This a a test registrion only to check cash flow from registation fees to the local Seattle Section IEEE PES CB account #604902 Location: Bldg: Admin Building South 3526 S. 35th Street Tacoma, Washington 98411

Co-sponsored by: IEEE PES Seattle Join us for the Young Professionals August Summer activity! We’re having a BBQ on Saturday August 27th at Green Lake Park in Seattle! This is an awesome opportunity to connect with local professionals enjoy BBQ, and play outdoor games. Please RSVP above.  Outdoor activities:          Volleyball          Soccer          Ultimate Frisbee          Bocce ball This is an IEEE Seattle Section and IEEE PES event so Young Professionals with all backgrounds will attend. Students are also welcome. Join us! Location: 7364 East Green Lake Dr N, Seattle, WA, Washington

Co-sponsored by: Saraswati Kaja Abstract: Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is an emerging wireless cellullar architecture in which the base-stations (BSs) take advantage of high-capacity backhaul links to upload signal processing and computation to a cloud-computing based central processor. The C-RAN architecture offers an enabling platform for the centralized joint encoding and joint decoding of user messages and a capability for intercell interference mitigation across the BSs. In this talk, we address the capacity analysis and optimization technique for C-RAN while specifically taking into account the finite capacity constraint on the backhaul links. In the uplink, the C-RAN architecture can be modeled as a multiple-access relay channel. We show that a compress-and-forward scheme in which the BSs quantize the received signals and send the quantized signals to the central processor is near optimum. In the downlink, the C-RAN architecture can be modeled as a broadcast relay channel. We compare the message-sharing strategy versus compression-based strategy for this setting, and show how compressed sensing and weighted minimum mean-squared error (WMMSE) techniques can be used to solve a network utility maximization problem involving joint user scheduling, BS clustering and beamforming in a user-centric message-sharing C-RAN design.   Speaker(s): Dr. Wei Yu, Agenda: 1.       Pizza is served. 2.       6-6:30 is networking time 3.       The lecture starts at 6:30. Location: Room: Room #1919 Bldg: Building #99 14820 NE 36th Street Redmond, Washington