ECE 6397, Fall, 2012 Selected Topic in Optimization                                                             Zhu Han Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Class 2 Aug. 27nd, 2012

Slides Steven Boyd’s slides http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/bv_cvxslides.pdf Slides 1 to 15 Part of my own thesis Term project Read lecture 2 and lecture 3 before next class Chinese saying: stupid bird flies first.

Term Project Possible topics Cognitive Radio, femto cell, smart grid, Power line communication, Satellite communication, physical layer security, vehicular network communication, compressive sensing, game theory, and quickest detection http://wireless.egr.uh.edu/research.htm Other topics related to your area Literature review IEEE communication magazine to get some tutorial papers Important citations can be found by IEEE Xplore Citeseer to test if the paper is well cited and recognized Writing 200 words abstract, 1 page introduction, 3 pages details, and 1 page simulations. Grouping Literature search, 10 papers. Finally target to 5 papers.

Technical Writing Structure, Logic (between sentences and paragraphs), and Strictness (no holes). Know who is your audiences Structure Title and keyword: concise and hit the point, for google users Abstract: 200 words, for directors who have 20 seconds Why it is a good topic What is the idea and contribution What are the results Introduction: 2 to 3 pages, for managers who have 5 minutes What are in the literature, or what are the competitors (Organization) System model Problem formulation, proposed scheme, and analysis Results Conclusions Citations For peer