Connecting Worlds: The Evolution and Impact of Advanced Communication Technologies (5G/6G)
Advanced communication technologies like 5G and 6G are reshaping global connectivity while introducing new security risks. This course covers how these systems work, their strategic importance, and the challenges involved in keeping them secure and reliable in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
What you will learn
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Understand the technological advancements from 4G to 5G and the upcoming 6G.
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Analyze the challenges and future potential of advanced communication technologies.
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Explore how artificial intelligence can be used to optimize advanced communication technology.
Course content
Introduction to Communication Technologies
Learn how advanced communication technologies operate. Understand the issue of Spectrum Crunch, and how policy shapes the landscape of advanced communication technologies.
Emerging Technology
Discover how artificial intelligence can be used ot optimize components of advanced communucation technologies. Explore the future of 6G communication technology.
Challenges and Implications
Understand the security challenges with advanced communication technologies. Explore the risks and opportunities AI and 6G bring.
Your Course Director
Christopher G. Brinton
Assistant Professor
Christopher G. Brinton is an Assistant Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Purdue University. His research interest is at the intersection of networking, communications, and machine learning, specifically in fog/edge network intelligence, distributed machine learning, and data-driven wireless network optimization. Since joining Purdue ECE in fall 2019, Dr. Brinton has won the NSF CAREER Award (2022), ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award (2022), DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA, 2022), Intel Rising Star Faculty Award (2022), and roughly $10M in sponsored research projects as a PI or co-PI. He has also been awarded Purdue College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Awards in Early Career Research (2023), Early Career Teaching (2023), and Online Learning (2022). He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, in the ML and AI for wireless area.
Prior to joining Purdue, Dr. Brinton was the Associate Director of the EDGE Lab and a Lecturer of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. He also co-founded Zoomi Inc., a big data startup company that has provided learning optimization to more than one million users worldwide and holds US Patents in machine learning for education. His book The Power of Networks: 6 Principles That Connect our Lives and associated Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) reached over 400,000 students. Dr. Brinton received the PhD (with honors) and MS Degrees from Princeton in 2016 and 2013, respectively, both in Electrical Engineering.