Robert W. Heath Jr. Explained

Robert W. Heath Jr.
Birth Date:4 December 1973
Birth Place:Macon, Georgia, US
Nationality:American
Field:Wireless communications
Work Institutions:University of California, San Diego
Doctoral Advisor:Arogyaswami Paulraj
Academic Advisors:G. Giannakis

Robert W. Heath Jr. is an American electrical engineer, researcher, educator, wireless technology expert, and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.[1] He is also the president and CEO of MIMO Wireless Inc. He was the founding director of the Situation Aware Vehicular Engineering Systems initiative.[2]

Early life and education

Heath received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2002 under the supervision of MIMO pioneer Arogyaswami Paulraj.[3] He completed his M.S. degree in the same field from the University of Virginia in 1997 under the supervision of Georgios B. Giannakis,[4] and his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia in 1996.

From 1998 to 2001, Heath was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff and, later, Senior Consultant at Iospan Wireless Inc, San Jose, CA. At Iospan he was part of a team that designed and implemented the physical and link layers of the first commercial MIMO-OFDM communication system. From January 2002 to August 2020, he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin where he was a Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering. He is also President and CEO of MIMO Wireless Inc. and Chief Innovation Officer at Kuma Signals LLC.[5] He was the Director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group from 2012-2014, where he oversaw an expansion of the center in terms of faculty and students, and an increase in research expenditures to more than $5M per year. At UT he also founded an initiative that brings together transportation and communications called the Situation-Aware Vehicular Engineering Systems (SAVES).[2] He was a Distinguished Professor at the North Carolina State University from October 2020 to December 2023. He is currently a professor at the University of California, San Diego. He is a co-author on more than 600 refereed conference and journal publications.[6] He is also a co-inventor of 64 U.S. patents. He authored a laboratory manual that teaches the principles of wireless communication to undergraduate students[7] and co-authored a book on millimeter wave wireless communication.[8] He authored a book on wireless digital communications[9] and co-authored a comprehensive textbook on MIMO communications[10] He is particularly known for his work on different aspects of MIMO communication systems and millimeter-wave communications.[11]

Professional career

Heath's early work at Stanford advanced the then nascent field of MIMO communication.[12] [13] During his Ph.D. he took a leave of absence to be one of the first employees at Iospan Wireless (earlier known as Gigabit Wireless Inc), where he was part of a small team that created the first practical MIMO-OFDM radio (a predecessor of what we now know as IEEE 802.11n).[14] His work at Iospan resulted in several early patents on critical MIMO technologies.[15] [16] [17]

Heath's work at Iospan led to his discovery that, depending on the wireless propagation conditions, different MIMO configurations, e.g., spatial multiplexing or space-time coding, are preferred.[18] [19] [20] Heath's discovery opened new research avenues to enhance the fundamental understanding of performance limitations in MIMO wireless communication.[21] From his diversity and multiplexing discovery, he also recognized the critical importance of feedback and adaptation in MIMO wireless systems, i.e., to make MIMO wireless communication commercially viable the receiver must inform the transmitter about the best MIMO configuration before communication[22]

At UT Austin, based on his insights into the importance of feedback in MIMO communication, he pioneered MIMO feedback strategies (limited feedback precoding). Heath was able to construct a strategy for which the overhead penalty for feedback was very small (only a few bits of feedback required to configure an entire MIMO transmitter). This allowed practical MIMO wireless communication to achieve data rates and link reliability very close to theoretical expectations by varying the number of spatial multiplexing streams.

Awards and honors

Views on 5G

Heath is an advocate of moving to millimeter-wave spectrum for the 5G cellular standardization. He recognizes, however, that 5G cellular deployments will likely require significant changes to cellular planning. He has predicted that, due to blockage, millimeter wave cellular will need to be much more densely deployed.[45] [46] Heath also recognizes that 5G cellular will require significant advancements in beamforming protocols, in particular with respect to the speed in which beamforming is trained, to make 5G cellular at millimeter waves viable. He has been a strong advocate of the automotive application for 5G.[47]

Books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Robert W. Heath
  2. Web site: UT Situation Aware Vehicular Engineering Systems (SAVES).
  3. Web site: Smart Antennas Research Group (SARG). stanford.edu.
  4. Web site: SPiNCOM former M.Sc. students. umn.edu.
  5. Web site: Team Members Kuma Signals . 2022-08-08 . en-US.
  6. Web site: Robert Heath - Google Scholar Citations. google.com.
  7. R. Heath, Digital Wireless Communication: Physical Layer Exploration Lab Using the NI USRP, National Technology and Science Press
  8. T. S. Rappaport, R. Heath, R. Daniels, J. Murdock, Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications, Prentice Hall, 2015
  9. R. W. Heath, Jr., Introduction to Wireless Digital Communication: A Signal Processing Perspective, Pearson Education, Inc. 2017.
  10. R. W. Heath, Jr.and A. Lozano, Foundations of MIMO Communication, Cambridge University Press, December 2018.
  11. Web site: Two UT Austin Engineers Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. 12 December 2017.
  12. R. W. Heath, Jr., Space-Time Signaling in Multi-Antenna Wireless Systems, Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, 2001.
  13. News: Indian-American Engineer & Ex-Indian Navy Officer Arogyaswami Named European Inventor Award 2016 Finalist. 4 September 2017. 27 April 2016.
  14. Web site: Resume - Prof. Robert W. Heath Jr.. utexas.edu.
  15. US #6,067,290 Spatial Multiplexing in a Cellular Network. A. J. Paulraj, R. W. Heath, Jr., S. K. Peroor, and D. Gesbert. Issued: May 23, 2000.
  16. US # 6,377,636 Method and wireless communications system using coordinated transmission and training for interference mitigation, A. J. Paulraj, S. K. Peroor, J. Tellado, and R. W. Heath, Jr.. Issued: April 23, 2002.
  17. US # 6,760,882 Mode selection for data transmission in wireless communication channels based on statistical parameters, D. Gesbert, S. E. Catreux, R. W. Heath, Jr., P. K. Sebastian, Arogyaswami J. Paulraj. Issued: July 6, 2004.
  18. US # 6,298,092 Methods of Controlling Communication Parameters of Wireless Systems, R. W. Heath, Jr., S. K. Peroor, and A. J. Paulraj. Issued: Oct. 2, 2001.
  19. R. W. Heath, Jr. and A. J. Paulraj, Switching between multiplexing and diversity based on constellation distance, Proc. of the Allerton Conf. on Comm. Control and Comp., pp. 212-221, Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 2000.
  20. R. W. Heath, Jr. and A. J. Paulraj, Switching Between Diversity and Multiplexing in MIMO Systems, IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 962-968, June 2005.
  21. L. Zheng and D. Tse,Diversity and multiplexing: a fundamental trade-off in multiple-antenna channels, IEEE Trans. on Info. Theory, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 1073-1096, May 2003.
  22. S. E. Catreux, V. Erceg, D. Gesbert, and R. W. Heath, Jr., Adaptive modulation and MIMO coding for broadband wireless data networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 108-115, 2002.
  23. Web site: History of FIE New Faculty Fellow Award Recipients.
  24. Web site: IEEE Fellows 2011 | IEEE Communications Society.
  25. Web site: EURASIP Awards Presented at EUSIPCO 2011.
  26. Web site: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award.
  27. Web site: IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award.
  28. Web site: Profs. Heath and Andrews and Co-Authors Zhang and Kountouris Receive 2014 EURASIP Best Paper Award.
  29. Web site: Prof. Robert Heath and Kien T. Truong Receive 2014 Journal of Communications and Networks Best Paper Award.
  30. Web site: The IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize.
    • 2016 - IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize[30]
  32. 2016 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory . 2017 . 63 . 3–4 . 10.1109/TIT.2016.2639898 .
  33. Web site: IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications.
  34. Web site: EURASIP – European Association for Signal Processing.
  35. https://www.congress.gov/116/crec/2019/04/15/CREC-2019-04-15-pt1-PgE465-5.pdf
  36. Web site: IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Service Award.
  37. Web site: Journal of Communications and Networks Best Papers.
  38. Web site: Wireless Communications Technical Committee Awards.
  39. Web site: Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award.
  40. Web site: The IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize.
  41. Web site: Chancellor Names Innovator and Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winners. 3 February 2021 .
  42. Web site: IEEE Signal Processing Society Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award.
  43. Web site: IEEE James Evans Avant Garde Award.
  44. Web site: IEEE Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award.
  45. News: AT&T's Vision of Ultrafast Wireless Technology May Be a Mirage. The New York Times. 27 October 2016. Chen. Brian X.. Scott. Mark.
  46. Tianyang Bai and R. W. Heath, Jr., " Coverage and Rate Analysis for Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks," IEEE Trans. on Wireless, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 1100-1114, Feb. 2015.
  47. Web site: Researchers collaborate to keep connected cars safe. 18 October 2016.
  48. Web site: Digital Wireless Communication: Physical Layer Exploration Lab Using the NI USRP?. ni.com.
  49. Web site: Pearson - Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications, CourseSmart eTextbook - Theodore S. Rappaport, Robert W. Heath, Jr., Robert C. Daniels & James N. Murdock. pearsonhighered.com.
  50. Millimeter Wave Vehicular Communications: A Survey. Foundations and Trends in Networking. 2016. 10.1561/1300000054. Heath Jr. Robert W.. Bansal. Gaurav. Shimizu. Takayuki. Va. Vutha. 10. 1. 1–113.
  51. Web site: Pearson - Introduction to Wireless Digital Communication: A Signal Processing Perspective - Robert W. Heath Jr.. pearsonhighered.com.
  52. Book: Cambridge - Foundations of MIMO Communication - Robert W. Heath Jr. and Angel Lozano. cambridge.org. 2018. 10.1017/9781139049276. Heath Jr. Robert W.. Lozano. Angel. 9781139049276. 57888225.

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