Seattle Communications (COM-19) Society Chapter
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Sponsors: Communications Society (COM-19)
Topic: 3GPP Evolved Packet Core (SAE)
Speaker: Dr. Farooq Bari, AT&T
Date/Time:
Thursday, November 13, 6:45-8:30 pm
COM-19 chapter meeting and pizza social: 6:45 - 7:30 pm
Seminar: 7:30-8:30 pmLocation:
EEB 125
Electrical Engineering Building
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
This seminar is open to all IEEE members. Those wishing to join IEEE are also invited.
Campus MapAbstract:
3GPP Release 8 specifications with the goal to provide higher bandwidth with low latency represent a milestone for mobile broadband industry. The specifications comprise of two components; the radio access called EUTRAN (aka LTE) and the packet core called EPC (aka SAE). The EPC based on an all IP network is targeted to support a wide variety of access technologies. In this talk an overview of the three year industry effort to define EPC will be provided.
Speaker Biography:
Farooq Bari is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T. He received his PhD from University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, his Masters Degree from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA and his Bachelors Degree from UET, Lahore, Pakistan (all in Electrical/Computer Engineering).
