SEMINAR Machine Type Communications (MTC) over LTE and Beyond BY Dr. Ali Taha Koc Research Scientist, Intel Corporation The seminar will be on 10 July, 2014, Thursday, at 14:00, @EE-317 Bilkent University Machine Type Communication is expected to be a major driver of growth in mobile communications for cellular networks, such as LTE. Since LTE networks are primarily designed and optimized for human to human (H2H) communications, the existing protocols and mechanisms are not effective in supporting MTC communication. Several modifications are needed to address the service requirements and traffic characteristics of MTC devices in these networks. In this talk, we present an overview of Machine Type Communication over LTE and networks beyond LTE. ALI T. KOC received his B.S. in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey in 2001. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas. He has been working at Intel Corporation since June 2005 as a research scientist. He worked on power control, interference mitigation, and power saving mechanisms for IEEE 802.16e and IEEE 802.16m in the past. His current research interests include 4G/5G broadband mobile networks, mobile device power savings, user experience and small cells in 3GPP LTE-A networks. He has published over 20 scientific articles in refereed journals and conferences and has over 30 patents granted/pending.