Publicado em: 09/09/2014

Palestra com Prof. Eryk Dutkiewicz – Austrália

No dia 15 de setembro, o Prof. Eryk Dutkiewicz, da Macquarie University WiMed Research Centre – Sydney, Austrália, ministrará a palestra intitulada Challenges and Opportunities of Medical Wireless Implant Technologies for Health Monitoring and Treatment, quando falará sobre oportunidades de cooperação e doutorado em cotutela com a Universidade de Macquarie pelo Ciência sem Fronteiras, dentre outras oportunidades de visita e intercâmbio com sua universidade. A palestra será no Auditório do Anfiteatro do Instituto de Informática, prédio 67, às 14h.

Prof. Eryk Dutkiewicz
Macquarie University WiMed Research Centre
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Title: Challenges and Opportunities of Medical Wireless Implant Technologies for Health Monitoring and Treatment

Abstract
There is great interest in using emerging wireless technologies to support remote patient monitoring in an unobtrusive, reliable and cost effective manner thereby providing personalized sustainable services to patients. Medical Body Area Networks is one such emerging technology that has the potential to significantly improve health care delivery, diagnostic monitoring, disease-tracking and related medical procedures. Such networks need to provide highly reliable and low power communications for medical devices, especially those implanted in the human body. In this presentation we provide an overview of research challenges associated with medical implant research. These challenges include extremely reliable and secure operation over a long period of time, biocompatibility, small form factor and low cost. Research into medical implant devices aims to achieve performance improvement and size reduction of several orders of magnitude over the next 10 years. In this presentation we focus on medical implant research activities at Macquarie University, Sydney. We present the research roadmap and associated activities related to medical implant wireless communications and micro-sensor/actuator development for cardiovascular and neurological applications. Specifically development of medical implants for neurological applications is of great interest to the medical and health industries to assist in finding effective treatment to degenerative brain diseases of the aging populations around the world.

Title: Research Challenges of Dynamic Spectrum Sharing for 5G Networks

Abstract
The high demand for wireless Internet is putting extreme pressure on better utilisation of the available radio spectrum. The expected spectrum “famine” requires highly efficient radio resource management schemes with low complexity and high responsiveness to the changing network conditions. Dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) is regarded as an essential approach to regaining access to otherwise unused spectrum and it is considered an essential component in the development of 5G networks. DSS can be conducted at different time scales. Due to a potentially high cost of setting up the necessary infrastructure, initially the use of DSS may only be attractive to network operators over long time scales of months or years. This approach is currently taken in standards development activities as exemplified by the emergence of the Leased Spectrum Access concept. As the time scale of the operation of DSS decreases, the possibility for utilising more available spectrum holes increases. However, the shorter time scale brings with it challenges. Efficient decisions regarding the use of DSS require accurate knowledge of the spatial and temporal spectrum use in a geographical area of interest. This knowledge can be represented in Radio Environmental Maps (REMs) which need to be generated efficiently and accurately. As the deployment of DSS evolves from longer to shorter time scales of operation, an important design consideration is how to achieve this evolution in a seamless manner. In this presentation we give an overview of the DSS concept and its emergence in standards activities. We also present various approaches of REM generation for use with DSS.

Professor Eryk Dutkiewicz has over 25 years of industrial and academic research experience. He obtained his Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1988, his Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1992 and his PhD (Telecommunications) from the University of Wollongong, Australia in 1996. From 1999 to 2004 he worked at Motorola Laboratories in Sydney where he managed a wireless research laboratory. During that time he was also deeply involved in the development of the popular WiFi technology. Since returning to academia in 2004 he has worked closely with industry partners including Motorola, Freescale, and Intel on projects involving wireless sensor networks, 4G and 5G mobile communications networks and medical wireless body area networks. He is currently the Director of a multi-disciplinary research centre: the Macquarie University WiMed Research Centre (http://www.mq.edu.au/wimed) that focuses on development of medical implant technologies. He is also the Director of the Wireless Communications and Networking Laboratory researching 5G technologies.

Prof. Dutkiewicz has held visiting professorial appointments at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, City University of Hong Kong and Coventry University in the UK. He is an author of over 170 research papers and several book chapters. His professional activities in recent years included participation on various International Steering Committees with the latest being IEEE ICC 2014 and IEEE WPMC 2014. He is the General Chair of BodyNets 2015 and IEEE VTC 2017-Spring in Sydney.

CV Resumido:

O Professor Dr. Eryk Dutkiewicz, da Universidade de Macquarie – Austrália, tem mais de 25 anos de experiência em sistemas de comunicação sem fio, tendo trabalhando em empresas líderes da área, como a Motorola, além de conduzido diversos projetos de pesquisa envolvendo redes de sensores sem fio, redes de comunicação móvel 4G e 5G no contexto de cooperações entre universidades e empresas. Atualmente ele é diretor do Centro de Pesquisa Multidisciplinar, liderando projetos de tecnologia aplicada à área médica, e diretor do Laboratório de Comunicação e Redes Sem Fio, desenvolvendo projeto de pesquisa envolvendo principalmente a tecnologia 5G.

Resumo das palestras:
Desafios e oportunidades na área de tecnologias de implantes sem fio para monitoramento e tratamento médico:
Nesta palestra o Professor Eryk irá apresentar os avanços e desafios na área de pesquisa e desenvolvimento de implantes sem fio para monitoramento e tratamento médico, focando nos projetos de pesquisa nesta área desenvolvidos no seu grupo de pesquisa na Universidade de Macquarie.

Desafios na pesquisa de compartilhamento dinâmico de espectro para redes 5G: Nesta palestra o Prof. Eryk revisita o conceito de compartilhamento dinâmico de espectro e atividades emergentes de pesquisa sobre o tema, como a geração de mapas de ambiente rádio. Uma visão geral dos projetos desenvolvidos nesta área na Universidade de Macquarie, e possibilidades de cooperação, também são apresentadas nesta palestra