Byron Chen

With large scale of LTE deployment of VzW and AT&T, followed by Sprint PCS, 4G networks are a reality in North America. What’s next? The answer is Advanced LTE with DL/UL peak throughput enhanced from 300/75 Mbps to 3000/1500 Mbps, which encompasses much more complicated technologies. In parallel, the population of smart phone users jumps to nearly 50% of all subscribers in this country, which imposes a huge pressure on network performance. To face the challenges, the traditional network centric performance analysis has been gradually moved to user centric performance analysis, that is, integrate both user data with network data for performance monitoring, analysis and optimization.

Biography: Dr. Byron Chen was awarded the 2010 NJIT Excellence in Teaching Award as an Adjunct Professor. The class in wireless networks that he has taught at NJIT since 2002 is informed by his ongoing research and development work at Alcatel-Lucent.

Graduated with Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 1993, Dr. Byron Chen has been a member of technical staff at Alcatel-Lucent since 1997. Being a member of Alcatel-Lucent Technology Academy and with more than 12 patents to his credit, Dr. Chen’s research and development activities cover multiple wireless technologies including CDMA/EVDO, WCDMA/HSPA and LTE. He is currently a lead system engineer in the group of RF Tools and Service Delivery, leading the effort of developing methods and tools that can integrate mobile data with network data for effective LTE network deployment, performance monitoring and diagnosis. Before joining the Wireless Technology Lab at Lucent Technologies, Dr. Chen held senior positions at Orincon Corp which was well known for its research oriented business in defense industry and later became a division of Lockheed-Martin in 2003.