networks (JOCN) sponsored by OSA. He organized and moderated two international workshops this year on the theme of “Wireless over Optical Access Networks” for OECC 2007 and APOC 2007. He has been active in championing this new interdisciplinary broadband Wireless over Fiber Access networking technologies by presenting invited papers on Broadband Optical Wireless Access Network Architecture, Technologies, and Applications in OECC’05, LEOS’06, MWP’07, OFC’08, 2009 IEEE LEOS Summer Conference on ROF Technology, 2009 Frontier in Optics of OSA Annual Meeting, and 2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium.
He has been invited many times as plenary and keynote speaker to deliver theme messages on Convergence of Broadband Optical and Wireless Communications Networks including: 2009 IEEE ICCSC in Shanghai, 2009 SPIE Photonics West in San Jose, 2009 Asian-Pacific Microwave Photonics in Beijing, 2010 IEEE Globecom in Miami---a flagship conference of IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE ICCCN 2011 ( International Conference of Computer and Communications Networks) in Maui.
Dr. Chang has devoted his career to develop high performance computing and high throughput communications system technologies towards ever smaller dimensions (from hundreds kilometers down to meters and centimeters) through optimized design and integration of electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic components for broadband optical and wireless access networks. His current research interests cover: 100G and 1T DWDM transport network, optical label and packet switching system, broadband optical access networks, microwave and millimeter wave photonics, radio over fiber systems and very-high-throughput wireless sensor communication networks and super broadband wireless over optical fiber networks.