MediaFLO, an end-to-end mobile multimedia multicasting technology, was developed specifically to deliver rich multimedia content efficiently to mobile devices. FLO, which is the underlying physical layer for MediaFLO, is based on OFDM technology and has been optimized to deliver on various requirements of mobile multimedia such as channel switch time, power consumption, time and frequency diversity, coverage at different qualities of service depending on channel conditions among other factors.

In this talk, I will present an overview of FLO technology along with a discussion of the FLO Air Interface Specification (TIA-1099) features that help support efficient mobile multimedia delivery.

Hosts: Behnaam Aazhang, Joseph Cavallaro

Biography of K. Kiran Mukkavilli:
K. Kiran Mukkavilli received the B.Tech. degree (1998) in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and the M.S. (2000) and Ph.D. (2004) degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University, Houston, TX. In July 2003, he joined Qualcomm Inc. as a senior engineer, where he is now a staff engineer in their Corporate R&D division. Since 2003, he has been part of the team at Qualcomm that is instrumental in the development and the standardization of the FLO physical layer for the MediaFLO system.