IEEE Boston Communications

IEEE Boston Course - RFID This course gives an introduction to passive radio frequency identification (RFID) sensor technology. RFID sensors are considered as the foundation for Internet of things (IoT) and Smart Cities that can ubiquitously collect tagged objects’ identification and sensing information. In the opening sessi...

Please join us for a joint Photonics, Communications and Aerospace & Electronic System Societies meeting at 7:00 PM, Thursday, 8 March
The Quantum Theory of Optical Communications
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Boston Photonics Society Chapter IEEE Boston Section Communication theory for lightwave channels usually employs a semiclassical approach in which electromagnetic waves are taken to be classical fields and the fundamental noise encountered in photodetection is assumed to be shot noise arising from the discreteness of the electron charge. E...

Please join us Thursday, March 1 at 7:00PM for MPLS-TP (Multiprotocol Label Switching Transport Profile): Where Are We? by Andrew G. Malis, Verizon Communications
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Communications Society IEEE Boston Section MPLS-TP (Multiprotocol Label Switching Transport Profile) is a packet-switched transport technology being jointly standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF, http://www.ietf.org/) and the International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU...

Please join us at 7:00 PM, on Thursday, February 2 for our chapter meeting
IPTV: Managed Services and Technology Deployment
Michael P. Ruffini, Principle Member of the Technical Staff, Verizon
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Communications Society IEEE Boston Section This discussion will touch on many different IP video delivery topics but will focus on managed IPTV service, covering topics from the drivers for migrating to IP delivery to the challenges with dealing with packet-loss, channel change latency and conditional access/encryption.