Topics of Discussion

• Testing Wireless Solutions at Scale. Colosseum as a Case Study Speaker: Stefano Basagni, ECE Dept, Northeastern University
• From Algorithms to Implementations Speaker: Miriam Leeser: ECE Dept, Northeastern University
• OFDM Explained Speaker: Darel A. Linebarger, MathWorks Director of Engineering for Wireless and Audio

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"Testing Wireless Solutions at Scale. Colosseum as a Case Study" The talk will describe Colosseum as an instrument to test wireless networking solutions at scale, indicating the pros and limitations.

"From Algorithms to Implementations" State of the art boards and chips for implementing high speed wireless communications are available, such as the Xilinx RFSoC. I will talk about using MathWorks tools to develop algorithms and implementations for MIMO, including beamforming and digital pre-distortion.

"OFDM Explained" What is OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) and why did it replace single carrier QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) as the dominant modulation scheme used in modern wireless communications systems? We answer this question and provide conceptual illustration via MATLAB code. We also explain the concept of cyclic prefix (CP) and why it is always used with OFDM.